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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1885
Page
4
A verse recites bone counts by region from face to feet, detailing skull bones, jaw teeth, ribs, shoulders, arms wrists hands, fingers hips thighs knees ankles and toes. It ends noting two hundred eight bones and thirty two teeth in the mouth with a closing line about joints.
The Juniata pair and a dashing beau make playful remarks at a family dinner. The teasing centers on cake types as the young man flatters the hostess while the matronly elder audience reacts with light humor and a wink. Tommy pipes up with a playful jab about being a sponge.
A kitten tows a ball of white yarn around the room winding furniture and causing a playful tangle. A blue eyed girl returns, scolds the cat for creating work, and Kitty pretends innocence before naps. The piece blends a wholesome child scene with a clipped unrelated aside about Tar Flat from the San Francisco Chronicle.
An amateur baseball game draws spectators with lively scenes of youth in neat attire and women in summer dress watching from benches, while boys rest on the grass. The piece notes the tension of critical moments, farmers delaying on hayloads to watch, and the audience reaction to a decisive play.
The article contrasts classical sculpture with modern athletic idealism and warns against professional baseball. It argues that the sport, now dominated by paid players and gambling, undermines youth aims, urges training as wholesome athletic pursuit, and condemns vulgar, money-driven displays at games.
A satire describes a chief reporter and assistant faking interviews with French statesmen on a boulevard tale. The chief is pleased and sends the piece to England while the assistant admits fabrication. The piece hints the ruse may have been repeated with varying success.
A man explains his sister holds an exceptional place in his life. He takes her to every first night and secured her season of opera. He says she is the only woman he trusts, always kind and affectionate, and he will not object if a genuine man comes along. Until then she is “good enough” for him.
Hearing a noise Jones lights a candle and surprises a burglar fleeing with a full sack. The thief pockets the candlestick and quips about what else he has forgotten, prompting astonishment and a comic ending from the London Tid-Bids column.
Comic exchange from The Hatchet where a printer asks how to spell whisky with an e. The proof-reader counters with a question about drinking it, and the printer quips that he drinks it with e s. The dialogue spotlights spelling versus consumption in a humorous newsroom moment.
The speaker reflects on divine trust and immortality without full knowledge. She asserts that immortality transcends human understanding and that a boundless eternal space awaits souls. She embraces faith, love, and fearlessness, declaring she must arise while God endures.
Swiss religious landscape shows many sects with Adventists and Healers expanding in Geneva. Healers claim disease stems from the devil and is curable by prayer and anointing. Their numbers have risen recently, signaling broader spread.
The Christian Advocate surveys American critics of Stanley's Congo expedition, labeling opponents as tyrannical and questioning the explorer's statecraft while asserting a dawning epoch of Christian civilization spreading from Benguela to Zanzibar despite malarial coasts and local despots.
Two contrasting scenes show a harsh upbringing and a nurturing faith. A neglectful mother refuses scraps for a doll and mocks a child, while another mother reads scripture and guides daughter Mary toward Christian values, with prayer and devotion shaping behavior.
A reflective column extols mothers, praises a 16 year old Mary as the settlement’s pride, and honors a heavenly mother. The piece links maternal virtue to goodness in daughters and expresses gratitude toward mothers in heaven and on earth. It ends with a quip about James Henry James’s sensationalism and a joke about his dramatic prose.
The St. Louis Republican argues the American Senate remains a coequal body representing states, unlike weakened parliaments in Britain and France. It notes no American party seeks its abolition, reflecting respect for states and the Senate's high legislative capacity.
An old friend recalls Commodore Garrison as a giant of strength and authority. He reportedly lifted a flour barrel with a man on top and threw them off a dock, and as captain he ruled the roost. He is said to have rescued a friend from twelve Mexicans and felled two men with a single blow.
A Davenport rich man hired a laborer for twelve dollars to dig a cistern. After completion the man seized tools, claiming a leak to force payment. The laborer forced the master into the cistern, then barred exit with a club until payment was made, while neighbors watched and eventually let him stay until the bill was settled.
An Irish or Scottish family tale features Little Sammy asked to read from the Bible to prove familiarity with multiple chapters. He reads aloud a mistranslation about a candle and a bustle. The text also notes Tun Sabbith’s high respect in Truro Scotland where burial is restricted on that day.
