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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1885
Page
5
A nostalgic portrait of a robust winter youngster who braves winds and snow. The narrator praises rugged practicality and outdoor grit over indoor ease, celebrating a boy who clears paths for sleighs and resolves to meet winter head on, as a true Winter’s hero.
A child named Nan shares her one treasure Polly Ann the white kitten with a sick neighbor Annie. Nan sacrifices her pet to comfort Annie, who dies holding Polly Ann. The tale also threads in Victorian vignettes of children, manners, and hearthside reflections from Grandmother's Children.
A fragmented report recalls a boy milking a cow when lightning struck the animal. The piece hints at feared superstitions and an unclear explanation for the blow, referencing an “amawara” of the cause and a Siebenan remark by a mother.
A collage of quotes on happiness leisure and liberty from Macaulay Emerson Cervantes George Eliot Garfield and others. The passages discuss benevolence gravity prigs and the press in public life with reflections on character and duty.
In a report from Mrs Hoey's Book a mother cat and her daughter's cat form a cooperative brood. The grandmother nurses, cleans, and feeds seven kittens sharing one nest and duties while the young mother recovers. A city girl defends herself against gossip claiming she is fluctuating.
The article notes that an acre of Indian corn in Iowa costs about $6 to grow not counting husking. It explains farmers often feed corn in shocks to cattle and hogs to recover waste. It compares stalk value between Western and Eastern varieties, saying Eastern stalks may cover cultivation costs.
Consumers generally favor long potatoes for easier baking while farmers prefer oval shapes for slower deterioration. Long potatoes tend to develop pointed ends and lose yield quickly, whereas the historic peachblow was a round smooth keeper once popular for quality and productivity.
The Indiana Farmer advises farmers to build a small wood-house cheaply by placing four corner posts in the ground, setting rafters on spike plates, and stacking stovewood around the roof. The structure stores winter fuel and can double as summer wall space for the cooking stove, costing little beyond the roof.
A rainy day at Corner Grocery sparks a vivid plan of typical farm chores from morning till night. A farmer and son would oil harnesses, repair gear, tidy the barn and sheds, sharpen tools, and prepare grain and carts, ending with reading and contentment.
The text stresses that vigorous first year growth depends on the number of roots grafted. Seeds should be planted early on well manured ground and kept free from weeds. Young plants need close care and hand weeding comparable to onions.
Guidance on grape vine manuring notes that common barnyard manure is inadequate for top grapes. It warns stable manure causes excess growth and lacks minerals, recommends spring potash, and cites ashes from burned trimmings as rich in potash for earlier ripening. Overbearing vines need balanced nutrient supply to improve seed development and grape ripening.
A Washington street merchant argues that properly stored apples frozen in fall are not ruined. Frozen apples wait out thawing quietly and ripen in spring, remaining sound into January and beyond.
The passage describes two wooden paddles tied at ends to squeeze yellow waxy fluid from a source, yielding solid wax when cooled. Tallow is added, melted, strained, and run into tin molds to form glossy golden cakes. White wax is produced by bleaching yellow wax on snow or sunlight.
Dr Page notes horses avoid cold by turning their hindquarters to wind and rain. He explains the loins are least sensitive to cold and better kept cool, criticizing indiscriminate blanketing as unnecessary and cruel to horses.
The article outlines three Yorkshire sub-varieties Large Middle Small and compares their use in farming and markets. It notes Large Yorkshire for store fattening and dairy farm support with meat for winter use, and Middle and Small Yorkshires popular in the United States among breeders. It also discusses infusing Large Yorkshire blood into Chester White lines.
Eben E Rexford advises sinking potted house plants into garden beds up to rims for summer care. He notes this prevents root loss, aids easy removal indoors, and stresses avoiding overwatering or sun exposure. If indoors, ensure rich soil and proper watering. for outdoor placement, shield from afternoon sun and wind, and prune fuchsias to encourage winter bloom.
The article notes rising curiosity about poultry farming with many inexperienced entrants hoping for quick profits. It emphasizes that poultry succeeds for those who know proper care and that while many farmers can raise fowls and eggs, those who pursue it as a sole venture often fail.
The origin of light Brahmas and the English strain are traced with notes on American imports since 1850. English birds are praised for color and size while American varieties are valued for purity of white and laying in winter. Hatch timing, moulting, and showing tips are given, with cautions about feather damage and washing before shows.
The comb is cleared from hives with a large knife and dead bees scraped away. It is placed in a kettle with boiling water, adding more comb as it dissolves until the kettle nears full. A tub is filled quarter full with cold water and covered with a coarse can to strain the Holling mass, then pressed.
A Philadelphia Record quote laments women’s extreme washing day routines. It notes some women dash from overheated rooms to cold air without head coverings to save laundry, highlighting peril on wash day.
Household guidance from American Cultivator explains how to spot prime beef, mutton, veal, pork, and fish by color texture and fat. It covers beef grain shading, fat color, and freshness tests, plus signs of quality in lamb, veal, pork, ham, lobsters, crab, and vegetables.
