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Ames Intelligencer in Ames, Iowa
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1887
Page
1
Ames Iowa: railroad junction with Des Moines and Minneapolis Road
Ames lies at the Chicago and North Western Railroad junction with the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road, thirty six miles north of Des Moines. It hosts Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with many students, a well attended public school, and surrounding prolific farming lands.
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Ames
Chicago and North- Western Railroad
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Iowe
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Local Names Placeholder List In OCR Fragment
A fragmentary OCR line shows names including A. Richmond Van Chamberlain C. E. Haverl y G. H. Maxwell L. H. Westerman A. Perkins, suggesting a roster or byline group from a historical page.
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A. Richmond
van Chamberlain
C. E. Haverly
G. H. Maxwell
L. H. Westerman
A. Perkins
Memory and the Western Slope Poem Vision
A reflective verse in shifting western light contemplates memory and hope. The speaker prays memory stay bright to guard the soul as life curves toward an uncertain future.
Detective's perilous pursuit ends with a widow's revenge
In the West a Missouri River railroad robbery case unfolds as detective narrator Sharpe uncovers a crafty scheme led by Jim Ball. His supposed operator Miss Avery turns out to be Ball's wife, abducting the investigator and thwarting him with a firearm.
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Spotem & Co
West
Missouri River Broad Gaage Railway
John Spotem
Chicago
Omaha
Sharpe
Prairie Flower
Jim Ball
Illinois
Red Creek
Miss Avery
Lawrence
Jim
Mr. Sharpe
Mrs. Ball
Missouri
Broad Gaage
Tam
Black Virgin in a Cuban Church Described in Havana Letter
A Havana letter describes the Blue Convent at Regla honoring a black Virgin Mary through a public festival. The scene features a sable queen on a throne, angels, gilded adornments, and a large crucifix with a white Savior, while other churches display similar effigies, Regla uniquely depicting the Virgin as a negress.
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Havana
Columbus
Regla
Mary
Jesus
Our Savior
Virgin
St. Augustine
Regia Church
Women workers at tack factories reveal skill and pay
A survey of tack production shows men earn 4 to 5 dollars daily while women, who cap tack heads, earn 1.25 dollars. The rapid, precise labor reflects years of practice, and the piece cites Webster on skill amid the busy machines. The passage ends with a religious reflection from C. H. Spurgeon.
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Webster
Dentist Office Daring Love Test Turns Comical
Tier George hesitates as his lover urges a painful tooth extraction to prove it won’t hurt. In a dentist chair she plans an audacious test, but George dissolves in panic, finally fleeing downstairs while she regroups.
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George
Daisy
Lim
Tattered Reflections on Fashion and Law in Public Discourse
A collection of writings critiques gender bias in fashion descriptions and punishment, questions legal equality for women, and explains Morganatic marriages. It contrasts ideals of female perception with mundane retail reality, cites Michelet and Wendell Phillips, and outlines royal marriage restrictions and their social consequences.
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Michelet
Wendell Phillips
Lucy Stone
Women Who Found Fortunes In Quiet Trades
A poor widow's daughter built a thriving muffins business from a Saturday bake for Sundays. A second woman learned hair dressing and toured inland towns to teach ladies to style and care for hair, becoming a sought after expert. A third leased a room near a college and opened a sock and underwear mending shop, becoming a pioneer in a new city service.
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Middle States
United States
Bronze Breckinridge statue planned for Lexington
A bronze statue of John C. Breckenridge will be erected next fall in Lexington Kentucky. The note appears amid a column of miscellaneous comments and quotes from various speakers.
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John C. Breckenridge
Lexington, Ky
Confederate Nightmares and Superstitions Recalled
A veteran narrator recalls Civil War beliefs and superstitions from battles at Gaines Mill Fredericksburg and the Wilderness. He recounts dreams bad omens rabbits feet and horse fetishes used for luck alongside officer fates and siege stories. General Ambrose Burnside and Ambrose Hill are noted with biographical details.
