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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1878
Page
1
The Intelligencer of Ames Iowa announces advertising rate details and invites readers to submit news items or items of general interest for publication. The notice requests submissions to the proprietor and asks readers to aid in providing information.
A poetic speaker vows to weave a flawless web that will outlive her, but as June mornings pass into heat and work delays she grows weary. In the afternoon she postpones again, and by twilight the loom remains still, leaving the question whether she will complete her destined task.
Ida Halifont survives a deadly break in as her husband Halifont dies. A masked burglar with a scarred arm fights three men, and years later a Spaniard suitor harbors danger as she confronts a killer among her circle. The tale follows a widow to a country house and a dramatic confrontation with Col Humphries, the man she suspects of murder.
The New York Tribune publishes a detailed indictment of Tilden campaign operatives in Florida and South Carolina. It cites telegrams and bribe propositions to secure electors, with messages about cash payments, board decisions, and attempts to influence the Returning Board and Hampton’s faction.
Washington Telegram reports Republicans possess key facts on forged documents and perjured testimony behind the Potter investigation. Anderson provides a written statement and corroborating proofs detailing how Tilden agents manufactured evidence to target Sherman and the President. The article outlines forged letters, destroyed originals, and planned perjury, with Senate inquiry to confirm.
The revival of foreign immigration to the nation grows evident with 8,955 arrivals in New York last month, up from 6,673 a year earlier. Over three months, 25,263 arrived vs 20,109 previously, amid social and economic causes fueling the trend.
Col Forney records wage rates in Brussels with rates for upper servants boarding coachmen maids and house servants at annual sums. trades given wages include tailoresses washer women machinists bricklayers masons shoemakers blacksmiths locksmiths and others. Provisions and coffee prices are noted as not much cheaper than current U S levels.
The passage praises Lawyer Choate for his court presence and imagination in portraying clients, showing interior struggles and eliciting tears. It notes clients valued his eloquence, often paying little in gratitude, as his dramatic power swayed judges and juries.
The report describes total crop failure driving farmers and peasants to ruin and mass starvation. Refugees exceed two thousand at Mogador with thousands more destitute townspeople. Bodies and disease proliferate as beggars fill streets and robberies, murders, and cannibal relief efforts escalate amid relief committees feeding 1200 to 200 daily.
Protestant groups reported 3004 new converts in Japan last year. Churches cited mission activities and local outreach as driving forces behind the rise, with regional centers noting increased interest among youth and urban residents.
The Job Printing department boasts latest type and materials and promises prompt work. Legal blanks kept in stock. Offers bill heads letters heads pockets pamphlets posters auction bills cards and more.
John G. Save recounts a court scene where his lawyer Windy shows off legal lore from Norman conquest to Justinian while the case on damage to his sheep drifts. The judge and audience glare as the lawyer delays by reciting statutes, until a nudge focuses on the matter of trespass and a writ.
A column of jests and anecdotes from Breakfast Table and Punch style humor. It offers quips about manners, luck, language puzzles, and light satire, with lines about a book keeper a sun leaf and a ravenous boy.
A vivid fragment describes a wedding couple with elaborate attire. The bride wears a towering powdered coiffure with a single white rose, lace handkerchief, satin dress, and ornate footwear. The groom is in white satin, blue silk, and matching trimmings with a pink ribbon in his ensemble.
A Chicago wholesale house that previously spent heavily on drummers and high advertising costs has abandoned the alum system. It now spends one fourth of its costs on newspaper advertising and divides the remainder among customers. The trade has increased tenfold and net profits in 1877 were $1300. This year is expected to be better.
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