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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1879
Page
4
A Catholic Herald quotation extols virtue over wealth, praising a clear conscience, humble life, and moral growth. It highlights the mind enriched by books, peaceful home life, and the love of family as treasures surpassing Australian ore and worldly riches.
In Portarlington a grieving family mourns Kathleen a fair haired girl who dies in a fall. A coffin is found at a neighbor’s door and a revived girl named Elen appears as the Fairy Wife seven years later. Kathleen’s mother later spots a girl resembling her daughter in a village shop and the parents confront the truth. Legend of Tim and fairy theft follows with Tim returning untouched and a fairy treasure tale ends with a hidden crock of gold.
An old advertisement urges quick thinking and speed to fame, claiming rapid mental boost. It markets Dr Bull’s Baltimore Rye with a price of 25 cents and promotes immediate use to improve thinking.
Congress wraps up actions on monetary policy with the silver bill and legal tender provisions, while the Senate considers Indian trust reform and river improvements. Debates over coinage, public debt payment, and electoral machinery continue as adjournment looms.
Dr Austin Flint argues against fixed dining rules and urges responding to appetite. He cites two knowledge sources, favors instinct, and warns against lectures on health causing dyspepsia. He endorses eating when hungry and stresses proper meal intervals and appropriate portion sizes.
In a Brazil focused series, Herbert H. Smith details rubber tapping in the Amazon swamp. Labor is harsh, with workers wading through mud and fever risk to harvest milk from trees. The milk is processed over smoke, then shaped on wooden molds and sold, including old fashioned rubber footwear made from the same process.
Newspapers recount sensational exhumations claiming evidence of premature interment and bodies fighting for life. Noted authorities like Winslow and Bouchut questioned such events as rare. German cemeteries use mortuary houses with alarm bells, yet no genuine cases surfaced in over forty years.
In a quaint exchange a customer criticizes the potatoes as hard while the waiter mutters about hard times, capturing a moment of restaurant whimsy and social weather.
An odd blend of floral cultivation and beauty guidance promotes rose-themed aesthetics. The piece mixes poetic lines about rosy cheeks and lips with a short advertisement for a medical adviser and a grand prescription product priced at $1.50, presenting a period promotional tone.
N E Walsh builds a successful plumbing and heating business in Des Moines. He extends to nearby towns and beyond, supplying water closets steam radiators heaters and related fixtures. Walsh completes Kirkwood House heating and advertises prompt service at moderate charges, inviting public notices to apply.
Washburn Moon Manufacturing Co of Worcester wins a key patent interference ruling on automatic barbed wire production. The decision, dated May 12, confirms Putnam’s broad exclusive right and pins infringement suits against Stevens and allies in Illinois and Iowa. Jacob Haish and others are named as supporters of Stevens.
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