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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1887
Page
4
The piece discusses how pleasure and pain are intertwined and that adversity can teach wiser living. It highlights hope in God and Christ as a guide through suffering toward happiness and eternal peace, contrasting wealth and ease with moral discipline. It also notes experiments using Balmain paint and light exposure enabling strong photo transfers.
The piece weighs options on how to contend with orthodoxy, praising Moody for action over analysis and Joseph Cook for methodical persuasion. It contrasts their approaches, cites their past successes, and ends with a reflection on balancing conviction with study.
Research by M. Ch. Zenger shows many substances absorb luminous rays by day and reemit at night, creating perceptible light. The study notes the phenomenon extends beyond visible light and hints at practical implications for night illumination and sensing.
A humor piece notes an oyster man arrested for whisky after entering a restaurant and making a color blind joke about fish. The exchange reveals the charge was whisky and the judge imposes a ten dollar fine.
A humorous motto quoted from the Chicago Ledger about a courtship halted by a father. The couple claimed their guiding principle as so far and no farther, celebrating a quick and happy ending after informing the father at the start.
A horse dealer and Deacon Snafflebit quarrel over a mare traded for a gray colt with $200 invested. The deacon laments not insisting on boot, citing a Solomon proverb as the dispute centers on value and fairness. An Arizona paper offers a gin prize for a list of the twenty worst men.
Fragmentary travel instruction references New York City exits and a Grand Union Motel with unclear landmarks. Mentions baggage expressage carriage hire and a road to depots. Odd phrasing suggests a garbled historical travel card or telegraphic note with missing details and potential OCR errors.
A 19th century correspondent argues that leaders and great orators tend to be physically large, citing Washington Cortez Charlemagne Wellington Webster Lincoln and others. Thinkers are often small in stature while successful editors and large-voiced speakers are tall and heavy, with a noted New York saying that great merchants outweigh their clerks.
The onion, now common in Spain and the south of France, appears increasingly at local fruit stands. An anecdote from Alfred Trumble notes a theatrical artist using large Spanish onions to aid sleep, though his wife objected to the result.
Detroit Tribune notes a shift from very low wages in the 1790s to later gains. It cites the Susquehanna Canal Company’s winter wages at five dollars and summer six with board, a Vermont farm hand wage of four with board, a Connecticut boy paid one dollar monthly for three months to buy a shirt, and butter at eight to ten cents per pound. It also recalls Carey’s 1829 observations of unemployment, cold deaths, and households taxed by high prices, contrasting with tariff-driven home industry that raised wages and lowered goods prices.
A dialogue shows a debtor and creditor arguing about a bill for a suit of clothes bought six months ago. The exchange highlights keeping promises, ending with the debtor claiming adherence to his vow. The piece is framed by a Bulwer quote on vigilance and genius.
The Chicago Journal notes 600000 tons of steel rails bought for 1887 and 6900 miles planned next year. Booms in railroad construction create rapid growth then periods of contraction as demand wanes, with money circulating to farmers, dealers, and workers, followed by a lull and future revival.
Seaweed boiled with soda then treated with sulphuric acid forms alguina a viscous substance stiffer than starch suitable for textile stiffening syrups culinary uses and the remaining pulp can be made into writing paper.
In Santa Rosa California a loose coat in a barnyard moved a barley sack to its mother. The owner hid the bag but the foal found it among empty sacks and returned it to the dam, which finished the grain.
A description by L Abbe Huc outlines Chinese artesian well drilling using hollow wooden tubes and a weighted rammer. Workers operate a lever to drop the hammer, while repeated water piping softens rock. Wells reach depths of 1500 to 1800 feet, advancing about two feet per day, with full progress taking about three years.
An elderly man, very hard of hearing, asks a doctor about a cure for deafness after receiving a simple prescription. The patient jokes about meals and rest, then leaves with the line that the prescription cured his deafness, a tale recounted from the Pall Mall Gazette.
A Pittsburg Dispatch note recounts a saleswoman who complains that women customers delay service and prefer men who know what they want. She describes frustration with a female customer while noting men make quicker purchases.
A reader recalls observing a nearly full grown spider molt its old skin. The process takes about fifteen minutes as the spider ceases eating, sheds the old thorax legs and skin, then frees itself from the dress to reveal a lighter, new form.
A parrot in a cage under a tree clashes with a neighboring monkey who boasts of his mistress’s wisdom. The crow interjects, declaring neither has good sense for keeping such creatures as pets. Moral: our defenders can be our best witnesses.
The passage warns that consumption begins with pimples and eruptions and progresses to lung damage. It touts Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for diseases arising from bad blood, claiming it improves appetite digestion and nutrition to strengthen the body.
Advertisement asserts ir bilious and weak lungs will be cured by Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery sold by druggists. It frames scrofulous lung disease as curable, urging readers to purchase for relief.
An advertisement claims Hallett & Co of Portland Maine offers at home work with profits of $5 to $25 daily, with some earning over $59 in a day. It promises novelty and immediate start, urging readers of all ages to write for full particulars and capital details.
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