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Newspaper

Ames Intelligencer

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 14, 1878

Page

4

Peace Terms For Turkey And Bulgaria Outlined

A lengthy report outlines preliminary peace terms involving Turkey and Bulgaria. Indemnities, territorial adjustments, and occupation details include Sienitza Novi Bazr and Vranja for Servia, Antivari and Spiz for Montenegro, railway and telegraph routes, and a staged Bulgarian tribute. Russian occupation and Danube navigation provisions are specified with governance by Austrian Russian commissions and joint claims arbiters.

Bervia Rablee Servia Sienitza Novi-Bazar Vranja Miee Antivari Spiz Podgu- Se Bosnia Herze- Age Purgatia Russia Turkey Roumania Black Sea Bulgaria Porte Constantinople Russ and Herzegovina Crete Thessaly Greece Batoum Ardahan Kars Anyazid Erzeroum Trebizond European Danube Commission Danube Danube Commission Bessarabia

Congressional Proceedings Show Silver Bill Debates and Pensions

March sessions report bills on silver bullion deposits and redeemable certificates, broadening tax receivability in silver dollars or United States notes. Other measures include bounties for soldiers’ heirs, penalties for district attorney mileage abuses, and pensions for soldiers and widows. A separate proposal seeks to restrict congressional sureties on bonds and reform mail matter rates.

Edward F. ¥. Nichols ST Tomar Sih Wincoat United State San Francisco Alexander Reed Toledo Ohio Charles H. Branscomb Missouri Chenkiang Erastus D. Webster New York Toronto Henry C. Marston Illinois Port Lo John McNeil Indian Sacden Wilbur Flam United States Maine Secre of the Treasury Congress Gon. Ld Military Academy Halifax Washington Great Britain Monpar Lexart Wheeler Sev Cockrill Brace Davie Ilinois Senate United Hovard—fhe Howse Joyes Vermont Frye Vance Sayier Potard Ittner

Notable Civilian and Legislative Notices in 1870s Debates

A dense summary of papal lifespans, U.S. financial bills, patent law updates, railroad expansion, and veteran pensions. It records long-serving pontiffs ages, coin and bond proposals, postal savings plans, four year suit limits for patents, and infrastructure bills. It also details a Dakota-Territory railroad route, Garfield era rail safety measures, and Ferry pension increases for veterans with specific loss criteria.

Long-Bond Bill Passed by Senate for Bond Issue Details

The Senate proposes bonds in denominations 25 50 and 100 redeemable in coin after fifty years with four percent interest. The bill outlines coupon bonds payable to holders or assignees with transfer by court or commissioner oversight and bearer delivery. Coupons may be paid in legal tender notes or coin at sub treasuries banks and depositories.

Senate Worthington and Sioux Falls Railroad Company Sioux Falls Chaffee On Pa Landa Coloen Plumb Committee On Public Lands Missouri Secretary of the Treasury United States House Banking and Currency Committee House Treasury Senate Committee On Patents Cheyenne Fort Laramie Deadwood Territory of Dakota Fort Fetterman Ellowstone River Big Horn River Helena Montana Pacific Ocean Elena Montana Territory Garfield Engineer Corps Ferry The United Sand Senate of the Court of Record Federal Court United States Commissioner National Banka

Mixed Old World and Local Happenings Report

A jumble of brief items notes varied topics from a Persian minister in England to a one legged man’s arrest, African migrations, turkey shipments to Chicago, and Krupp guns insured at 9.5 million dollars. Also covered are a minister expelled in Atlanta, Mecca pilgrims, a Toledo to Lisbon swim attempt, and a death by aneurism during discipline.

England

Ailing Man and Liver Tales Spark Reader's Frustration

An eccentric narrator recalls a dinner encounter with a man claiming a torpid liver and no real stomach, provoking mock medical questions and a banter about anatomy. The piece mingles digressions on livers, savings banks, and cultural stereotypes as it drifts through humor and social commentary.

End of the Cuban War and the Spaniard Triumph

The Cuban war ends after about a decade, seeming to hinge on concessions rather than force. The insurgents could have continued, but Spain’s brutal tactics under Valmaseda and home government support hastened the pacification. Stability now depends on Spain’s postwar good faith and conciliatory terms.

