30 May 1885
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1885
Page
1
A collage of era miscellany notes social manners and domestic life from the 19th century. It recounts Poe's early years and the Fordham graveyard tale alongside reflections on Hindoo domestic duties and a portrait of life in prior decades with vivid vignettes of clothing housing and labor.
Publication subscription notice outlines pricing terms including six months in advance, four months in advance, and annual options. It specifies two dollars per year if not prepaid and two dollars in advance if mailed out of county.
Advertising rates for five line ads per year and monthly changeable ads by inch. Ames sits at the Chicago and North Western Railroad junction with the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road thirty six miles north of Des Moines. It hosts Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with many students and a well equipped public school in a large building. The surrounding farms are productive and fruitful.
Union Township J Q Burgess Lincoln Township Armory Hackins Township records list supervisors and districts. The fragmentary text notes township names and a supervisor surname sequence, suggesting a local government notice or roster.
The notice lists worship times for two churches with pastors H J Every and G H Starring. Sunday morning and evening services, Sabbath School at 12 M, and Wednesday prayer meetings at 7 30 PM are announced.
The G A L Worth Post 30 G A R meets on the first and third Saturdays at 8 o clock in the Mason Hall. Honorably discharged soldiers and sailors are invited to join. Initiation fee is 20 dollars. R E reenbery due?
Poem expresses waited love under a sighing aspen tree as dusk falls. The speaker pledges faith and longing while nature glows with sunset and fragrance. Published by the Courier Journal in a lyrical, romantic mood.
A village hears Prof Aziah Packham lecture on the moon and Theny vows love despite poverty. Packham’s failed career leads to marriage and a laundry business. Theny’s faith and his writing persist as life changes around them. The New Orleans Exposition grounds description follows in the same issue.
A column on chance meetings shaping marriages and friendships, with Dickensian insight. It cites how travelers on trains and steamboats spark romances and how tactful social bridging helps diverse people connect, illustrated by a Quaker family welcome to a society wife.
A concise maxim urges action over prolonged calm or hesitation. It emphasizes energetic engagement in daily affairs as a virtue, contrasting with delaying tactics and excessive deliberation. The statement frames activity as prudent and desirable.
The piece notes American families abroad often hire foreign maids and governesses to assist with personal services and language education. It contrasts domestic American maids with foreign trained staff, cites authority discomfort, and mentions menservants as less persistent than maids and governesses.
Ben Periey Poore recalls Sam Ward once famed as the lobby monarch who hosted dinner for Sumner Thornton Garfield and other congressmen. Ward could sway or block legislation with Welcker's restaurant as his influence hub, and now rivals vie to fill his throne while the title remains unwieldy.
A brief exchange shows a mother pressuring her small son Jack to hurry to church while he resists. She cites the father who must preach, but the child complains attending is tiring and worse to listen. The Philadelphia Call attributes the dialogue to family life.
The Boston Transcript jokes on deciding and sleeping patterns. It contrasts two men: one struggles to choose whether to get up at six and delays rest, the other decisively resolves to rise at a set time and sleeps through until eight.
The wild horses of Wyoming and Western Nebraska are compact animals weighing 806 to 1100 pounds and standing about fourteen hands high. They are usually brown, sorrel or bay with long tails and distinctive eyes. When captured they prove superior to domestic horses of the same size and are used by cowboys or broken for harness and carriage work.
A Hindoo woman bitten on the ankle in Wakeshwar was treated with live chickens applied to the wound. Twelve chickens died from poison, two more survived, and the patient was declared cured. Police involvement led to hospital transfer but five hours later no poison signs remained and she walked home.
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