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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1891
Page
4
On the East River pier Russell and Brown part as Brown sails to Africa. Russell disguises as Brown to visit Miss Ray and her father the capitalist Gilbert Ray, hoping to win her and back a new invention with funding from Ray.
There is no rest for the wicked but there is arrest for the wicked according to Munsey's Weekly. This note captures a witty exchange reflecting on crime and punishment.
The Chicago Tribune hosts a symposium of failures, detailing why poor and miserable individuals did not advance in life. It cites drink, shortcuts, illness, lack of pluck, economy, and misreading opportunities as key causes, with emphasis on perseverance over luck. It also notes Bavarian pine forests suffer a bark moth pest and a proposed pest control method using an air exhauster.
Strange circular holes up to 500 yards in circumference appear in the crust of South Africa's diamond area. They descend to about a mile deep, likely formed by escaping gases from the hot earth. The piece notes extended efforts to create smokeless powder and a professor's invention for battlefield smoke to obscure army movements.
The 8.3 Scranton & Co. press Hartford announces a soon to be released 500 page illustrated history by W. Fletcher Johnson of Sitting Bull and the leading chiefs after the decisive battle. Agents urged to contact the publishers for terms and freight. Mrs. John Anderson of Boone burned lighting a stove with gasoline. recovery doubtful. Governor Boies names F. H. Graves of Madrid assistant State veterinary surgeon.
Ida ville residents including Postmaster Wr. Timmons farmer Johnn Leslie and hardware merchant J. W. Gardner report Electric Bitters improving kidney and liver troubles and restoring vigor. Sold for 50 cents at L. M. Bosworth's Drug Store. Also a Havana journalist is jailed for advocating Cuba annexation to the United States.
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