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13 Dec 1878
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Ames Intelligencer in Ames, Iowa
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1878
Page
1
The Children in Verse and Fading Grace
A nostalgic lament on vanished children and youth. The speaker contrasts innocent daughters and heroic sons with a world where their grace has fled, lamenting loss of innocence and beauty as time passes. The poem adds dreamy images of Juno and Hebe and Grecian gods to heighten the elegiac mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miguel
Job Printing Services Open for Legal Blanks and Budgets
The Job Printing department offers ready type and materials for all orders. Work is executed with neatness and dispatch and aimed to match or beat any printing establishment on price. Legal blanks in stock and a range of items including bill heads letter heads books pamphlets posters auction bills cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beppine
Richie Lee the Good Fellow Ends in Debt and Despair
Richie Lee a 31 year old grocer’s son rises to wealth but spends beyond means. His wife Susie urges thrift and hard work, proposing to cut wine suites and take on more duties. Debt mounts, creditors circle, and his job prospects falter as the family clings to a fragile dream of prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epicure
Richie
Duns
Richie Lee
Aioe
Pet
Nob
Susie
Timon
Sohaoee
Couldichard Lee
Richard
Richard Lee
Richard Jiee
Susie’s patient love saves Richie's squandered life
In a frugal two room home, Susie endures her husband Richie's lavish spending. She guides him to honest work, restraint, and gratitude, revealing a hidden fortune and a lasting family happiness born from hard lessons and steadfast devotion.
How to behave abroad a selfish holiday guide
A traveler lists rude acts to avoid in public spaces abroad and urges a like minded return to England. The passages urge loud trunks, pranks in hotels, disrespect toward staff, rude behavior in museums, and careless conduct on trains and ships, ending with a warning about losing individuality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Kensington
England
Getting Even With an Irishman in School
A schoolyard tale recalls a rivalry between a Yankee narrator and an Irish youth named Barney. After a bet to outdo each other, the narrator pricks Barney’s ear with a pin, Barney endures the sting without flinching, and the crowd erupts. The narrator vows never to outbrag an Irishman again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barney
Birds as guardians of nature and farmers
The article extols birds as essential protectors of ecosystems, from Swallow to Woodpecker, guarding air, trunks, foliage, and soil. It warns against bird loss, links grasshopper outbreaks to fewer birds, and notes crows and other species contribute by consuming grubs and insects, benefiting farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Duck supply mix up in San Mateo tale
Mr Sadrake asks about duck delivery after a night of duck shooting at San Mateo. Mrs 8 notes the butcher's boy cannot fill wild duck orders today and sends six tame ducks instead. The scene reads as a comic domestic miscommunication in casual dialog.
Comfort for the grieving in a Thanksgiving mood
A long meditation on loss and faith references mothers praying for prodigal sons, the resilience of memory, and the hope of heavenly peace. It quotes a Methodist essay recalling stories of reform and piety amid hardship and sorrow.
The Lamp That Becomes a Lighthouse Tale
A small lamp from a poor Philadelphia child guides a rescue and sparks a lighthouse project. The child’s coins seed church funding, as Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler recalls a legacy of quiet charity. The lamp grows into a beacon inspiring ongoing acts of faith.
Pig gallop remark on Providence and horses comparison
The writer muses that those who feel ungrateful should note a pig's gallop and the ease of not driving pigs instead of horses. He notes a pig can nearly go heads over heels and imagines if horses were shaped like a letter, their work would be different.
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Seine
Tur Western Stock Journal
Edison
Mr. Edison
Newark
Western Nion Telegraph Company
New York
Tom
George
Kage
Eaglord
Sunset Coxs Hombie Admirer
Gov Tom Browne of Indiana recounts a humorous meeting with Samuel Cox known as Sunset Cox He describes Cox’s move from Columbus Ohio to New York and his early congressional career in a light political anecdote reflective of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Browne
Indiana
Sam Cox
Samuel
Cox
Sunset Cox
Columbus
Ohio
Congress
New York
Advertising reform urged by stove makers in urging use of reputable newspapers
A Springfield Mass Republican passage argues merchants should curb flashy ads and rely on ably conducted newspapers. It says old papers with cultivated readers are cheapest and most remunerative, stressing field coverage and selective use over sensationalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
Republican
Keer
Scientific American
Judge Rives and the dying preacher on Monticello road
In Scottsville Virginia a young boy riding with a cross-cut saw on his horse approached a preacher. The horse bolted, the preacher left his horse, and the judge asked why he struggled to die when he claimed readiness. The reply: he did not wish to be sawed to death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Outh
WuHaLe Boxe
Ike
Columbus Journal
Ohio
Wazcu
Ireland
Cork
Scotland
Ayr
Thames
Dr. Talmage
Kentucky
Cuiiaco
Yankers Gazette
Fop
John Wilson
Charlie
Russia
Alexander Rives
Monticello
Rives
Scottsville
Courier
Tasty Party Turns Sour As Candy Licked Clean
A Beacon Street family hosted a children’s party with lavish sweets for guests. Just before supper the host’s son boasted he had licked every piece of candy on the dining-room table, shocking the little hostess and mother and dampening the festive mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beacon Street
Care for a horse's feet and a tormented bull in Valencia
A farmer warns that horse feet require more care than the body, noting filthy footing harms legs and overall health. In Valencia, a bull tormented by red cloths and tools was anointed with turpentine and burned, then tethered and killed by a butcher after breaking loose. Valencia is described by poets as a paradise inhabited by demons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valencia
Spain
Valentia
Pepper fumes in hold cause five deaths aboard steamship
A Chinese crewman entered a pepper soaked hold on a steamer and collapsed. Four English sailors aided him and also fell senseless, later dying after ventilation. Covuwterrert silver dollars circulate in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I.ce
Boston
Rising moral earnests shift readers to decent press
The Boston Herald argues for a public move away from sensational sickening journals toward clean literature. As families value propriety, newspapers that publish immoral scandal will lose support except from vice or crime followers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ict
Hese
Boston Herald
Versalles and the shadow of French kings
The passage notes how Versailles arose from terror surrounding death as Louis XIV, like earlier monarchs, resided at St Denis when not in Paris. From his palace terrace he faced the towers of St Denis, where he would join other French sovereigns in the vaults, a doom he contemplated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Versalles
Louis XIV
St. Denis
Paris
Grass is actually in a hidden area
A fragmentary note discusses grass being located in an unclear area with garbled text and missing details. The readable bits suggest a misread OCR fragment rather than a full news item.
Thanksgiving Day Scene in Town and Country
A nostalgic poem paints Thanksgiving as a bright festival with open churches in the city and family gatherings at home. It contrasts bustling streets and carriages with quiet prayers, praising virtue, marriage, and gratitude amid seasonal joy.
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