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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1885
Page
4
A Honolulu letter recalls a native dance show with six drums and ten flower adorned dancers. The lengthy performance blends chant, pantomime, and circle dancing, culminating in dramatic shifts from graceful to intense movements and a lively audience response.
McGuffin hires a darkey man servant for his wife and his troublesome new help earns a laugh. He recounts an errand mishap at the box shop where the only staff left after 6 pm was a lone boy, prompting humor in the office.
A New York Trine excerpt argues winter fodder waste is wasted labor. It advocates high quality feed for calves and doubled bran meal for yearlings, kept indoors with controlled conditions, to boost spring growth and pasture readiness. The plan promises gains from faster spring growth and stronger stock entering pasture.
Edna Dean Proctor profiles Grand Duke Nicholas born May 18 1868 at Czarskoe Selo near St. Petersburg. The heir receives private tutoring and strict daily study from eight to three with outdoor sport and diary keeping. He speaks multiple languages and serves as Attoman of the Cossacks, wearing any regiment’s uniform.
A courtroom tale shows a judge and policeman debating a poker case. The youth says he played a friendly game with friends, a pot on the table, and a $25 fine for calling on deuces, while the judge notes he objects to the betting action not poker.
A dry goods merchant hires a window dresser who uses a plain black velvet background. The crowd of women gathers not for the velvet but to see the reflected faces, discovering the background acts as a ready-made mirror and draws attention.
A Galveston justice of the peace scolded a burglar brought before him for failing to admit how he breached a burglar safe. The burglar boasted that bypassing safes takes brains, joking that a judge could not replicate it in ten years.
The article praises sweet corn as a premier vegetable, notes the value of underdraining and deep soil pulverization for moisture, and argues for specialization in farming. It also covers guinea fowl as insect destroyers, fodder concerns, and road conditions impacting haulage costs.
The barrel is described as the most inconvenient container for apples due to size and space needs. It notes barrels for shipping and cellar use, recommending farmers store apples on shelves or in shallow boxes for easy inspection and removal of decayed fruit.
Orchard clearing advice recommends removing old apple trees by digging them out rather than stump extraction after cutting. The decay of stumps is slow, and pulling trees acts as a lever to ease removal. Apple wood is noted as suitable for croquet baits and similar uses requiring firm texture.
The article advises using rough zinc strips for labels or roughening normal zinc with diluted muriatic acid. Pencil writing lasts long, secured with copper wire, and long strips can be twisted around limbs. It stresses checking trees before winter storms and making an accurate orchard map to identify every tree without relying on labels.
The article notes Prof Budd praising Sapiegauka and Tar Secke pear varieties now grown in the West. It offers orchard planning tips, grafting on strong stock, and records keeping for age, variety, grafting, and production. Michigan pomologist B Hathaway advocates thinning fruit to balance yearly production, alongside pruning.
The article urges constant ventilation for all plants and explains moss as drainage for pots. It advises hanging geraniums in a cellar to overwinter, moving houseplants outside in mild weather for fresh air, and using kerosene with soap as a pest remedy. Bulbs like hyacinths should be potted in late fall and kept in a cellar or outdoors to prevent freezing.
J E Pond argues in the American Bee Journal that a queen offered at the hive entrance within 24 hours of removing the old queen is accepted by the colony. He warns that delays beyond 24 hours lead to established queen cells and a slower infusion, challenging the idea of a colony scent unique to each hive.
A yearling colt that winters poorly will likely be sold for less in spring. Feeding four quarts of oats daily in the first winter costs about 75 cents per bushel worth of oats, and a stunted colt will not reach the potential it might have achieved without the early setback.
The low sugar price in England prompts farmers to study feeding sugar to fattening stock. In the United States cattle are fed sugar with Indian corn stalks sugar cane and sugar beet. Sugar fattening potential could aid sorghum industry if coarse sugar becomes cheap enough for rapid fattening.
