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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1879
Page
6
A Universalist church is being built at Cedar Falls. The region reports a series of local incidents including a fatal drowning in the Mississippi and a large city fire in Carroll with extensive losses and church damage.
The report notes new yellow fever cases in Memphis and deaths from the disease, a major fire in Gloucester Mass damaging priority buildings, and multiple urban incidents. It also covers stock, rail, and corporate news including a California bank capital reduction, Northern Pacific leadership changes, and grain market shifts.
A broad crime round up reports sensational cases from North America to Europe. Sentences include seven years for Rameal's attempt to blow a steamer, hangings for Chester Munroe and Marcus Whitley, and multiple shootings across Ontario New Orleans and Wisconsin. The dispatch covers slave emancipation in Cuba, unrest in Ireland, and strategic moves in Europe and Asia with notes on grain crises and political tensions.
A fragment recounts a man mishearing singing as yells from neighbors and his distressed reaction. He reportedly calms himself by taking Dr. Batts Baby Syrup and sends an odd gift to a Mrs. 8, with compliments.
A father narrator claims a tonic named Hop Bitter has rejuvenated him. He says he is 72 but feels as active as a man of thirty and urges trying the remedy, recounting years of dull inactivity and dependence prior to the remedy.
A discussion critiques fiat money arguing a paper currency that does not promise value gains only from debt-cancellation power. It warns unlimited issue would erase value, compares to scarce, lawful tender, and notes public distrust if debts cannot be redeemed.
The piece critiques 19th and early 20th century Democratic shifts toward central power. It argues Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812 show the party abandoned strict construction and state rights, praising and lampooning those actions as inconsistent with true democracy and federalism.
A missionary wife in New York describes India’s extreme heat. She portrays daily winds, scorching sun, cracked earth, dust filled air, and overheated indoors. Relief comes only from a punkah fan. sleeping is brutal in the heat. She longs for cool air and sea breezes of Newport or the coast.
The article notes a 26 inch Washington telescope and a 30 inch instrument by Grubb in Dublin with an estimated $32,000 price and about 40 foot focal length. It also describes the Paris Observatory’s new museum displaying Mercator’s globes, historical instruments, standard measures, and artifacts linked to Cassini and Arago.
Ex Secretary of the State of New York Mr G Hilton Scribner argues for a cyclical earth change drove by the axis, causing long winters and summers of 11 years and shifting ocean levels. He links a southward center of gravity, ice buildup at the poles, and widespread land submergence to a dramatic planetary transformation.
Excavations in a water works shaft twenty eight feet deep uncovered a six by four foot bed six to ten inches thick containing clams and oyster shells and decayed fragments. Geologists estimate the site as a rare ancient clambake likely dating back several millennia and possibly the oldest such bed found.
A quirky 19th century notice recalls one man who advertised for a lost umbrella, reflecting an unusual trust in others and the communal bonds of the era.
A brief recipe fragment lists ingredients for a cake: sugar flour butter milk soda tartar and eggs. It resembles a home kitchen note with measurements and cooking terms.
A witness reports a confusing exchange about wet goods and mixing with water. The remark suggests potential improprieties in handling or labeling during a business incident.
The October Scribner recounts Leadville land turmoil where squatters pressed for seized cabins, police moved property, and violence followed. It notes illegitimate claims, rapid price swings, and eventual market correction as Leadville’s boom collapsed, hinting at a population peak and future price declines.
A critique of how newspapers, especially French sources, attract readers with dramatic war tales. The author ridicules exaggerated Waterloo and Napoleonic anecdotes as unreliable myths and cautions against letting patriotism cloud judgment in reporting military events.
A short biographical sketch recalls Felicia Hemans at age seven reading Shakespeare in an apple tree and dreaming by moonlit halls and the sea. She learned little formal schooling, favored desultory study, and published a verse volume at fourteen after early poetical inclinations.
The remark notes that while talk favors ploughing the water, hose usage is commonly employed. It contrasts agricultural rhetoric with practical irrigation methods observed in practice.
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