14 Mar 1885
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1885
Page
1
A fragmentary verse passage reflects longing for youth and parental joy as the speaker imagines choosing boyhood and family over aging power. It includes refrains about life’s pleasures and an angelic scene of sapphire ink and rainbow dew. The text blends poems about youth, love, and family.
A narrator in a train encounters a charming woman whose husband earns a living as a necrologist embodying a morbid but humorous craft. She explains how obituaries are crafted in advance, with multiple papers using the same material, revealing a satirical world of prewritten death notices and reputations.
The G A R Post No 30 meets on the first and third Saturdays at 7 30 in the evening in Masonic Hall. Commander T J Miller is noted with Henry Wilson Jr as Master. All honorably discharged soldiers and sailors are invited to join. Initiation fee is 2 dollars and quarterly dues 25 cents.
E B Cramblit veterinary surgeon in Ames Louisiana advertises his Ames office five doors south of the New York House. He carries and carefully compounds medicines including “King of Pain” and warns that the medicine is genuine only when labeled and stamped.
George William Curtis lauds Whittier and Holmes as patriarchs of song praising their enduring quality and moral stature. He notes their place in a distinguished group of American literary figures praised in Harper's Magazine. Downing the text shifts to a remark on Chinese troops lacking uniforms aside from a small breast badge prior to the present war.
A reader notes birds sleep with one eye open and keep rigid routines, while animals adjust to disturbance. The article shifts to a humorous London vignette where Pitt fools Holloway's shop staff with a Dort of antics, recalling pre-Vokes days and the effects of Holloway's medicines.
The term mugwump may become a lasting part of American language, borrowed from an Indian dialect. It is noted that English speakers embrace it, and it has already gained extended circulation in the United Kingdom.
A lieutenant in uniform encountered his colonel while disguised as a civilian on furlough. He feigned being the country visitor seeking his brother, obtaining directions and then returning home, where he promptly resumed proper attire and conduct.
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