When the angels we meant to call are gone
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1886
Page
4
Tobacco in Christianity and historic executions featured
A discussion from the Christian Advocate on whether tobacco use disqualifies a Christian or prevents sanctification, noting clerical views and duties for lay and church leaders. The piece shifts to vivid historical vignettes of noble executions in Monaco, Mary Stuart, and Mary Queen of Scots, highlighting their resolve, composure, and religious expressions on the scaffold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Stian Advocate
Methodist Pal Church
Toco
Tosco
Christian Advocate
Duty Doers and Donors Among Christians
The piece argues that some Christians choose monetary gifts over active service, leading to irregular church benevolence. It warns that paying rather than doing dulls spiritual discipline, noting that labor in any field inspires steady beneficence and that buying one’s way out is unsafe and impure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Prayer Meeting Aids for Gospel Teaching And Support
A call for more Aarons and Hursas to gather weekly and pray for gospel teaching success. More teachers in Sabbath schools to work earnestly for scholars until each is brought to Jesus. Additional tract distributors for destitute neighborhoods near grand churches. More contributors to the Lord's treasury to value eternal treasure. Seek employment by contacting the pastor or superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aarons
Hursas
Jesus
Entwinement of daily cares with prayer for all needs
The text urges weaving small daily cares into prayer, turning any change in mood, hurt, or unmet demand into a conversation with God. It emphasizes that human beings are too small for large matters while God can bear small ones, urging total devotion to prayer.
A New Way to Become Lean in Parisian Fat FADGES
M See proposes a lean issue solution urging obese individuals to eat little meat and drink tea in excess. The piece notes prior drastic methods like starvation purges and Turkish baths and highlights breath shortness and fat infiltration as problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Germain See
M. Lee
M. See
Banting and fats in obesity treatment debate
The London Lancet notes M. Les opposes Banting as slow and claims proteins like meats and eggs nourish fat. Ebstein favors Banting with fatty foods, but the author rejects it. Bleeding, once common, is ineffective for stout individuals. vodides and diuretics harm the obese, and weight loss medicines may damage essential nutrition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Les
Ebstein
London
Two Vanderbilts On The Road In Harsh Road Race
A Harlem Lane road race features W. H. Vanderbilt and the Commodore in a tense pursuit scene. The younger Vanderbilt fears a rival team closing in, only to discover the approaching team is his father riding behind Mountain Boy and Mountain Girl on a brisk, competi tive stretch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Vanderbilt
Harlem Lane
Commodore
Vanderbilt
Father
Mountain Boy
Mountain Girl
Bill
White Gunpowder and Its Explosive Formulas
The article describes several blasting powders including Melville and Callon’s mix of chlorate of potassa with red sulphur of arsenic, a second compound of chlorate with ferro cyanide, and a third blend of yellow prussiate of potash, white sugar, and chlorate. These mixtures are highly explosive, regain potency when dried after wetting, and must be handled in very small quantities due to their extreme sensitivity to friction heat and acids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melville & Callon
Prayer of a Tired Little Girl
A prose poem evokes a tired child reciting prayers before sleep. The speaker recalls the small voice saying bless and keeper as the child drifts to sleep, then awakens with a final line about God knowing all the rest.
The Footwear Tale From Primitive Times
A vivid history of shoes from bare feet to inventive foot mats and pegs. The piece traces early footwear, rights and lefts, key inventors, and factory growth, ending with moral reflections from The Little Christian and Youth's Temperance Banner about virtue and healing without wine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
France
Britain
Christ
Crispin
St. Crispin
Joseph Walker
Massachusetts
China
Japan
Holland
England
Europe
Canada
Earth
Heavenly City
Kitty Finds Ball of White Yarn in Sewing Room
A curious kitten explores a sewing room searching for a ball hidden by her mistress. She climbs, bats spools, and finally uncovers a ball of white yarn, retrieves it, and watches it roll with kitten delight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitty
Grandma
Kitty's Yarn Ball Mischief Across the Room
A playful tale tells how Kitty the cat drags a ball of yarn around chairs and a sewing machine, looping furniture together. The owner scolds Kitty for making extra work after discovering the tangled mess and sighs at the cat's innocent look before sleep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitty
Kity
Lucy Young
The Zairgeth Pastime Promises Family Peace or Discord
Popular amusements warn that The Zairgeth may disrupt family harmony unless each member is supplied. The device involves secret letter selection and a complex process to reveal a written sentence, risking quarrels akin to those caused by the Fifteen puzzle.
