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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1883
Page
3
Four marrying maidens summering went each cast a net and returned with fortune from love. Jane captured a college man with brains but no money. Sophy Ano took a rich rich man with cash but no brains. Louise earned a health boosting journalist whose brains will bring wealth. Nan stayed out and caught a dreadful cold.
Republished tips on curing beef pork and mutton with a pickle recipe and steps. Guidance on fertilizing fruit trees, managing overladen branches, Swiss cattle merits and feeding, stock heredity views, and farm safety reminders about traps cisterns fires and accidental hazards.
A 26 year old Austrian Count Felix von Harnoncour arrives in Chicago seeking a two year leave from military duties. He intends a hunting belt from Dakota to Western America for grizzly bears and elk, then lions and tigers in India and China and perhaps jungles in Africa. He travels with four rifles, trunks of gear and aims to Vienna by May 1885.
An obituary portrait of George IV paints him as vainglorious yet hollow, surrounded by sycophants. It recalls his pride, extravagance, and deceit, ending with his sudden death on June 5, 1830 after a fear-filled last moment. Sir Wathen Waller stood by his bed.
The piece describes social clubs in New York using mutual associations for evening events and fundraising. It highlights soap bubble parties where pipes sell and soap-suds provide entertainment, plus baskets of lunch prepared by women sold to the highest bidder.
A farmer boasts about his delicate nature and claims no one can outdo him at sitting in a cornfield scaring away crows. The exchange highlights a humorous contrast between toil and comfort.
A poetic narration follows a woman who endures long months of waiting from December through August. News finally arrives as a swift coach passes, revealing that the beloved is found again and well, though the surrounding world remains shifting and uncertain.
A Chicago romance unfolds between George W Simpson and Minerva Stiggins ending in a marriage that lasts a year. A Keokuk Gate City note recounts Gov Sherman’s prison tour at Fort Madison where a reformer’s plea for literature and prayer clashes with the convict Wells who demands work and ends up reinforcing the value of labor over solitary confinement.
A rebuke targets a columnist who mocked babies and fatherhood. The piece argues a baby brings life and purpose, condemning the writer as heartless and unfit to judge families. It urges empathy, recalling a father's devoted care and a child's irreplaceable bond.
An essay in Topics of the Time laments the moral and mental decline caused by alcohol. It cites Sir Henry Thompson on moderate use harming body and mind, noting even temperate drinkers may show waning judgment, depressed spirits, and eroded character over time.
The passage prescribes boiling belia leaves in water, straining, adding salt, and applying hot compresses to ease neuralgia. It notes a cheerful disposition aids ill health, and contains a disjointed closing fragment about a dying man and self-assessment.
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