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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1887
Page
4
A compact page note presents sermon excerpts on vocation and integrity, jokingly contrasting clergy with rat catchers in one tale. It then recalls Andrew Jackson's schooling quirks, including upside down books and a humorous view of math, highlighting his independence and early mischief in learning. Tid-Bits.
A Christian visitor in a cold London day finds two half naked children alone in a third story room. They explain they are cared for by God, sharing warmth under a quilt and eating when granny returns, calling themselves God’s sparrows and reciting prayers for daily bread.
The narrator recalls a 5 year old memory of a marble sculpture in the crypt of St John Lateran in Rome. Two figures Christ and his mother stand amid gloom with a single lamp revealing a mother's anguish and a crushed life.
A collage of quotes and anecdotes on integrity faith and self control from religious writers and editors. It links devotion to truth to steady effort and duty and notes the value of prayer study and quiet deeds in shaping character across diverse voices and eras.
The text argues that certain vegetable forms require extreme cold and dryness to exist, suggesting spores disappear at higher temperatures and that crypto gam species of red snow rely on this harsh climate.
A reader recalls grandfather's love letters from 1812 and uses a family scene to teach fractions with Georgie. An orange fraction lesson ends with the boy mastering division and asking if the orange helps other children too.
Bill Arp recounts Ned a former slave who tries Episcopal Presbyterian Methodist and Baptist faiths seeking belonging. Each church fails to satisfy Ned who finds happiness only with the Baptists where the creed is simple and conversion direct. The master muses on Ned’s shifting loyalties as the tale uncovers church life and quirk.
A San Francisco Call writer recalls 1878 native warfare in New Caledonia and describes convict depots where a condemned man killed his rival, ate the heart, and killed his wife. The piece condemns a plan to dispatch habitual French criminals as wives for prisoners bound for Noumea and warns of breeding criminals near Australia.
The Peruvians chew coca leaves for stimulant effects similar to cocaine. Reports describe its use by miners who require it to endure harsh work. The habit is said to enslave users, beginning a compulsion that binds them to labor.
The article argues beer’s aroma and gas affect flavor and digestion. It contrasts Munich practices with home bottled beer, noting lids on glasses and minimal foam by law. It also recounts a minister’s sleepy tale from a Virginia mountain meeting.
An article praises Warner’s safe cure for kidney and liver disease as a public boon. It notes Warner built an observatory and funded prize money, claiming the remedy can remove uric acid and restore kidney health, with over ninety percent disease disappearance.
The European Christian monarchical world includes 408 reigning princes with the female addition nearly doubling the figure. Holstein leads with Russia Denmark Greece and Oldenburg at fifty three princes including twenty five grand dukes two kings and an emperor. The House of Stettin unites Saxony Great Britain Portugal Belgium and holds Weimar Altenburg Coburg-Gotha and Meiningen. Bourbons total forty seven princes with Sicily Parma and Spain. Imperial Habsburg Lorraine have thirty three archdukes and Wittelsbach twenty three princes. Mediatized houses total 724 princes dating from Vienna 1815, retaining limited lands. Habsburgs and Wittelsbachs share close ties through intermarriage. Elizabeth of Austria, daughter of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, is mother to Gisela, wife of Prince Leopold, cousin of the king and nephew of the Regent.
The article denounces boluses and potions with pedophyllia aloes rhubarb gambage and other useless ingredients as damaging to the stomach and bowels. It advises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a gentler laxative that energizes the stomach and system and claims superiority in treating malaria nervous debility rheumatism and bladder inactivity.
The hair of farm animals reflects health and fattening potential. Fine silky hair, especially curly, signals quick fattening and fine flesh. coarse hair indicates slow fattening, coarse flesh, and poorer milk in cows. Observing hair direction and condition reveals internal structure and disposition, aiding breeders and feeders.
The article explains washing and reshaping cheap laces such as Oriental Fedora and Egyptian. Soak in hot soap solution for about an hour, rub gently, rinse in several waters, boil if very soiled, press out water, shape while damp, dry in sun, dampen and iron on flannel. For ruching lace starch lightly.
The passage likens the body to a clock and argues that uterine system misfunction causes many female ailments. It presents Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as the unfailing remedy for women, noting it as the preferred treatment of the sex.
An advertisement claims Dr. Piérce's Golden Medical Discovery strengthens the human system against disease. It is described as a great blood purifier and alterative, a remedy for consumption bronchitis and wasting diseases with rapid efficacious and permanent influence. Sold everywhere.
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