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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1883
Page
2
A Harper's Weekly poem by Margaret E. Sangster renders Easter themes with biblical imagery. It celebrates Christ’s Resurrection, shared glories, and hopeful renewal while urging faith, consolation, and steadfast joy.
A narrator recalls the Barons Jack and Helen Burbank leaving their luxurious Torricelli mansion on the Hudson for a European trip with daughter Birdie. The piece contrasts their wealth and social world with a sense of emptiness and curiosity about the brokers who run it, detailing the mansion’s moonlit terraces, fountains, and opulent interiors.
Journal excerpts describe a move from crowded city rooms to rural Mount Hope New Jersey New England style farming life. Birdie grows, Jack learns plowing, bread baking and butter making flourish as they build a home, raise a cow named Brownie and a hopeful future amid modest earnings and hard work.
Letter excerpts reveal Helen’s struggle with wealth, salvation, and a vowed life amid Torricelli estate memories. A hidden family crisis shows Jack’s riches built on fragile ground and Birdie’s peril, while a later dispatch notes Birdie’s survival and Helen’s costly reintegration into luxury.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts a Cass-avenue Jad exchange where a youth questions Mr. T about honesty. The father defends him as a man of character and moral lesson, noting the robin’s evident return from Tennessee.
A Denver Herald column quotes Colonel C. H. Toll arguing his eight month old son, not Patti or Nilsson, is the greatest vocalist. He describes the baby’s sounds as expressive, likening them to a high baritone and musical imagery, and disputes elite opera tastes while praising the nightly melodies heard at a Denver home corner.
An 1860s voice explains the vast Imperial revenue stored in the Pacific coast sub Treasury vaults. It notes 15,000,000 silver dollars and gold sacks of 20 000 each, with the vaults' size and purpose, and discusses why certificates replace worn coins. It argues much money circulates yet stores as metal to avoid depreciation.
The article surveys Australia New Zealand and Tasmania as rising players in global markets. It notes vast land, low current utilization, potential in wine tea fibers and sugar, strong cattle sheep and pig stocks, and rising exports while transport and storage improvements reduce costs and expand reach.
A collage of humorous and pointed quotes from various papers. Notes on poverty, bread types, college songs, shipboard mishaps, artists at the opera, domestic abuse, jail holidays, and a New York scientist’s playful take on planetary laws. Contains multiple dated and named publications and figures.
A boy named Benjie hides forty dollars in his hat band to hurry a payment for Mr Coles. After a marble game the hat is stolen, he fears punishment and begs mercy from Granny. He later learns Coles is dead and contemplates confessing, while a nearby clothesman offers a replacement hat.
The mole bores with a strong fore limb like a human hand and a piglike snout. It lives in a personal subterranean district and hunts worms snails and insects while guarding its tunnels from intruders. The animal drinks near water and creates mole hills by throwing up fine dirt along its galleries.
A melodramatic verse contemplates the value and love of a baby asking who will buy and what is offered. The speaker questions material worth versus tender affection and finally questions selling the baby as a beloved child. The tone echoes wistful rhetoric about sacrifice for a beloved child.
A domestic quarrel over a kitchen crevice leads to a promise and a hurried carpentry repair. Crispo vows to fix the crack under the door. wife presses him through several months until he enlists a carpenter and completes the job, only to be teased for a misstep that seals the door and crevice.
A worker recalls handing over Coles money to the boss then fainting. The clothesman later shed the old hat and the bees seemed kind as the worker confessed all, including granny, and received a raise of half a dollar.
Two Paris physicians MM de Beaumetz introduced a system for treating consumption by forced feeding via a pump. Diet consists of minced lean meat, milk, and eggs. doses rise to about four pounds of lean meat daily. Report claims patients gain weight and lungs heal, with less vomiting and tolerance even among hysterical patients. Demorest's Monthly notes potential test in this country.
A Columbus Georgia youth sent Senator Brown a pair of home made shoes and received a note thanking him. The letter urges young men to pursue useful trades, work hard, and strive for self improvement to improve the nation and their own fortunes.
Milwaukee firemen describe a future emergency plan using ramrods with string attachments to enter hotel windows and guide guests to safety. Critics fear panic and confusion as people react to the dramatic rescue method and potential injuries.
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