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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1893
Page
4
Rev T DeWitt Talmage warns merchants amid a banking collapse from San Francisco to New York. He urges faith, home harmony, and prudent struggle, urging care for souls over money while highlighting moral dangers of speculation and the coming divine judgment.
A brief selection of school definitions of kindness and honesty submitted to the Christian Union. The ideas include doing the most needed thing well and respecting others, while honesty centers on truthfulness, sincerity, justice, and avoiding deception.
A Phillips Brooks quotation urges men to honor their divine origins and duties. It likens man to a tree planted by water, bearing fruit in due season, and calls for living as true images of Christ rooted in the world.
The passage argues that genuine benevolence extends beyond pleasing inner feeling and requires acting for others. It warns that self indulgence corrupts morality, and true principles fail if self-interest dominates. It urges patience and restraint to keep self in proper place within life and affection.
A United Presbyterian note warns that Satan hinders more by starting small evil than by large acts. It urges learning from the adversary to resist early stages, as prevention is easier than undoing formed bad work.
Life is a troubled sea to many a man because, like Jonah, he has turned his back upon his God given opportunity. There is neither success, nor safety, nor peace, nor comfort on the way Tarshish United Presbyterian.
The lesson covers Paul’s stay in Ephesus from early 54 to mid 57, the third missionary journey, and the spread of Christianity in Asia Minor. It notes companions Silas and Timothy, the city’s mercantile and cultural prominence, and the impact of the gospel on local trade and pagan shrines.
At Chicago's White City a Tennessee teach tree bears Daniel Goane's carved name. An English pavilion is built of packing boxes used to ship the exhibit. Lapland colony has twenty four members in colorful costume. A Boston firm shows a skycycle and a gasoline driven buggy. The Japanese garden in the horticultural building is tended by native gardeners with ancient trees and primitive tools.
Senator Mike notes Texas railroads lose about $1,000,000 yearly as rail and telegraph networks expand from a handful of miles in 1831 to 170000 miles of rail. David S. Patterson of North Platte Nebraska patents a driving gear device that equalizes steam pressure and reduces cylinder pounding.
Prairie Farmer prints a rough sketch of G. G. Spear's bank barn at Greenview Illinois. It shows a 40 by 70 feet ground floor with 12 foot inside sheds each side, four folding entrance doors, hay carrying roof alignment, peak windows for hay, granaries and corn crib indicated by labeled sections E E E and Ff Ff.
Description outlines a barn layout with 18 foot posts, lower hall floor of one inch plank doublea, and an upper floor with matched flooring eight feet apart. Space between floors is 14 feet with a central 12 by 16 foot hay heisting area. Total cost cited around 1560 dollars.
The flavor and quality of eggs hinge on hen feed. Milk-fed fowls produce lighter yolks and watery whites, while grain-fed birds yield firmer eggs with richer taste. Sea coastal hens fed fish scraps give fish-like flavors and lower market value. proper feed includes Indian corn, wheat, milk, house scraps, and green vegetation to produce true gold and silver eggs.
Simple contrivance to feed chicks with a improvised feeder. Attach a handle to an old basket or box and cut entrance holes just large enough for access. A small, practical device described for early poultry care.
A Farm and Fireside tip describes lifting the basket bottom to create a cover or box over a dish or trough. The cover shields chick food from larger birds while allowing chicks to feed at their own pace. The contrivance is inexpensive and practical for chick starter foods.
The Troy Times argues specialists should not abandon all other work for a new crop or method. A farmer should not put all energies in one venture, as many have lost earnings by exclusive reliance. If a new approach guarantees success, then or later.
The text notes spreading manure on a small plot yields stronger effects on each portion than spreading liberally on a large area. It also cites higher spreading costs on large fields due to longer hauling distances and greater land cultivation without proportional crop gains.
A collage of vintage recipes and culinary notes including Spanish eggs with rice, haddock souffle, nut cake, orange cream, broiled shad, white fruit cake, and a decorative moss-filled satin centerpiece. Dated nods to Farm Field and Fireside New York Times Good Housekeeping Detroit Free Press Erairie Farmer.
Two American visitors in England mistake Wordsworth for the sheep breeder and Whittier for a shoe maker in a humorous exchange. Villagers overhear with polite restraint as the brief misidentifications reveal gaps in local knowledge and poke gentle fun at foreign visitors.
The Chicago Herald describes fairy rings as circular bands of tall green grass separated by a bare or sparsely vegetated belt. A rarer type shows a healthy circle that expands yearly in a true ring shape. Fungal spores are credited with the rings' outward growth from the center.
Mrs Upton demands higher allowances for servants wages arguing the butler needs a valet and the waiting maid seeks a waiting maid. Mr Upton questions the request revealing domestic staff ambitions in a witty New York Weekly souvenir.
A witty exchange unfolds as He proposes marriage and She rejects it citing a vow to never wed someone who knows more than she. The dialogue centers on pride and intelligence as the decisive obstacle.
A collection of humorous verse snippets and satirical lines. The pieces contrast simple pleasures like wading in a branch with fashionable summer travels and wit filled quips about manners, labor, and society.
A young girl laments her family slaughter and speaks of giants destroying homes in Hillock Town. The scene depicts panic as crowds flee while the child says she is the sole survivor. The passage mentions Reginald Gunn stamping on ants for amusement, attributed to Youth's Companion.
An old advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for diseases tied to the liver and blood including indigestion bilious conditions scrofula and scalp diseases. It claims the remedy revives health and offers a money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
The post master EK A Bond of Pavilion Centre New York touts August Flower as a splendid medicine. He stresses the stomach as the reservoir and urges treating it to restore digestion, appetite, and overall health.
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