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A fragmented OCR item notes Lin advancing in county events with unclear context and partial names. The readable portion mentions Ivance Lin in a county setting and hints at progress or qualification.
01 May 1890
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1890
Page
1
A fragmented OCR item notes Lin advancing in county events with unclear context and partial names. The readable portion mentions Ivance Lin in a county setting and hints at progress or qualification.
Josiah, a young country lad, helps a girl named Rosine after a circus incident and a missing purse. They travel home in a wagon with a tale of hardship, plus a twist of fortune when Rosine learns her stepfather is dead and her late mother’s fortune becomes hers.
In a New York Herald piece, Daniel Higgins known as Parson Dan, a tough yet devout foundry worker, interposes when foreman Jake Donohue brutalizes apprentice Will Preston. Parson Dan singlehandedly knocks Jake out after a failed kick, then laments breaking his vowed vow of never striking again.
Senator Pettigrew recalls Dakota justice as primitive in his youth. He recounts saloon-dominated courts with missing judges, a drunken marshal and attorney, and a chaotic adjournment. He also cites cases of horse stealing and perjury involving a Chief Justice. The narrative contrasts with later state history and mentions gilded palaces in Zaragoza.
The article explains the false claim that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to fund Columbus. It details how finance ministers St Angel and Quintilla secured support, Aragon’s seventeen thousand florins, and the Pinzon brothers’ loans and ship roles, with Columbus repaying the loan from his first voyage profits.
A long discussion from the Ladies' Home Journal outlines traits men admire in women. It highlights amiability, pleasant appearance, kindness, sunshine in temperament, good manners, quiet dress, intelligence with a kind heart, and motherliness. It notes men favor a woman who talks well, supports plans, and shows affection including tender gestures.
A Turbulent critique argues juries are obsolete and flawed. The author cites the Crenin case to fault unanimous verdicts and mocks jury makeup with caricature examples from Nye. The piece laments the verdicts produced by sleep, noise, and unfamiliarity with English.
The piece traces how English workers use titles, noting who is addressed as Maister or Mistress and who must use thou. It contrasts social ranks in shoemaking families with a humorous anecdote of a London shoe shop translator of soles during a shoe theft trial.
An Atchison Globe interview with a St Louis detective notes Whitely's long sighted skill to read a letter from thirty feet and a man who can infer writing by pen motion from afar. It cites hotel clerks reading upside down and ends with a remark on a boy's habit of catching a show on time.
A veteran firefighter recalls a 1858 Boston blaze where a massive ice formed at the nozzle during frigid weather. He and fellow crews fought seven miles to reach a fifteen story stone building, saved part of the structure, and earned a $10,000 purse and a diamond medal in a public reception. The tale ends with a close call when he, with his five year old son Charlie, escaped a perilous well during a cyclone and rain.
A first person recollection recalls a scorching 1882 day and a sudden tornado shower that blitzed toward a family home. The narrator, rushing children to safety, describes a funnel cloud crashing into a well and the perilous moments leading to rescue.
Editor voices strong critique of sensational reporting and intrusions into private life. He argues public desire is for clean, respectful newspapers and urges editors to shift away from scandal to everyday, trustworthy content.
May recalls her grandmother in a humorous domestic vignette about heated rooms and a chilly misinterpretation. Grandma’s feverish spell prompts a neighbor to ask the mother for an explanation. May quips that grandma’s chill would not be very chilly.
A woman visits a shoe store asks for size four then tries sizes six and seven. She agrees to have them sent but returns the next day to complain they do not fit because she meant size seven. The clerk learns she wears a different number and must resend the correct pair.
Miss Summit questions Dashaway on returning to flannel shirts this season. Dashaway objects, calling the option too leveling and wonders how to distinguish workers from common brakesmen when clad in flannel.
The Washington Post quotes Miss Matilda Snowball, describing their household with a cow and a pew at the Blue Light Tabernacle, and a sharp reply about keeping a goat and a carbuncle on the neck, reflecting racial and social tensions in a rural setting.
A lengthy roll of Senate and House bills from the recent Iowa General Assembly session. The Senate items include tax, city charter, education, highway, public records, and various local governance measures, while House bills cover city annexations, bonds, street improvements, labor and industrial issues, and public welfare. Joint resolutions note pensioning nurses and mining safety protections.
A wife suspects her husband of interest in a sewing girl. She uses a phonograph to record their conversation and discovers incriminating talk about infidelity and domestic life. The distressing discovery leaves her shocked and silent as the story ends.
In 1857 a Bavarian newspaper published a prophecy by an old hermit predicting Napoleon III rise, Austro Prussian and Franco Prussian wars, the Paris Commune, and the death of Pope Pius IX. It also claimed three German emperors in one year, U.S. presidential deaths, a submerged Manhattan, Cuba split, Florida and Baja California sunk, and Europe reshaped with Italy and France erased by century’s end. Berlin to be destroyed by earthquake.
In an Erie depot confrontation a man introduces a friend noted for a curious trait a pocket knife. The second man claims a stronger trait and forcefully retrieves the knife, demanding its return with a threat of violence. The scene ends with the knife surrendered amid apologies.
The excerpt presents jokes and quips about marriage money and social roles. It includes exchanges on love engagement pride and comic misunderstandings with characters like Haswell Tookes Tootles and Effie. It ends with a lyric line about lasting love despite faults.
A Washington correspondent recalls Col George Hooker of Vermont and ex Congressmen W L Scott of Pennsylvania sharing a breakfast and a boastful line about appetite. The sequel suggests Hooker enjoyed drinking as much as eating during a Broadway stroll following a celebratory dinner.
The article notes Dr. J. T. O Connor warns that hypnotic control can compel an innocent agent to commit crime in the future. Physicians and jurists fear public mesmerism exhibitions may spread nervous disease, with European groups seeking bans on public demonstrations and restricting the practice to physicians specializing in nervous disorders.
A woman’s dislike of a man leads to harsh labeling while a male pupil named Smith was famed for an enduring grin. An observer recalls, as he left church, seeing a smile near the door and discovering Mr. Smith was there.
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