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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1883
Page
3
Fragmented verse about yearning for distant paths and old trees. The speaker delays departure in longing to return home, while lovers or hearts await movement and reveal a sadness that must endure before leaving familiar scenes.
Miss Eulalie cherishes the family elm planted by her grandfather as a relic of youth and a memory of a lost love. Captain Valentine, now wealthy and her neighbor, fights to chop it down to improve his view, while Isabel marries him for money, exposing a web of longing, revenge, and unresolved love across an aristocratic town.
Mrs Marstin and her daughter killed a bear that invaded their door-yard in a Nevada town. The beast was seemingly taking a pig when surprised. Mrs Marstin threw boiling water on it and the daughter felled it with an ax, cleaving its skull. The man asked later whether to have pork chop or bear steak and could not recall until the event was explained.
A Fortnightly Review excerpt recounts General Scobeleff’s strict military discipline. He tests arms and breechloaders, insisting sentries maintain possession of their weapons, warning that disobedience in war could be fatal.
The chief Swiss army surgeon notes each year the army must examine 800 recruits for foot deformities from ill fitting footwear. He urges shoes with room for toe movement and instep play, claiming proper design can cure misformations and improve gait, especially in women.
Fragmentary verse evokes a blessed home where mutual kindness blooms like evergreen vines. God’s sunshine fills the walls as a heavenly garden thrives, dew on plants glistens, and lovers cling together in Paradise within one immortal wreath.
A list of lessons covering Jesus before Pilate Mocked by soldiers His death on the cross and After His Death with referenced Mark chapters, spanning November to December and culminating in a review by the school.
The piece muses on Thanksgiving as a blessed reunion that renews kin and faith. It contrasts earthly joys with a celestial future, notes the duty to give thanks, and recalls a large family of John Holmes in Morgan County tied to Missionary Baptists.
The passage notes that a fool approaches a mule from the rear without warning the front, while a wise man avoids the animal and merely watches from Vienna as the mule brays. The statement is claimed true in morals as in natural history, attributed to the Indianapolis Journal.
Reports describe convicts at Dartmoor Prison creating keys from scraps and planning a revolt led by a prisoner who possessed a bone key able to open any cell door in the tiers.
A string of snide quips and pun laden remarks from multiple papers provokes editorials about humor and taste. The Burlington Enterprise, Meriden Recorder, Detroit Free Press, and others comment on pun quality and editorial reputation amid the exchange.
The Cowrier editor W. Cook felt relief from a shoulder and neck pain after rubbing the area with St Jacobs Oil. The Canajoharie Courier and Milwokee Sentinel note the oil’s praised efficiency and endorse it as a remedy for sudden pains and rheumatism.
Brit Nre the humorist jokes about the origin of the word honeymoon and admits he does not know its root. He imagines a night time scene where a husband Adolphus snores loudly and humorously muses on marriage quirks.
Mrs. 8. A. Kirpan of Yellow Springs Ohio writes a testimonial praising Dr. Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. She describes relief from anxiety weakness and irregular habits and states the remedy has made her strong and well.
A distressed wife confronts a physician with concern over a medication error. The Arkansas page recounts the scene as she pleads that her husband’s condition has improved but insists the medicine was wrongly given.
Excerpt suggests a three word answer Take Hope Bitters offered as health advice. Column notes readers to see other column for full answer.
Rochester New York resident B Turner reports a year long kidney disorder eased after using Burpock Boop Brirrers. He says relief came before half a bottle and intends to continue until full cure, priced at one dollar.
On My Hegap! Sick headache nervous headache neuralgia nervousness paralysis dyspepsia sleeplessness and brain disease cured by Dr Benson's Celery amobile Pills. They contain no opium or other harmful drug. Sold by druggists. Price 50 cents per box two for 1 dollar six for 2 50 by mail Dr C W Benson Baltimore Md.
Joseph Durrinireer of Broadway Buffalo was urged by his brother to try Thomas Eclectric O11 for a sprained ankle. After about six applications he could walk around again without pain.
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