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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1885
Page
2
A brief filing notes that correspondence was entered at the Ames post office as Second Class Mail Matter.
A meditation on gradual effort shaping life and knowledge. The verse links patient work to growth in nature, learning, and civilization, noting progress arises from repeated small acts. It closes with a maxim that doing one thing well builds enduring wisdom.
A Boston Cour ier fragment presents Miranda questioning Eliot about energy before a marriage proposal. It circles a refined home scene with detailed domestic handiwork and social observations on snuff chewing as a largely female habit.
A reflective account of life in Richmond at war’s end describes how residents obtained food despite depreciated currency. It notes widespread eating houses, street vendors, and the heavy demand from officers, refugees, and laborers, with prices cited in Confederate money and the contrast between various social groups.
Chauncey Walton, rich and gallant, lends his umbrella to a stranger on a rainy corner. Months later they meet again when she returns it and becomes his betrothed, as Clarice reveals Miss Mable Wright will marry Chauncey after a run of fateful rain and reunion.
The Atlanta Constitution notes that New York men drink and smoke heavily, causing a generation of diminutive, frail males by forty. Women who abstain remain robust, while many men fail to marry local partners, potentially reshaping the city's future population.
A Chicago note quotes a Georgia woman in Louisville on domestic management and social wiles. It contrasts loyalties and spites with playful dialogue about pies and chores, ending as a light moral vignette.
An article extols the Maxim gun weighing 65 pounds mounted on a light tripod that fires 600 rounds a minute with no crank. It highlights automatic firing, reliability, and recoil powered cycling. A separate quip about a lady attending church ends the piece.
A historical account details a Chinese kitchen where smoke exits via skylight and soot coats walls. The brick stove with a three foot iron spider cooks rice while straw fuels the fire. Food is cut and cooked in clay stoves over wood fire with no knives or forks. Tables fit eight, chop sticks and spoons accompany meals served from bowls.
A compact moral essay collection notes that true faith, effort, and generosity shape character. It contrasts envy with virtue, warns against relying on luck, and links toil, restraint, and conscience to lasting peace and moral greatness.
The Boston Globe recounts a tale from a horse railroad president about a stubborn conductor who refuses to stop for an old lady signaling from halfway down a block. The lady chides him for lack of courtesy, and he replies that he would not be a gentleman if he were working on that road.
A woman asked to draw ten dollars at a savings bank and received a pocket diary instead. The diary entry notes a July 13 call from Fred who visited but proposed nothing, and the woman leaves hastily after realizing a mix up.
An interview with Isken der Bey describes the sultan keeping about 500 Circassian wives and other nationalities in his harem. Wives are married off after a year to officers with a dowry under threat of punishment. A hotel guest jokes about a stitch from being hemmed in by a crowd.
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