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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1890
Page
1
Readers advised on subscription terms from H S K Wilson editors including pricing at 1.50 per year and policy that no paper leaves the county unless paid in advance. The notice appears in the Intelligencer with no additional mailing details.
A compact ad offers complete printing services including job office work, pamphlets, circulars, and fine printing. The note highlights expertise in all kinds of printing and related office tasks.
A New York couple faces financial strain after marriage. Hannah chooses to give up German translations to care for Miles and Aunt Vashti Voorhees arrives to stay. Vashti reveals a hidden bank balance and departs to Vermont, enabling Hannah to resume work with a publisher while Miles keeps the home. The couple saves money and finds stability through adaptation and faith.
The narrator in a humorous tale recounts taming a runaway yoke of steers that destroyed a wagon, rails, and farm fence. He describes being dragged along a two mile lane, hanging on to the king bolt, and suffering bruises before the steers finally halted.
A historical note presents two算术 scenarios. If Adam from the Garden of Eden worked for Satan with a 50 000 per year salary and saved all earnings to today, he would have 300 million dollars. A man born in 1 899 AD at high wages saving every dollar would not reach 300 million.
A New Orleans Picayune caption notes a man’s rosy, round appearance as a sign he enjoys square meals. The remark plays on contrast between image and eating habits.
An account recalls Dr. James Guthrie of Pocahontas County West Virginia smuggling quinine to Union lines along the Mississippi and Arkansas during the war. He smuggled tubes hidden in driftwood, passed guards, and was finally captured after five successful runs and imprisoned at Fort Delaware until the conflict ended.
An article recalls how General Ulysses S. Grant faced early doubt and prejudice before rising, contrasting his career with Colonel Goode of the Twenty-first Illinois. It includes a New York Star tale of a pickpocket thwarted by Detective Thomas Murray, highlighting streetwise insight into character.
The defense frames the murder case as circumstantial with the accused seen over the victim and holding a bloody club. The attorney urges doubt and recalls past injustices, arguing the defendant acted peacefully before the incident.
A Maine traveler recounts a snowbound journey where passengers gathered in a village public hall for his lecture. A sturdy young yeoman thanks him afterward, sharing that his speech delighted him and that his daughter rode the same car on the trip, with the two sharing a private moment during the talk.
A fragment from the Arizona Kicker recounts a chaotic era with a pretend East editor George Alfred Townsend arriving, threats of hanging, a lynch mob, and a chaotic town scene. The narrative mixes satire and local peril as it recalls rough margins, readers’ reactions, and the editor’s near-lynching.
Max O Reill shares a coffee making method using water and ground coffee in a small saucepan. Boil water add coffee and sugar, repeat bubbling five times, then let cream rise. Do not stir, pour into cups, and enjoy the fragrant coffee despite sediment.
A writer notes that memory is a blessing wealth cannot buy and observes that sudden riches blur the faces of old friends, illustrating how wealth can dull personal reminders and recognition.
A Chicago traveling man on his first trip boasts Chicago charity rivals. Charley Mott of Milwaukee Elk lodge seizes a Chicago coat and labels it for Dakota sufferers. The coat is reclaimed after a tense scene as the owner’s story unravels amid suspicion and humor.
A Washington saloon on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Corcoran Gallery supplies tiny watch-sized bottles to clerks at the State War and Navy Department Building. Workers pay 250 cents for a four-finger drink that can be shared, with morning noon and afternoon refills, prompting questions like Are you loaded? at the department hubs.
London Review discusses Charles Lambs restrained style and hidden tragedy. It notes how his quiet humor and slightness mask a deep gloom seen in Ramond Gray, while his surface lightness heightens the emotional reach, like surviving a disaster finding relief in quiet home life.
A harmful report describes leprosy as prevalent among coolies in British Guiana. It claims transmission through deliberate contamination via food, notes revenge among castes, and suggests the practice spreads to Africans and even whites.
The article recounts early soap origins from Gauls using beech ash and goat fat to Roman era practices. It notes medieval growth with Italian and Iberian factories, Phoenician spread to France, and earlier cleansing methods before soap. It cites Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
In New York an elderly man browses fountain pens in a store. He tells the clerk he will take the pen that does flow and jokes he wants it to sign donation checks. The quip comes from the Arkansaw Traveller column.
Amy admits a gift of a book from a young man named Dolly provokes strong dislike. Amy calls the act cruel and gratuitous and says the book titled How to Be Beautiful was the cause of the insult.
A hip glove features a small outside or palm pocket designed to hold ear fare for the wearer. This device aims to increase comfort and accessibility for daily wear.
In the House of Natives the 27th ult., caucus selections and a deadlock for Speaker Hamilton and Wilson persist after multiple ballots. The Senate fine tuned rules and a school-book measure passes. a local-option bill for liquor licenses is introduced.
A portrait of a Dayton Ohio gypsy camp led by Levi Stanley and family, with the Ohio and Iowa notes detailing local incidents, court actions, pensions, fires, crimes, and public notices. It also reports a proposed confidentiality bill for editors and various regional updates.
A Washington Post item laments the dime novel era as a classroom story leads to a child misnaming a tomahawk as a bird. The exchange ends in humor as a teacher tests pupil knowledge and the class remains baffled by the weapon.
Mr Rambo spills beer on his coat and asks for another drink claiming freckles. The barkeeper says beer cleans clothes and may remove spots. A German writer is cited on shams of civilization and varnish masking dry rot in timber.
A line from American Traveler contrasts a famed visitor with a humble native view. The traveler questions the crowd’s interest while the native declares Phat the King, the scene ending with a skeptical juror comment.
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