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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1886
Page
4
A village tale recalls Crazy Ben the kind giant whose blunt truth shapes a boy’s life Then a magpie soap theft and a kitten Trix rescue brighten a Philadelphia Call anecdote of whimsy and mercy A missionary story ends with Robert Maffat’s life inspiring readers to seek faith and service
A mother leads son Robert to Mr Caldwell for stories and tracts as a happy childhood fades into work and promise. The London Saturday Review describes Italian courtship, detailing a man pursuing a wife through neighborhood inquiries, interludes with an elder woman, and staged propriety before betrothal.
Grimsey Island hosts eighty eight residents including minister Peter Goodmansen a poet and astronomer who guides meteorological observations for Copenhagen. Few animals survive brutal winters and eggs from cliff nests provide livelihoods as workers descend the precipice with feathered suits and ropes to gather as many as 150 eggs in a single bag.
A boy named Jenny goes fishing without parental guidance. A neighbor asks if he caught anything yesterday. He replies that he did not catch anything until he got home.
Poem memory of a mother’s youth with a stitched sampler dated eighteen twenty three. Elizabeth Eliza aged ten is commemorated by red letters and blue true love stitching. The piece recalls school walks, afternoons at home, and the mother’s gentle character as her life work is viewed in hindsight.
A weary woman learns from a child to seek guidance in faith. The message speaks of turning toward God who shines light in darkness and walking in the light to find blessings, peace, and hope in suffering. The quotation from The Common People frames faith as a source of enduring light.
A long reflective passage extols manly virtue and respect in social rank, warns against flaunting superiority, and praises modest condescension. It shifts to a travelogue of King Ja Ja in Africa with vivid scenes of his compound, throne, and royal entourage. A separate vignette humorously sketches an exchange editor and cranky newspaper office types.
A vivid account from Headly's Alps and Rhine describes a unique public bath facility where patients endure ten hours daily in heated water. Men and women share a large bath shed, reading, eating, playing chess, and chatting while submerged up to the neck, with visitors watching from a gallery.
Mrs. Grundy jokes about her son’s return from study making him popular in society. Mrs. Teary notes the boy asks to stay away until perfect in English accent, adding he claims pronunciation is right but still has the catarrh. New York Mail and Express.
A nineteenth century essay recounts a tale from ancient China where courtiers veiled faces with deer skin. A prime minister, amid a cash shortage, decreed sacred deer skins could be used as currency, establishing an early form of bank notes circulated among the elite.
In Scotland on Saturdays worshipers head to small grocers in Sabbath clothes to buy peppermint lozenges. Shoppers pay with half-pennies for church use, while devout customers savor extra strong lozenges during services. The scene reflects a quirky local custom and the nation’s playful religious devotion.
A bright woman muses that society may abolish kissing within ten years to curb disease. Apemantus counters, calling kissing an elegant disease spreader, claiming ending it could save tiny fractions of lives, per a Toronto Globe excerpt.
In Vienna doctors are paid at the end of visits and may receive honoraria. A tailor’s child case led to smallpox in his house. The doctor was acquitted but the tailor was sentenced to ten days imprisonment for concealing the disease and taking work.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer letter argues wives should consult on all business, control household expenses, and receive a weekly allowance. It claims harmony and fewer divorces would follow from joint governance and tactful conduct by the wife. A temperance meeting joke notes a man spent about £100 to achieve a refined appearance.
A Georgia village shows a widow who becomes the depot agent after her husband’s death and a young girl who opPORTunely sacrifices youth for family. The tale contrasts heroism and fortitude, with reflections on love, duty, and sympathy.
An advert promises lasting relief for menstrual pain and irregularities through Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It claims to cure internal inflammation and ulceration and other disorders, offered at a reduced price of one dollar by druggists.
A prisoner insists he is not a vagrant and accuses a policeman of vengeance by misusing his oath. The officer counters that the man has been working honestly and taking money from citizens for copper. The exchange reflects tensions in local justice as cited by the Somerville Journal.
Mr E R Vinson of Grand Rapids reports the case of Mr H T Sheldon of Lansing Michigan who suffered a severe head cold for weeks and was cured by one bottle of Red Star Cough Cure.
A terse exchange unfolds on a depot platform with a quarrelsome man challenged by a calm stranger who refuses to move. The quiet man identifies himself as a base umpire amid verbal blows and heated taunts from the other speaker.
In a restaurant a guest complains about potatoes. The waiter explains staff disarray due to a marriage causing the chief ablirer to be replaced by the regular culinary optician. The exchange reflects humorous wordplay on kitchen roles.
Mr Cas F Powers postmaster in Terre Haute describes two prized chickens stricken with roup. He fed them bread moistened with St Jacobs Oil, then the next day found no signs of the illness.
In a humorous San Francisco Chronicle riff, a hungry couple enters a restaurant. The man points out pheasants on the bill of fare, then balks at the pricey dish and proposes coffee and pie instead, highlighting social pretensions and appetite.
The notice urges travelers leaving New York City to save baggage and carriage hire, stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot, and compares its rates to other first class hotels. It notes horse cars and stages to all depots and claims families can stay there for less money than at competing hotels.
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