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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1887
Page
1
A wife laments her husband’s control of earnings and urges a joint or all‑to‑her purse approach. She imagines a common drawer to strengthen faith and generosity, hoping the husband will share and learn to ask in return in a humorous, utopian tone.
A country school teacher Ellice Gray endures poverty and rumor while resisting a rich suitor. After Roy Carlton loses his wealth and later regains sight through Ellice’s marriage proposal, they wed two weeks later as he regains hope and vision.
The article recounts Joshua Reynolds' boyhood drawing talent impressing his father and friends. It covers his self taught studies, early oil painting on a sail canvas, and his eventual move to London to apprentice with Thomas Hudson before later dismissal.
A column blends women’s culture notes with jokes on marriage and a Boston Herald report on a women’s exchange in Atlanta. It discusses post mortem requests in a trial, complimenting a baby, and a meditation on polygamy, monotony, and changing partners as marriage ages.
The article debates the myth of calm first years of marriage and cites statistics showing storms often arrive after a decade. It then profiles Rose Terry Cooke in Winsted Connecticut, describing her antique garden, beloved flowers, and tranquil routines of watering, weeding, and reading by the Mad River. Brooklyn Magazine.
Major Stofah recalls traveling from Washington to San Francisco without a pass. He explains he went to marry a sweetheart who had already married another man, leaving him humorously stranded with a $15 suit offered for ten cents. The tale showcases frontier humor from the Washington Critic.
A young man boasts of his father’s government contract and is asked the difference between them. He replies there is none, they both live on their pap. The quip appears in Carl Preizel’s Weekly.
English terms differ from American usage with examples from daily life and travel. includes railway ticketing customs, street language, and shop names. Also a piece on women and money urges practical financial literacy, will planning, and independent income for young women.
The article surveys early settlement near Montvale and hunting locales along Hesse's Creek. It highlights Lookout Rock on Chilhowee and the Lookout Peak panorama, noting Clingman's Dome and distant Alpine scenery with a lack of lakes, offering a vivid, travelogue style glimpse of the region.
The New England Farmer argues small stones benefit soil by forming a fresh top dressing with essential plant nutrients. Stones help preserve moisture absorb heat and contribute to lasting fertility while pure quartz provides silica. Farmers should value gravelly loam with stones over stone-free soil.
A nostalgic exchange between John and Maria recalls evenings at a father's front gate. Maria longs to revisit the moon and stars as they once did, urging a return outside. John agrees to try, though Maria thinks him a brute for not acting sooner.
A dialogue contrasts welcome back with uncertainty as Thompson reports arrival and mixed fortunes. The exchange jokes that success arrived yesterday but left him unchanged, highlighting tension between achievement and personal prosperity.
During the cholera epidemic in Nashville Tennessee the late Dr Rowling tended an old blind man who played flute on street corners. He recovered and sat under the doctor’s window all night playing in gratitude. The doctor said this was the largest fee he ever received.
Gillispoon questions Flipkins about a dirty borax lump on the desk as Flipkins chews it while writing. Pretzels Weekly caption flavor suggests a humorous office exchange.
The article compares Agassiz and Dana on glacial drift origin. It discusses submarine drift from floating ice versus vast continental ice caps, and Darwin’s view that land glaciers were limited while marine processes carved eastern North America. It explains Arctic currents shaping lakes, rivers, and basins, with the Laurentide uplift altering the St Lawrence corridor and Mississippi reach.
Gen Grant's seven year old son Jesse once mimicked his father on a platform at the farm near St. Louis. The boy announced a speech, then delivered a simple, humorous close, causing much laughter and a blush from Grant, who was unable to hide his embarrassment.
A male narrator in a yellow cane chair recalls a disquieting incident involving an 18 year old medical college student who is said to have purchased a dead man, skinned him, tanned the hide, and sewn a leather reticule decorated with violeta and forget me nots.
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