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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1890
Page
4
The speaker reflects on life and humanity, noting that beauty and virtue sit beside ugliness and vice. They caution against judging by appearances and acknowledge that no person is flawless. Even the gentlest souls bear faults, while a hidden virtue may exist within flawed individuals.
In a tense election at the P.Q. X railway, Mr. Plumkins proposed as manager and faced unanimous opposition from directors yet pressed on. After a series of signings and proxy shuffles with Mr. Ward attempting to control the board, Plumkins won the manager’s job and the directors congratulated the company on his victory.
An assortment of historic calendars and almanac lore opens with Egyptian papyrus notes and saints days marked by devices. It moves to Saxon relics and climate tales then shifts to a Boston Herald Mexico correspondent vignette about a weary American businessman finding rest and sanity in a tropical town, embracing sun and park life before returning to the pressures of industry.
The passage mixes dramatic coastal scenery near Seattle and Tacoma with notes on Andersonville prison lands and a long list of aristocratic marriages. It highlights ocean inlets, mountain ranges, a deep water sound, and a large farm now on former prison land, then shifts to gossip about American girls married to foreign nobles and a Chicago Tribune quotation on dowries, ending with a note about rocking beds and storm-window behavior.
The New York Sun reports a curious Galician wax field near Boryslaw, leased by American capitalists. The caveins kill workers weekly as 10 000 shafts serve 12 000 laborers. wax bids eight cents per pound, fueling hopes to dominate the paraffin market and threaten Austrian Polish control.
An old moral tale warns against the start of small bad habits and notes Judge Matheny’s remark that Abraham Lincoln joined the Sons of Malta in Springfield. The Washington Post recalls an infant industry joke about stopping thumb sucking.
In Arkansas Traveler style a Kentucky tale follows Long Ben who refuses shoes arguing humans are made in makers image. A misadventure with a bottle to cure toe pain triggers a courthouse chase and a request for the biggest brogan shoes as civilization presses in.
In William Norwich Connecticut a householder seeks to kill an old cat and her kitten to end a pest problem. She plans chloroform laced milk but the old cat hesitates and the kitten intervenes, leaving the execution thwarted. The woman ponders whether feline intuition or reason caused the turn of events.
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