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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1883
Page
3
A bleak winter scene follows a family tragedy. An angel takes the mortal brow, the father dies, the mother grieves, while the children continue to laugh and sing at play. The grave is laid, flowers placed, and boys return to joy as the memory endures.
A Sunday visit to a Shaker village on a steep Androscoggia hillside reveals two elder-led families, stark white garments, and hymnody. The feature follows their church, schools, songs, and the disciplined procession with pupils and adults, including a Scottish preacher and a notable elderess.
Testimonies by sisters and a gray haired brother mark the Shaker gathering in Lewiston Maine. A sister recalls choosing a godly life at sixteen and urges purity and selflessness. The venerable patriarch concludes, guiding the attendees to depart in quiet reverence. Lewiston Journal reports.
A garbled collection of aphorisms from Hugo Ampere Lavater Voltaire and others discusses fasting honesty doubt travel manners religion and the role of women. The text blends adages on truth virtue and society with scattered names and incomplete phrases.
The article describes a vast ancient lake covering Nebraska and its deep lacustrine soils. Fossil giants and tropical life once thrived here, later giving way to colder climates. It notes Indian peoples, buffalo abundance, and the hard journey of settlement, with Nebraska admitted to statehood in 1867.
A fragmentary verse line set speaks of meeting at the gate when corn and rye bloom recur. The speaker promises a late reunion and a playful if repetitive line about pouring taffy at the ear.
A jumble of cooking instructions for baked egg plant and puddings sit alongside a traveller's impression of St. Petersburg. The prose contrasts domestic recipes with vivid observations on the city’s vast avenues, palaces, and quiet, undeveloped spaces in summer.
The article explains glycerine derived from Greek meaning sweet and its separation from oil. It discusses skin care uses for moist hands, mixtures with carbolic acid for skin conditions, and medical uses for stomach acidity. Suggestions include quantities and timing after meals and in beverages.
The New York board of health issues infant feeding and care directions. It covers feeding schedules for infants from six months, guidance on hydration with water or barley water, limited whisky on hot days, and preparation of barley and milk mixtures. It warns against overfeeding and stresses cleanliness and room cooling.
The article debates thunder’s cause from atmospheric electricity and echoes, then shifts to butter making outlining how vigorous churning ruptures minuscule fat globules and blends them into masses. It notes suggested milk temperatures for summer and cold weather affecting churning results.
Massachusetts man Joseph Walker is credited with inventing the shoe peg, a development that transformed boot and shoe manufacture after 1818. Before that date pegs were handmade and sewing dominated, with rural shoemakers still crafting their own pegs by hand in recent times.
The passage argues that dress and fashion impose daily time costs on women limiting their access to occupations. It contrasts women's clothing demands with men's easier street attire and notes historical influences on work attire. It suggests constant attention to appearance hinders women in business, arts, and professional roles while men adapt attire to work needs.
Prentice Mulford recalls overripe rice woes while on a California sand camp assignment with the Forty-niners. A single sack of rice swelled, overflowed, and filled every container, prompting a doomed plan to swap it for non swelling provisions and a memory that lingered with the crew.
A scientific note reports that coffee tends to impede gastric digestion by causing mucous membrane anemia and reduced gastric juice secretion in dogs, while sugar aids digestion and mitigates coffee’s negative effects. The piece notes that sugar balances coffee’s impact on the mucous membrane and advises combining them to improve digestion.
The text laments how pity blinds children to danger and pain. It contrasts bright, clear eyes with a present focus that prevents awareness of a looming, terrible future. The speaker notes children laugh and play, unaware of threats and pasts.
The article argues that bananas provide superior nutrition to meat and potatoes and serve as the staple for millions. It notes cultivars named platino manzanito and platino guinea, describes the plantain varieties, their sizes from under ten inches to over eighteen inches, and explains traditional preparation methods including boiling roasting and preserves.
An overview of early theories positing meteors as Sun orbiting bodies entering Earth's atmosphere. It cites Greek thinkers like Plutarch and Liogenes, with later supports from Chladni and Sir H. Davy, leading to modern views by Prof. H. A. Newton of Yale College.
A prose condemnation of alcohol’s impact on women and families. It extols wine as a chief foe, citing widows, tortured homes, brutalities, poverty and despair caused by drunken husbands and sons, urging united opposition to the drink.
A public exhortation on the value of labor urges all people to work with vigor and purpose. It lauds celebrated creators and declares that both intellectuals and mechanical workers power civilization, stressing that those denied work miss a vital duty and healthful life.
An anecdote from a Landseer biography recalls the artist proving dexterity by drawing two portraits simultaneously with both hands at a London gathering. He produced a stag head and a horse head with equal life and energy, while the left hand matched the right in speed and accuracy. The article then notes a curio about wealth in China, where tombs and coffins are prepared in advance.
A reflective piece on mothers and the lifelong pull of maternal aid. It contrasts youthful reliance with grown children learning the value and humor of a mother’s care, noting that in illness and old age the call to mother remains universal and enduring.
Reflection on sunshine from the human heart as source of happiness and harmony. Emphasizes patience tenderness and mutual care to improve daily life and future joy. Advocates unselfish kindness, charitable spirit, and noble deeds as the path to true happiness.
A moral guide explains beauty as growth of mind and heart. True beauty comes from kindness, noble aims, and love guiding the will, outlasting youth and illness as inner character shines brighter with age.
A moral exhortation urging promptness, reliability, and self-reliance. It counsels respecting engagements, avoiding idle talk, keeping business places ready, and paying as you go. Emphasizes discipline, self-control, prudent spending, and thinking for oneself while avoiding unnecessary confidants.
The piece notes Augustus Hate Neander and William Wilberforce exhibiting peculiar habits during study and conversation. Hate spun after thinking. Neander needed a goose quill to pull apart while lecturing. Wilberforce leaned forward and sometimes risked falling, with family guards propping his chair. It recalls how such quirks linger in memories of future English leaders.
In winter a new method captures herring by following a light. Two to three fishermen use birch bark or kerosene soaked torches in boats. They row swiftly at night and when a school appears they dip up the fish with a dip net as the herring swarm around the boat.
The article extols the dining table as a training ground for manners and mental well being. It argues a neat table and pleasant conversation improve digestion, calm the mind, and teach children restraint. It warns against dwelling on work during meals and urges kindness and cheerful, considerate speech at table.
The article explains spavin in horses, noting no cure exists and early treatment may halt progression. It describes remedies including blisters setons and hot iron, highlighting risks when applying setons near the hock and that the bony enlargement and joint stiffness often persist despite therapy.
A fragmented country paper ad shows a mix of flirtatious quips and social gossip. The lines reference a high heeled beet joke, a girl named Julia, a Bath House exchange, and a deacon and his clever dog that watches the parson’s keyhole, all presented as parlour talk.
The piece argues Peter the Great chose St. Petersburg as a royal residence for strategic reasons and to oversee vast building works. It notes the city arose on swampy, unsafe ground, flooded repeatedly since its 1703 founding, with monumental losses and tens of thousands of workers.
A teacher records a 6 or 7 year old Hatsie Brown in school rolls. The child says her papa's name is Mr Brown and that his wife calls him a “darned old fool.” A London correspondent warns against broken bottles in dry grass due to bottle bottoms acting as burning glasses. Australians report bush fires from broken bottles and camp fires at Aldershot and English commons.
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