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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1886
Page
4
The verse urges immediate spiritual renewal as a sinner contends with temptation and guilt. The speaker describes satanic whispers and earthly despair while the Comforter woos toward a better choice. Lucy B. Gregg is presented as the author.
Lectures discuss clergy support and social duty, contrasting spiritual calls with worldly need. The piece also recalls 13th century Jewish taxes, impostors, and rulers in Spain, including Zechariah and Moses de Leon, plus Jayme II’s edicts on Jewish debates and punishment.
A speaker ridicules creeds as mere skins stuffed with sawdust and sand and notes rulers of prudence, dignity, and church hypocrisy. He mocks wealthy pretenses, urges living faith over ritual, and warns against rigid custom as law for fools.
J. P. Brown, once a skeptic and Gazette publisher, widely known in the community, writes a testimonial from Chicago where he now works as a humorous writer. He describes a dramatic religious conversion toward Christ and asks old friends to consider the faith, recalling prior years of doubt and God’s guidance.
A reflective piece recalls a mother who earned lifelong trust by listening to every childish secret and guiding a child through naivety. It contrasts with stories of brave women Elizabeth Zane and others, then shifts to a fable about Old Mother Klappred who resists a magical mill that promises youth at the cost of redoing past sins.
Investigation shows heat tolerance depends on exposure time exertion condition and air moisture. Reports cite 104 in rail yards 125 in mines under favorable conditions and 156 in tropical steamer stoke holes. Prof Dubois estimates 122 with dry air 104 fatal with moist air. enduring limits likely 145 to 165 even in still air.
A brief dialogue notes a prayer meeting result with a neighbor claiming the prayer was answered. Denise gains faith after hearing the report, and a man mentions a fat turkey at his house roosting low last night as part of the tale. The excerpt ends with a contrasting remark about M de Lesseps and the Panama project.
Stella Vinton faces a moral test on a downtown trip to buy for her mother. She wrestles with keeping or returning a 5 cent fare, choosing honesty over temptation. Conductor accepts her payment, and Mrs Vinton rewards her integrity with a 25 cent piece, confirming her victory.
In Apolda Thuringen a legendary old woman mill turns old women into young ones. Two men operate the bottom turning beams while the top opens to admit the elderly. After a single turn the women emerge fresh as a pippin despite a crackling crunch. The process feels like waking to a sunlit morning and birdsong, though it sounds brutal.
Rural New Yorker argues against harsh judgments of modern girls. A 19 year old teacher sewist and student is highlighted as a model of industrious self support, quiet virtue, and family devotion through teaching dressmaking and other work.
Mapami asks her husband how to dress for a masquerade. He replies she should appear as a captive balloon by tying a string to her foot. The exchange presents a playful and quirky costume idea.
Reflections urge using daily hours for improvement. A printer’s aphorism notes that wasting time on trifles or indolence slows progress, while dedicating even one hour per day to study could transform an ignorant person into a wiser one within ten years.
The Inter Ocean article surveys European colonization trends, noting English and German settlements in Australia and New Guinea, Dutch presence in South Africa, and German colonies on the Rio Grande. It weighs acclimatization costs and racial assumptions while detailing Percheron and Norman horse lines, origins, and characteristics.
The account describes lumber camp cooks and two youths gathering large black ants to make pickles during a poor berry year in northern Maine and Canada. They locate ant nests by tapping logs and collect quantities that yield about a quart per log, noting tens of thousands of ants per quart.
A Boston Courier excerpt features a widow mourning John’s death and recalling past quarrels over who would light the fire. She imagines his new place keeping fires lit continually, comforting mourners with a gentle joke.
Promotes travel health with claims it revives fatigue counters water contamination effects and protects against malarious air and drafts. Endorsed for sailors travelers emigrants and pioneers as a reliable remedy for indigestion dyspepsia liver disorders and nervous fatigue.
An old agricultural note explains that a dog has no rights without the owner or on his premises and unaffiliated dogs off home ground are wild. on farms with sheep a stranger dog is presumed predatory. Additionally Col. Wm Louis Schley notes Red Star Cough Cure as a remedy priced at twenty five cents a bottle.
A US Navy service reader in Foote's Health Monthly surveys Chinese medicine, criticizing its anatomy knowledge as crude and imagination driven, describing disease classification by pulse, a materia medica with 11,897 formulas from 1,900 substances, and remedies including tincture of poison from venomous creatures. He notes heavy botanic use, ginseng as mainstay, and fowl gizard in dyspepsia now used by American physicians.
Fort Wayne Gazette manager B L Holman injured his ankle and bought St Jacobs Oil. The oil proved a better investment than a cane, as it completely cured his ankle.
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