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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1885
Page
4
A fragment from Youth's Companion recalls a girl staying up late as if adult. Her mother favored the behavior and urged the reader to make the story truly accurate. The note reflects moral and domestic themes typical of the period.
A seven year old girl described as wise and observant who views the world with curious intelligence. She narrates marvelous tales from clouds and birds, sees hidden fairies, and studies signs in the sky while rushing from school with emphatic, confident manner.
The essay contrasts fussy persons who fuss over trivial matters with efficient ones who work quietly and well. It notes sparrows chatter like Much Ado About Nothing, praises May the efficient friend, and urges focus on beginnings rather than fussing over appearances.
A child from the countryside named Dick Whittington travels to London seeking work but is rejected. He finds a place with a cruel cook and rat-filled garret, keeps faith after hearing bells, buys a cat, and loses it as a ship departs for Africa where rats swarm a royal feast.
The Pan sy recounts how a rat saving girl earns the King’s favor and Dick Whittington rises from apprentice to a rich shopkeeper and three time Lord Mayor of London. It notes he lived about four and a half centuries ago in Henry V’s era and was praised by Londoners.
A series of light vignettes shows children mishearing prayers misquoting meanings and adults joking about meals and temper. Scenes include a boy seeking his mother a girl admiring cowscows being milked a dog guarded by a bustle and a child asking about doctors and Amen provoking a joke about grub.
Barton O. Aylesworth compares Carlyle and Emerson, noting their kinship yet distinct voices. He praises their denunciation of conformity, their loftier ideals, and their broad philosophical reach from Truth to God and nature. The piece envisions Carlyle’s enduring influence and a future where his name stands with Luther’s as a reformer.
The passage argues reporters can capture a prominent figure’s thoughts more clearly in writing than in person. It notes reporters with public affairs knowledge can interview well without meeting the subject, delivering entertaining, precise summaries of great topics.
Topics cover stock breeding fruit culture and poultry care along with household management and kitchen economy. Readers gain practical tips for farm operations and daily domestic tasks with emphasis on efficiency and practical routines.
The article argues lime is essential for productive farming. It states that wheat thrives where lime is abundant and that exhausted soils regain fertility with proper manure. It notes exhausted limestone lands respond to lime dressing, even if soil analysis shows inactive lime levels.
Sr Heynolds of Maine urges sheep for pasture improvement. Sheep clear weeds and briers, boost forage, and can offset costs by enhancing land value. Harvey W. Scott of Agawam reports 25 percent higher value on pastures with sheep, plus orchard benefits. Additional items cover harvesters, wool boots, land tiling, and Black Cochin poultry prospects.
In very cold weather it is difficult to make cows drink enough. A daily small salt ration in the feed raises their thirst. When fed roots or green food, two waterings suffice. Fattening cattle often drink only once daily.
A meditation on humane treatment of animals, urging compassion for beasts as beings made by the Creator. The piece warns that cruelty reveals a brutal mind and reminds readers that God watches every act toward the mute creature.
Beef practice shifts as improved Shorthorn cattle mature early. Two year old Shorthorn steers reach or exceed the size of native three year olds, enabling more beef at lower cost between ages one and two than by extending fattening to three or four years.
Discussion notes that barbed-wire fences can be repurposed as trellises for grape vines to reduce livestock injuries. Barbs deter stock but vines would gain value, making long use impractical in some regions. Roadside fences are sometimes removed where stock access is restricted to market drives.
Hints about breaking colts describe a homemade breaking cart with large wheels and shafts to curb backing. Barefoot training until wear appears, then shoeing may be needed for speed work. Avoid blinders initially to reduce fright when a vehicle follows, and ensure the horse is not afraid of the wagon before purchase.
The article explains methods to train a colt to stop at a command before entering the breaking cart. It describes various check methods, including strap reins with a headstall ring, using a sharp word to cue stopping, and ensuring the hint is harmless. Proper training builds a lifelong habit to stop at the cue, reducing accidents.
