Dickens at Gad's Hill life as a long brisk twelve mile walk
Edmund Yates recalls Charles Dickens at Gad's Hill visiting guests, breakfasting, and daily walks across Cobham Park and Gravesend. Dickens worked in his study and a Swiss chalet, talked through scenes and ideas, and led strenuous marches with dogs Turk and Linda.
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Gads Hill
Dickens
Fechter
Rochester Cathedral
Cobham Park
Lord Darnley
Dodd
Frith
Dadd
Egg
Stone
Turk
Linda
Albert Smith
Switzeland
Gravesend
Tubman
Fort Pitt
Dr. Slammer
Mr. Winkle
Oxford
Gad’s Hill
Rochester
Edmund Yates
Faro History and the Long, Gambling Past in New York
A New York Commercial Advertiser interview with Charles Dunn traces faro from ancient origins to its spread in Europe and America. It notes Italy and France, the term paroli, box protection, and early play without a dealing box, highlighting risks of manipulation and frequent shootings in past police-ridden times.
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New York
Charles Dunn
Dann
Dunn
Faro
Italy
Pompeii
France
Parlee
England
New World
Virginia
New England
New York Commercial Advertiser
Wooden magnets cure by imagination in medical note
A Medical News report describes wooden magnets used in a Philadelphia Polyclinic case where a patient with hysteria and eye trouble improved after a wooden magnet was applied. The effect appeared to rely on the patient’s imagination, with the wooden device outperforming a real magnet in easing facial spasms and restoring vision.
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George C. Harlan
Philadelphia
Lizzie D
Solis Cohen
Mills
St. Vitus
Cohn
Hansell
Cohen
Harlan
Surgical Department
Polyclinic
Stenbach
Philadelphia Press
Subscription terms printed by Ames Intelligencer
The Ames Intelligencer lists subscription prices and terms: one copy one year in advance, six months in advance, four months in advance, and two dollars per annum if not paid in advance, with higher charges for out of county delivery. Publisher Duncan noted.
Advertising Rates and Local Notice Card Details
Rates for five line cards per year with monthly changes, ten cents a line for first insertion and five cents per line for subsequent insertions. Post Office Ames second class mail matter designation noted.
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Ames
Main town lies near Des Moines on rail line junction
Games sits thirty six miles north of Des Moines at the Chicago and North Western junction with the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road. It is the seat of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with several hundred students and a well appointed public school. The surrounding farming land is productive with abundant fruit and orchard yields.
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Games
Chicago and North
Raiihoad
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Iowa
Iowa State College of Agricuture and Mechanic Arts
County officers and board of supervisors list
County officers include Auditor Clerk of Courts Treasurer Recorder Sheriff Sup t of Schools Surveyor Coroner and the Board of Supervisors with members from Ax England Union Township Lincoln Township Collins Township and others.
Church Schedules and Lodge Notices From Local Listings
Methodist and Baptist church services listed with alternate Sundays and weekly prayer meetings. Masonic Lodge 249 notes regular communication by full moon, with officers Duckworth and Homarr named. United Workmen lodge reports regular meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings, with Soren and Brooks named as officers.
G A R Posts Meet and Local Professional Cards
The G A R Post 30 meets on the first and third Saturdays at 7 30 in Masonica ander T J Miller Henry Wilson Jr. Officers and initiates welcome discharged soldiers and sailors. Initiation fees two dollars and dues twenty five cents. Professional cards list attorneys Stevens Hays Ames and Nevada offices D McCarthy attorney at law and collector in Ames George A Underwood attorney over Union Bank Ames physicians H M Templeton G A Meredith C A Beverly M D E B Cramb lit veterinarian E C McCall real estate and loan agent Nevada Iowa Farms for sale and loan on farms at six percent per year.
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G. A. Prerie
A.R
Masonica
Ander T. J. Miller
Soaan Henry Wilson, Jr
T. C. McCall
Nevada
Iowa
H. L. Carrell Abstracts and Loans Ad
H L Carrell Abstracts and Loans Nevada Iowa offers farm loans at six percent interest with optional payments Abstracts of title furnished at lowest rates Correspondence solicited.
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H. L. Carrell
Nevada
Iowa
Stolen Sweets in the Gloaming Poem Fragment
Poem describes meeting in the gloaming to recapture youthful joy and secret longing. Images of lindens, moonlight, rose leaves, and a waiting pair anchor the verse. The speaker longs for a reunion as day fades and time grows older.
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Zephyr
The Wealthy Miss Powers Aids Destitute Woman
Augustine Powers a rich heiress helps the poor daily with the aid of her servant Peter. Mr Waltser offers companionship on a mercy visit while Nathan Farlow contemplates joining. Mary writes a desperate plea to her mysterious lover seeking guidance as Miss Powers reads the note.
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Agustine Powers
Peter
Mary
Miss Powers
Mr. Waltser
William
Banking House of Powers, Farlow & Co
Nathan Farlow
Powers
Farlow
Waltser
Augustine
Nathan
Fatal awakening in tenement tragedy of Mary and William
Miss Powers and Walter accompany a dying Mary to a grim tenement to confront her keeper William Farlow. Augustine Powers discovers deception and the two confront the scene as Mary dies without revealing her abuser. Farlow flees, dropping further into scandal and leaving Miss Powers incapacitated by nervous strain.
