28 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1878
Page
1
Bey Kates of advertising announced an application to the proprietor and urged readers to send in any item of news or general interest for publication. The note invites community updates and contributions from the public.
A poem fragment portrays a speaker blindfolded by a lover's hands and discovers the beloved features beneath the touch. The scence emphasizes intimate recognition and reawakening affection, with an aside to a named author and place.
A fragment from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow appears in Atlantic Monthly. The poem depicts a wandering poet on Icelandic shores seeking words and discarding his pen into the sea as he writes.
A fragmented verse excerpt by H Boyesen from Scribner recalls a lily metaphor for love and longing. The speaker contrasts maidenly severity with a cool young life in snow and recalls disdain and pride in a poetic reflection on love.
A fragmented late 19th or early 20th century lyric excerpts evoke winter sleet, choosing a valentine, and changing seasons. Names Corotine Mason Julia C R Dorz appear among verses, with scattered lines about blossoms, bowers, and rooftop panes.
Appletons' Journal presents a lyrical scene of winter hills and dark woods. A speaker recalls Dreamland as a beloved place linked to a past journey and a cherished beloved, blending nature imagery with memory.
Fragmentary verse comparing love to free dew and wind, with images of Eden fruit, bees, and nature. The text shows garbled lines and misspellings, but conveys a theme of boundless love and longing beyond loss or betrayal. It reads like a lyrical ode to freedom and fidelity.
Fragments describe crocus green and rainbow in the sky as a sign. The text blends garbled phrases with scattered sensory images about light and day. No clear event or subject emerges from the OCR garble.
In a weathered farm kitchen a widow hosts a weathered traveler in Mr Cobb's chair. The stranger reveals he is Sam Payson, Maria's long lost love, who wooed her years ago and returns with riches and resolve to wed. Maria and Sam reunite, and the widow moves toward a happy ending.
A roundup of farm advice and miscellany including feeding cattle on corn meal, artichokes as hog cholera prevention, winter bedding and manure from five sheep, and practical seed sowing for prastixa olace onanor. Also notes on household air quality, beverage recipes, billiard fashion, population guesses, pensions, temperance, and curiosities from New York to London.
The Job Printing department advertises latest type and materials, promising neat, speedy work. Legal blanks stocked. bill heads, letter heads, books, pamphlets, posters, auction bills, cards and more offered at competitive state prices.
Local Washington observers describe Mr Pitnin as remorseless and deaf to sympathy while Cincinnati reports provoke disdain. Poems mocking religious creeds circulate among orthodox residents and Pitman’s wife is cited in a controversial eulogy.
Fragmentary text cites Richmond figures on alcoholic beverages and per voter consumption. It mentions high per capita drink counts and estimates of annual drinks, but many words are garbled making specifics uncertain.
A list of bills in the lower house includes funding for new military posts in Texas, costs for the diplomatic service, harbor defenses, coastal fortifications, postal workers salaries, postmaster pay, and penalties for unsettled Civil War accounts. Also mentioned are Banning of Ohio's resolution on Military Affairs and the Bland Silver bill as amended by the Senate.
In Calaveras County a young man named Philip King fell 1400 feet from the Owen mine shaft. No witness saw the fall but seven men rode the bucket with him. The brakesman and bucket-lander were present with lanterns. the mangled remains were found at the shaft bottom.
In Des Moines February 18 1878 the Iowa Legislature passed a measure setting the expiration of wine and beer licenses to coincide with annual municipal elections. The report notes debates on education standards and rail problems, plus bills on penalties for crime and public records.
A vivid account recalls Poe reciting The Raven before visitors. Amid the performance a window gaze revealed white-eyed servants outside, the crowd thinning as Poe ended with Nevermore and a plan to feature Rose in a future reading tangle. The piece also notes England's lavish army uniforms and a petty theft tale in Missouri.
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