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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1886
Page
1
The piece presents Beecheran meditations on dying with hopeful New Testament imagery, urging readiness for the Lord’s return and framing death as a doorway to immortal life. It contrasts Old Testament harvest imagery with New Testament promises of morning in Jesus.
An amusing tale recounts Coquelin strolling on the Boulevards after a London engagement when an unknown admirer grabbed his hands and exclaimed greetings. Coquelin replies he has been acting in London and jokes he caught the itch in Scotland. The man vanishes after a quick chase to a drug shop.
A traveling show offers lung testing for a penny with a Madary cigar prize. Granger volunteers, blowing into a machine while Fakir pleads for calm as the device strains. The exchange pivots on a boastful claim of five years blowing a dinner horn in a deer and dumb asylum.
A fragment from the EpIscopal Register presents a playful verse about multiplying seven by numbers from seven to nine. The rhythm and dialogue reference Kitty Robin and Beasie as a childlike performance unfolds with repeated lines.
Lucy and her mother turn corn into crafts and candy in a household project. They color pop corn with pink and blue sugar, mold lambs from kernels, build dough walls and stockyards, and even grind remaining kernels for a coffee-like treat.
The piece traces ancient garden culture from Egypt, Assyria, China, India, and Greece noting how gardens blended nature with sculpture and architecture. It highlights the Hanging Gardens as a famed wonder linked to Babylon and biblical references.
The article recounts the mythic origin of the Hanging Gardens built by an Am king for his queen who longed for Persian valleys. Laborers from Persa helped transform Babylon into a grand stepped garden with terraces lions and elephants. The account links Nineveh palace size to ancient magnificence. The tale appears in Youths Companion.
Charles Dudley Warner describes Atlantic City as a vast, orderly seaside resort of wooden hotels and mile after mile of plank walk. He notes the gaudy, uniform architecture, crowded shops, and iron piers while the sea remains untamed and majestic, delivering a timeless rebuke to man.
The oldest horse in New York, 38 years old, is owned by Thomas Langdon of the Newark Station Hotel. The black gelding known as Old John has served Langdon’s family for 27 years, now driven little, still in good health and weighing 1300 pounds.
A passenger asks the conductor why a branch line train runs late and the answer cites Monday chores. The crew plans to depart before sunrise tomorrow as the delay note reflects routine duties and a one day timing quirk.
A curiously argumentative essay links diet to history from ancient cooks to Napoleon and Nero, arguing that bad cooking drove political change and culture. It ranges from tea and oysters to epicurean tastes and Roman appetites, interwoven with musings on oysters in art and travel.
Faulkner trains in England to reach 120 pounds for a match with Sam Morse, the England champion. He weighs lighter than required at the start, then finds railroad scales differ from training scales and remains around two pounds over. A late spin in a heavy overcoat fails to shed weight and Morse wins the stake.
A St. Louis Magazine remark portrays Charles Dickens as a striking example of a genius snob. It argues he had literary rank but lacked gentlemanly manners, education, or social ease, and failed to depict ladies and gentlemen convincingly in his writing.
An offer from Rochester Rural Home promotes 150 cloth bound volumes with a $1 subscription to the weekly. Items include Law Without Lawyers and Common Sense in Civil War. A humorous domestic vignette follows about a wife discharging the hired girl and a husband reluctantly taking over chores.
A health alert touts Hostetter s Stomach Bitters to regulate the liver and relieve symptoms of hepatic derangement. The piece also questions armor clads safety, noting torpedo threats and debate over crinoline netting for ships, ending with a poetic nature vignette.
The notice touts the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot with 613 rooms, cost of one million dollars, and daily rates starting at $1. It claims travelers save on baggage expressage carriage hire and enjoy superior accessibility via horse cars and stages to city depots. The hotel promises better living for less money than any other first class hotel in New York City.
An anecdote from a British sea-faring father recalls teaching to fish with feathered gear and the coast’s superstition about swine. The scene on Fifeshire shores near Pittenweem shows fishermen leaping to hush talking of pigs to avoid a “beastie” spell.
An 1825 tale recalls boys from Salem walking thirty miles to Boston to hear Daniel Webster, then contrasts with modern rail access. The piece weaves in advertisements for Dr. Pierce medicines and snippets of quotes about deeds and healing, reflecting period speech.
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