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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1886
Page
2
Iowa Capital notes Cleveland endures a water famine, clarifying the city’s hardship, not the President. The piece cites a Biblical reference about Lazarus and water to underscore scarcity concerns without political attribution.
The Iowa Press Association plans a week's stay at Spirit Lake in June, replacing the earlier Los Angeles excursion. The Iowa resort is hailed as an increasingly popular spot for rest among officers and prominent members.
Three years after the failure of Charles H. Sweet & Co. in Boston for 3,800,000 the principal claims have been paid in full and creditors are informed interest due on their claims is ready. The record remarks the event as remarkable honesty in the face of loss.
The Riverside Leader reports a change in the executive office with a new governor replacing retiring officials. The piece frames the transition as a dawn of a new era in state governance and politics.
A new insurance venture in Pennsylvania uses classes of 500 members. When a birth occurs in a member’s family the other class members are assessed 25 cents each. The fund totals 125 dollars with 100 dollars going to the beneficiary and 25 dollars to the company for collecting.
The editor of the New Orleans Item was indicted by the Grand Jury for criticizing its methods. The case unites local papers in opposing the Grand Jury system and public sentiment grows against the system across the states.
Iowa’s forthcoming census shows 1,733,080 residents, 355,059 families, and 906,777 white male and 837,893 white female residents. It records 320,639 foreign born citizens, 639,773 married, 1,055,105 single, 55,877 widowed, 3,225 divorced, and 420,494 voters. Illiteracy drops to 1.2 percent with 13,225 aged ten or older unable to read.
The Wisconsin penitentiary inmates publish The Prison Press as shown by The State Journal. The venture lacks experienced editors but marks a historic effort with convicts preparing to become full fledged writers despite hunger risk noted in early reports.
A country editor laments being punished for prompt settlements as rivals trade debts for advertising and job work. The Carroll Herald agrees the practice is unjust, noting merchants favor rivals who trade debts for services. The INTELLIGENCER boasts good credit and urges local business support in Ames.
A Philadelphia physician noted for occult views predicted world end in 2232 while forecasting 1886 as a year of strong prosperity for workers. He claimed vast scientific advances and a return to gold backed money, though the writer remains skeptical and jokes about waiting for that far future.
A U S congressman, amid freshly opened mail, jokes about unusual requests. He cites a district wife asking the census office for her missing husband’s address and a citizen asking him to contact the American minister in Rome to obtain an Italian queen bee.
A Union picket near Dr Taylor's house taunts a Confederate across the river. The Confederate bayonet is fixed, the Yankee fires a pretend shot and both sides join in marking time. The corporal sergeant and officer are drawn into the joke, ending with a vow to kill the Yankee who started it.
Two aged men reenact a Shiloh scene at a city panorama. A Confederate veteran Master Marmaduke and a Federal veteran General Prentiss exchange memories of the battle, recall Marmaduke’s sharp retreat, and shake hands in shared peace.
Albert Emminger of Covington Kentucky states he suffered catarrh for three years and tried various patent medicines without relief. He credits Papillon extract of flax Catarrh Cure as a decisive cure and offers to provide other references from cured parties. The remedy is priced at one dollar and available at drug stores.
The piece urges calm, warns against panic and reckless acts when oil or gasoline spills ignite. It favors smothering fires over water, evacuating saturated items, and opening doors to let fumes dissipate. It cautions against exploding myths and promotes preplanning for safe, intelligent response to oil fires.
The essay urges first to search the Sultan’s library and the crypt of St Sophia for manuscripts as the Ottoman destiny nears completion. It warns Turkey to seek valuable writings before Constantinople becomes blood-stained ruins and factions retreat to the desert to destroy the eastern half of the civilized world.
The Chicago Times asserts that many vices common in civilized countries arose from contact with savage peoples. It claims tobacco spread through North American Indians, opium via Hindu and Chinese trade, hashish from India, cocaine from South American Indians, and that Arabs first made alcohol but abandoned it after seeing its effects on others.
A newly discovered volcano of great size rests in the Pacific near Honga Tonga island at latitude 20 21 and longitude 75 28. The island measures two to three miles in length and sixty feet in height. Eruptions are nearly constant, offering a continuous display of dissolving views to observers.
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