20 Dec 1878
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1878
Page
1
The Intelligencer urges readers to send in general interest news items for publication. It notes advertising rates are available upon application to the proprietor John Watts in Ames Story County Iowa.
A winter scene unfolds with white trees and firelight while a child asks for the Christmas story. The poem reflects on the Magi and the star guiding them to the Christ Child as verses recount the Blessed Virgin and the birth of Jesus with a mother’s memory.
Margaret Arnold, a devoted governess, learns her engagement to Winthrop is ruined by a forged letter replacing truth with deceit. After hardship, loyalty, and social pressures, she discovers the missing seal that rekindles a long-buried love with Harold Weston, confirming a chance for happiness after years of estrangement.
Sermon by Rev. David Swing of Chicago explores the cross as a universal emblem. It argues the cruciform symbol embodies Christ's life, death, and moral influence, shaping history, liberty, and personal virtue across nations and denominations.
An observer describes a Turkish palace meal with guests using a single round trayed service. Dishes arrive in sequence, from soup to kebabs, vegetables, pastry and coffee. The host leads by example, dipping his spoon and sharing the flow of courses among diners.
The Buenos Ayres houses are described as nearly fireproof with brick walls and a timber frame of hardwood. Floors and flat roof rest on regular joists, cross rails, brick or tile bridging, and layers of bricks and fine tiles. Window and door frames use cedar. walls lack lathing and baseboards. construction emphasizes hardwood timbers and solid jambs.
The Khedive of Egypt recently gave an Englishman a mummy. The recipient was pleased and sought to learn whose body the mummy represented. A two logisti to on the
The text describes an ancient king’s writings and a revealing discovery after opening a package. Eminent men attended the unveiling which initially seemed historically valuable. Near the end the mummy is identified as a woman, altering the perceived epic narrative.
Craft instruction from Jarper's Bazar details making decorative Christmas gifts using spruce bud sprays, pasteboard backings, and silk coverings. Steps cover trimming buds, arranging sprays on boxes, securing with stitches, and finishing with gum shellac varnish for long-lasting shine.
A reporter visits a prison where a new electric punishment box is used on prisoners. Deputy Warden Quinn and Dr. Drury describe the device as a small box with an electro-magnet that delivers shocks to bare skin while the inmate sits in three inch deep water.
An assemblage of farm advice on potatoes cabbage feeding value and seed selection. It covers manuring practices, horse feed cooking, tool care, and tips for youth on farm education. It includes notes on drying fruit parasite risks and cautions about un cooked grain for horses.
A lesson in early arithmetic shows a four year old girl using her fingers to count five from five and declaring the result five The teacher probes the method and the child explains by holding both hands side by side and noting five on each hand then removing five from the other five prompting the question five from five leaves how many This curious demonstration exposes limits of simple finger counting and puzzles the educator.
A fragment describes an extreme experience to be recorded in print and mentions an unwisely tested method for inducing giddiness. The narrator notes trying a mitigated form and urges against repeating the experiment while recounting a friend’s attempt and a philosophical acquaintance’s similar result.
Practical kitchen tips cover desserts, beverages, and savory dishes as well as dyeing fabrics, making hay water for cleaning and sweetness, and preparing chicken and pie fillings. The piece blends recipes with domestic advice and thrift-style tricks from a bygone era.
Intelligence reports the murder and cannibalism of Wesleyan mission teachers on New Britain. Eight teachers split into two parties. four reached the plateau safely, while the others were killed after leaving a village. Bodies were distributed to many towns and cooked, a tactic to implicate multiple communities. Rev. Brown imposed severe reprisals after learning of the massacre.
Jim Anderson, a key witness, reaches Nevada and offers to testify if mileage and fees are covered. Senator Allison questions the value of his testimony and hints Anderson may winter in the Sierras unless miners secure payment, a move unlikely given their stance.
The Job Printing department offers latest type and materials with fast service. They can produce 48 good works and claim to be as cheap as any printing establishment in the state. Legal blanks bill heads letter heads books pamphlets posters auction bills cards and more.
A narrator speaks from a barnyard perch about the holiday feast to come. The playful verse turns rueful as the speaker contemplates being eaten and asks readers to judge the fate of the bird.
A collage of wry snippets and verse noting holiday humor and observed foibles. Bits reference a balloonist incident, a Quaker needing aid, etiquette books, runaway couples, manners, a bossy aristocrat’s reply, and a festive Christmas mood from newspapers and readers across towns.
The North Western Railway and Southwestern mail clock fast times between Euston Rugby and Dover 70 miles in 102 minutes. Great Northern Scotch express Dover to Grantham 129 minutes. Great Western Flying-Start Swindon 77 miles in ? minutes. The article notes the last named as the world’s fastest for years. A Gloucester Massachusetts family mourns a 70 year old goose with a surviving 60 year old companion.
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