As poultry business grows, advice warns against costly, oversized houses. For 500 or 1000 birds, limit one structure to no more than one tenth of that count and keep no more than fifty birds per house. This fosters easier expansion with improvements from experience.
Gustav Leopold of Joliet Illinois writes of twenty nine years handling bees and claims he can hive many swarms per hour. He describes a long bee house, wintering with snow on roof and rye flour to boost swarming and brood, and a salt water cure for diarrhea and foul brood prevention.
Prof Budd of Iowa Agricultural College disputes the rosy claims about the Russian mulberry. Introduced five or six years ago for Northwest trial, the tree is praised as hardy and productive by dealers but Budd notes its feeble fruit size and limited value for dessert. He recalls its main use as windbreaks and for wildlife, with limited promise for northern prairies.
A railway station in Ohio shipped raspberries valued at about 900 bushels to market last season. The piece notes that 75 bushels per acre equals roughly eighty acres, and discusses planting yearling trees and the adaptability of swamp shrubs to uplands. It ends with a comparison of spending on novelties versus joining horticultural societies.
A home polish recipe combines half a pint linseed oil half pint of ale the white of an egg and one ounce each of spirits of wine and spirits of salts. Shake well apply with a soft linen pad and rub lightly for a minute over the article to be polished.
A fragment explains layering curled hair on cloth inside stockings to titillate the feet and draw blood, with a bar conducting moisture to woolen cloth to keep feet dry. It advises placing bar soles before the fire overnight to dry by morning and notes cork soles absorb moisture from shoe and foot, requiring days to dry.
A fragment describes sealing cracks with putty and mixing boiled linseed oil in a small quantity to treat a stained floor. It presents a basic home repair tip rather than a full procedure.
A reader describes a kerosene and oil stain technique for pine and other floors. Mix oil and burnt umber or linseed oil for color, apply with cloth, avoid baseboards, then seal with turpentine and beeswax. Wax may enhance polish but is optional. Linseed oil lasts longer and retains color.
The article describes handmade craft ideas including satin and antique lace screens with lace applique, a baby carriage rug with white worsted balls and satin bow, a sunflower styled pin cushion with yellow velvet petals, and a plush cabinet photograph case with embroidered designs or initials.
Household hints warn vinegar and grease in jars spoil storage. For sausage shapes, roll in flour to keep them intact when cooking. Meat morr s can be renovated at home with velvet plush trims or fur and feather bands. Trim with ribbon lace chenille birds flowers and jet ornaments to match attire.
A London aunt explains a home method to renew black cloth. Brush and wash greasy areas then boil logwood and soda, apply with a brush using oil to help grain, air dry in sun or a dry room, leaving garments black and refreshed for boys and girls clothes alike.
Instructions describe starching clothes using hot starch and a nickel sized polish piece. It covers mixing starch with wax spermaceti stearine and ultramarine blue, applying in layers, rolling, waiting, then ironing. It also advises keeping emery paper beeswax and brown paper to prevent sticking and soil.
Cut carrots very fine and simmer with a small piece of raw beef or roast bone, two or three onions, one turnip, pepper and salt for three hours. Strain, then make a day ahead and rewarm before serving.
Soak a pint of white beans overnight then drain. Boil beans in salted water until mealy. Place in an earthen pudding dish. Add a coffee cup of rich cream and a tablespoon of sugar. Bake in a moderate oven until brown.
A vintage baking instruction lists hard gingerbread ingredients including molasses sugar milk batter lard salt egg ginger and sa'cratus with optional cream of tartar. Instructions emphasize mixing until firm cutting to fit a shallow pan and baking in a hot oven without burning.
A historic pudding combines six eggs six apples one and a half cups bread crumbs grated lemon peel half a teaspoon salt grated nutmeg one measure brandy and sugar. Mix apples with the beaten eggs and dry ingredients then stir in brandy. Steam in a buttered dish for two hours and serve with wine sauce.
