14 Jan 1892
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1892
Page
1
The Intelligencer issued Thursdays at Ames Story County Iowa by HB and S K Wilson. Terms of subscription are $7.50 per year payable in advance.
Sunday morning worship at the Methodist and Baptist churches with Sunday School sessions. The Methodist church holds morning and evening services with midweek events. Baptist church offers morning and evening services, a Wednesday prayer meeting, and a teen/young people meeting before morning service.
Appeals from the Iowa Russian Famine Relief committee urge Iowa to fund and ship corn and canned foods to starving Russians. Clara Barton and the Red Cross will oversee distribution, with funds flowing through district and state treasuries. The call emphasizes immediate action, local fundraising, and newspaper prompts for donor amounts.
The undersigned says he recovered from a severe lung illness by a simple remedy and offers to send free a copy of the prescription believed to cure Consumption Asthma Catarrh and Bronchitis. He asks fellow sufferers to address Rry Edward rs Brooklyn Kings County New York for the free prescription.
The text notes special interest in the Jews in New York and the Jewish Question for this month due to the current importance of this adjacent people.
An advertisement claims De Witts Coug hi and Consumption Cure convinces skeptics with careful preparation and pleasant taste, presenting it as a valuable remedy.
The note invites readers to explore the essay Why and How the great Dictionary was made in the back pages of the January Century, suggesting it is essential for book lovers and scholars.
The column urges prudent saving in 1892 through trusted co‑operative banks and sensible resolutions, warning against get rich quick schemes and promoting debt freedom and good conduct. It then recounts L H Gaskill's sighting of four mountain lions near San Francisquito, noting the Mexicans and Indians’ fear of lions and the danger they pose on the peninsula.
The article contrasts repeated quotes from Justice Taney about negro rights with a lawyer's misused high authority in court. It notes a ship Abyssinia fire believed caused by spontaneous combustion and explains how old rags and oil can ignite, blaming chemical action rather than airborne microbes.
Two children and their mother spot a life size Santa in a large Sixth Avenue store before Christmas. The kids rush to Santa exclaiming their requests for a trotting wagon and a talking dolly, while observers note the boy’s belief and the Santa smile. An elderly observer laments how a child's belief should fade.
After a Danville Va court adjourned a one armed veteran named Brett Morrison was found guilty of illeg something and sentenced to imprisonment and a $100 fine. The judge told Morrison to return the next day to reconsider the case, remarking that old soldiers are scarce and he cannot go to jail. Cor Richmond Times.
A reader corrects a common misbelief about century endings. The author cites the New York Sun and states the Nineteenth Century ends with the last day of 1900, nine years from New Year Day 1892.
The elderly Mrs. Nancy Britt Kennedy of Augusta Maine was said to be 113 though age uncertain. She reportedly prayed to die early one December morning, then collapsed and died after about 45 minutes, a case some cite for psychological study.
Brand new half dollars, quarters and ten cent pieces stamped with a new design will soon appear on the market. They are expected to be handsome coins though securing sufficient supply may prove difficult.
A theater to seat 1500 is announced for Rochester New York. Bronson Howard hosted thirty American dramatists at a midnight supper. Wilson Barrett will visit America next November to appear mainly in Othello. A wardrobe woman of an Opera company died by gas inhalation. Victor Capoul has been on stage twenty years. Patrice, a soubrette, sued a Chicago man for 20000 dollars for breach of promise, then remarried and dropped the suit.
A Winchester resident repaired an outbuilding and discovered under a sill an old tin can holding about 1600 dollars in gold coins chiefly 2.50 and five dollar pieces. No owner is known for the hidden treasure.
The Oakland board of education has decreed a policy for married teachers. The women question the action and wonder how the resolution would apply if the teachers were men.
The great treasury vault at Washing ton covers more than 4 quarter of an acre and is twelve feet deep. Recently there was 90 million dollars in silver stored there weighing 4 thousand tons loading 175 freight cars. The fishing industry in Portland Oregon and vicinity is rapidly increasing with 17 thousand barrels of mackerel packed there last season, 10 thousand more than the prior year. Scientists report yellow fever germs may be carried by birds
Mrs G R Alden a religious writer known for Pansy and life of Christ presents a project called Prince of Peace. The article describes the whaleback ship concept by Captain Alex McDougall of Superior Wisconsin, noting eight vessels exist on the lakes with total tonnage around 50 000 and a design that reduces seasickness.
The stockholders met Tuesday and the board of directors were re-elected. Named are W. M. Greeley Tilden E. W. Stanton and others including Dan McCarthy D. G. Ives.
The note outlines a Bible study focusing on Isaiah chapters 28 and 32 with commentary by Rev. D. M. Stearns. It warns readers to follow scripture directly and discusses woes against Ephraim, judgment, and the coming kingdom, stressing the contrast between folly and divine will.
John Sherman, the oldest serving U S senator and a long time Mansfield resident, was born May 10 1823 in Lancaster Ohio. He won election to the Thirty-fourth Congress in 1854 as Republican majority and later served as Secretary of the Treasury under Hayes before returning to the Senate in 1861.
Report notes Francis C. Hendricks, state senator from Onondaga County, succeeds J Sloat Fassett as collector of the port of New York after one month in the post. Biography covers Hendricks birth in Kingston N Y November 23 1834 education Albany Academy and early business career in Syracuse. Also mentions a London and North Western locomotive trial and home remedies for pimples fever blisters burns ivy poison deodorant and frostbite remedies.
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