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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1894
Page
3
Verse fragment from the Ames Intelligencer describes a festive scene with children, merchants, and residents in cheerful mood. The poem mentions a head of golden curls and delighted crowds in windows and doorways as Polly appears.
In a tense Confederate era escape tale, Dorr Jewett and Le Fevre plot a midnight abduction of Coralie from Conrad Bostock’s plantation. They use servants to smuggle her toward Donaldsonville and beyond toward Canada, while a casino-styled confrontation over the girl enrages the master and triggers pursuit by river steamer.
A column discusses demanding drug clerks and their practice of substituting items, notes patent medicine incentives, and references the Barebone family history including Praise God Barebone. It also mentions the doubt about the Colossus of Rhodes and a Manayunk woman striking her husband with a five pound iron bar after a drunken return.
A Brookyln Tabernacle sermon on 1893 closing, arguing an abbreviated earthly existence aids quick work completion and closer focus on Heaven. The preacher cites biblical themes and historical figures to defend preferring center over circumference, urging gratitude for near home and avoiding morbid health fears.
The study reviews Genesis 3 1 15 on Adam sin and divine grace balancing Eden and the tree of life with temptations and lessons. It contrasts ancient Edenic myths with the biblical account and discusses the Garden location and humanity’s condition before the fall, urging vigilance against temptation.
Debate over an income tax as proposed by the Ways and Means Committee and President Cleveland stirs confusion and partisan maneuvering. Reports suggest few Democratic members agreed on the tax, while critics from the New York Herald and San Francisco Chronicle denounce it as unfair and impractical. The public mood turns wary as details remain unsettled and internal revenue options loom.
A quirky collection of items notes a Ouha elevator age rule, a Columbus man guilty of training a parrot, Oshkosh bans pasteboard milk tickets, a ball dance injury suit, a claim Avsreta lenient to murderers, and Austrian willful murder data from 1869–1879.
Delegates from thirty-one seminaries attend the Inter-Seminary Missionary alliance in New Haven. In Nashville four Cumberland Presby terian Endeavor members volunteer as foreign missionaries. Salvation Army expands in Buenos Ayres aiding thousands amid job losses. New England Endeavorers sponsor a missionary in Japan and plan to raise a thousand dollars for a second mission field.
A circulating petition to Illinois senators and congressmen from cloakmakers warns the Wilson tariff plan will harm the industry. It claims McKinley duties near 120 percent support four million-dollar yearly earnings, but Wilson’s 45 percent proposal would force competition with German labor and cause wage starvation. Factory closures and halted production are linked to the tariff fight, with New York cloak manufacturers issuing an address opposing ad valorem taxation and urging decisive action.
A collection of editorials and comments attacks on tariff reform and political figures. The New York Advertiser and Tribune critique Cleveland and Democratic leaders while Chicago's Inter Ocean questions revenue reductions and economic consequences of tariff reform.
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