A simple method to stop a horse from rearing when hitched to a carriage uses a cord three to four inches thick and fifteen feet long. After harnessing, loop the cord under the back strap and around the torso, tie a releasable knot, and from the carriage pull to release if the horse rears or kicks.
Rome Dairymen's Board of Trade calls for Albany to amend the dairy deception law to require a single uniform stencil brand for New York State full cream cheese. Each factory would receive a numbered brand registered by the Dairy Commissioner to mark true full cream cheese. Penalties would apply for using brands on skim cheese.
The recipe describes boiling water over beef, letting it stand ten minutes, then making gravy by cooking flour in a frying pan until brenned, adding beef water, and folding in eggs and beef. Heat through and serve hot, using remaining beef water to enrich the gravy if needed.
Onions are boiled until tender then minced fine. A half pint of milk is heated with butter, salt, and pepper. The onion is added, and a tablespoon of flour rubbed smooth in a little milk is stirred in. The mixture boils briefly and is served.
An English lady endorses Welsh rarebit. Grate cheese and pepper with Cayenne. Fry bread slices on one side with butter until yellow. Spread thickly with cheese, bake in a hot oven until melted, and serve hot.
A vintage recipe describes making doughnuts with flour butter sugar egg milk or water and baking powder. Roll thin leave minimal handling cut shapes insert a raisin in the center to prevent bursting, fry in clean lard and dust with powdered sugar. The milk measure is a bowl a bit larger than a coffee cup.
The article reflects on domestic economy and how proper utensils ease chores, praising carpet sweepers and sharp knives. It then surveys Quaker history from Island and Newport meetings, praising Whittier and Bernard Barton, and contrasts austere early manners with modern gentler tastes. It closes with humorous household advice about children at table and boys’ mischief.
Burlap forms the base of oilcloth and is sized with dissolved glue. It passes through heated rollers, receives multiple ochre-rich paint coats, is dried in steam, pumice-stoned for smoothness, and finally printed by hand with finely pressed blocks. After varnishing it is dried, trimmed, and prepared for market.
A compact guide lists solids and liquids with conversions. It covers wheat flour butter Indian meal leaf sugar and white sugar, plus test brown sugar and eggs. It defines quart and gallon equivalents, tableware capacities, and volume measures in household terms.
A reflection on how knowledge has become impersonal with modern scholarship. It likens students to lawyers or doctors who investigate, write, and shelve their work, moving on to new projects as professionals do with cases or patients.
The speaker argues that New England’s prominence and educational gains came from strong homes. He praises Puritan family life as the seed of national greatness, honoring sacred marriage, public prayer, family worship, Thanksgiving gatherings, and intergenerational bonds centered at home.
In a parable from the Free Press the ailing elephant seeks cures from many animals including the hare fox wolf lamb owl serpent and turtle. Each prescribes remedies leading to the elephant’s death while the late hyena laments there is such a thing as getting too much of something real good.
Mr. Lewis Edwards sexton of Mt Vernon Place Church Washington DC states he suffered months of severe coughing and chest pains until using Red Star Gena Cure, which brought complete relief.
The Baltimore American notes the Senate’s habit of wearing head coverings as many members are bald. It highlights Edmunds’s black silk skull cap, Williams’s wig, and the bald profiles of Coke and Cameron, with Lapham, Sawyer, and others also mentioned.
The text warns that even strong bodies cannot resist climate and other health threats without aid. It cites Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a health ally, but stresses cannot rely on it alone. Sobriety and avoiding causes are key, and a strengthened system helps ward off malaria rheumatism dyspepsia constipation and related illnesses.
A man riding from San Jose California rode through fields of pumpkins and squashes. The repeated pumpkin panorama shattered his wits and he returned home crying See the squashes See the squashes He was bound with a straitjacket and placed in an asylum according to Erchange.
Visitors entering or leaving New York City discover the Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot boasting 600 elegant rooms cost a million dollars yet advertised for $1 and up per day. The European plan includes an elevator and restaurant with top cuisine. Horse cabs stage and elevated rail service reach all depots, and families can live better for less money than at any first class hotel in the city.
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