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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1886
Page
4
The poem recalls a lone grave in Moab and honors a brave warrior and gifted poet. It muses on mortality and divine mysteries, contrasting silent earthly processions with a grand, sacred funeral. It envisions judgment day and the enduring question of grace.
Warwick Times argues three congregations should merge to save expense and energy. A single roof with rotating preachers could satisfy tastes, expand attendance, and strengthen the community. The piece advocates union over division for spiritual and social gain.
A Memphis preacher’s joke about wives stirs a pastor and a dejected member. Then a Cornhill Magazine essay extols the sun and ruins of Anuradhapura in Ceylon, followed by edifying pieces on healthy home air and a children’s story of Edna Mayo learning to do good with eyes open through acts of kindness to Bridget O'Brien and Aunt Delano.
The discourse compares God to the sun and Christians to distributors of light. It emphasizes that no one is too small to reflect divine light and urges all Christians to let their light shine as part of their service, citing M Soule.
In a humorous Arkansas travellers tale a sheriff scolds Sam Piles for stealing a shout and boasts of being the smartest man. The jailed man insists he is bright and that his own misdeeds prove his intelligence is improving, while the judge condemns his crime.
Frederick Harrison argues against Anglicizing foreign proper names and place names. He cites Homeric and Greco Roman roots, criticizes spelling shifts like Corcyra to Korkyra, and defends retaining familiar English forms such as Frederic and Cologne over German or Latin renderings. He notes English literature's resistance to pronouncing deeply embedded names differently.
Huge trunks of trees drift down the Ottawa and its affluents to mills where they are transformed into finished planks in minutes. The scene shows towering logs hoisted, sliced, and packed into clean deals as crews operate rows of saws, with vast timber stacks lining riverbanks and spray from steamboats resembling wood shavings in motion.
A Western Plowman critique of the typical farmer's home describes a kitchen dominated house with no books or pictures. It condemns the pattern of relentless work and early arousal for the day, leaving children to toil in cold rooms before dawn.
The Boston Budget notes temperance hotels rarely prosper as patrons avoid them. It recalls E. C. Delevan’s Albany Delevan House and his Croton Hotel in New York, both temperance establishments that lasted few seasons, while influential visitors still prefer venues selling alcohol.
The Boga of the American piano, once seen in Salem, is studied for its Rogers piano emulation. The Boston Herald notes its remarkable action and design, its small size sixty six by twenty three and a half by thirty three inches, six slender legs, music closets, two pedals one for sustain and the other to mimic cannon fire, demonstrating 19th century craftsmanship still impressively sound.
The piece argues vulcanite and many remedies irritate the stomach while Hosteller's Stomach Bitters is a simple harmonious medicine. It claims it acts as a true tonic, restores regular digestion, repairs stomach damage, and helps with biliousness constipation malaria rheuma and kidney troubles.
The Maine Supreme Court jurist Judge Virgin recalls youth logging with his father on streams feeding the Swift River. He describes riding large pine logs at midday and dodging rocks, plus a tale of Phin Wood of Rumford and his uniquely fenced farm and prayer meeting reminiscences.
The Fort Plain New York periodical notes the challenge of distinguishing meritorious medicines from the worthless among market offerings. It names two highly regarded remedies St. Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure as provenly effective.
A discussion on keeping houseplants in children's bedrooms notes plants consume carbon dioxide in daylight and release oxygen, posing little harm unless damp earth is excessive. At night the gas emission increases. rolling plants out before sundown minimizes risk. The piece also cites F. O. McCleary praising Red Star Cough Cure for a long cough as a purely vegetable remedy.
A Chinese professor hosted a national banquet and, after criticizing the cookery, angrily exclaimed Go lickee wife before departing. He later returned smiling, having administered chastisement to his wife in a display of stern domestic justice.
A Brockton Massachusetts superintendent wrote on a classroom board to correct a pupil. The student replied with the phrase God done it, illustrating a playful debate over grammar and attribution.
An Indiana judge once noted for his temperate conduct was cited for decorum violations after appearing in court under the influence. He was fined 15 dollars, later sober, he ordered the docket reset and the fine remitted, and he proclaimed the court again open for business at the courthouse door.
In a Texas Siftings anecdote the irascible emperor orders his court fool Mario beheaded for impudence. As guards lead him away the fool quips that without his head he cannot wear his cap, suggesting the emperor bear the crown and the joke lands as a sharp parting barb.
A pitch asserts catarrh can lead to consumption insanity or death but promises a cure with Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It claims long trial success and hundreds of thousands of testimonials from grateful users nationwide with availability at all druggists.
An advertisement promises cures for headaches and indigestion with a pamphlet and references for 10 cents postage from 663 Main Street Buffalo NY. It touts universal relief and notes the pamphlet is sold widely with claimed flawless cures.
The article extols Dr Peter W Schmidt known as Dr Pete who cures without asking questions and boasts phenomenal success. It claims his Golden Seal Bitters and Long Hoods for Consumption have cured many diseases, with thousands of bottles sold and many invalids saved. Facts for the Million are offered free by the Golden Seal Bitters Company of Holland City Michigan.
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