16 Jan 1890
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1890
Page
1
A fragmented poem passage depicts cold night scenes and longing for warmth. It mentions poverty contrast and the speaker seeking rest, with vivid sensory lines about snow, rain, and a snug cover. The text reflects urban hardship and personal weariness in a dated period style.
A narrator describes a moonlit party where Miss Florence and Frederick confront a rival killer Caston plotting murder. The narrator interferes with a crowbar, rescuing Florence, binding Caston, and revealing the plot to Frederick. Clara and her aunt depart to Europe, while Caston is confined and Clara later vanishes with her aunt.
The Boston Herald argues the 1635 Quincy house in Quincy should be preserved as a relic of Puritan New England. It contrasts with other aging homes and cites potential loss of a valuable historic landmark, urging public funding to save the property and prevent vandalism.
A young man holds a baby on a street corner for an hour claiming a woman asked him to mind it. Two men bet on the baby's mother, then a trim woman emerges from a store and calls the man father as they walk away, her shopping bags in hand. He sighs at the ruse while they talk of a carriage as a joke.
Squire Brimmer recalls his niece Carrie from New York who misinterprets squab as fish. Carrie’s reaction to breakfast squab and the plan to boil them generate humor about Eastern visitors and California farming life.
In 1872 a Charleston shoemaker left a peculiar bequest to his brother a wooden box the size of a geranium pot. The box contained two bottoms a bank roll and three silver halves totaling 135 dollars. The money funded a memorial at St Bethany Cemetery and sparked belief that geranium pots conceal cash. Charleston News and Courier
The landlady of H M Stanley in London is vindicated after a year of anxious uncertainty when the explorer was presumed lost and many doubted his fate and prospects.
A Western farmer’s son remembers his first wages earned at age 15 for corn planting weeding onion beds and evening chores. Farmer Gray pays fifteen cents after a long day, praising honest work and rewarding the boy for his labor. The tale reflects pride in earning money through diligence.
The article recalls sun dial mottos from London to Sussex and old proverbs. It notes four seasonal mottoes on a Sussex garden dial and cites famous lines like Make hay while the sun shines. A tale links Lord Bacon to a dial motto in Temple Gardens after a student asks thrice.
The piece laments excessive bric-a-brac and furniture cluttering elegant rooms. It describes a fashionable woman who rotates treasures weekly, keeping rooms unsettled and crowded like a bazaar, while arguing restraint creates calmer, more comfortable spaces.
Philip asks about wedding types as Uncle Jake names several, from silver and gold to wooden and lacquered ribbons. The uncle hints at adding a “lasses candy wedd’n” to mark the first boy's first bite, a playful family tradition described.
The article names anniversary milestones including first year cotton, second paper, third leather, fifth wooden, seventh woolen, tenth tin, twelfth silk and linen, fifteenth crystal, twenty fifth silver, thirtieth pearl, fortieth ruby, fiftieth golden, seventy fifth diamond.
A farmer confronts a bank teller over a sign above the window while Cashmore shuffles to the next booth. the exchange ends with the farmer demanding information amid frustration.
A quotation from Ladies' Messenger lauds genuine laughter as more cleansing than formalism. The misspelled line about tenpin balm notes humor and misprints, reflecting a playful critique of industry jargon.
The article details France's state tobacco monopoly, covering government control of cultivation, leaf supply, pricing, and distribution. It notes the system's scale with thousands of planters, multiple bureaus in Paris, and strict enforcement of quotas and stamps, tracing its origins to Napoleon and Jean Nicot.
In a town on the outskirts a miserly man nicknamed Old Crusty lives in a shared old house. A poor widow and her five children fear his spite while suspicion grows that he steals their coal after nightfall, as the children report seeing him near their shed and coal pile late.
A veteran tobacconist recounts a con by a self styled expert who claimed to distinguish imported cigars. In Washington three men debated cigars and a trickster swapped samples leaving the expert baffled as the host revealed the domestic originals. The tale ends with laughter and a moral.
Pliny tells how Apelles visited Rhodes and silently challenged Protogenes by drawing a fine line on canvas. Protogenes added a still finer line, then Apelles drew a third beyond both. The canvas, famed for three nearly invisible strokes, was preserved and admired until a palace fire in Augustus's Rome.
In a New York Weekly snippet a mother notes Bridget's enhanced diligence, starching shirts and cuffs, walking to learn from a woman on cooking, and asking about desserts. The dialogue hints she is determined to master every duty and may be preparing for marriage.
A judge warns a prisoner that executive clemency is unlikely while the prisoner deflects with a hopeful comment that his friend will persuade the Governor to grant a pardon. The exchange reveals tension between judicial caution and personal appeal.
The article explains that woodcocks convey their brood by pressing the young between the feet and breast, using the bill only to assist when needed. It cites observations from Lays of the Deer Forest and a Gentleman's Magazine note about a mother carrying two young as the observer followed a feeding family through the woods. The piece emphasizes this as a rare, learned behavior not an adaptation for air transport.
The report lists numerous pension grants with origins in centers such as Davenport Des Moines and Mason City along with transitional notes on restoration and reissue for several names. It also notes the State Oil Inspector’s biennial totals 338 928 barrels inspected and 907 rejected and explains net earnings after expenses. Deep wells in Osceola County are mentioned and Adjutant General Beeson supports enlisting one Iowa regiment for a month per year in the regular army.
A collage of playful vignettes and quips about sailors, love, whiskey, games, and society figures. Jests touch on oysters and batter in food metaphors, a magnetism claim about an Edison girl, minstrel humor, wedding nerves, sharp observations on liars, judges, poetry submissions, and social foibles.
Readable items cover Lapp reindeer customs and wolves chase on snow shoes. Then State Teachers Association meetings at Colfax with papers by J W Johnson and Joseph T Dwyer and debates on manual training, followed by local incidents including Roe collar button injury and Lehman stabbing, plus health and education statistics, new opera house at Anamosa, apple shipments, Fort Dodge library, a fatal rail accident at Coon Rapids, and a light humor note about a gas meter.
A brief Detroit Free Press fragment recalls a neighbor asking to use a telephone to invite guests. The exchange reveals a cheeky tone as the caller notes others may use the line, including a man who called a husband about a bill and a sub-office line.
Reports warn that a tramp roaming at night in New York poses danger after recent sand bagging incidents, while acknowledging hundreds of unemployed men may wander the city after dark.
Four visiting Yuma Indians staged an elaborate game ofIndian faro or totoyebuk at a downtown hotel drawing a crowd. Players tied colored sticks under a cloth then guessed which side held them and exchanged sticks for wins or losses. After over two hours one side won all sticks and about $5.50 in money.
The North Borneo man notes that many orang outangs he measured exceed four feet, with a largest range around four feet ten inches. He cites Sarawak examples, Hornaday's four feet four, and North Borneo specimens from Suanlamba and Kinabatangan showing four feet four to four feet ten.
In a rough street encounter a ragged man questions two men about being sportsmen asking if either bets. He expresses interest in a wager and presses for a sporting offer amid the tense exchange.
An old woman pleads for help saying she had one child, a son, as her only means of support. She laments that the poor boy has ruined his sight and seeks assistance from the listener.
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