War Annals. Old Soldiers Reenact Battles and Marches
Veteran observers recount Civil War scenes of fighting campaigns weary marches and camp life. Stories contrast hardships with moments of humor and camaraderie as veterans share memories from both sides.
Two Graves and a Soldier's Sacrifice in War Memoir
A veteran recalls quiet graves of a woman and a soldier with lines of grief and faith. The poem mourns loss, rest, and sacred love, while a wartime scene shifts to a comic but grim episode of mischief and danger describing a belted halter and a prank gone wrong.
Army Pursuit Through Cassville Yields Soda Pancake Feast
During a march from Rolla toward Pea Ridge Missouri pursuing Price the main column passed Cassville. Cavalry troopers looted a drugstore and a sergeant seized a white powder later identified as soda by Judd a former druggist's clerk. That night the cavalry feasted on soda pancakes shared with comrades and officers with mixed results as the batter did not rise for some.
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Price
Rolla
Pea Ridge
Missouri
Telegraph Road
Cassville
Company A
Judd
Sugar Creek
A Civil War Camp Tale of Forage Theft and Bravery
In Longstreet era East Tennessee a Tennessee regiment rules that halters may be confiscated when a horse trespasses for forage. Mack and Ben, two companions, decide to seize a stray horse and take its halter. The tale folds in a separate incident at Fort Mitchell Kentucky in 1862 as Gabriel is shot while fetching water, witnessed by Company C of the One Hundredth Regiment.
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Battlespee
Gaines’ Mill
Alabama
Burnside
Fredericksburg
Virginia
Grant
Lee
Office of Coast Survey
Ben
Bull Run
Williamsburg
Peninsula
Cedar Mountain
Groveton
Antietem
Fredricksburg
Chancellorsville
Jackson
Gettysburg
Wilderness
Petersburg
Ambrose E. Burnside
Liberty
Ind
West Point
Fort Adams
Newport
R. I
New Mexico
Adron
Rhode Island
Rhode Iland Volunteers
Washington
Tige
Mack
Beltin
Longstreet
East Tennessee
Knoxville
Tennessee
Hen
Fort Mitchell
Lexington
Bragg
Kirby Smith
Gabriel
Gabe
Company C
One Hundredth Regiment
Jack
Manassas Man Sifts Unexploded Bomb in Blacksmith Shop
In spring 1862 Army of the Potomac troops recovered battlefield souvenirs from Bull Run and Centerville. A Fourth New York man tried to extract a shell at a blacksmith shop, split the roof and wall, then sat amid debris with hammer and chisel. He quipped the homefront would have to fare without that shell.
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Army of the Potomac
Manassas
Centerville
Bull Ran
Fourth New York
Colonel McGill
War Prices in the South During Civil War Talk
A group of Southern gentlemen recalls wartime inflation with a gray cotton suit costing $30 a yard and $30 spools of thread. They note high prices for basic goods and joke about carrying change hidden in hats and boots.
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South
St Perenspere Proclaimed Europe’s Healthiest City by Stats
January mortality in St Perenspere exceeded births by 102 with 2,704 deaths and 2,602 births. Sanitary reform emerges as urgent as the country seeks improvements across health and living conditions.
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St. Perenspere
Europe
Poet Daughter Worries Western Parents Over Divine Afflatus
A New York physician receives a touching letter from an afflicted western family about their daughter Elizy Ann who moops around refuses meals and claims a divine inspiration to write poetry. The parents fear social disgrace and seek a cure for what they call the poet’s condition.
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Elizy Ann
New York
Tid-Bits
West
Danter
Eliza Ann
Physician
The Retort Courteous and Old Joe
A quiet drunkard, Joe, arguing theology while sober, goes to a tavern after being asked to split wood. He returns home in a drunken haze and asks his wife if the Lord intends to burn them all in fire.
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Joe
Jane
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