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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1886
Page
4
Fragmentary verse explores the heart and soul as lofty, mysterious forces. It ponders human mind, time, pride, passion, and heaven, with references to man and a final appeal to the Father.
A sermon contrasts Protestant zeal and raw radicals with true religion rooted in daily life. It cites a farmer's life of discipline, family care, and charity, warning against avarice and praising humble service to God and neighbor.
The sermon urges fathers to raise sons who reflect their fathers in noble life and virtue. It likens moral nurture to God’s best work and calls for instilling true culture through the religion of the child in the home.
The article notes women own and row small Douro ferry boats for market work in Oporto. It describes their attire including fourteen layers of petticoats, padded skirts, bodices, and velvet-trimmed hats. Jewelry and Moorish-influenced filigree adornments reflect rural wealth as girls navigate river traffic.
A compact meditation states that EVOLENCE is a divine attribute and the moving cause of every blessing humans enjoy, framing deity as the source of all favorable outcomes and sustenance.
A Chicago Herald excerpt praises a persistent tenant who vows to stay with the sisters and act as their banker. The speaker shows a ledger of rent payments and promises future housing, urging the tenant to keep going and stay trusted.
A New York steamer sank after a fire pump cap was left off by a long time trusted crewmate. The boyish operator fled ashore as the vessel flooded, totaling damage and delaying sailing. The piece urges total attention to work from childhood, warning against half measures and excuses like I did not think.
The article describes early French stove designs using exposed clay and plumbago plates with wires fed through apertures. Air circulates freely to cool red hot wires, reducing dust and lung exposure. It covers boiler steel tests at Illinois Central Railroad shops, detailing hole drift measurements, hammer weights, and procedural notes to gauge ductility.
Col Chapman recalls an incident from January 1455 when Gen Robert E Lee, amid scarce rations and cold rain, lent his rubber coat to a drenched private who had no coat. Chapman notes many generals would risk themselves for their men, but Lee gave up a gum coat to a noncombat private.
In a letter to the Philadelphia News the writer rejects the King James Bible revision theory and argues that the phrase King’s English originated in Shakespeare’s era. He notes Elizabeth was queen 1558–1603, and cites Merry Wives of Windsor where “the king’s English” appears, indicating the expression predates James I.
An editorial praises the kidneys as the body's vital purifiers and condemns pain as a warning. It argues for Warner's Safe Cure as a reliable remedy and warns that neglect leads to serious illness and death. The piece urges readers to heed medical authority and maintain health through proper purification of the blood.
A Chicago Inter Ocean item recounts a curious marriage scene on Monroe Street. A groom pays a gold piece to his brother in law to pass to the parson, while the bride swaps coins to gain a lark of money and ends up misjudging the sum as she departs with a traveling suit.
Astronomy now advances by specialization with labs focusing on distinct objects. Harvard studies stellar magnitudes, Princeton spectroscopy, Alleghany probes the dark solar spectrum and heat effects, National Observatory tracks satellites, Cincinnati doubles stars, Chicago Jupiter’s surface, and Albany and Yale perfect sky maps.
Kosciusko Murphy, who has paid attention to many of Austin's belles, tests Miss Birdie McGrinnis with a question about loving him in the unmapped future. Birdie answers she cannot say how the future would affect her. She hints she has loved others more and has not tried such a future. He decides to wait for better odds before proceeding.
A plaster or artificial fire proof stone uses the mineral asbestine a magnesium silicate as its chief constituent. It adds powdered flint caustic potash water glass and sand to form an adhesive plaster that sticks to smooth wood or metal without lathing.
A comic dialogue unfolds as a rural cousin hesitates during a second bowl of soup and Josiah blushes while declaring he is already keeping company with Almira Higgins of their place. A Rochester Rural Home promotion offers 150 cloth bound volumes with a $1 subscription, featuring works on law, medicine, farming, history, civil war and popular science.
A garbled reminiscence shows a deputy appointment near a machine shop to guard property. A speaker insists he does not need the money, warns of danger, and reflects on judgment versus bribery. He claims identity as not a rooster and contemplates leaving for the swamp to fish.
The ad claims most nervousness stems from dyspepsia and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy. It asserts the tonic strengthens nerves by energizing digestion, improves blood quality, combats biliousness, eases headaches, and stabilizes the bowels.
Seed of a quarrel over an off the record interview surfaces as a prominent citizen complains a reporter printed his words. The citizen insists on nonpublication while a wife questions the print. The exchange ends with the citizen calling reporters a nuisance.
Passengers ride a rainy evening home aboard a cable car in San Francisco. A couple sits close and whispers, a tense moment over affection and privacy as the conductor requests fare and the scene shifts with subtle humor.
Prof Grothe of the Brooklyn Board of Health says Red Star Cough Cure is free from acute illness and highly efficacious and sells for twenty five cents.
The dialogue from the Boston Courier features Gray lamenting he has lost his character after a night out with the boys and excessive drinking. Green reassures him that not all is lost and jokes about the severity of losing something valuable.
In a playful exchange, Tom Lackadaisy calls himself a perfect bear in manner while his companion redefines him as a sheep who hugs but does little else. The wry dialogue flips animal metaphors to tease romantic ineptness.
The ad touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to cure back pain, pale skin, bilious headaches, skin eruptions, coated tongue, sluggish circulation, and cough, claiming liver and blood strength benefits. It promotes Pierce’s Pellets as anti bilious granules at 25 cents a vial through druggists.
J W Graham a wholesale druggist of Austin Texas reports high sales of Dr William Hall's Balsam for coughs colds and even consumption. He requests another gross due to strong demand and complete satisfaction with the medicine.
Vintage classified style ad copy offers Rough on a variety of products including roaches mice bed bugs vermin water-bugs and irritants. Also promotes Rough on Corns bunions and Toothache relief with claims of instant relief and pricing around 150.
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