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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1883
Page
2
Elements of a busy pastiche of notes from a newspaper page. Mentions a world exhibit idea in Rome, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's winter in England, and various brief items on politics, education funding, fiscal data, farm conditions, disease, and a sensational note about Barber Bros. lynched.
A compilation of crises and events from Dodge City to Baltimore, noting fires, floods, tornadoes, drownings, murders, suicides, and political actions. Highlights include editor Charles C. Fulton's death, a Kansas wind storm, rail line washouts, loom of mob violence in Iowa, and multiple legal and financial incidents across states.
Reports from England France Spain and Turkey cover a shipowners push for a Suez canal project, Rosebery and Harcourt political notes, a dynamite conspiracy trial, and security measures around prisoners. France prosecutes De Rays for emigrant deaths and fraud, Hanoi gains, Spain notes Cuba tariff repeal, and Turkey-US talks on tariff terms and meat import limits.
A June 11 dispatch reports a violent cyclone hitting Brush Creek in Fayette County. Two thirds of the town destroyed, property losses around 30000 dollars, with churches and multiple homes listed among total or near total losses. Several other towns across Indiana Illinois and Iowa report tornadoes or cyclones causing structural damage and injuries.
Treasury directs customs collectors on drawback under the March 3 1883 act with deductions on sugars and syrups. Navy bids opened July 21 for new steel cruisers with set maximums for the ships and an Arctic inquiry witness fee ruling. Reports on winter wheat conditions show state variations and overall national averages, plus notes on personnel moves and political contests in Congress.
A report claims a Roumanian gypsy gathering will honor Queen Mary Lovell now abroad in Philadelphia. The 76 year old monarch is said to have succeeded Queen Anne, and travels to oversee her people. The article notes a plaster cast from Pompeii and quotes the discovery of small iron keys near a preserved body.
A recipe describes beating butter and sugar, adding flour, baking powder, salt, lemon rind, grated coconut, milk, and cocoa in steps. The batter is spread to a shallow depth, baked in a hot oven, then iced.
Scald milk and whisk in yolks to form a custard like sauce. Cool then fold in stiff beaten whites with vanilla. Beat in a cupful of sugar and mix vigorously after eggs and sugar are added. A moral about saving rather than spending appears beside the cooking steps.
Monroe county treasurer Lawson E McKinney is $15000 short in accounts with bondsmen responsible for $11000 after stock speculation. A Richmond telegram reports Sheriff Donelly and T W Waller fought a fatal horseback duel near Patrick Court House. A Hickman Kentucky telegram describes a racially charged lynching after two men confessed involvement in an assault, while Fulton Kentucky notes a fatal shooting and injuries in a posse confrontation. The piece also contains a humorous New York Sun cartoon and a discussion on sheet lightning and thunderstorm warnings by Mr Ley.
A Victorian recipe describes Velvet Cream with Russian vodka dissolved in wine, lemon juice and zest, sugar, simmered and cooled, then thickened with cream and chilled in a mold. The excerpt closes with a cautionary line on the ease of evil versus being warned of it.
A Boston landman traveling fifty miles from Green Bay meets a family living in rough shelter on a sparsely settled stretch. He asks about insurance and local services as a thinly air-laden road noise underscores a lonely encounter. He declares this the place he seeks for his family’s future.
The note contrasts death’s twilight with beauty seen by the dying and jokes that Latin remains alive in medicine as doctors use it for prescriptions.
A devotional poem fragment speaks of walking with angels through life, noting bonds that sustain, the pain of parting, and the hope of ascent to a heavenly throne. It contrasts aid by helpers with personal struggle and faith in divine guidance.
Caroline Lynford, a thrifty wife, saves a dime daily in a tin bank to shore up family finances. When Charles loses work, the accumulated funds cover six to nine months of living, with investment gains later sustaining them until business returns. The tin bank remains on the mantle as a daily reminder of prudence.
A readable fragment describes the Greek Nebula below the Belt of Orion, noting its luminous, flocculent clouds of light and sparkling stars. The piece mentions Henry Draper’s photographs and hints at future study of star formation and solar system development.
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