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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1887
Page
2
A garbled report notes the chief justice’s fall from favor as disrepute grows among lawmakers and the public. The Legislature faces county level confusion and unresolved questions about leadership.
The National Tribune lauds Hepburn as a champion who would honor any cause. His superb attack on Bragg, Warner, and allies is praised as rivaling the finest moments in congressional history once seen in Webster, Clay, and Blaine.
Women’s suffrage efforts face setbacks as bills fail in Boston and New York, while Maine is expected to reject a constitutional amendment. The era moves slowly toward broader voting rights despite some progress.
Twenty five years ago John Brown was detested in the South as the symbol of abolition. Now the nation reads letters from Southern sentiment praising his son for supporting the Confederate Home in Charleston.
A wounded romance unfolds as a devoted suitor declares deep love to a nurse at a hospital. She rejects romance, citing uncertainty and self-doubt, and asks for time to decide. He departs in restraint, later receives a heartfelt letter revealing her careful deliberation and intent to pursue a measured path.
Capt Coleman and crew aboard the schooner Free describe instant relief from coughing on Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. A single dose also eased breast soreness for his children. Free trial bottles offered at L M Bosworth Drug Store. Iowa political note cites Blaine Allison race and a Chicago Tribune remark reports president’s poker game and Cleveland’s setback.
Edward Silvey of Chicago reports his wife suffered catarrh for twenty five years and six years of severe symptoms. After using Papillon Catarrh Cure advised by Dr Streeter, she improved rapidly and is now cured. Price one dollar prepaid. For sale by L M Bosworth Chicago. Also noting the trial of Arensdorf for murder of Rev Haddock began in Sioux City on Wednesday morning.
A travel notice promoting Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential for travelers. It claims the product saves lives and warning that hundreds of traveling men carry a bottle, with endorsements from Il Westerman, druggist.
The winter's heavy precipitation has filled wells springs and streams and the earth is well supplied with water, promising plentiful supply through the coming spring and early summer.
A testimonial claims Papillon Skin Cure cured a neck carbuncle after applying the product. Signed by Wallace L. DeWolf, the notice says doctors recommend it and it sells for $1 per bottle or prepaid by mail.
The piece speaks of emerging from sadness into sunshine and light. It contrasts dreary lands of sighing and death with a future blissful day free of gloom and tomb.
A correspondent likens the Chinese minister’s Washington ball to a riotous display as 400 guests RSVP'd and many more arrived uninvited. The immense halls of Castle Stewart could not hold the crowd as tables were stripped, champagne flowed for hours, and supper was looted in a scene likened to starving animals at a Mexican legation ball.
A reader thanks the paper for recommending Dr Harter s Iron Tonic stating three bottles cured debility and liver disorder. Jos C Boggs signs the letter. A Speak No Evil society forms in London with branches across England pledging to ask Is it true Is it kind Is it necessary before censuring by rumor. Ladies may join.
Mrs Phoebe of Paterson Clay County Iowa aged 73 had kidney trouble and lameness for years. After using Electric Bitters she reports renewed health and can do her own housework. A bottle is advertised at L M Bosworth's Drug Store. Also notes severe recent winter weather harming wheat with March posing testing conditions.
J Al Lozien, a temperance advocate, tells a improvised quip about a smart Alec who rang a chestnut bell during a lecture. He jokes that Mary had a little kid whose fleece was spotted and that the troublesome child followed Mary to school.
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