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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1891
Page
4
A poem by Margaret Thomas appears in Youth's Companion describing a night wind rising from silence. Nature responds as wind travels past brook and forest, stirring flowers, reeds, and echoes, then covering the moon with clouds. The storm subsides as love's calm voice restores peace.
In a dim room a man kneels seeking a pencil, eyes fixed on a woman who smiles kindly. Gilbert Ray bursts in with a dramatic entrance as Mrs Ray skirts through a portiere, the moment charged with romantic misreading and a hinted proposal.
Russell sinks into extravagance and debt as Ray expands Manhattan Electro-Motor plans. Ray eyes distant franchises and possible city takeovers while Russell hides his love for Alice and faces a tangled moral crossroads aboard the yacht. The Rays return home, and Russell senses a family secret spreading through their circle.
A candid dialogue reveals an impulsive adventurer in love with a rich girl. The girl's father, amused and wary, tests the suitor's resolve, then offers quiet encouragement, acknowledging the daughter's affection but urging patience and honesty.
Russell schemes to hire a downtown janitor named Cupid to pose as a poetic genius for a campus society. Alice aids the deception to impress the members while Russell fears exposure and consequences. The ruse centers on a staged poem Dust and Ashes and a growing web of affection and danger.
Dialogue fragment shows Bridget from Manhattan Beach asked to bake biscuits for supper. She improvises asking to bake biscuits tonight for a ball hosted by the Grave Diggers Association and jokes about whitening her bands after baking.
A fragment from a Chicago page features a widow debating engagements with a man who has just been accepted. The dialogue hints at contrasting views on the length of engagements and life choices.
A historical devotional piece recounts Elisha healing the Shunammite woman and her dead child, detailing the sequence of events in 2 Kings 4 and its spiritual lessons. It highlights the mother’s faith, Gehazi’s limited power, and Elisha's earnest prayer leading to restored life and gratitude.
A New York Star letter urges proper handling of suspected mad dogs in East Orange. It stresses catching and confining the animal for investigation to avoid needless fear, noting the bitten may suffer nervous strain if the animal’s status remains unknown.
The article profiles Hon George Graham Vest as a diminutive figure poised for a third term as U S senator from Missouri. It recounts a humorous early story of cleverness at a poker game where he escaped a trap by igniting a floor stripe and flashing four queens. Vest's origins, education, move to Missouri, and later embarrassment with a mistaken patent-medicine lookalike are noted.
Mrs. Henry Billings Brown, wife of the Michigan born Supreme Court justice, has become a social favorite in Washington. Born in Detroit with schooling in Portland, Me, she is described as an American product and shares refined manners and a velvety voice.
A central Chicago board led by Mrs. Trent advocates a separate colored exhibit at the World's Fair. Supporters include senators and representatives from across the country and many colored men and women who pledge to assist the effort.
A Boston Herald item rails at editors denying full telegraphing of speeches even for minor bills. It notes Paris social news of a cab driver’s golden wedding and recounts Brookline lad F. McCarthy saving a two year old from aBrookline brook after the child toppled from a barn platform near Boylston street.
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