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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1885
Page
4
A fragment from Youth's Companion tells of a mother lamenting a missing baby named Claire. The girl recalls a child once fair with dark eyes who slept in a bed and fled Ember and night. The speaker pleads for the child to return, contrasting memories with present loss.
The article traces footwear history from Thebes in 1405 B C to 1633, noting ancient shoemaking in several materials, Greek mid leg boots, Roman calceus and scela, and 9th to 11th century wooden soles. It highlights European princes, the hornet fashion in 1090, extreme toe lengths in Richard II, Parliament 1463 anti-pike laws, and final standard shapes emerging in 1633.
A Little Folks Magazine item describes a party game where ten children take turns listing girls names starting with A and then boys names. Players score by common names and avoid pet or fancy monikers to prevent penalties.
The article discusses long running practices such as the slipper throwing custom for newlyweds and the symbolic removal of a shoe in renouncing kinship or inheritance. It cites G Lansing of Alexandria Egypt and references Ruth iv 8 to explain the ritual meanings behind these acts. The piece notes the cross cultural spread of traditions and their persistence through history.
A collection of light humor including a senator’s child miscounting Washington’s birthday, a boy dreaming of becoming a hack driver, and clever responses from London school inspections. The inspector’s prompt about Samson’s weapon elicited the jawbone of an ass as the class answer.
A North China Herald writer traces Chinese ideas on immortality from ancient ancestral worship to later beliefs. It covers duality of life and death, celestial ascent of sages, longevity quests, the stork as immortal ride, and the mythic plant Polyporus lucidus linked to alchemy and immortality with Babylonian color lore.
In saturated winter soils, wheat grows best on newly laid sod. The sod does not pack hard and allows drainage, reducing waterlogging that can rot and destroy young plants' roots.
The piece advises sowing rye before ground freezes as a late crop on poorer soil. It says rye grows well as green manure, offering a valuable return for the seed cost when plowed under.
A Germantown text details a fall curing method for pork and beef claiming it preserves sweetness and color. The recipe uses water salt sugar saltpeter and potash, boiled to remove dirt, then poured over meat and left to cure for two days with light salting. The writer notes some omit boiling but still achieves purity and freshness.
An Albany Knickerbocker letter argues seed saving from garden crops is risky and uneconomical. It notes 4 dollars of cabbage seed can yield crops worth 100, but seed quality declines with repeated use, requiring expert seed production. The piece warns amateurs against treating seed saving as a major farming activity.
A Vick’s Magazine correspondent explains methods to raise celery, from hot bed sowing in April to planting in rows near the house. The writer shares trench watering, manuring, and careful hilling, with fall cellar storage and monthly watering to keep stalks large and tender through winter.
The Beeder Journal suggests a simple harness using a halter and rope to restrain cattle from jumping fences during pasture shortages. The device places a ring under the animal and paths the rope over the back to limit head height without injury, with practice needed to adjust lengths.
The Southern Live-Stock Journal notes Rolsteina cattle gain warm favor in Mississippi as many fine animals move south. Sugar fed to London cows boosts intake and milk flavor. Howstein calves show good birth size and growth. Wool production figures rise from 1830 to 1883. Ohio Farmer questions profitability of feeding 60 cent corn with cattle and reports a farmer earning about 70 cents per bushel when mixing corn fodder and linseed meal.
A Cornell expert compares stable manure with commercial fertilizers noting modern nutrients nitrogen phosphorus and potash drive crop growth. He argues fertilizers can raise farms from low to high productivity though some soil elements may be supplied by lime magnesia and plaster.
The article explains that humus from vegetable matter forms most of stable manure while commercial fertilizers lack this humus. It compares values of cow, horse, night soil, rockweed, fish chum, hen manure, and farmers' waste, urging humus-rich stable manure for soil health and crop fertility. It notes carbonic acid from humus aids solubility of native plant foods and that commercial mixes require humus to work.
I FE Pleasants of Los Angeles described a booming honey business in Southern California at the New Orleans bee congress. He cited about 1,000 beekeepers and 100,000 colonies producing 20 pounds per colony for a total of 10,000 tons of honey and 50,000 pounds of wax, with exports to Germany, Glasgow, Paris, and Liverpool and growing markets in the Eastern U.S. and China.
