19 Nov 1885
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1885
Page
1
The speaker narrates a shift from a solitary existence to a renewal of joy when spring awakens the world. Light brightens the earth and sky, swallows sing, and vines bloom as immortal love revives in the soul.
Dr Hackemup plots a Card and Whey cure at Small Pox Creek with the Quidnunes Unquenchable Anatomical Cicatrizing Clinical Society. He and Juliana Keziah drive to Hawkinsville and Washington seeking funds while dodging critics and dodgy leeches.
A miscellany of advice and anecdotes on women beauty habits and shopping scenes. Includes a Demorest's Monthly note on charcoal cures, a humorous street-store bracelet episode, and musings on fashion, horses, and social behavior.
Describes Belgian farm families eking out 50 to 65 cents daily with lace work and field toil while children gather herbs. Includes Grant’s postwar remark “Let us have peace” after a royal review, contrasting war’s horrors with his wish for tranquility.
A druggist completes a prescription while a tense customer paces and taps the counter. The man warns of poison in the bottle but asserts the tincture of opium was not needed. The customer then reveals the medicine was for a neighbor and departs without protest.
A customer accuses a seller of swindling over a young chicken said to be tender. A young woman boasts she is just 16 and claims she raised the chicken, implying it is older than she is.
A provocative 19th century critique argues that women, labeled amazons, ride badly due to lack of practice and social constraints. It contrasts male riding freedom with women needing expert instruction, specialized gear, and multiple attendants, framing gender in athletic skill and social opportunity.
A Mr. Z. B. Claxton near town reports his child, just over two, recovered from violent fits after starting tobacco at three months old. The baby eagerly chewed and swallowed tobacco, fattening as medical aid failed, and now refuses the weed, leading the father to claim a complete cure by tobacco use.
In Texas Siftings style Parson Surplus Eel of Dallas encounters Horace B. Yammer a confirmed inebriate. The clergyman urges quitting drinking and reform Yammer questions timing and admits reluctance saying it is too late yet the parson insists it is never too late to mend.
The old man is described as frugal and abstemious, preferring warmth and dry feet, yet he spends more on doctors than any other in town. He sings "I would not live always" and buys patent medicine, with money not promised to be returned. Sidney (D.) Old Man.
A brief exchange in which Mrs Bluff and her husband speculate about a new boarder across the way. The husband admits he knows nothing definite but notes the man’s singing of a religious song, implying he is single.
A social young man, ignorant of history, is teased after a dinner party when a companion asks about the Knights of the Bath. He finally falters and quips that they are “Saturday nights,” prompting amusement from the Buffalo Courier.
Excerpted dialogue shows a tense exchange where Ethel asks how to express a negative without saying wont. The fragment hints at broader Life magazine conversation about pauses and suitable linking words amidst many voices and interruptions.
The text links Arabian ideas of transmutation and the philosopher's stone to Chinese mercury lore. It notes mercury as central to alchemy, its use in medicine, and historical deaths from overdose. Chinese texts claim long ages for metal transformation and the vapor of harmony to reach gold.
A street car moment shows Seabold fleeing after a divorce remark as an old acquaintance laments the split. Two years later the same person meets Seabold and again comments on the divorce with lingering regret. Lowen says a large European order will be placed annually.
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