Noisy Musical Roundabout Game for Young Players
A lively game where children form a circle with a conductor guiding imaginary instruments. Players tune and imitate motions as the conductor hums a tune, switching instruments and baton duties. Forfeit applies if a player fails to take the conductor’s turn on time.
Divination Plates and a Pistol in a Scotch Game
A newspaper note describes a traditional divination with four plates—water earth air empty—and a pistol. A participant blindfolded chooses a plate to reveal fate, linking water to travel or sailing, earth to staying home or marriage to a civilian, empty to single life, and the pistol to a soldier, with adaptions for men.
Population figure for Oregon from County Assessors
The 1880 population of Oregon is 204000, reflecting an increase of 2500 since 1880 according to county assessors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur
Oregon
Distilled Whisky in Early Mississippi River Trade
The Louisville Commercial notes how early distilleries relied on spring water, hand labor, and simple gear. Whisky was made from ground grain, mashed in tubs, fermented, and boiled in copper stills with wood fires. No thermometer or hydrometer, proof judged by bead, capacity about twenty gallons, and few barrels per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Louisville
Whip on Classical Music Laughs at Modern Tone
S. Lewis Whip mocks the label classical music as a modern joke. He riffs on beasts and objects becoming classical through absurd scenarios, praising its oddities while lampooning its pretensions. The piece lampoons deaf enjoyment, statues, corpses, and a hardware store as unlikely classical sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colic
S. Lewis
Fresno Man Is Taken In By Sulphur Springs Woman
Jim Hedges of Fresno loses $50 to an expert draw poker player known as the old lady at Sulphur Springs. On attempting revenge with marked cards, her son intervenes aiming a rifle and forcing payment. Hedges complies to avoid violence, per the Pioche Record account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monaco
Mme
Roland
Mary
France
Beale
Queen Elizabeth
Dr. Fletcher
Fletcher
Earl of Shrewsbury
Peterborough
Earl of Kent
Chicago Tribune
Jim Hedges
Fresno
Sulphur Springs
Here
Milford
Bullionville
Jim
Hedges
A Terrible Confession On a 1881 kidney disease cure
A Rochester reader recounts a six year illness blamed on Bright's disease of the kidneys. He describes constant pain, weight loss, injections for nourishment, and a dramatic recovery after using Warner's Safe Cure, urging others to heed early kidney symptoms and warning of misdiagnosis as heart or nervous disorders. The letter cites J. B. Henson M.D. and underscores hereditary risk and the need for awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N. Y
Democrat
Sim
America
Maine
California
Bright
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Foote
Ician
Warner
J. B. Henson
M.D
Loyal Irish support for the Crown through centuries
Blackwood's Magazine surveys Ireland's loyalty to the English crown across centuries, noting cautious resistance and strong loyalty in events from Charles I era to George IV visits, with unbroken devotion evident in Dublin processions and royal welcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
England
Charles I
Strafford
James II
Scotland
George IV
Dublin
Leith
Edinburgh Castle
Walters
Kingstown
Dublin Castle
Limeick
Galway
Blackwood’s Magazine
A Candid Cook
Col Yerger compliments a cook on a well cooked steak and jokes about a paying customer who never comes, while the cook laments a squandered meal intended for Jim Webster and expresses relief at getting away with it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Yerger
Matilda
Bekase
Jim Webster
Col. Verger
Red Star Cough Care Advertises Safe Plant Based Syrup
The Halifa Journal of Health cites early symptoms of consumption and urges study for early detection and treatment. The New York World reports a child poisoned by morphia in cough syrup, but Red Star Cough Care claims no danger and promotes a purely vegetable, prompt, safe, and sure remedy priced at 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Red Star
London jeweler outlines diamond trade scheme
A prominent London jeweler told a Pa's Mali Gazette reporter that a million‑pound diamond would be tested and sealed before any offer. He described forming a syndicate with friends to buy, hold, cut, and sell the stone in portions, warning that large diamonds bring trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mali Gazette
A Wise Reform In Use Of Quinine And Bitters
The piece argues against high dose quinine for malaria and praises Hostetter s Stomach Bitters as a safer botanical substitute. It claims Bitters cures fever and ague and prevents return, noting broad public and professional adoption with strong supporting evidence from various sources.
