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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1894
Page
3
A poetic passage presents a speaker who proclaims hidden truths about sun and sea, then shifts to the idea of a man rising from a past to reach joy, with doubt and faith framed as secrets. The piece ends with God is love and a claim of dying to live above.
In a Louisiana courtroom, Pierce Bostock's heirs dispute ownership of Coralie Bonfaut and her freedom. After dramatic testimony and a Will discovery, Judge orders dismissal of abduction charges and frees Coralie and the defendant. The trial exposes plantation legends, wealth, and the war looming over Civil War era Louisiana.
A visiting man arrives by rail from Vicksburg to Donaldsonville. He informs the judge of a death and an ongoing case, presenting a folded paper from his pocketbook that may be crucial to the investigation. Dorien greets the party and the lawyer leans to hear more.
Narrative discusses Pierce Bostock and his will hidden in a Mississippi home, the alleged secrecy around it, and the influence of Coralie Jewett's lawsuit against Conrad Bostock over La Fourche plantation. It notes witnesses' obscurity, Bostock’s mind at death, and broader Civil War era politics and legal views. The piece also shifts to India and British administration impacts, census figures, languages, and population growth.
The article surveys opal varieties from noble to common and notes features like harlequin and fire opals with origin hints from Hungary and Mexico. It also compiles condensed press comments on tariffs and political figures of the era with sharp editorial tones.
The piece claims the president plotted to restore the Hawaiian monarchy, despite public condemnation. Willis demanded the provisional government step down, ex-queen supporters pressured Washington, and the conspiracy ended December 19 with no change in Hawaii. Critics call the president false to the nation and blame him for discrediting the country.
The piece denounces the Wilson bill and argues protective policy shields the U S from foreign crises. It condemns Democratic pledges as ruinous and hypocritical while warning that reliance on foreign investors endangers the country. It cites historic crises and questions party resolve.
A Chicago Times excerpt critiques the Wilson bill as a deficient revenue plan linking a corporate and individual income tax to avoid broader tax reform. It argues the bill defers necessary measures, warning Democrats against supporting the attached income tax and calling both proposals twin humbugs to be defeated.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson recalls Dr. Thomas T. Milner of Hartford as a young assistant surgeon who refused to toast with alcohol during a lively Beaufort party. He offered to drink water and proposed the toast Our Mothers, earning quiet admiration from officers. Milner later led hospitals on the Pacific coast and served as mayor of Seattle before his accidental drowning.
A Martins Ferry correspondent argues most published accounts of John Brown's raid are flawed. The piece recounts Brown's 1859 Essex County visit, the Harper's Ferry journey, and key skirmishes ending with Beckham's death and Thompson's execution, as reported by the Washington Star.
A Civil War anecdote recounts a foraging ban clash when a Sixty-seventh New York color sergeant carried a goose and refused to part with it, claiming the goose hissed at the flag. The tale ends noting Frey later served as a major after Libby imprisonment and hostage experience.
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