Melt butter and flour to brown, add gravy or water, vinegar and mustard, boil two minutes, season. Pour over halved hard boiled eggs cut lengthwise, serve hot. Optional shallot or onion may be cooked with the sauce.
The meat is salted and peppered, filled with parsley and herbs, rolled or bound, then simmered with onions carrots and bay in broth. It cooks slowly, browns open, rests on a warm dish, and is served with a rich glaze strained from the pan fat.
In Greencastle Indiana D L Southard a DePauw University trustee and relative of Bishop Bowman describes a dramatic recovery from rheumatism after using Athlophoros. He details swift pain relief profuse sweating and renewed mobility within hours and credits repeated use with long term health. Bishop Bowman endorses the remedy and notes few failures among others treated.
A Chicago Ledger excerpt lampoons newspaper chatter and sensationalism. It mocks parades of town freedoms to Gen Grant, Dickens cat anecdotes, a 1,065 pound hog tale, and the ubiquitous Business Outlook feature, condemning editors for empty curiosity and recycled pieces.
In a cold night tale Smith explains warming a brick for his wife's feet. Jones asks about a alternative using a cat. the wife tries it but the cat dies after five minutes due to the chill.
Dr Talmage discusses how a Bible quote about the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees was misread as a gong by a typesetter. He notes how errors creep from speaker to reporter and printer and urges leniency for printers who replace going with gong.
An Omaha editor warns that morphia cough syrups endanger children more than guns and urges mothers to use Red Star Cough Cure, touted as the only purely vegetable, harmless, prompt remedy. City health boards certify its safety and officials including Mayor Latrobe and the health commissioner have endorsed the discovery.
A man buys a weight of turkey from a traveling vendor, finds five or six pounds of lead in the cavity intended for oysters, and confronts the vendor who mutters in broken speech about his poverty after his wife drowns. The piece then shifts to a Arkansas Traveler anecdote and advertises Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a cure for malaria and fevers.
The 1880 census shows 6502 people were employed in all distilling. It notes 63 branches of manufacture exceed liquor distilling in importance for employment and support, with at least 26 surpassing liquor in annual product value. Louis Lamp and witty remark on babies follow.
Ad reads Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a universal balm for illnesses from colds to chronic lung and liver diseases. It targets coughs bronchitis and consumption and notes availability through druggists. The tone mirrors a midcentury medical advertisement seeking patient trust in a patent remedy.
Visitors to New Yorkity are urged to use Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire with a stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The hotel offers 600 elegant rooms costing one million dollars to fit, now advertised from $1 daily. European plan includes elevator and restaurant with top fare, plus horse cabs stage and elevated rail to depots. Families can live better for less than any first class city hotel.
An ad claims 56 impetuous youth suffer follies and debility with memory loss and nightmares. It urges writing to Dr. BR Pierce of Buffalo New York for a home cure and full particulars by mail. A quip about winds being great mathematicians is noted from the Boston Transcript.
The advertisement promotes Best French Brandy Smart-Weed Jamaica Ginger and Camphor Water combined as Dr. Pierce's Extract of Smart-Weed. It claims to cure colic diarrhea cholera morbus dysentery or bloody flux and to break up colds fevers and inflammatory attacks when used early.
An obscure life note recalls a conductor who refused to register fare, taking unregistered nickels instead. The quip highlights a bold stance and a curious wartime era moral.
A historic health notice touts Allen's Lung Balsam as a remedy for coughs colds croup bronchitis and lung diseases. It claims the medicine is opium free uses pure ingredients and asserts ninety five percent cures with proper bottle directions.
The letter describes cures claimed by Dre Starkey and Palen at 1109 Girard Street Philadelphia for consumption catarrh neuralgia bronchitis rheumatism and all chronic diseases by Compound Oxygen and invites sufferers to write for information.
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