Indigenous Thunder Bird Beliefs Across North American Some Paper Title
The excerpt describes Indigenous myths about thunder as a giant bird with a green back and gray breast whose wingbeats create thunder. It notes beliefs in four supporting poles for the sky, a western bird living in the west, and aurora borealis as medicine fire believed to improve aim. Meteors are feared as omens from great warriors in the afterlife.
Golden Medical Discovery Promoted for Lung and Blood Ailments
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the best remedy for consumption and other blood and skin diseases. It warns that a trifling cough may lead to consumption if untreated and claims the remedy is superior to all others, available through druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Warner
Holy Land
C. D. Waknenr
Chicago
Dr Peter W Schmidt Selected Healer Attracts Wide Attention
The article lauds Dr Peter W Schmidt known as Dr Pete for diagnosing without questions and promising cures. It claims phenomenal success and wide demand for Golden Seal Bitters and Lung Food for Consumption, with thousands of bottles sold and many invalids saved. Free Facta for the Million offered by sending to Holland City Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter W. Schmidt
Pete
Golden Seal Bitters Way
Holland City
Mich
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Indies
Mr. Mitchell
Benares
Italy
Germany
Cincinnati Enquirer
Cou. D. J. WrautaMs
U. S
Callao
Peru
St. Jacobs
Halif
Journal of Health
Health Monthly
Petroleum
Taylor
Ely
CO. A. Cary
Corning
Caine
Hazard & Co
Ely Bros
Owego
C. Locawood
Millbrook
Caswel, Hazanp & Co
Lyon
Dr. Pierce
Moses
Buffalo
Pew
Cinaman
Palmer Jou
Leapine
Ayer
Buckingham
Allen
Fly
Jallie Davis
Green Post Office
Ala
Davee
Charles
Geler CO
Baltimore
Dragoists
Cmiarles A Voorler
Matheria
C. E. DePuy
Ph. G
Detroit
Hops & Malt Ritters CO
Chicago Ledger
R.H. McDonald Drug Co
Washington St
N.Y
The
Alps
Dr. Ward & CO
Louisiana, Mo
Nickly
Per
David
la Crosse, Wis
Fria
Freee
A P. Lace
Petent Attorneys
Washington
Standard Liverware Co
Boston
John H. Woopeury
Frasl A Fulbany
Giardenera Trade
H. Shaway
Reckford Wrt
James Bagley
Freoma C. & M
Wight
Greer
Athlopharos
Athlepheros
Greer Us
Usrobuonos Co
Middlesex
Coata
Altey Ma
Atlante
James A. Perry
James A. Lerry
Riverview Stock Farm
Wilmington
J . B. H. Douglass & Sons
New Orleans
Royal Society of England
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Janesville
Wis
Isaac Thompson
I Thompson
Tore
FF. UF
Green Ee Sons
Eli Ali
Siena
Catal
Feee
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Voltaic Best CO
Ieeesie
Piso
N. U
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