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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1886
Page
1
In a humorous Irish brogue a widow and Larry O Dee court with two cottages and two pig pens. He quips about sharing space for pigs while wooing with corn and humor. The pig gag seals a lighthearted romance between the couple and their two pigs.
In 1854 Crimea Lieutenant Wilfrid Denver dies after confiding his love to Constance Beaumont. Five years later Paul Ainslie courts Constance, only to learn she is bound to Denver by a final letter. Constance dies and Paul realizes the lovers are reunited beyond life.
A renowned New York City figure owns a superb example of Edgar Allan Poe's legible handwriting. Critics note Poe's careful comma and punctuation work as he created a series of pasted manuscript pages forming a scroll like long sheet. The owner has been offered a large sum for the prized piece.
A German army dress parade reveals strict discipline when a soldier appears in full view with the bottom vest button undone. The inspector erupts in anger asking why the man is half naked on parade, underscoring the rigid standards enforced by martinet commanders.
A temperance hospital with no brandy or other alcoholic stimulant is the latest demand of the tetotalers seeking institutions aligned with teetotal principles.
A narrative poem about Margery Dan and Margery Daw as a student imagines love while reading in a school setting. The verses contrast academia with affection as Margery’s ditty echoes through a fading day and a longing student.
A mother asks her college son if he sweeps under the bed. He replies it's easier than using a dustpan, a quip that captures light humor from a Chicago Rambler line.
A Cottage Hill young lady searches for a toothbrush while a accommodating kitchen girl offers hers. The girl admits she has used the lady's toothbrush when she could not find her own, and the exchange is gently declined. Source: Oil City Derrick.
A collection of humorous and curious vignettes. Colonel Swipe offers a bald joke about married life. A Boston Journal piece observes cheerful women gymnasts and evolving school fashions. Oliver Wendell Holmes critiques rhyming in verse. A parlor game and a dramatic tale of hanging rumors are recounted, followed by a sensational barber tale about golden hair and a fever survivor.
A collage of snippets and quips from late 19th century periodicals appears with jokes about pay debt, New roofs, cattle gold hunts, dice games, and a farmer’s daughter. A humorous narrative thread links readers to wry observations on human foibles and editor antics.
Emerson credits women as the law givers of conversation and champions their speech as superior to song. The passage recalls Steele praising a mistress as a liberal education and Shenstone praising the French woman for intellectual irritation and wit.
Coleridge and Luther praise cultivated women as guardians of English undefiled speech. Mme de Stael stands as the era’s supreme conversationalist, famed for connecting England, Germany, Italy, and France through letters and chats. A famed anecdote recalls Maintenon asking for one more anecdote at dinner to fill the missing roast.
A humorous exchange in the Philadelphia Call as Grandpa tells Fred he is now an uncle. Fred resists, insisting he is an aunt because the baby is a girl, prompting a lighthearted family moment.
Two Lamplighters play a candle light lighting duel. A Geography game tests memory of place names with a penalty for unreadable entries. The piece notes an invention valued at 1500 dollars, winding twice daily, and attributes early clockmaking advances to Hooke, a lever escapement, jewel bearings, and a 1767 compensation balance.
A reader describes a sleight of hand using two boot buttons tied to a thread and arranged on the fingers to create a concealed display. The trick employs a folded white handkerchief over a fist posed as a hood, with the thumb and finger positions visible to an audience.
The article traces clock making from sun dials to water clocks and gear driven timepieces. It cites Anaximander, Archimedes, Boethius, Sylvester II and Gerbert, and notes tower clocks spreading in Europe. It ends with a moral meditation on nobility and labor attributed to Carlyle via Old Magazine.
Measurements of cloud heights taken during the past summer at Upsala Observatory show stratus at about 2,000 feet nimbus clouds from 3,600 to 7,200 feet cumulus from 4,300 to 18,000 feet and cirrus at 22,400 feet. The figures are considered fairly exact though measurements remain difficult and uncertain.
An English writer notes centuries of horseflesh eating in France, bans in Germany England and Scandinavia, and periodic police seizures from 1739 to 1811. Paris endured slaughtered horses during the revolution, with later permissions and swift withdrawals, while Boston diets hint meat sold for dogs.
The Washington Hatchet warns that tight high collars press on the throat, preventing phlegm from rising and causing it to be swallowed into the stomach. This can lead to consumption and blood poisoning, along with throat diseases when worn long.
An 19th century style testimonial recalls two colored brothers quarreling in a church over a minor matter. The offender asks the offended to accept the Lord's forgiveness, while the offended demands proof of repentance before reconciliation.
A New Orleans Times report recalls a raftsman who had never seen a mirror. He glimpsed himself in a store reflection, mistook it for a friend named Bill, and raced around the jewelry shop trying to catch the imagined companion. He grew confused and disappointed.
A city directory compiler visits a cabin and asks an elderly Black man for his name. The man, wary of potential trouble, considers how easily his identity could be misused in a directory and responds with a guarded, humorous caution about the “racket down finer’n silk.” The exchange reflects period attitudes and rural humor from the Arkansaw Traveler.
The remark asserts that Europeans find it nearly impossible to learn the natives' language in Congoland, reflecting attitudes of linguistic difficulty and colonial stereotypes.
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