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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1885
Page
4
A fragment from the Courier Journal depicts a couple planning a secret meeting at Crab Orchard. They discuss lifelong love despite parental disapproval and vow happiness, imagining a future with a minister and reunion.
A philology themed cartoon caption in the Philadelphia Call features Mr Sitaylong Amarintha and Miss Amarintha discussing a dog. The punchline rests on the word tarrier implying the dog’s habit of delaying by staying out.
Mrs Spendall praises a beautiful costume at Bizarre's while Charles laments lack of money. Clara teases with a newly found unused check-book, hinting at a potential purchase and hidden funds. The dialogue captures social wit and shopping temptations in a brisk Boston Transcript tone.
The piece surveys regions like Kentucky Baltimore and Arabia noting that beauty in women correlates with celebrated horses and, in Jer sey, cows. It posits a link between a community’s animal quality and human beauty, asserting facts without explanation.
The piece extols a virtuous woman as a beacon in the home and traces how she calms disputes, aids family members, and embodies practical virtue. It then surveys eye colors as indicators of temper and character across nations and notable figures.
A silver pen excerpt extols a woman's duty, practicality, and household mastery. It praises frugality, punctual housekeeping, and moral influence on men, arguing true women shape character and deserve appreciation for their purity and devotion.
A Japan Mail article describes civil marriage as secular and notes religion plays no role. It highlights divorce among lower classes, wives seeking restitution of property, and growing court appeals. It urges reforms: equal morality for husbands, criminalizing concubinage, and maintenance for wives after separation.
A German Baptist sect known as the Dunkards or Brethren forms in Chicago with regular services. Originating in Schwartzenau Germany in 1705, they trace to eight neighbors who read the Bible together and chose Alexander Mack to baptize after a lot. The group spread to Marienborn Epstein and Holland then to Crefelt and America. They value Bible obedience, simple living, and charitable acts like a deaf Mennonite bishop who gave freely before his death.
The piece surveys diverse folk practices to prevent a ghost from returning home after death. It notes carrying the dying person outdoors, taboos on the house, and barricades at thresholds. It cites European and nonEuropean examples including India Greece Russia England and Siam with various haunting-avoidance tricks.
George Les argues American hotels set global standards driven by travel, land costs, display, and climate. He warns too-large scales burden comfort, noting solid foundations, accessible drainage, brick partitions, and the Palace in San Francisco as a monumental yet imposing example of continental plan and glass courtyards, with mixed appeal for travelers.
The article recalls February 1875 disclosures of a $120 000 lobby payoff with Col Irwin and Col Forney’s associate McFarland, notes Henry D Cooke and Jay Cooke’s financial impact, recounts Johnson era politics and the Freedmen's Bureau debate, and chronicles Gen Robert E Lee’s death in 1870 including his character and peaceful passing at Washington College after illness.
A Vienna physician is summoned to Cracow for ailing Moses Abrahamson who dies before arrival. The doctor demands 2000 florins and travels in winter but learns at the station that the patient died. He then aids local sick and learns Moses was alive among his patients. An oyster joke and Key West price note end the tale.
The Government of Andorra mixes Monarchy and Democracy with twenty four Consuls elected by the people and a history tied to the king of the French and the Bishop of Urgel. San Marino’s legislature is a Senate of sixty elected for life, an executive Council since 1847, two Capitan regents serve six months, and a foreign judge with fixed terms administers justice.
In a playful scene at Miss Lulu's sketches Philbrick compliments her artistry. Mrs Jarby and Philbrick banter over a garbled line about porous plaster causing a minor keying incident at the door of the store in Lyn Times.
A collection of technical hints covers marking rough castings with chalk and center punches, a harmless lactic acid glycerine soldering mix for tin cans, and critiques of Western Union telegraph rates. It also discusses rail car load efficiency, a gas explosion aboard the Inflexible and resulting safety measures, varnish coverage and storage, and notes on varnish performance with temperature changes.
The Chicago Times correspondent describes Henry Rochefort as popular yet ill at ease before crowds. He is brief, hesitant, and relies on writing for his journal, slipping out after a short speech to finish the next day’s article.
An old promotional piece casts Uric Acid as a monster causing boils, pimples, apseeses and piles and a range of illnesses. It touts Warner's Safe Cure as a blood purifier to expel the alleged toxin and warns of dire consequences if not treated.
The article surveys 19th century criminal anthropology findings from France Italy Germany on criminal physiognomy skulls and handedness. It cites Lacassagne Ferri Mano Hager Dallemagne Spika and others noting tall stature tattooing brain anomalies and orbit capacity as features linked to criminals and murderers.
Edmund Alion notes visits by Louis Kossuth in 1851 and King Kalākaua in 1874 to the United States. Congress held formal receptions, with crowded Senate and House events. Kossuth delivered a famous speech linking Rome and Congress. Kalākaua was the first reigning monarch to set foot on American shores, spurring wider hospitality to foreign dignitaries.
A dramatic exchange has the grocer declaring he will not be bulldozed and that no one calls him a coward. A friend comments that he has plenty of sand, praising his nerve in the moment.
Mrs Comwimes formerly Missie Parker funds a chapel at Lehig University in Pennsylvania with a projected cost of 250000 dollars.
A San Franciscan recounts a comic misunderstanding where a customer pockets a suspender button, mistakes it for a dime, and asks the barkeeper to sew it on. The incident ends with the displeased patron departing in anger as comments about pioneers surface. Separately, ads promote a medical elixir for dyspepsia and general debility, urging readers to send stamps for the book and reminding of a Reserve Secretary of the Interior note.
A brief humorous quip shows Little Tommy protesting while his hair is being combed. The barber replies that the issue is not the combing but that the hair is tied to the head, prompting a playful clash in a local-style exchange.
An antique poem extols Pierce's Pelleta pills claiming painless relief from agony and weakness. The verses compare the pills favorably to others and cheekily reference a bloated line about Chester and a plumber.
An old advertisement extols blood purification and nourishment with Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Walker’s California Vinegar Bitter, linking pure blood to health. It also promotes Youths' Companion magazine, claiming wide readership and special next week subscription offers.
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