25 May 1893
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1893
Page
1
fragmented OCR lists county offices and supervisors including auditor clerk treasurer recorder sheriff superintendent of schools surveyor coroner and two township designations Franklin and Palestine with Siermin Two. No narrative, dates, or full names clearly provided.
The text lists weekly church services: Sunday morning at 11 o clock and evening at 7 50 o’clock, with Wednesday evening services. Sunday School follows the service, and Christian Endeavor meets an hour before the evening service. Pastor Rickman leads.
Experts urge using green feed to bridge summer grazing gaps. Plant oats, peas, and sweet corn to yield ten to twenty tons per acre, cut and fed from racks or over fences, with oats sown surface and peas sown at two bushels to one. Surplus becomes hay or silage. Seven hundred tons of butter arrived in London from Australia worth about 340000 dollars.
Leland Stanford and Gen Miles plan a World Fair feature for the agricultural department. The project envisions a Xindergarten showing baby trotters under yearling age in a 6000 seat amphitheater. Stanford would bring 50 colts from Palo Alto for training and public demonstration. Chief Buchanan offers a building for the exhibit and seeks approval.
The American association of nursery men plans its next convention in Chicago on June 7. The program covers nearly all topics of interest to nurserymen. Iowa representatives include C. L. Watrons of Des Moines and D. A. Porterfield of Traer.
A clerical stranger posing as a preacher visits a prosperous farm and converses with the farmer about religion. A man and a woman arrive seeking a minister, wed, and sign a marriage certificate. Days later the certificate appears as a promissory note at a neighbor bank, leaving the farmer liable.
R A Orr of Grand Junction reports a spinach crop this season that netted $2000. Seed sown over a strawberry patch to feed white grubs protected plants and produced unexpected marketable yield. Other growers follow similar method with lettuce as grub bait. shipments went to mountain towns and Denver. National Farmer.
Mr. L. D. McCabe of Rock Island has purchased the Farwell farm near Montezuma Iowa for about 100000 dollars. The deal covers 1700 acres including the park and the fine herd of cattle and horses.
The report notes Florida supplied the first fruit, followed by Louisiana berries in March and later supplies from southern Alabama and Mississippi. A crate holds twenty four quarts and a carload equals four hundred fifty crates.
A professor jokes that if men were as large as their egos there would be room on the island for only two professors three lawyers two doctors and a newspaper reporter. The rest would be crowded into the sea and must swim away.
Five years after a workman injured his right arm a London surgeon opened the limb found a partially divided nerve. A section of sciatic nerve from a live rabbit was grafted between the two fresh ends. The patient has regained arm power and size and returned to work.
T P Hughes of Williamson County Texas recounts hearing about a western Texas man who saved a yearling heifer by applying a poultice made of egg yolk and salt after a black leg outbreak. The man scarified the wound with a pocket knife then used the poultice. He claims it also cures rattlesnake venom bites.
Reports to the government indicate hogs die from disease at about 8 percent in all states except Iowa Illinois and Nebraska. Breeder's Gazette and Iowa Homestead record spring pig crop losses of 20 to 25 percent and 25 percent respectively with farrowed dead pigs.
Rural Life notes the US holds 966516.3838 acres west of the Mississippi with limited cultivation potential. Alaska Montana Arizona and New Mexico are seen as markets, while vast unsold land could benefit from irrigation but awaits demand. Private ownership dominates and few farm lands remain beyond timber tracts.
Four speeches on the best practical politics for workers were delivered in Philadelphia under the Chatham Literary Union. Speakers represented the Democratic Party, the Church, the People’s Party, and the Republican Party. The pamphlet of the four full speeches costs 25 cents. subscription offers for Farmers Tribune and INTELLIGENCER are promoted.
A praised World's Fair edition features thirteen full pages of photographic views of the White City and a ten color cover. The 36 page issue includes illustrations of the Administration building Lagoon dongolas bridges and the Electrical Fountain. Old subscribers get it free and new subscribers with 1.75 for a year receive it as well.
The edition mentions seven hundred thousand copies printed and in high demand. Readers can obtain single numbers by sending ten cents to The Youth's Companion in Boston or via any newsdealer.
