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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1886
Page
4
Poem excerpt about three flies on and three flies outside a pane debating rain and dinner. It leads into a historical note praised by Harpers Young People on Washington and the U S Presidents. It celebrates inaugurations, immigration, and the republic as a success of self governance.
A sweeping retrospective traces inaugurations from Washington in 1789 through Hayes in 1877, noting Capitol Hill ceremonies, city growth, and key figures. It highlights the evolution from Federal Hall to the Capitol platform, with presidents like Adams Jefferson Jackson Lincoln Grant and Garfield shaping a growing nation.
A humorous vignette on children mispronouncing words and misinterpreting ideas. A boy in petticoats boasts about studying though he cannot read or write. Youngsters marvel at concepts like dawn while teasing each other. One child mishears cremation as cream-tattered and argues about being born before a sibling.
An excerpt from Hall's Journal of Health discusses the dangers of abruptly cooling the body and closing skin pores. It explains how heat and cold affect body channels, the risk of rapid cooling after exercise, and how gradual cooling is linked to fewer colds, with emphasis on avoiding rapid perspiration loss.
The piece discusses ancient Falernian wine and its health and taste issues, noting Romans used herbs gypsum and salt water. It explains modern artificial wines mimic natural fermentation, and warns counterfeits in Paris London and New York deceive buyers. It argues such wines would be rejected for drugging perfuming and manipulation and headaches.
A reflective verse about generosity and virtue urging quiet consistent kindness. The speaker urges you to perform good deeds without seeking repayment, trusting that humble actions grow like a vine producing fruit each year.
A reflective meditation on friendship and timely kindness. The writer urges living fully for God and neighbors, lest one regrets unspoken affections at parting and longs for missed chances to show generosity, sympathy, and love.
The piece argues restraint as a cardinal virtue to curb violent temper. It contrasts a recent shooting incident with ideals from Prometheus and Delphian maxims, urging humane caution, self knowledge, and the dangers of unrestrained passion. It also notes Pasteur's beer preservation method as a metaphor for controlled processes.
Mrs Doo little compliments Mrs Dumley's mink cloak and muses about buying one for daily marketing and errands while keeping the sealskin for social visits. The comment appears in a Chicago News item.
A statement urges ongoing effort to banish prejudices and extinguish vices, framing social improvement as an active, persistent pursuit.
The Boston Beacon notes that the term environment was popularized by Thomas Carlyle who borrowed it from French. It traces Carlyle’s early uses in 1832 and Sartor Resartus, and mentions Sterling’s critique of neologisms. Carlyle’s sense of environment as that which surrounds is highlighted alongside dictionary contrasts.
A vivid vignette from a remote North England wood describes a bobbin mill along Stockgill stream where workers turn reels amid timber, ash dust, and spiders in a quiet industrial scene. A secondary note recalls Sam Jones the preacher and a child’s blunt reply about wisdom in a Cincinnati Enquirer item.
In Paris the firemen form a regiment of infantry numbering fifty officers and 1690 men with a colonel as chief. The article describes their blue uniforms and brass helmet for fires. It also covers a Goop cleaning powder made from calcined magnesia and benzine, carpentry fixes for split chisel handles, paint for galvanized iron, and glue strength data from experiments.
A New York World column notes Peter Lorillard lives plainly with frugal meals and modest fare. A physician observes that wealthy New Yorkers spend more on service than food, and Lorillard’s son travels abroad, promising material for a future book.
The Ponce de Leon Hotel in St Augustine Florida will rise to 400 by 600 feet built of coquina stone in a Mooreish style. H M Flagler owner of Standard Oil has placed 1 000 000 for initial construction costs. Courtyard features an orange grove and tropical garden with fountains. A roof orange grove imitates oriental gardens. Dining room will be 150 by 75 feet high in proportion. The building aims to reproduce part of Aladdin's palace.
A Medical Record article warns that half of American adult men may be bald and that baldness could spread to future generations. It blames strenuous work and poor scalp care, urges scalp cleansing and ventilation, notes beard resilience, and cautions women are less affected. It promotes St Jacobs Oil for neuralgia and similar pains.
The piece notes New Bedford and San Francisco as major whaling hubs, with Nantucket losing trade due to shallow harbor. It explains whalebone shipping in 200 pound bundles, 20 percent material loss, uses for hair in upholstery and brushes, and seasonal supply from the North Pacific in November, the South Seas in June, plus occasional Davis Strait and Hudson Bay stock.
The largest pumping engine in the world sits at Friedensville Pennsylvania to remove water from a zinc mine. Built at Merrick's Philadelphia foundry in 1870 it cost nearly one million dollars. The heavy parts required strengthening bridges on the North Pennsylvania Railroad. Cylinder 110 inches diameter piston rod 14 inches stroke 12 feet. One minute it dispenses over 20 000 gallons of water raising 30 000 000 gallons daily to a height of 150 feet.
A Harvard student who quarrelled over a young lady's sake complains of rough handling and is told by the woman that beaten brass is in fashion, reflecting a witty social quip. The item reads as a humorous anecdote from a Beacon-like column.
The article notes Philadelphia uses novel dining formats to curb dull evenings. Guests dine in parlors while courses are served, waiters in costumes deliver dishes, and a progressive luncheon rotates diners between courses. The Boston Herald adds a quip about three hour dinners and agreeable companions.
Dyspeptic stomachs generate impure gases after meals causing distention and pain. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is presented as the best carminative for cramps colicky pains and heartburn, superior to soda and effervescent accommodations. It is said to restore digestive tone, regulate bowels and liver, protect against malaria, and relieve rheumatic pain while boosting overall vigor.
An 8 year old boy at a revival tells his mother he will be converted and join the church. He agrees to give up dancing and the museum, then asks to visit the four legged woman once more before his conversion, revealing playful curiosity in a local Indianapolis Journal item.
An advertisement lists remedies for nervous debility memory loss and premature aging claiming cures from the World’s Dispensary Association in Buffalo and offering a free map of the Holy Land with purchase. It also promotes Ayers Cherry Pectoral and Warner’s Wire Wine of Tar with dealer orders and free bottle offers.
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