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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1893
Page
3
The narrative presents Dorr Jewett as the author and narrator. He describes his New Hampshire origins and long residence in the La Fourche district of Louisiana. He intends to establish his personality from the outset.
Six men meet at dawn in a riverbank grove to settle a quarrel with pistols. Castex is killed while Bostock survives after a final shot. the wounded man confesses he sought no murder and hints at a will involving Coralie and plantation holdings.
The narrator recalls scenes from the first chapter not witnessed by himself though he had seen and known others who did. The fragment hints at incomplete autobiographical narration and a transition to unseen events.
A young Dorr recounts childhood in 1848 New Hampshire, his schooling, religious life, and hunger for education beyond poverty. He recalls his father’s cautious hope, the drive to leave hills and rocks, and the glimpse of a future beyond labor as a buggy arrival interrupts the moment.
An old family elephant story from New Albany in the early 1830s tells how a loyal circus elephant found hostler Cooper asleep in a drunken stupor in the alley beside De Pauw house. The animal gently lifted the man and carried him to the livery stable, depositing him safely among the hay.
R. F. Whiteside in American Bee Journal outlines a simple bee extractor costing about $1.25 for five to fifty colonies. The plan lists exact parts, dimensions, and assembly steps including boards nails wire cloth and a barrel, with a homemade crank and center upright, all to be finished with sanding and waxing.
A collection of simple dishes and kitchen ideas from various periodicals. Salmon scallops, cocoanut biscuits, rice pudding, buttermilk biscuits, quick soup, baked beets, creamed onions and decorative cornucopias offer practical guidance with methods, ingredients and cooking times for everyday meals.
A farm note explains making a corn husking pin from a leather strip and wooden core. Cut four by one half inches with two holes, wrap on a finger, and slide the pin through to grip. A thirty cent ready made pin with leather cushion is also described as a sturdy alternative.
The Chicago Inter Ocean argues farmers benefit from real road upgrades through higher land values and better market access. It urges rural centers to lead the education, noting farmers distrust city-originating suggestions and warning that good roads distinguish prosperous communities.
Canadian explorer Mr. Ogilvie reports wood buffalo in Canada shrinking to small herds after a historic decline caused by a snowpack cake formation from a 25 year old heavy rain. White hunters pursue musk oxen and caribou nearby, risking further extermination. Northwest Territory bans wood buffalo killing. a British society offers prize for oxen to London zoos.
Two poetic scenes capture autumn’s mood. Edward A. A. Valentine’s description paints harvests and frost on fields with vivid imagery and distant birds. Robert Kenry White’s verse shifts to wistful nostalgia of rustic landscapes and a summer memory personified by a girl.
A reflective verse urges the reader to confront mortality and emptiness. It envisions graveyard green, an empty chair and garments, and a silent room to provoke self-inquiry. The speaker counters despair by facing the shrinking cave of worry until it dies like a breeze.
The speaker reflects on a nameless grave bearing the inscription She made home happy. A distant marble column honors a world known figure nearby, but the humble epitaph of a grieving mother, tolling years with care before her death, resonates more grandly than the soldier’s fame. Henry Coyle, in N Y Sun.
A reflective verse excerpt contrasts autumnal forests and a sunlit sky with religious imagery. The selection from the New York Observer invokes spiritual themes as the season of change is traced through nature. Included quotes from other papers note moonshine customs and a joke about a forehanded player.
A collage of 19th century ads and quips includes Hall's Catarrh Cure promising a $100 reward for incurable catarrh, theater listings at McVicker's in Chicago with William H. Crane, and humorous snippets from period publications about editors, rope escapes, and Prohibition-era style humor.
Lillions of House keepers report daily tests showing Royal Baking Powder goes further makes lighter sweeter finer flavored purer and more wholesome food than any other and remains uniform in its work. Its great qualities drive its popularity with sales greater than all other cream of tartar baking powders combined.
A fragment shows a light exchange about photography lenses between Miss Gladys and Mr Chappie with playful banter. A quip about paying twenty dollars a dozen for handkerchiefs and a remark on silent partners of bad habits finish the clipping from the Galveston News and Columbia Spectator.
Jess Barker of Humboldt Kansas reports fifteen years of biliousness and constipation. After trying multiple preparations, August Flower offered a new lease on life and relief, with high praise for its merits for dyspepsia and biliousness.
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