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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1890
Page
4
Poet Marion Lisle writes in Inter Ocean of school boy energy and spring yearning. The verse recalls field days and youthful laughter with the refrain pom pull-away urging a return to joyous habit and bright mirth despite life’s toil.
A medical college chemist debates a murder case involving arsenic in Mrs Johnson’s stomach. A masked killer’s brother plots to kill the chemist, and nitro glycerine devices threaten an explosion. Tom Richards interrupts the plan at midnight, seizing a can and saving the chemist and boy from doom. Joe Johnson is hanged. the brother wounds himself to escape hanging.
Rev Thomas Hooker once delivered a strong sermon in Cambridge Massachusetts with Governor Winthrop among his listeners. He told the crowd God had deprived him of power and withdrew to the woods for thirty minutes before returning and finishing for about two hours.
A humorous exchange shows Miss Kajones reporting Grigson’s five or six visits this week while Mr. Kajones frets he will become a regular. The dialogue ends with a child asking what matinee means and a parent correcting the French origin as an amateur performance.
Gloucester fisherman George Hipwood crafted a jewel box over four years aboard a fishing boat, a highly detailed Middle Ages themed piece. The box measures fifteen by twelve inches, uses two solid woods with no glue, and features a mosque, cross, Koran, Knight Templar pavilion, shields, dragons, roses, a swan grotto, shell work, and Kohinoor diamond motif. It opens with a hammered silver spring lock and hidden mechanisms, with chains that hold it in position.
An editorial argues parents should let sons pick trades rather than force careers. Forcing a path leads to wasted years and flawed work. if a boy dislikes a trade, he should stop early to learn a more suitable skill. A printer’s trade requires true passion and fits poorly when imposed. A Washington tale follows about a young man who wed without his guardian’s consent and was quipped about marriage’s dividends.
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a buyer asking a boy about a house for sale with a price tag of four thousand dollars. If sold quickly the owner would accept three thousand five hundred for a couple of months rent. A London society note adds a dinner guest auction idea where male guests are bid for, prompting mock humility among Anglomaniacs.
Old time household columns offer instruction on reviving fires with sugar not coal oil, preparing summer squash with seeds removed, and loosening wallpaper with boiling water. Recipes include Orange Float and Rhubarb Tapioca Pudding, plus washing tips using borax and careful boiling times. Horseradish sauce with cream and vinegar is also described for roast beef.
A World reporter covers a famous crank who extols the numeral seven with biblical, historic, and literary examples. He cites seven on creation, weeks, translations, miracles, battles, saints, and wonders, ending that seven is the most prominent numeral.
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