Cuba

Boy Sent by Express Across Pennsylvania Roads

A boy was sent by express from Doylestown to White won by way of crooked roads in Pennsylvania. The way-bill lists the sender as T. H. Walton and the recipient as W. W. De Witt. The weight is fifty, and several friends noted the delivery was intact, the boy finally reached the destination in excellent order.

Pennsylvania T. H. Walton Doylestown W. W. de- Witt White

Nationalities and Ages of the Popes Reported

The French Statistical Society notes Pius TX the 252nd pope with origins spanning French Greeks Syrians Germans and others. Italy supplied most Popes since 1523 with 70 bishops of Rome and three quarters of popes chosen from Italian cardinals.

The French Statistical Society Pius TX England Portugal Holland Switzerland Candia Italy Rome Pf Goer

Mrs Lincoln Leads Secluded Life in French Town

The New York Star reports Mrs Abraham Lincoln, widow of the late President, resides in an interior French town and declines to return to America to avoid a lunatic asylum. She is said to engage in modest shopping and purchase items deemed unnecessary.

Abraham Lincoln President Lincoln France America Wny New York Star

Drunken printer and Horace Greeley clash over pay

A New York letter recounts a scene where a drunken printer pressures Horace Greeley for twenty cents a pound to move to New Jersey for work. Greeley retorts and offers a two dollar bill for gin, while the exchange exposes tensions between humble labor and respected editor.

Horace Greeley Greeley Horace New Jersey Woody T. Horace

Prices Run High in San Francisco Diary 1850

An 1850 diary excerpt notes San Francisco’s rapid growth and bustling trade. It records extreme prices for blankets at 75 dollars, pork at 65 dollars per barrel, blankets at 18 dollars, socks at 14 dollars per dozen, flour at 24 dollars per barrel, and wine sales in a lively auction scene among miners and locals.

Valparaiso United States

Where Religion Failed in the Hour of Need

A fragment recounts Gumbo in his lonely cabin reading the Bible by candlelight as a ominous knock at the door triggers a chilling spectral message about rest. The tale centers on a feared late night visitation and Gumbo’s frightened reaction to a supposed divine emissary.

Gumbo P.A Samantha Josiah Allen Jackson Petersburg

Deacon’s Mule Trial in Tennessee Parable

A Tennessee deacon rides a bucking mule toward a perilous crevasse. Facing a sure throw, he offers a prayer for humility and gratitude, uttering Lord for what we are about to receive make us humbly thankful before the mule shucks him off.

Tennessee

Incompatibility Sparks Peril At Holyoke Dam Dispatch

A Massachusetts man suing for divorce faced a dangerous home contraption at Holyoke Dam. The device used gunpowder and percussion caps wired to trigger a hidden mechanism, with parts concealed by a cover, illustrating a hazardous, improvised trap.

Holyoke Dam Commonwealth of Massachusetts Thames Sonia

Debatable Question on Self Diagnosis and Universal Remedies

In this periodical discussion a question asks if the sick can determine their condition and seek universal cures for ailments like impure blood liver torpor and bad digestion. It contrasts lay signs with physician experience and touts a medical adviser promising home remedies and hygiene guidance.

Gunes Buffalo

Healers Tout Bitters Cure Digestive Ailments

The note claims obstructed digestion harms health and that Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters remedy biliary and evacuative irregularities. It asserts the tonic improves digestion and blood assimilation, enriches bodily substance, and restores regular bodily functions.

Hest Hoatetter Eee

Sheridan's Powders Promise Pure Horse and Cattle Feed

Unprincipled traders flood the country with worthless powders. Sheridan's Powders are claimed to be the only pure, powerful option now known in the country.

Sheridan

Internal remedy touted for rheumatism in Chicago

An advertisement promotes Dr Herndon Gil Crete s Seeked as a powerful internal remedy for rheumatism. It claims fast relief, with one bottle sufficient to prove its effectiveness, urging readers to try and test the product.

Herndon Gil Crete Chicago Dundas Dick & Cois

If We Had a Voice Like Thunder We Would Advise All

A historical voice asks how a mighty thunderous tone could be used to guide people here. The proposal imagines a powerful public advisory to influence collective action and morality.

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