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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1888
Page
2
The article outlines the role of women in government, then defines tariff terms. It explains specific and ad valorem tariffs, revenue, protective, and prohibitory tariffs, plus internal revenue. It notes goals, examples, and the differing Republican and Democratic positions on protection versus revenue.
The weekly payroll at the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Elizabeth New Jersey totals 35 dollars. In Glasgow one third more people are employed and payroll amounts to 18 000 dollars. Elizabeth workers earn about 13 dollars a week while Glasgow workers earn 5 dollars for the same work. A protective tariff changes eight dollars per employee in this branch.
The text notes a small sprinkle of free trade ideas within the Republican party, claiming they represent at most one in a hundred thousand of its voters. It observes Democratic praise for such members as risky in principle and portrays bipartisan endorsement as a sign of weak Republican fidelity.
Speaker Redman of the Iowa House of Representatives was born in Whiteside County Illinois in 1840. His father served as an officer in the Black Hawk war. He attended Mt. Carroll Seminary and enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry at the outbreak of the rebellion, rising to captain. He later moved to Poweshiek County Iowa, entered the State University, and graduated from the law department in 1869. He is now serving his second term in the House.
A New York catalogue lists autograph values with Addison at 55 dollars the highest. Ferdinand and Isabella fetch 35, Aaron Burr 2.50, Stephen Girard 1.50, Tweed 3. The average American autograph is 1.50. English items show Bolingbroke Hastings Moore and others reaching 10 to 15. Continental examples put Guizot at 31.50 and Zola at 36.50.
Senator Hearst plans to introduce a bill to raise the 1812 veterans pensions from $3 to $25 monthly. He cites 1039 veterans and 11831 widows, arguing widows outnumber veterans due to earlier marriages after the war. Pensions were $2,000,000 in 1873 and about $105,000 this year, with mortality reducing survivor numbers in five years.
The piece argues that raw materials like coal, iron, lumber, salt, and sugar are defined by their role in production. For miners and smelters these items are raw inputs, while the finished product is what they become after processing. It notes all such goods require human skill to transform, and nature offers no ready-for-consumption forms.
A New York Evening Post brief recalls Iowa’s lengthy praise for soldiers while highlighting how the state delayed veteran charity and then faced choices on Senate seats. It notes Senator Wilson’s renomination by a Republican caucus as “Rebel brigadiers” avoid a tougher confrontation with a rival, and criticizes the party for offering aid only after veterans’ deaths.
Weekly report lists multiple transfers from G M Maxwell to Sarah Anderson and others, covering lots and blocks in Nevada and Colo, Iowa Center, Slater Junction, Blair's Additions, Cambridge, and Maxwell, with prices ranging from 50 to 5200 dollars and dates implied in 1900s land records. Names include John Klouser, Daniel McCarthy, A M Jenks, H Thompson, Milwaukee Land Co, J W Ambrose, John Bronhard, T Shewey, Peter Anderson King, Paul Rurup, Homer E Matteson, L D Thompson, J Q Moore, O W Wilson, R R Thompson, Thomas C Evans, Jas B Duffey, William McCoy, Mary Breezley, Rebecca Breezley, A G Dodd, Charles Fish, Curtis A Wood, Samuel Wood, Sherry M McCall, John Scott, Amond Thompson.
A patent remedy, Hib bard's Rheumatic Syrup, is advertised to cure neuralgia after long use to purify the blood and strengthen the nervous system. Sold by L. M. Bosworth and J. H. Pickett & Co.
The St Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway published a large pocket map detailing the region between Chicago and the Pacific Ocean. Free mailed copies available on request to C. H. Wannen, General Passenger Agent, St. Paul Minnesota. Also mentions a local minister endorsing Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup as a worthy remedy.
Patent medicine ad notes immediate relief for coughs with Shiloh’s Cure. Prices listed as 25 cents 50 cents and one dollar. Sold by J H Pickett and Co. Accounts suggest a local commerce promotion in a 19th century newspaper.