Practical guide on chick care feeding and housing from hatching to four weeks. Highlights zero feeding in first 24 hours then milk and water strategies, a mixed grain and custard starter, frequent small meals, clean water, bone meal, oyster shell and greens. Includes meat and insect foods, green fodder, and periodic tonic additions for growth.
The text offers cleaning recipes and decorative ideas for fabrics, porcelain, and linens, with steps for removing stains and brightening textiles. It then recounts a Civil War era Arkansas rebel session where Gen Ord arrests Senator John Fellows during a tense improvised Senate meeting.
A historic note lists pie crust ingredients: three cups sifted flour, half a teaspoon baking powder, a pinch salt, one cup milk, and one cup lard.
Hominy pudding ingredients listed include boiled hominy one cup milk one and a half pints three eggs one tablespoon butter and one cup sugar. Method instructs pouring into a buttered dish and baking twenty minutes.
A simple cake method lists butter and sugar creamed, add yelks of twelve eggs, flour, baking powder and milk. Batter baked fifty minutes to yield a rich, golden cake.
Take two quarts of oysters simmer in a saucepan not boiling. Salt if fresh. Remove oysters and add to the liquor a pint of vinegar a small handful of whole cloves a quarter of an ounce of mace and two dozen pepper corns. Boil then pour the cooled liquor over the oysters in the jar.
A historical recipe describes carrot soup made by simmering finely chopped carrots with a small piece of raw beef or roast bone, onions, a turnip, pepper, and salt for three hours then straining. It notes reheating the next day and offers a potato soup variation using potatoes and an extra carrot.
Detailed guide to making large batches of mince meat with beef suet apples and spices. Includes simmering times for beef and suet, combining cooked components, adding molasses sugar raisins currants citron and quinces, and finishing with juice from citrus and salt tasting guidance. Keeps in a cool covered jar.
A health column extols peaches as delicious and digestible, praises ripe fruit in meals or breakfast, and lauds apples oranges and lemons for stomach health. It urges using orchard produce over drugs and notes cockroaches as a nuisance, with amusing notes on their behavior and origins.
A clock from Upper India features a gong and a pile of artificial limbs arranged for twelve figures. At each hour from 1 to 12, that many men rise, assemble, strike a mallet, and then dissolve, with full rise at noon and midnight before the figures fall apart again.
The article urges persistence against disease and defends Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a popular, highly sanctioned remedy. It claims the tonic treats constipation, dyspepsia, liver complaint, rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, kidney and bladder weaknesses, and age-related infirmities, advising a patient trial for decisive curative results.
In a whimsical assembly led by the Lion, various forest creatures presented satirical medical papers and feats from anesthesia to vaccination. The Goose moves to expel the Fox for consulting a duck, and the congress closes with a banquet and plans to reconvene next year.
The piece frames a mundane sphere as a mighty uncertain place where bitter and sweet coexist. It notes that one achieves an upgrade in the busiest moments, hinting at a paradox of progress amid haste.
Complicated and obstinate cases cured including ulcers discharges debility and prostate and kidney diseases. Twelve expert specialists with constant attendance offer complete medical and surgical care. Send case history and address for illustrated pamphlet from Buffalo New York.
The text claims illness from various causes signals disease and describes Dr. Pierce's Peasants'urgative Pellets as a cure for digestive derangements. It promises cleansing of the body and relief for stomach and bowels with general debility and appetite loss.
A Detroit visitor remarks on the city’s new electric lighting towers and the striking glow over snowy streets. The piece endorses Athlophoros as a rheumatism remedy, citing testimonials from Mr. and Mrs. Summers of Chicago and others who report relief after using the medicine. The advertisement urges readers to order Athlophoros from the New York firm if their druggist does not carry it.
The piece notes that at $3.00 per doctor visit a person would pay over $1,000 annually for medical attendance alone. It adds a claim that a single bottle of Hop Bitters taken timely could save the entire year's sickness and costs.
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