07 Jul 1887
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1887
Page
1
Advertising rates listed for five-line cards yearly and weekly options. Standings show 10 cents per line for first insertion and 5 cents per line for subsequent insertions by contract with volume tiers 500 lines at 25 dollars and 1200 lines at 50 dollars. Included note about Ames post office mailing and Class Mail matter.
Ames lies on the Chicago and North Western Railroad at its junction with the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road thirty six miles north of Des Moines. It is the seat of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with several hundred students and a well appointed public school. Surrounding farming lands are productive and yield abundant fruits of the soil and orchard.
A fragmentary OCR shows names and titles of county and township officers including auditor treasurer recorder sheriff superintendent of schools and surveyor with several incomplete lines and scattered initials. Locations mentioned include Lincoln Collins and Howard townships with arrest reference.
A partial list of city officials includes Chamberlain, Treasurer W C Shockley, Marshal Van Dusen, Street Commissioner A. RicuMonp, and others such as Van Chamberlain E Hav er zy G H Maxwell H Westerman and A Perkins.
Local church services listed with pastors H J Everly H W Wilson and E C Moulton. Sunday prayers and Sunday School times given with Wednesday prayer meetings. Sons of Veterans camp meeting details and officers noted at G A Hall.
Nora Wilton defies her father Col. Wilton to marry John Meacham despite his ruined father Girard Meacham. John earns respect in the West, returns with $10,000 to repay Wilton, and earns his blessing. Col. Wilton recognizes his error, reconciles, and praises John as a treasure from the Golden Mercy.
A nostalgic poem recalling a past romance by the sea. The speaker compares loved ones to stars and hopes, describing a summer night beside the water and a beacon glow. The tone is reflective and mournful as the speaker urges happiness while acknowledging lost dreams.
The article surveys marriage by capture in Turkestan and among the Koraks, noting the bride’s weaponized chase, the race’s perfunctory sale by the father, and the bride’s power to thwart suitors. It mentions Singapore’s boat bride race where a pursuer must overtake the maiden to win marriage.
A study from Popular Science News argues against growing moisture in heated homes. It details a furnace evaporating eighteen pounds daily into 16 500 cubic feet of space, yet shows fresh outdoor air keeps humidity near 53 percent, offering no health benefit from added vapor.
A Teras Siftings item records a linguistic dispute between two Texas men and Uncle Mose. Mose rules neither man is correct and declares the proper phrasing is a mock harsh reply on rural speech.
Miss Pride humorously notes that Miss Tiptop’s boast of a French cook reveals common knowledge. Mrs Pride comments on the onion odor surrounding her rival, as Tid Bits delivers a short witty jab about social pretensions.
The Medical Advocate notes that heavy work is not done by those who eat most or live on the most. It praises Spanish peasants Smyrna porters and coolies as good workers and vegetarians. It adds that the path of genius faces as many disappointments as ambition per Voltaire.
A veteran narrator recalls Civil War episodes from the New York Twenty-second Regiment, including a near execution of soldier Daniel Bowley, a Mosby raid on the Orange and Alexandria railroad, a Black River forage expedition with Sherman’s men, a marine assault at Fort Fisher, and Confederate views on Grant’s Wilderness campaign.
A memoir fragment recalls a Signal Corps unit in the siege and after surrender. Wagons foraging near the city were sent out, with questions about whether this was by orders or officer initiative, reflecting on wartime duties and experiences.
An eighty four year old widow, Elizabeth Dowling, recalls 1861 volunteers from Greenville Mercer County marching past her Crawford County farm. Captain Woods, later wounded, led the unit. She provided three onions to the troops and they cheered her, a moment she cherishes with tears for the onion offering and farewell.
A narrator recalls a chaotic army hierarchy where generals and officers blame others, leading to back and forth scolding from brigadiers to captains. The tale ends with a private striking a mule, illustrating the unraveling discipline as the Century magazine faces decline.
Edward McPherson recalls Lincoln writing the Gettysburg Address on knee in a railroad car for the cemetery dedication. Lincoln read the pages in a low voice. the crowd heard little but scholars later hailed the speech as a model of English eloquence.
A former subaltern recalls leading a New York volunteer light artillery unit during the Civil War. He describes six Parrot six-pounders, twelve fine horses, and rapid drill culminating in the battery’s field readiness. The piece highlights horse and bugle training and a wartime trick at Fair Oaks that saved the guns.
A Philadelphia office doubted messages from Washington after the 1844 link from Washington to Baltimore and Baltimore to Philadelphia. A test asked about a private gun, and the reply “Tell him to go to h I” confirmed Johnson’s identity, proving the line worked, per the Atlanta Constitution.
An Irish messenger named Patrick was sent with a note to a city merchant. The merchant was out, a monkey occupied the office, and the note was destroyed. Patrick claimed the message was from the elderly gentleman in the corner, father of the monkey, in a humorous misunderstanding excerpted from Harper's Magazine.
A humorous credit line from the Kentucky State Journal recounts a late night scene where a husband claims to have lost his umbrella. The exchange reveals the umbrella was actually in hand, surprising a wife who notes the rain.
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