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Miss Powers
Nathan
Walter
Mr. Powers
William
Nathan Farlow
Augustine Powers
Mary
Farlow
Powers
Powers, Farlow & Co
Kinsey's Senate House: Old Public Building Auctioned
An 1676 built Senate House in Kinsey, famed as a historic public structure, is to be sold at public auction. The property, long noted as a landmark, faces sale as officials move to redevelop the site.
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Kinsey
United States
Our Boys and the Schoolroom Justice Tale
A veteran teacher recalls handling discipline in a town school. He confronts theft of honesty, the cruelty of bigger boys bullying smaller pupils, and a belated switch to fair punishment after a snowball incident. The tale ends with a fragile truce as Jim Higgins and the master seek peaceful order.
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Tommy Atkins
Atkins
Thomas Atkins
Belshazzar
John
Jim Higgins
Jim
Higg Ns
Detroit Free Press
A Lodging House Sermon on Charity and Work Ethic
Elder Toots disrupts the meeting with a stove mishap while Brother Gardner rails against charity as a subsidy to idleness. He argues workers deserve wages and savings, criticizes layabout dependents, and defends thrift, calling current charity a premium on indolence. The piece reflects working class tensions and moral economy themes in the Free Press.
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Toots
Gardner
Massachusetts Rival in Marriageable Women Genealogy
A foreign region counts 270000 women to 30000 men with men idle at home while women run farms and production work. The piece notes Paraguay as a “woman's kingdom” reflecting gender imbalances and social roles.
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Massachusetts
Paraguay
Longevity and Old Traditions on the Island of Syra
A visitor recalls a ninety five year old on a whitewashed mountaintop and a nearby octogenarian legend. He notes long lifespans among Syrians, the ancient practice of expelling the elderly, and references from Abbe della Rocca and Omer describing the enduring myth of youthful health in Syra.
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Hermeupolis
Syra
Apollo
Macmillan’s Magazine
Count de Vermicelli Engaged to Maude Snobberly in New York
Italian noble Count de Vermicelli in New York is engaged to Miss Maude Snobberly of Fifth Avenue. A Sobberly mansion guest asked Mrs Snobberly how she feels about her future son in law, and both she and Mr Snobberly are delighted with the match.
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Count de Vermicelli
New York
Maude Snobberly
Fifth Avenue
Sobberly Mansion
Fasco Claims 1000-Population Gain In Past Year
Fasco officials report a population rise of about 1,000 over the last year, noting growth in residential construction and new arrivals amid steady local employment and services.
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Fasco
The Sun's Energy Explored in Langly's Century Essay
The article argues against a perpetual self sustaining flame and analyzes coal as a hypothetical solar fuel. It compares Pennsylvania coal reserves to solar output, estimates coal would exhaust in fractions of a second, and notes meteoric impacts could heat the sun but only briefly.
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S. P. Langly
Pennsylvania
Why Crabs Sour and Other Riddles from Washington Hatchet
A Washington Hatchet quip column jokes on common questions with punny answers. It links fruits animals and objects to simple reasons like sour apples from crab-apples and a crowded street car staying up because wheels hold it. The voice mimics a playful local humor item.
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Capitol Building
Hawthorne
Washington
Petrified Wood Finds Profitable Use in San Francisco
Petrified wood abundant in Arizona Wyoming and Rocky Mountain regions is advancing to practical use in San Francisco for mantelpieces tiles and architectural parts. It polishes finer than marble or onyx and competes with marble markets as companies form to secure forest concessions along the Atlantic and Pacific Railway line.
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United States Territories
Arizona
Wyoming
Rocky Mountain
San Francisco
Atlantic and Pacific Railway
Goole
The Conservative Spirit of Animals in Domestic Life
A critique contrasts thrift and possessiveness in humans with how dogs hoard bones, noting a rigid standard of domestic propriety. It argues that indoor dogs resent outdoor interlopers and laments the apologies of larger dogs to smaller ones for disturbing the house.
Chinese Slicing Explained as Harsh Penal Process
A description of the so called slicing method in China used for parricide and matricide cases. The text likens the subject to a dog that has nosed its way through a violent sausage machine.
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China
Explaining Faith to Juvenile Sunday School Class
The superintendent explains faith as confidence in unseen things using a peanut example. He tells the class that kernels exist inside shells even when unseen, asking if they understand.
McDonald Biography Reveals Whisky Ring Scandal
Cor. Philadelphia Times reports on General John McDonald of St Louis once appointed Supervisor of a vast revenue district. Despite ill handwriting he could read and forged signatures, later implicated in a major whisky ring scandal that landed him and associates in prison.
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John McDonald
St Louis
Missouri
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kansas
Colorado
Iowa
McDonald
Peerles
St. Louis
Volunteers
Grant
Revenue Service
Donald Degree
Cor. Philadel Times
Henry Clay’s Favorite Dishes Revealed in Anecdote
A veteran restaurateur recalls Henry Clay as a voracious eater who loved broiled oysters and baked pumpkins. He notes Clay once enjoyed butter on watermelon and recounts a scene with notable guests, illustrating Clay’s appetites and humor.
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Henry Clay
Mr. Clay
National Hotel
Hancock's
Mr Clay
Corwin
Gabhoun
Gen. Carey
Mictire
Clay
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