A London Society correspondent describes a bustling Persian town with markets, camels, and street chatter. The scene shifts to a public execution ground, noting harsh laws and the blend of comedy and tragedy in daily life, ending with reflections on happiness.
A physician laurels the current generation of well educated young women as healthier than their mothers and grandmothers due to outdoor games better food and greater freedom. Open air exercise has become fashionable for both genders with croquet lawn tennis and even roller skating cited as beneficial.
Observers report sighting large earth objects from far distances. Emil Metzger recalls spotting Kiezerspick in Sumatra at 110 miles, and Gag Merapi in Java at 180 miles. FE Hill saw Mont Blanc from Piz Muraun about 110 miles away, while J Starkie Gardner notes Mont Blanc from Piz Langard about three degrees distant. Whymper observed a Greenland peak 150 miles away, Zech saw Mount Canigon from Marseilles at 158 miles, Hippisley viewed the Swiss Alps 200 miles distant, and Sir W Jones claimed the Himalayas were visible 244 miles distant.
A San Francisco Chronicle editorial argues the Nicaragua canal could be built by Germany but would be unattainable by purchase. It claims the United States must consider war to seize the route, noting weekly war costs would finish the canal and spare lives and bloodshed.
A fragmentary memory scene describes a Sioux woman seen near a poetic waterfall. The speaker notes the name, though not learned, as a long hyphenated Sioux name. The humorous observer jokes he has never sausage a name before, hinting at a rough translation and the playful slang of the retreating party.
A historical ad-like passage recounts Lincoln era tales and a Judge's wagon ride. It extols Warner's Safe Cure as a remedy for sleeplessness and uric acid, claiming it will end drunkenness in the blood and avert useless medical attendance.
The eldest daughter recalls Dickens as the house good genius and playful parent. She describes his tailored voice for each child, bedtime songs, and family theatricals with dragons servants and magicians. Twelfth Night conjuring traditions and a loving, lively atmosphere shaped their childhood.
A medical student recalls a dissecting room scene where a girl, not dead long, lay untouched beneath a blue ribbon and a locket with a warning inscription. The class pauses, the body is spared, and the student notes the grim toll on sentiment toward the dead.
A temperance advocate condemns tobacco as an evil while a tobacco loyalist defends it, arguing Providence provides the land and sun for its huge crops. The exchange, quoted from the New York Sun, frames a back and forth over vice and bounty.
In a newsroom exchange the editor questions a Western author's future, noting the piece may gain value after the writer dies of old age. The sub editor confirms the author is about thirty and the story is set aside for preservation.
A Michigan hunter misidentified a woman in a cranberry bog as a bear and shot her dead. The incident underscores dangers during bear season and prompts calls for caution in hunting.
Inaction of the kidneys and bladder is fraught with danger as renal diseases begin with a single symptom. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is advertised to stimulate urinary secretions and discharge, to act as a tonic for the liver stomach and bowels, avert disease and cure dyspepsia, fever, biliousness, constipation, and aid gout-prone individuals by depurating the blood.
Mr Dolph Hotchkiss of 610 Hancock Street Peoria Illinois suffered severe rheumatism for months after a December injury. He slid down a banister due to ankle pain, then recovered after using Athlophoros over four bottles, with crutches, no further rheumatism, and a warning to obtain the medicine from Athlophoros Co New York rather than others.
A San Francisco reader recalls a grave amicide at a leading city restaurant. A French supervisor recounts the horror with sympathy, noting the crowd fled, and she laments losing more than twenty dinners as patrons rushed out.
In the celebrated Notre Dame near Baltimore the Sisters report Red Star Cough Care clears colds and throat troubles among pupils. It is free from poison and costs twenty five cents.
A Chicago architect offers $100,000 for a solution to the white staining on the pressed brick exterior of a recently completed $500,000 office building. The white crust is magnesium sulfate leached from brick by moisture, appearing most in wet seasons. Experiments and oiling have failed to prevent it, and painting only delays the issue.
An assortment of 19th century advert lines promotes cures for nervous debility and delicate diseases from the World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo. It includes testimonials about Dr William Hall's Balsam for the Lungs from J W Graham of Austin Texas and Caswell Hazard & Co's Meendsman’s PEPROniZePD Beer Tonix, touting benefits for indigestion nerves and general debility with druggist sales.
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