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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1886
Page
4
Sunday reflection profile highlights a civic leader known for community service and faith dedication. The piece notes the individual's calm demeanor and hopeful outlook, emphasizing gratitude and trust in daily duties and public life.
A reflective piece mixes devotional verse and prose anecdotes about faith and gratitude. It portrays mothers’ tenderness, a crippled child’s hopeful courage in a Brookylyn home, small acts of thankfulness, and a reminder from Gen Grant’s example to avoid worry and trust in higher power.
The piece reflects on Gladstone’s daily church visits at Hawarden Castle and his son Stephen as rector, then shifts to vaccination debates with German and British authorities discussing scar counts and protection. It closes with a children’s Heaven vignette and a nautical tale of a daring cabin boy later knighted as Sir Charles Wager.
A Presbyterian brother reports a rough preacher with a tent in their village denouncing churches and ministry while aiming to convert boys. A Methodist friend says many church members lack religion and could be disciplined for following the movement. Both lament the spiritual risk and its impact on souls.
Timber tows to log-rafts travel via great water courses. Pine seasons one to two years then blocks cut to match length. Blocks pass a machine that creates two million splints daily, later split into two matches each. Splints are dried and dipped in sulphur and phosphorous solutions before final cutting.
A Bismarck Dakota street clash ends with a Chinaman delivering a swift, decisive thrashing to a white politician who insulted him. The anecdote is framed as evidence of Chinese potential political influence and voting power, urging readers to consider ballots for the Chinese.
The Shah may crown his eldest non princess son despite a rival claim and a mother’s suicide threat. commentary notes European servant hiring and a practical putty recipe. Tennessee reports show sixteen new manufacturing and mining corporations formed last year.
The text outlines Hercules son of Zeus famed for strength and flaws. It covers his infancy, lion skin helmet, guardian cattle labor, and the first four labors: the Nemean lion, Lernaean Hydra with a crab aid, the golden antlered stag of Arcadia, and the Erymanthian boar chased and netted.
The piece argues Wall Street has declined from its former prominence as the continent’s business hub. It notes reduced public interest, investor cynicism, and a shift away from speculative volatility since 1873, with references to figures like Drew Vanderbilt Sage and the 1873 panic.
A Treasury Department clerk argues that women avoid marriage not due to losing femininity but because seeing men in real life differs from social image. She says girls raised among girls expect ideal husbands, and adulthood reveals harsher reality, making a truly honest man harder to find. Washington Republican.
Edith pleads for a family physician saying it is shameful to be without one. Her mother admits the family has only rarely had a doctor since marriage, highlighting social pressure for medical care in the home.
A Burling quip notes that education has advanced even in animals and imagines future dogs hired for menial labor, suggesting humans could replace many wage tasks with canine labor as civilization progresses.
Reporter recalls a slow approach to Venice by rail from a remote station near the city. The scene mingles exhausted waiting in a dreary depot with gondolas and waterworks, ending in a weary sense of romance lost as the train enters a dark station.
In a Pittsburgh Chronicle quip a couple discuss dividing connecting bands of piano fingers to gain greater play. Mrs McSwilligen questions the idea while her husband doubts its effectiveness and suggests a drastic vertebra remedy.
A humorous exchange frames a point of order as a legislator and the chairman trade witty replies. The piece also notes preserving lead-pencil drawings with gun cotton wash to fix patterns against rubber erasure.
A steamer in the city street overturns when a wheel comes off as police clear a crowd. Firemen are injured. Investigation reveals the steward failed to insert the lin pin while oiling the steamer, a misstep causing a potential half million dollar loss.
The article notes the growing number of women physicians in the United States with high incomes and successful practices. It features endorsements for Athlophoros from Dr. Addie M. Barnes of Danville and testimonials from E. K. Mercer and John H. Hutsel praising the remedy for rheumatism and urging readers to order from Athlophoros Co. at 112 Wall Street, New York.
A New York Star anecdote recalls a man who, on a crowded rail trip from St. Louis to Chicago, lends his seat to a self described widow fearing theft. She counts $90 in her purse but reveals only $50 present. He returns $40 to cover the shortfall, then begs the reader to kick him for being so gullible.
Cor. New York Post reports an unnamed imperialist source recounting the prince imperial’s South Africa interview. He favored a peers chamber excluding manufacturers and press, with journalism to be bought, and ruled out public discussion of government matters. The tale fuels republican mockery.
Marie Louise recalls her attachment to Napoleon and confirms a secret correspondence during his Elba years. She explains she could not join him during the hundred days, citing an invincible reason being she was with child by another man. She later married that man after Napoleon's death, having children with him.
A collection of old adage style lines from newspapers urging quick action on emergencies and hot selling cures. It cites Terras Poat advising cutting down a hanging man and Baltimore News praising Red Star Cough Cure, while Philadelphia News promotes St Jacobs Oil for pain relief.
A humor piece recounts a passerby encountering a collard patch scene where an old man weeps after being whipped for sassing his grandfather. Inside the house a remarkably elderly man, claimed at 134 years, adds to the tall tale tone presented by Mr. Tip Harrison in a healthful North Carolina vignette.
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