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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1879
Page
1
The article reviews the Bank of England's 185th birthday, Iowa and national agricultural statistics for 1877 and 1878, and various regional notes. It cites corn and wheat harvests, seed distribution policy changes, militia counts, legal cases, railroad developments, and notable deaths, with a broad sweep of 19th century economic and civic matters.
After a lively contest the Senate confirmed Edward A. Merritt for Collector of Customs and Silas W. Burt for Naval officer of the Port of New York. Iowa and Nebraska senators split on the vote with Kirkwood and Saunders voting yea and Allison and Paddock voting nay. The President and Secretary Sherman argued against Arthur and Cornell, the incumbents, saying the Custom House was run for politics rather than government interests.
Commissioner Bentley of the Pen department forecasts an average $750 per pensioner across the United States. He requests Congress approve funds and twenty-five clerks to settle all current pension rolls. Circulars urge direct applications and warn against using claim agents. Legislative push by Mr. Burchard aims to authorize $40,000,000 for arrears payments.
Senate committee on commerce reports a bill restricting animals in transit to be unloaded for water and rest within 28 hours and fed at least every seven hours. Unloaded stock must be kept in pens with food and water. railroads may act if owners fail and gain a lien for compensation. Offenses carry a $500 fine with half awarded to the plaintiff and half to the United States.
A Tyrolese apprentice plotting to shoot Napoleon at the Old Gate near Moravia is spotted by his master as Napoleon rides toward Speilburg. The Tyrolese is found kneeling at the loft window with a gun aimed along the road, but the attempt is thwarted and Napoleon proceeds.
A stranger arrived at a Mendocino County insurance office claiming guidance to a board. He knocked and spoke of a person sending him, but the message was unclear and left the insurer puzzled about the sender and purpose.
The Mount Vernon room where Washington died is described with a bed replica and floor to ceiling window view. A wax of Martha’s routine, a stair above the library, and a sunlit dormer overlook the tomb. Mrs Mitchell from Wisconsin furnished a Paris copied facsimile with reproductions of hangings and ebony items.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls a wife bedridden for ten years with ailments that baffled doctors. A miraculous cure with Bitters is claimed, restoring her health and vigor, prompting caution against skepticism in Detroit, Michigan.
The fragment notes the fertile soil and genial climate of a region in the United States with a projected time around June 30, 1878. It emphasizes favorable growing conditions and a favorable agricultural outlook for the year.
Capt Prince in Portland offers 15000 to obtain release after fraud sentences. Missouri legislature cites impeachment against State Treasurer Gates. John Hope jailed for alleged Manhattan Bank robbery link. more arrests expected. Henry Cole fined 2000 and 12 years for aiding Ulrich the counterfeiter in Trenton. Evan Rice of Wilmington National Bank faces embezzlement charge of about 27000. In Ohio, G T Simmons near Troy commits family murder-suicide after wife elopement. A boy named Skinner gets three months and 100 fine for storing a train car in Chillicothe. Cheyenne Indians moved to Fort Leavenworth to await murder trial. George W Sieber, St Clair County treasurer, defaulting about 20000 with 15000 assets. bondsmen expected to cover rest. L S Bailey of Langdon dies in Dubuque after grain loss and delirium tremens. Frank Ryan shoots wife then self in Kentucky. both survive. Green County Ky turmoil over Cumberland Ohio Railroad tax grows.
A 16 year old boy, a minor, falls for a 30 year old schoolteacher near St. Charles. The farmer father objects and proposes marriage by sending the couple to Kansas, then considers arming the boy with a shotgun. The boy agrees to surrender the girl for a “real nice” gun, but local gossip spreads the tale and the boy is found with the weapon, ending the scheme.
The piece accuses “hulless-oate fiends” of preying on gullible farmers in unreported fields, labeling them as “book farming” skeptics and oily sharks. It warns that seasoned Western farmers of forty years are being swindled by this new oats scam despite its practical value being questioned.
A Wisconsin building site proprietor touts land for sale describing the town of P and surrounding country as most beautiful and celestial scenery with two wagons and a yoke of steers mentioned as features.
A Pall Mall Gazette reprint of a Perther Lloyd letter describes 19th century atrocity at Glasmats on a specific date. Soldiers plundered a large house taking coins linen furs and silk caps while terrorizing women and tearing ornaments from them as vengeance and war rage.
Professor Loomis of Washington showcases aerial telegraphy experiments in West Virginia using kites and copper wire to reach eleven miles. He constructs towers on hills twenty miles apart with steel rods to tap the electric current and says the telephone can operate via this method, allowing two distant voices to converse without physical wires.
A humorous look at evolving marriage customs in New York where couples increasingly spend a week in a fashionable hotel after a church ceremony. The ritual ends with a surprise honeymoon departure from encoded depots, Windsor or Buckingham shifting the tale from private to public spectacle.
Paris exposition features Julius of London with a hand drill that, when loosely held, bores square holes. A stationary chuck holds the work while a brace or simple tool allows the drill to wobble, yielding square cut results that astonish mechanics.
The article condemns dirty milk practices noting wooden pails are unfit for dairy use and hard to clean. It warns sugar of wheat gum formation and the difficulty of dissolving residues, while fumes from slops risk contaminating milk and enabling destructive seed growth.
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