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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1887
Page
4
A poor Philadelphia-area boy observes that French canned mushrooms cost 60 cents a can while homegrown mushrooms sell for 20 cents. He studies, grows mushrooms in a cellar, and sells a debut market run, funding his college fund as epicures buy his fresh “silver buttons” and his venture succeeds.
The Antarctic Ocean lies south of the Antarctic Circle with water at its rim unlike the Arctic. Few expeditions have ventured beyond the circle, leaving much of the southern waters largely unexplored and presumed less dangerous, per quotes from Maury and a Popular Science Monthly note.
A veteran conductor recalls a story of a mourning woman who flirts with a Chicago drummer on a Ohio bound train. The tale ends with the shocking reveal that the husband is actually in a pine coffin in the baggage car.
Canon Pynne urges obedience as the crucial lesson a father teaches his children. The anecdote about a philosopher and his daughter illustrates that obedience underpins happiness safety and life.
The piece reflects on sacred graves as sanctuaries of pure thought where a parent sees innocence lost yet gains faith. It honors the child as a jewel in heaven and notes the parent’s purified joy at the hope of a celestial afterlife.
The piece argues character grows through daily habits from childhood, warning that lax routines shape an unreliable adult. It contrasts prompt industrious youth with lazy ones and cites a humorous anecdote about Secretary Ramsey and a stern sergeant during a Potomac River visit.
Eye fatigue is not from the retina but from the intra and extraocular muscles and the accommodation muscles around the lens. Relief comes from resting the eyes or looking at distant objects, with redness and eyelid congestion as common signs. Massage with cold-wet hands may help, and glasses may be needed for some individuals.
In a restaurant Smithkins brags to a friend about a hired girl he says lived six years with his wife describing her as industrious and economical. He concedes she is tough to get along with noting he is rarely at home.
A cross word clue hints at births being grouped under a new music heading. The fragment references a rebirth of section titles and reallocation of stories. No names, places, or dates are readable.
In Werda, Dahomey, the Temple of Serpents houses over a thousand snakes kept by priests. Snakes hang from beams, and priests coax smaller ones with a rod while avoiding the largest. Killing a serpent is a death crime, and even Europeans face royal peril for intentional harm. Unintentional kills require priestly report and annual purification.
Shrewsbury and Duxbury argued over a rider’s horse color and bets. A rider reappeared half white half black, exposing the flaw in circumstantial evidence and its unreliability in court.
Miss Rosa Fenton of Crittenden County Arkansas was bitten on her left forefinger by a cotton-mouth. The snake’s fangs pierced deeply and remained embedded until she pulled them out and flung the snake away. She severed the finger with an axe, then drank whisky and fainted. She recovered in about two weeks.
Alfred de Musset argues perfection remains unattainable. He notes understanding its existence is intelligence’s triumph, while the urge to possess it risks madness.
A reflective aphorism on love describing it as the most terrible yet generous gassion and the only passion that envisions the happiness of another.
A golden plover reportedly landed aboard a vessel in the Pacific after a nonstop flight from land covering an estimated 1,300 to 1,500 miles. The remarkable migration underscores the bird's endurance and navigational feats observed by crew.
A London Spectator piece warns that easy companionship in society can mask true character. It argues women may marry for flattery from strangers, while social polish hides real aims, fidelity, and values. True trust requires knowing a person’s standards and motives beyond surface manners.
The piece argues against artificial solvents for digestion and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the remedy to restore gastric activity. It claims the tonic strengthens the stomach and benefits the liver bowels kidneys and nerves, creating lasting effects.
A Boston summer resident tells of a Maine island pastor nicknamed the hen minister who uses a faith tale to illustrate belief. He recalls a farmer’s wife who doubted his faith lesson after her speckled hen clucked without laying an egg, prompting the rebuke to trust in God and not in the hen.
The article describes first class pocket knife blades as hand forged by skilled smiths able to produce about forty pen blades per hour. It covers forging accuracy, bevel shaping, Wardlow English steel, boiling, tempering, marking, and final grinding and polishing with emery wheels and walrus hide wheels.
Druggist Mr. Jacob Streamer of Pontiac NL presents a cure or preventive for hydrophobia using fresh chloride of lime in water to wash the wound soon after bite. The wash is claimed to decompose the poison and render it mild. Historical hospital data cited show low mortality among bite victims in Breslau and Zurich, with dog bites frequent.
A visitor quotes an enslaved woman's humorous responses to rumors about eating worms and living underground. The exchange, noted by Miss Bremer, highlights how the dialogue may alter perceptions of master slave relations.
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