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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1885
Page
9
A reflective piece laments vain regrets and the ache of what might be remembered later as a missed chance. The author muses on memory, time, and the weight of choices that linger beyond youth.
A fairy creates a reed house for a boy who disobeys and consumes it. A generous day yields a diamond house for a maid, seized by thieves. The boy and maiden drift on a river of tears for years, rumours say they still float there.
A long passage about Carl Linnaeus born May 23 1707 in Rashult Sweden son of Nils Linnaeus pastor. His boyhood idleness gave way to mentorship by Dr. Rothman and Olaus Celsius leading to travel study and eventual fame as a botanist and naturalist through Upsala and beyond.
The article describes the life and character of a notable naturalist known as the North Star among friends. It praises his faith, kindness to the poor, thrift, regular habits, and strong working energy. He was buried in Upsala Cathedral with royal honors and a funeral oration by the King.
Kosciusko Murphy flirts with Birdie McGee over earrings. Birdie jokes about ear piercing and reveals she has already had it done nightly for three weeks, prompting Kosciusko to retreat in embarrassment. The exchange ends with a fading exit and a widening rift between the two.
In New York a traveler notes the thriving city and a hotel stay costing five dollars a day. A head waiter engages with him, seats him, and asks about the meals. The guest praises the dinner, realizing honesty might provoke him to shut the house if dissatisfied.
A Boston Courier snippet reports a mis Susser conversation on market timing and butter quotes. It also recalls a Worcester doctor tending a boy with diphtheria threatening improvement after a readable prescription. An Indian proverb asserts women are wrong more often than men.
A young woman in a grammar exam answered why the noun bachelor is singular with a playful remark. She said, in a quick retort, that it is very singular because they do not get married.
The narrative recalls Congress awaiting news as battle dispatches arrive. Senators Chandler Wade Richardson Logan Gurney Morris and Riddle return safely. The piece portrays chaotic retreat at Centerville and Libby Prison’s captivity, with vivid accounts of panicked soldiers and fleeing baggage wagons.
An inquisitive man, a stranger, questions locals about their wealth and life. He probes whether silver is real, bank funds, debts, worth, and even whisky profits. The exchange ends with the revelation that the visitor was the assessor from Bloominton Eye.
A Detroit Free Press snippet recounts a customer rejecting vanilla ice cream saying it tasted like kerosene. The parlor owner apologizes explains vanilla ran out and offers half price, joking it might cure sore throat.
A humorous Chicago City Council anecdote features Diogenes searching for an honest man, Socrates noting his tough demeanor, and Diogenes lamenting empty pockets and a missing lantern while praising Zeus for keeping his girdle, as reported by Chicago News.
A Georgia woman milking her first cow, a husband’s gift, mistook the left side near the road. A rider advised she was on the wrong side, but she quipped that the cow was raised by a left headed woman. The exchange appeared in the Boston Journal.
A fragment claims a single foreign warship could seize New York, netting enough cash to rival a kingdom and leaving $5,000,000,000 in property at stake. The tone suggests a dramatic threat to Gotham’s vaults and city assets.
Veteran actor Joseph K. Rowe recalls a wartime acting experience in Pittsburgh where a stage flag tearing scene sparked gunfire and mobbed contention. Henderson produced a war piece the Storming of Fort Fisher, and Rowe refused to perform the scene, prompting changes and audience acceptance of concessions.
A Merchant Traveler quotation by Mrs. Brown compares people to watch balance wheels, noting that without guidance a capable man or wife loses usefulness and tends toward decay. Women are similar though less prone, and the author hints at a grim fate after death.
A London Truth letter argues dress codes are social convention not rule of nature. The writer notes differences such as exposed legs in the West and waist bands elsewhere, claiming travelers adapt and question why a lady would attend exhibitions if not inclined to dress to local norms.
In a New Hampshire town a young men’s club with handsome rooms and poker faded as a counter club for married and engaged women grew. Meeting twice weekly with cards and a simple supper, it became the town’s most popular group, and within two years its membership tripled while the other club faded, per the Boston Record.
A 10 cent stamp offer for a large illustrated treatise on nervous debility memory loss and early aging attributed to bad habits. Address Woumg's Dis Pensary Medical Association 663 Main Street Buffalo NY.
A fragment reflects Afghan custom where travelers and officials greet each other with reciprocal wishes of vitality prosperity and continued well being as one visitor departs and another arrives at a home.
An English paper cautions for those with heart disease to avoid hasty effort to catch trains. It cites a 20 year old clerk found dead after hurrying to a railway carriage and a Brixton signalman who collapsed pulling levers. A 16 year old girl died after gymnasium exertion. The piece argues urgent warning to patients about fatal syncope from sudden exertion.
An English Illustrated Magazine vignette portrays a ragamuffin child who accepts poverty as the Lord's will. He contrasts wealth and beauty with his family's hardship, noting domestic abuse and lack of basic needs while the well-off are seen as favored by Providence.
Mr. G. E. Bryan of 151 Putnam Street Cleveland says Red Star Cough Care fully treats his family's coughs and colds. He notes the medicine contains no morphia or opium and avoids depressing effects.
A Boston Courier excerpt shows a shopkeeper abandoning Ingersoll's doctrine after losing customers and deciding to join a church. He plans to hire a pew to show his conversion, while the other merchant comments on the shift in belief.
A quip attributed to the Croodlyn Eagle notes the serious issue of wealth and scarcity. The Boston Post contrasts handling wealth with the challenge of living without funds, highlighting the social dilemma.
A period piece cites Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy claiming quick relief from dizziness indigestion eye inflammation headaches fatigue and nasal discharge. It also references Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for consumption in early stages and parodies weather profits from German thermometer makers.
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