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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1879
Page
1
Washington forbids white settlement in Indian Territory and warns military action. reports on Russia financial distress, revolution risk, and famine threats. Also covers Iowa railroad stocks, notable deaths, accidents, fires, political shifts, and crime trials across the country with numerous regional updates.
The document reports Rutherford B. Hayes warning anyone about settling in Indian Territory west of Arkansas and detailing court actions over barbed wire patents. It cites injunctions and bonds in Illinois cases Washburn & Moon Manufacturing Co. v. The Lyman Manufacturing Company and related suits, with judges and filings in 1879.
The article argues that today’s boys encounter a tougher path than previous generations. It notes widespread belief that life should be easy, the lure of competition, and new temptations requiring moral heroism not demanded of fathers or grandfathers.
A Western Agricultural Weekly notes railroads and numerous farmers and stock raisers are using or planning to use Barb Fence. It cites forty two thousand miles erected in three seasons and recalls Iowa farmers’ vast 1860s fence activity. The piece stresses the importance of patented Steel Barb Fence rights and claims.
Military company forming at Mt Ayr. Hamilton county farmers plan a reunion June 3. Muscatine peach trees show promise for fruit. About seventy men employed on the new State Capitol. Ft Madison City Marshal Calvin Marsh killed April 20 by jumping from a train. Over 161000 pounds of butter shipped from Manchester in March. Johnson Brown residence near Davenport burned April 22. loss 2500. Emigrants from Iowa to Kansas advise staying home. Knapp, 19, drowned April 22 in Dutch Lake near Oxford while night fishing. Sioux City fire April 23 destroyed three wooden buildings. loss 2000. Manchester fire April 22 destroyed barn, creamery, hay stacks and 15 pigs. loss unknown.
A curious remark on medical nerve contrasts with a boy unable to kill a fly followed by a recipe for orange sauce. The method describes pouring hot water over berries, steeping, then simmering with sugar and water, mashing and straining to serve cold in slices.
The report details a Berlin trial of three medical students linked to Nihilist networks and communications between London and St Petersbug revolutionists. It notes heightened security around the Czar and officials, German measures against imported papers, and a pending prosecution of Deputy Hasselmann.
The Argosy traces card manufacturing permission in 1463 and royal restrictions under Henry VIII, notes cards’ festive role in Christmas, and cites Stevenson on Christmas with cards. It mentions early whist in Beaus Stratagem and its study around 1700 at the Crown Coffee House in Bunhill Row, London.
A nostalgic reminiscence links personal memories with historic milestones. The passage mentions Forrest’s burial, Hayes’s inauguration, Dickens’s death, Lincoln’s assassination, the Civil War, the birth year of a Spanish king, and notes on Mr. John J. Hamilton taking editorial charge of the Bloomfield Republican and Secretary of State Hull’s paper.
An old fragment recalls a man urged by a doctor to drink Bitter tonics for health. The patient, convinced by earnest urging, used the Bitters hoping for lasting relief, while the doctor’s tone suggests a cautious approach to treatment.
The text notes the newly elected Mayor of Lockport New York is named Pound and hints at enforcing Pound ordinances. It also contains an odd aside about a superintendent addressing a crowd and a remark about a boy answering a question. A comparison of clocks references Grandfather's Clock versus Baby Mine.
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