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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1878
Page
1
In Ames Story County the Intelligencer reports on advertising rates set by the IGA proprietor. The notice indicates pricing details and terms for local merchants seeking ad space.
Readers are asked to contribute local news or items of general interest for publication. Prose entries should be concise and timely to help the paper cover community events and happenings.
A narrator recalls a rural courtship between youths at Maple Farm. They share a shy, intense moment on a moonlit doorstep after a walk by a lovers path. The scene blends love fear and triumph as a first kiss marks a coming‑of‑age memory.
A narrator recounts a misadventure with a friend Tom Burke as they locate a seemingly identical row of brownstone houses. The pair stumble through dark streets on Lincoln Avenue seeking the narrator’s thirteenth house and end with a wary plan to sleep, after a late night misstep.
A tale recounts a mistaken burglary raid on a man’s home after a wild night of revelry with a chums companion. Police mistake leads to jail, trial, and eventual acquittal amid a judge’s cautions and a wife’s patient defense.
The Job Printing department advertises latest type and materials, promises neat, speedy work, and competitive prices. Legal blanks kept in stock. Services include bill heads, letter heads, books, pamphlets, posters, auction bills, cards, and more.
A biographical sketch traces the Cardiff fossil man hoax to Hull of BinghamtonNew York who sought to create a buriedexhumed image. He arranged quarrying in Iowa and Montana then shipped the block to Chicago for carving by Edward Salle and Markham.
An assorted mix moves from a religious exhortation urging holy living and steadfast faith to a survey of curious topics. It covers German nettle experiments, 19th century anatomy notes, and a batch of legal cases on liability, insurable interest, dog law, racial distinctions, and long judicial opinions.
A historical note discusses the name Amen, its Hebrew origins, and its spread through Greek Latin German and English versions. It explains its function in prayers as an earnest assurance and its linguistic forms as verb adjective and noun across traditions.
An account describes the May execution of Isaiah Evans in Louisiana after his crime involving Edward Bowen. Evans admitted murder following a drunken confrontation, delivered a religious farewell to witnesses, and declared readiness to die before a trap was sprung and his neck broken.
A clipping recalls the Woodbine in New York near Sixth Avenue and Thirteenth Street as a favorite haunt of a singular king who frequented Delmonico's and the Woodbine’s house. The prose notes fewer cronies remained as the Woodbine twins faded from the scene.
The record lists theaters destroyed by fire from 1569 to 1877, noting Venice's Teatro Della Carita in 1569 and 523 theaters total. It cites major fires in London Paris New York and San Francisco, plus catastrophic incidents in Seville Lehman’s St Petersburg and Canton's bamboo theaters with large casualties and injuries.
A correspondent learns that wheels made of feel are elastic and durable under pressure between iron plates. The innovation, now spreading to Europe, includes chimney pots. Breslau crafts light, sturdy wheels and molded pulp is prepared into a non inflammable form. California eucalyptus fibers yield paper and cloth specimens.
A Journal of Chemistry note states that the process of making paper from this plant is so marked that the business will likely be attempted on a large scale.
In a stormy Pentland night, MacT dreamt his dead ancestors warned Beware as the Orkney packet sailed at dawn. He awoke to miss the voyage and later learned the ship was lost with all aboard, a warning dream saving his life and that of his wife and children.
The excerpt contrasts national traits in religion, word-keeping, advice, appearance, dress, manners, secrecy, vanity, action, speech, servants, women, courage, science, and national character. It lists Germans English French Italians and Spaniards with distinct qualities and generalizations across multiple domains.
A recount of various political conventions and meeting locations appears, listing states such as Indiana Maine Michigan Illinois Missouri North Carolina Iowa and others with dates and venues. The second item notes a walker who collected seven dollars from a crowd in Catasauqua Pennsylvania and then consumed it in a bar before a rope stunt failed as he fell during the act.
The document shows Secretary Sherman demanding a hearing before Potter’s committee, naming witnesses and offering counsel to rebut accusations of election fraud in East and West Feliciana. Sherman contends prior votes were excluded by the Returning Board and invites cross examination to prove his case.
The piece argues that Democratic efforts to investigate Florida frauds aim to replace Hayes with Tilden. It contends the plan involves leveraging House and Senate majorities to recognize Tilden, impeachment threats, and a “Mexicanizing” of the government. It views the move as a deliberate subversion of the constitutional result.
A mosaic of witty quips and jokes from the Chicago Tribune and related sources. Bits on servants, money, etiquette, editors, and sailors blend with playful wordplay and puns about Congress, poets, and daily life.
The baobab tree shows remarkable resilience as a hollow trunk remains alive its exterior vitality persists even when the interior is damaged and the fallen stem can still grow new roots extending up to fifty yards from the trunk Livingstone noted a 1400 year old example yet disease weakens its woody structure and causes eventual collapse into ruins.
The Presbyterian Assembly Northern reports 37 synods with 5 153 churches and 557 674 communicants in 1877, up 80 570 since 1872. Total contributions reached 8 295 861. Seven boards handle church work including Home Mission Education and Relief, with a permanent secretariat to oversee plans.
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