Week ending May 13 93 records multiple real estate deeds across Ames Maxwell Story City Nevada Cambridge and surrounding areas. Transactions include John Hanson and wife to Nel Anderson for 500 on lot 16 block 6, and many other transfers with buyers and sellers named such as L K Larson P T Johnson Ira Allen Effie Tooker Cramer Thayer H J Liggett Alex Laughery and others.
The chief of the Senate stationery room is among veterans, but his job title is odd. Charles Sumner was named Mender of Quill Pens and Mr Richards still holds the same title though only one senator uses a quill. Richards makes pens, Morrill’s quills are purchased ready made.
Mrs Ulysses S Grant has abandoned the idea of purchasing the big red house on Lafayette Square in Washington. The Blaine family’s sorrowful history attached to the property influenced her decision, with her sister’s protests and entreaties swaying her to yield.
An inside view of a Washington club reveals a scheme where a utility man is funded by several friends for social favors. The plan extends to lunches and even a staged courtship ending in a costly but doomed attempt on an heiress. A recent wedding scene shows the pranksters removing the couple’s garments as they depart.
A vivid description notes a large basket of intricately crafted paper flowers delivered by messengers. A prominent card attached bore the inscription For the bride, reflecting a celebratory gesture reported in Kate Field's Washington.
The article notes President Cleveland never wears gloves in public events or extreme cold. On a March Fourth he traveled to and from the Capitol with bare hands, showing no discernible discomfort.
The article credits Hood's Sarsaparilla for its rising popularity, attributing it to its claimed healing effects. It emphasizes the product as a reliable remedy and urges readers to obtain it.
The first number of Harper's Quarterly featuring Mrs. P. McLean Green's Vesty of the Basins has just been issued. This new periodical aims to promote successful American novels in an attractive and inexpensive form.
A light society note on fashionable women retreating to rest cures after Easter. Dames enter sanitariums or private rooms for repose and diet with maid reads, masseuse, manicure, and hairdressing, emerging rested from late hours and dancing.
The Postal Guide cites numerous proposed post offices across states including Iowa names Alice David Louise Unique Clara Rapture Anna Bea trice Coal Cyclone Gertie Jennie Lin nie Mary Nipp Piano Susie Wheel. Kentucky Ebenezer Louisiana Turkey Maine Ada Bertha Zink Maryland Assinippi Massachusetts Biggs Sway Michigan Soga Minnesota Barbara Box Chick Eva Finger Lilian Pack Voy Zero Mississippi Clara Job Pepsin Quote Susanna Vattie Missouri Febes Kipp Yemen Montana Smoot Tonic Nebraska Pavement Ruth New York Bessie Blink Dennis Ella Fulp Madge Skyee Tin North Carolina Ida Jump Uno Ohio Moral Tum Oklahoma Cloe Swam Pennsylvania Cemetery Let Tag Tennessee Flo Josie Nigh Nus Res Rip Silas Tanks Word Texas Nails Negro Arm Pat Store Quick Slusser Virginia Hicumbotom Nat Patrick Ruth West Virginia Edgar Wisconsin Abbey Suggs Wyoming.
A lone trapper reports the beaver village along the lower Louchet, 18 miles above the Walla Walla River, with over 20 beavers captured including an 80 pound specimen. The discovery recalls Hudson Bay trapping eras as old dams and channeled water remain visible.
Massachusetts spent over 10000 dollars on the board of arbitration and conciliation last year. The effort reduced strikes and disputes between employers and workers, illustrating how differences can be settled without open warfare. The piece argues arbitration will become mandatory for labor relations.
A Pennsylvania company plans to replace ink stamping with a system that punches the tire year and day through the ticket using stencils to stop scalpers from altering dates. The method records days of the year rather than months, with the year’s final digit fixed at 8 until January.
Pall Mall Gazette notes the Queen will stay at Villa Palmieri during her Florence visit but that house is not the Boccaccio tales site. The real location lies behind Fiesole. Palmieri likely housed Boccaccio briefly, a long white Italian style villa with fine gardens and views of Florence and the Arno.
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