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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1885
Page
4
A sentimental verse celebrates a nine year old girl born to light and joy. It compares her to a blooming summer flower and a cheerful child, with imagery of birds, a merry brook, and a playful household pet. The passage frames her birthday as a bright, festive moment in June.
In Oakville Bennie Browers and Susie face hardship as their mother stays sick and Teddie needs shoes. A wandering man drops a pocketbook with money, Bennie returns it to Mr Richards at the new grocery and earns a job and rent help. Susie believes the act proves fairies or a brownie exist.
A playful exchange on fifth avenue features a daughter asking if matches are made in heaven. The mother confirms good matches are made in heaven but notes her own match was made in a parlor. Papa adds parlor matches are no better than lucifer matches, a lighthearted remark from the New York Mail and Express.
Prof David Swing contrasts the modern girl with past constraints. He praises education liberty and equality as agents of progress for women, noting daughters can converse with parents and mature friends, while condemning terrorism and force as brutish relics in society.
The passage describes Corona's parlor in Corona's house with no pilaster or plastering, showing gray walls and dulled pearl ceiling, a rock gray floor, exposed beams, cherry mats and land scape wood cuts called views, a frieze of cardinal flowers, and furnishings in gray cotton flannel with cherry accents.
Col Perce Yerger's son Sam, unruly and defiant, is placed in the Austin grocery store of Sid Bluford, famed for severity. Bluford commands immediate attention whenever he claps, but Sammy quips that he will not respond until ready, defying his father's discipline and the grocer's authority.
Detroit Free Press notes a boy named Jack sent to Mrs Smith for vine gar but returns empty handed after a sharp rebuke. In a separate item San Francisco fishermen demand seals and sea lions leave the harbor citing 44 000 tons of fish consumed annually. The learning section touts memory exercise with a nod to common sense.
A disabled mother in a restrained chair longs for wider life but finds solace at home with her husband and children. She reads sweetness in small rituals, while the family comforts her, and a divine restatement affirms that what exists is right. The poem ends with gratitude for their small paradise.
A clerk and his country father sat with a telegraph operator and a reporter in a restaurant. The old man bowed his head to say grace as the waiter announced beefsteak codfish balls and bull heads. The scene drew quiet respect from all diners.
A sermonette notes that God values heart obedience over outward form. True submission pursues loving obedience rather than strict letter compliance. It compares human motherhood to divine guidance, arguing that obedience aligns with freedom and good welfare, inviting readers to accept the gentle yoke of Jesus.
The Swedenborgian Society held its twenty fifth annual meeting in Bloomsbury street London presided by Dr Stacker. Report shows 2132 volumes sold 2844 presented of Swedenborg works that year with 117 volumes given to libraries 325 to clergy and students. Cheap edition of Compendium published depots opened at Birmingham Glasgow and Manchester.
A fifty year old anecdote recalls a London dinner where a guest, amid dishonorable talk, whispered he was still a Christian and ordered his carriage to leave. The guest was Sir Robert Peel, later Prime Minister, noted for quiet courage in a laymen's gathering.
A collage of humorous snippets from various papers features puns about beamed ves sel mending, a bald head saving hair clips, cross eyed street encounters, satire on city life and hanging, jokes about honey moons and walking with corn, wordplay on biblical figures, prison escape quips, and a spring porch chat about paint. The items highlight lighthearted gloom and social quirks through dated newspaper humor.
A Detroit Free Press style quip contrasts petty theft with grand corporate plunder. It mocks moral outrage over bank theft versus alleged corruption by powerful figures, ending with a satirical moral about office fate.
The Thompsonian school founder Dr. Samuel Thompson outlines a cancer treatment using an extract from red clover blossoms with a caustic plaster applied to tumors and a red clover tea for the patient. The method, once claimed to cure many cancers, has not been recently discussed and warrants renewed testing given advances in distinguishing tumor types.
Demorest's Monthly notes Germany as the leading power in military and political influence. It cites Bismarck forming alliances, Berlin mediation in Congo trade, and Britain gaining no monopoly after a Berlin conference. The piece warns Germany’s strength could wane without Bismarck.
A patient visits an oculist about eye operations and jokes that his sight improved yet he cannot see any money in his bank. The doctor insists there is progress while the patient adds he once saw a “snug little sum” in the bank. Merchant Traveler.
Egyptian astronomers named the dog days for Sirius rising with the sun. The period brings extreme heat and sickness. Some reckon the span from July third to September eleventh, while in America it runs July twenty fifth to September fifth.
A Buffalo institution with eighteen physicians offers treatment for chronic diseases across many specialties. It claims success in nasal throat lung liver kidney digestive bladder women blood skin rheumatism neuralgia debility paralysis epilepsy and sexual disorders with guarantees for rupture piles varicocele hydrocele and strictures after a short stay. An Invalids' Guide Book is available for 10 cents with full particulars.
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