Gingerbread variation with grated coconut. ten nails bound in gold varnish form a paper weight. borers starch refined with small amounts of sperm or salt or gum arabic. Berry or lace edged tipres and stands get tassels and crewel edging. napkin rings crocheted from macrame cord, varnished to gloss. Baskets and waste baskets brightened with ribbons and bows.
Recipe fragment lists ingredients for a quick bake and warm serving with sauce or cold with preserves. Includes egg sugar milk flour butter soda and cream of tartar with concise directions to bake promptly.
A basic molasses cake combines half a cup each of butter or lard brown sugar molasses water and flour with two eggs and half a teaspoon of soda. Optional spices include cinnamon ginger cloves and grated nutmeg to taste.
A short baking method notes a jelly roll cake using three eggs, sugar, and flour. Beat yolks light then fold in sugar and stiff egg whites, add flour gradually, bake in a shallow greased pan, turn onto a damp towel, spread jelly or marmalade, roll while warm, then slice.
A classic soup uses young green asparagus cut inch long, boiled in salted water. The tips are served while the hard ends are discarded. Butter and parsley are sautéed with the chopped asparagus, flour is added, then the asparagus water, and finally the beaten egg yolks with cream. Croutons accompany the dish.
A traditional apple Charlotte recipe describes peeling quartering and coring six apples with water and cinnamon, simmering until soft. Sugar is added, avoid mashing, then a buttered mold is lined with stale bread strips, apples layered with jam, covered, baked and unmolded to serve.
The text lists presidential cabinets by term, noting the eight year spans of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson and others. It enumerates how many Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, Postmasters General, and Attorneys General served under each president.
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent describes Bloody Canyon near Mono Pass forty miles from the valley. Evening light reddens granite, cliffs plunge thousands of feet, and the scene appears grand beyond description with lakes and distant volcanic forms along Mono Lake.
The article notes widespread belief in rattlesnake oil as a febrifuge and cure for rheumatism and other ailments. It cites Warren County snakes and Portland CT buyers, a Washington physician’s ulcer case, and rural uses like wearing rattles for headaches and smoking dried venom, with epilepsy once seen as a specific.
A naturalist demonstrates a new light source in British Columbia by igniting a fossillike object that emits a clear yellow glow from a fishlike mouth. The specimen, smelling of ancient fish, has its tail placed into a bronze candlestick as the light appears.
Surprise notes about 200000 Philadelphia wage workers holding over 24 million in Saving Fund Society deposits. New York savings banks report 437,107,501 on deposit at start of 1885 from 1,165,174 depositors. One in every state person, and thrift of Americans versus French, depends on trust in savings institutions.
Dr D B Sommons states that marriages are organized by parents with mutual friends as intermediaries. He refutes the view that wives in Japan are chattel and argues that divorce rate is not higher among the upper classes. Divorce requires family arbitration and consent of both spouses.
A light domestic exchange from the Kentucky State Journal shows a daughter Mamie pressed by her mother to skip the rink after three outings in three days. The daughter protests she is tired but agrees to help wash dishes, remarking she is tired but not the skating kind.
A servant Bridget is scolded for staying out past curfew. She claims she was with her sister, a sergeant on Peel Force who is described as well off and wealthier than some farmers with hay. The dialogue has a comic, lazy tone typical of Carl Pretzel's Weekly.
The head usher notes a strong turnout while the manager quips most attendees are deadheads. The exchange hints at substantial money in the house but low box office revenue as few patrons left money at the window.
The remark claims no man without a mustache can rule a woman, and questions how Cleveland and his lip hair will govern Columbia, signaling a clash of personalities and regimes.
A historic testimonial extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a remedy for dyspepsia and related ailments. It claims to aid digestion, improve appetite, support the nervous system, and prevent malarial disorders, presenting the tonic as a near cure for a weak constitution.
A traveler in southern France encountered a dozen supposed forest workers who offered 100 Napoleons to retire. The man accepted and was paid, later exposing a bid-rigging scheme where local buyers conspired to keep timber prices down.
The Newark Machine Company of Columbus Ohio won an interference suit at Washington confirming the Victor Double Huller Clover Machine patents as valid. Gear Scott Co of Richmond Indiana copied features and faced damages claims for selling infringing hullets. The case now targets Ashland Machine Company for similar infringements.
At the Gault House Chicago corner Clinton and Madison streets business visitors and tourists are offered first class accommodations from 2 to 2 50 dollars per day. The hotel sits near the Union Depot with elevator and complete appointments. Hoyt and Gates are the proprietors.
A newspaper notice touts Dr. R. V. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a leading remedy for consumption and scrofula. It urges readers to request the complete treatise with self treatment guidance from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York.
Summer tourists can reach Milwaukee Waukesha Oconomowoc Lake side Hartland Pewaukee Nashotah Kil poura Dells St Paul Minneapolis Lake Minnetonka and Wisconsin resorts via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. Tickets available at 6 Clark street Palmer House Grand Pacific Hotel and Madison Canal depot. Caswell Hazell Co New York advertises pure cod liver oil praised by physicians and patients for superiority.
Advertises Browns Baoxacetal Troches as a remedy for sore throat and hoarseness. Claims powerful effect used by singers and speakers to clear the voice.
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