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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1881
Page
4
Poetic meditation on February completeness and natural timing. The bud dreams of a perfect flower while the acorn seeks its destined rise. They perish yet the pride of the forest remains, illustrating nature’s unerring law that growth follows its hour.
Aunt Milly Lovejoy plans to distribute eight turkeys to neighbors including Blooma Washburn and Tommy Cobbet, while Reuel Washburn and Nathan Lovejoy reconcile after five years. AHarvest Day sermon at Hartwell unites the town as misunderstandings fade, and a post office visit closes with reconciliation and renewed faith.
Aunt Milly believes she talks with Nancy while Nancy and Obed laugh in the kitchen. The adopted daughter named apple seeds on the stove snap apart as their fate nears. Obed studies a figure, and Milly questions why he is slow at learning to cipher.
Aunt Cisely Dagger recalls Hartwell’s first Thanksgiving Day under Luther Wheaton. The meeting house reportedly ran over with hearers as the new minister’s pulpit shone like gold.
Late Thanksgiving evening Obed asks Nancy if she regrets while reading her thoughts. Nancy affirms satisfaction and grants Obed ownership of the tribute for next Thanksgiving, God willing.
Mr. Geo F Helderle of Peru Indiana suffered from rheumatism and tried many remedies without relief until using St Jacobs Oil, according to a report in the Atchison Champion.
The nightingale is described as the most human bird, ceasing song for breeding duties and croaking when with family, then returning to singing if a mate is lost to seek a new partner.
A Michigan journal reports Amos James of the Huron House Port Huron Mich suffered severe rheumatism and could not raise his arm for three months. After using five bottles of St Jacobs Oil he was cured entirely.
Washington sessions report Voorhees resolution on protecting innocent patent purchasers. Senate debates include interest rate changes to 3 percent and 314 percent, semi annual payments, and multiple amendments. House proceedings cover river and harbor bills, consular appropriations, pensions, and a District holiday for inauguration, with adjournment after a partial day.
The report covers multiple days of Congress with bills and amendments on railways, funding, federal appropriations, and public works. Key items include a District appropriation near 2.5 million, cattle disease and trade issues, river and harbor funding proposals, and various conference reports on army and legislative budgets.
In a Chicago police court a wife explained away severe charges by recounting a chaotic scene. She claimed a running dispute escalated when her husband blocked a forked utensil, caused an injury, and slipped into a scalding accident before she left the home.
Daily renewed mental fatigue from work drains brain and nerves. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters reputed to renew energy, increase vitality, and counteract fever rheumatism dyspepsia constipation kidney and uterine weakness. Physicians praise it as a stimulant and remedy.
Dr. Wilkes in the Monthly Magazine of Pharmacy argues alcohol is a depressant and narcotic not a stimulant. It gives temporary warmth but lowers internal heat and dulls senses, and would be better understood if termed a narcotic.
A landlady recalls her view of St Paul during a talk about saints. She says he was a good clever old soul and that people must eat what is set before them without questioning conscience. She adds she would have liked him as a boarder.
The piece argues visits cost about 3 dollars per visit, potentially over 1000 dollars a year for daily care, and promotes Hop Bitters as a causal remedy. It attacks scams charging 25 to 50 dollars for cures and endorses Dr Halliday products as a cheaper, quicker solution, citing a purchaser in St Paul Minnesota.
Gen John A Logan U S Senator from Illinois praises Durang's Rheumatic Remedy claiming cure for rheumatic disease after suffer months. Advertisement touts Rough on Rats insecticide sold by druggists for 15 cents a box and features dramatic loss of life among pests.
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