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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1883
Page
2
The poem laments weary days and honors the toiler's endurance and faith. It speaks of workers, widows, and aging parents, praising steadfast hope, collective labor, and the promise of rest and plenty for all after toil. The verse imagines bells, hymns, and choruses as a tribute to labor's ever-present burdens and the reward of virtue.
A widow, after a deadly train wreck kills thirty and injures many, endures grief, recalls past Thanksgivings, and gradually seeks purpose. She invites poor neighbors to her table, learning humility, faith, and shared sorrow. The act heals her, deepens compassion, and connects her with a broader circle of mourners.
A survey notes 32 Episcopal newspapers in the U States and a Michigan bishop's pastoral forbidding Catholic Protestant marriage under excommunication. Fisk Hall Nashville dedicated at $60 000 funded by Mrs. M E Stone. Japan to create 53760 primary schools across eight collegiate districts and mandate early school attendance. Boston incorporated Palestine Colonization and Christian Missionary Association to restore Palestine through Christian labor. A New York church features an “invalid room” hidden near the pulpit for ill attendees. A Boston Traveler item recalls a pupil’s joke on the relative pronoun. John F Slater’s $1 000 000 gift to aid freedmen overseen by Hayes Waite and others. Philadelphia Methodists plan a grand Trinity Church with Gothic design and vast stained glass to seat 1500 inside and 3000 with the Sunday school, corner-stone by Bishop Simpson.
A collage of humorous snippets and wry observations from old papers. Jests on superstition, fashion, labor, marriage, and domestic life appear across mentions of a doggerel about luck, a wedding coal gift, a German epitaph, women’s pay, odd station-house anecdotes, and a camel hair retort in a Dunbury News item.
A detailed account discusses the Heloderm lizard, over a foot long, with grooved teeth and venomous saliva. It questions whether venom enters through teeth or saliva, notes glands in jaws, and compares its bite to a lancet and syringe. The piece cites possible prey, behavior, and a Mexican superstition, ending with caution against dismissing popular beliefs.
The New England Farmer notes Maine forest lands, once state controlled, have largely transferred to private owners who harvest for maximum returns while maintaining thrift. Logs are selectively cut, leaving smaller growth for future cuts, enabling a crop every twenty to twenty five years.
A farmer reports turkeys grow fatter in two weeks when kept in a comfortable pen compared with four weeks of free roaming. The observation suggests confinement boosts fat deposition.
A Montana arm signs a deal to deliver 1000 pairs of buffalo horns to Detroit Posh.
A friend recalls a near disaster when a spark from a log nearly burned through a massive timber on Lake Superior’s southern shore. The notice urges forest fire prevention and highlights forests as vital to rainfall, floods, and employment, urging protection of this national inheritance.
The dialogue notes a town buzzing with politics with speeches nearly every night and plans for bonfires and corn husking as the community engages in political activity. The speaker mentions a coordinated effort to combine bonfires, husking, and political events in the same period.
The report portrays Chihuahua as a mining town of about fifteen thousand, with aqueducts built by Spaniards, clean streets, and a central plaza with a grand cathedral. It notes prison laborers sweeping streets, a water-fountain era, bustling cortes of senoritas, alamedas for drives, and a mix of industrious, polite elites and turbulent locals.
The article discusses dairy cow breeding laws, noting offspring resemble parents and that multiple dairy cow types exist for different milk traits. It also compares ideal traits with practical limits, then shifts to water quality, distinguishing hard and soft water, their effects, and sanitary guidance for safe drinking and livestock needs.
The article discusses how milk color and richness relate to feed and conditions, noting whole milk as a superior food and skimmed milk for cooking. It explains cows as gross feeders consuming varied diets, the economics of feeding, and practical notes on summer versus cold weather feed. It also cites farmers who buy cheaper feed farther away to boost profit.
A cor respondent reviews a vacuum apparatus for handling milk and cream. He notes oxygen's claimed role in cream ripening and reports that vacuum treated milk yields notably delicious cream and skim milk. He cites a trial where ten hours of vacuum treatment produced one pound of butter from twenty pounds of milk.
An English emigrant named Saun ders on the way to America died after forcing his head into a barrel of soft soap and remaining submerged until death.
A collection of legends explains plant origins and meanings. It cites demigods growing the cotton tree to lift subterranean inhabitants, Russian tales linking rush and diabolical power to plants, a Buddhist priest and tea plants, and Little Russian stories tracing tobacco to a heavenly command and a fatal blaze.
A domestic scene centers on Regetta and Dotty arguing over gratitude during Thanksgiving and the burden of poverty. Family members share aches of illness, an absent father, and chores, while a younger girl named Kate tries to write a diary about events and feelings, learning the challenge of meaningful record keeping.
The Committee on Judiciary of the Lime Kiln Club reports a petition from 230 colored Ohio citizens asking the club to press for a new pension law. The current law excludes men who died before receiving benefits due to private business, and an act by Congress is sought to correct this oversight.
In Berks County Pennsylvania a hunter laid his gun on a barrel when a rattlesnake slipped into it and refused to be removed until the weapon was fired. After the discharge the hunter reported no further objections.
A brief note suggests dissolving rock salt in water as a cheap safe treatment for various skin diseases that afflict animals. The text emphasizes accessibility and low cost of this home remedy for veterinary concerns.
Poem on gratitude and self discipline for young readers. The speaker reflects on blessings, learning to obey, striving for the best, and facing challenges in daily life, with a Thanksgiving Day frame. Attributed to M. F. Butts from Youth's Companion.
A crowded horse-car on Shawmut Avenue carries six well dressed youths and a modest plasterer who claims to “have a character to sustain.” When a charming woman boards, seats are offered by the youths. the plasterer finally yields, moving his tools to the front as the car stalls amid surprised silence.
A Buffalo scam swindled about 100 women who each paid five dollars for embroidery lessons. Advertisers collected fifty dollars before fleeing, leaving victims to seek return of their deposits. The piece urges caution on advance payments and deposits to avoid similar frauds.
The St Louis Gazette outlines a planned elite directory listing well to do residents for merchants to target, with names organized by street locations to aid calling. It notes that young ladies’ names will be omitted and the printed list will cover about 6,000 names, compared with Philadelphia’s 10,000.
J. T. Harkey of Palmer Texas drank pepper sauce to cure the ague but the dose made him furious and berserk, snapping and attempting to bite any person within reach.
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