An advertisement proclaims Dr Haines Golden Specific can cure drunkenness by adding to coffee or tea without the drinker’s knowledge. It asserts thousands of converts, claims the effect removes the liquor desire entirely, and directs readers to Golden Specific Co. at 185 Race Street, Cincinnati Ohio for details.
An advertisement touts Shieh’s Cough and Consumption Cure with a guarantee to cure consumption. It notes its sale by J K Pickett and Company and references historical comparisons to Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup and similar remedies.
Hector de Gribelin a marine office clerk causes a carriage ride mishap injuring Mme Simon a 65 year old housekeeper. He pays her hospital costs but a month later she is bedridden and seemingly unable to move. Doctors fail to prove illness and the affair strains his family.
An advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as a universal remedy for lung and throat obstructions. It claims the syrup cleans clogged airways, improves breathing, and can cure cold cough croup pneumonia catarrh consumption and related ailments, with a price of 7 cents a bottle.
A list of challenging words likely to trip up readers includes Abhorring bayou aisle trisyllable amateur agreeable beleaguer mysterious different crowd illiterate initial exemplary ecomplaisant recommend collectable chaise solicited actually preparation.
You feel low, anxious, and unwell from a bad mood and tension. Electric Bitters are promoted as a purifying blood tonic that invigorates the liver and kidneys, restoring vitality and health, available for 50 cents a bottle at L. M. Bosworth 3 Store.
An advertisement proclaims immediate relief for whooping cough and bronchitis with Shilohs Cure performed solo by J. L. H. Vickett and Company. The price listed is pounds.
A young man with a flask in his pocket is a common sight on street corners each Saturday evening. Many of these youths prize whisky over a god watch, reflecting a local moral tone in the passage.
The Chicago and North Western Railway offers round trip tickets to California points at reduced rates for excursions leaving Omaha on February 16 and Kansas City on February 17. This is the last chance for reduced rate tickets. Regular excursion tickets are sold daily. for details contact agent C N W. The rest advertises coal output and health elixirs with Shiloh's Vitalizer costing 10 and 75 cents per bottle.
A long satirical letter from Buncombe County detailing Butter county life and a boy editor in Asheville. It includes Uncle Bill Nye's imagined exchanges, notes on journalism ambition, and a humorous Buncombe County butter anecdote with local dialect.
The passage analyzes Peter’s confession Thou art the Christ and the church founded on the rock of Jesus. It explains the meaning of I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail. It warns followers to deny themselves and lose life to save the soul and outlines general lessons on Christ’s identity and gospel necessity.
A physician warns that close personal contact and co sleeping harm health. He cites vampirish temperaments in adults and children, recommending total separation for long cases, and even sending affected patients to nature for recovery.
A street entertainer on Grand River avenue plays a hand organ while a couple stops to read his sign stating he suffers rheumatism and has lost use of his hands. The wife urges charity. the husband questions the claim and they walk on until the husband laughs at the audacious ruse.
The Buffalo Express dubs a telegraph pole the tree of death, signaling danger or fatal risk. The remark suggests peril associated with aging infrastructure or neglected lines.
Dr L L Goxsaven of Toledo declares Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co a guaranteed remedy for catarrh after forty years in medicine. The firm offers 100 dollars to any case not cured when taken as directed. Cure sold by druggists for 75 cents.
A New York woman remains jailed after she refused to disclose a secret to a judge and jury. The case centers on questions of testimony and courtroom secrecy.
Advertisement touts Oils Salts Pills and a liquid fruit remedy as agreeable laxative options. Claims the Syrup of Fig is easier to take gentler on the stomach and more effective than others. Endorsed by physicians and sold by H. Westerman & Co.
A Lincoln Nebraska household reports their six month old baby recovered from bronchitis after using Chamberlains Cough Remedy. The parents Wilber E Wells and Luke L Wells praise the medicine for easing phlegm aiding breathing and stopping nocturnal coughing. They vow to keep a bottle in the house.
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