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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1886
Page
4
A religious verse segment contrasts the cross and crown theme, noting the crucifixion and redemptive crown of life. It extols enduring faith through suffering, ending with the idea that Christ’s cross and crown unite in the believer’s salvation.
A domestic instruction on boys removing hats when entering the house or in presence of ladies. It argues good manners come from habit and cannot be forced in a moment, urging consistent polite behavior at home with mother and guests.
The passage reflects on deep sorrow after losing a loved one. It cites Scripture and Paul to show universal human response to death. It notes the enduring nature of grief across ages and the shared impulse to grieve, surrender, and remember.
An Erie Dispatch reader recalls a 1833 Lake Erie incident where Capt. Gilman Appleby rescued his aunt from a sunken schooner. The woman survived five days in water amid crusted ice and food was a cracker with a raw onion. Her astonishment at rescue underlines a near-miraculous save.
A narrative line describes a man seized by a spiritual awakening as he wrestles with inner torment and homesick affection. He experiences hope, bursts into tears, and soon after, weakened by illness, dies while professing Christian faith.
A visitor describes Lake Loring as a two mile long rivulet choked with salmon so dense a man could walk dry shod across. Bears feed on the mass while others swim free. many fish strand or are swept back to the sea, leaving a stark scene of death on the rocks. In Britain Parliament a new millinery entrepreneur, Isaacson, is introduced as Mme Elise of Regent Street. Additional data shows Union army totals: United States 1,523,267. Germany 176,817. Ireland 144,231. British America 53,632. England 45,508. other foreigners 48,410. foreigners not designated 36,445. grand total 2,018,200 with 521,078 drafted.
Reported remark by P. T. Barxoo in a moment of confidence that if he lived longer and kept his energy he would appear in a side tent as one of the greatest curiosities Barnum ever handled.
A brief note from Ohio states a young girl is a skilled locksmith, described as quick and deft, earning attention for her abilities.
If clothes scorch during ironing place them in the sun to draw the heat and moisture from the fabric. The sunlight helps lift the scorch marks and restore lighter areas. Avoid further heat and wash as needed after drying.
The poem recounts King Hubert the Second summoning a nightingale to sing in gilded splendor. A herald announces the request but the nightingale remains silent, leaving the court in suspense as the day stretches on.
The 12 year old Mary Newton pressed a button to detonate 300000 pounds of explosives beneath Hell Gate reef nine acres of riverbed and blasted away dangerous reefs. Her father General Newton supervised the operation, while engineers had already torn down Hallett's Reef with 50000 pounds of dynamite nine years earlier. The dramatic blast, feared to trigger an earthquake, ended at least one major obstacle to safer East River navigation and became a famed tale of modern ingenuity and courage.
Tacitus born in Umbria likely between 51 and 54 AD during Nero's reign. He benefited from virtuous parents and a stable home. He studied in Rome under Quintilian and pursued law before rising in political circles under Vespasian and Titus. He later became associated with Agricola, whose life he later wrote.
A Reading Herald letter laments dust and cinders from open windows aboard trains. It proposes a gondola car with windows closed in summer, relegating window openers to a windowless car to protect others from dirt and wind.
A Washington County resident visits the Arkansaw Industrial University president seeking explanation after being called a crank. The president cites Carlyle and newspaper usage, describing crank as headlong loud dull and angry, or a fanatic. The visitor concludes the neighbor thinks he is not a boss.
The Boston Gazette recounts a town story where a young man visits his beloved who reveals she fell unconscious the evening he left, followed by a note that cremating a corpse in Paris now costs three dollars.
In a club, Major Kaifer scolds Frank for flaunting new clothes and a gilded lifestyle. He urges modest dress, thrift, and character over appearance, warning Frank that his wealth cannot sustain him without virtue as Col Swellbelt enters, altering the moment.
On a Fort Erie ferry a grave stranger narrates a Buffalo banker tale. A wealthy man tests a surveyor by lining Dominion shore trees so no two are farther apart. The lovers fail the test and the banker drowns. the sage declares the first and last trees are the furthest apart.
W A Carter writes to Nature asserting rats display extreme ferocity and cannibalism when hungry. He cites six rats eating three others during an Exhibition period and reports frequent loud squeals and floor sounds suggesting predatory raids on captive rodents.
A speaker asks a judge to help a friend obtain a barroom porter job. The man claims the friend can carry more liquor at once than almost anyone, making him a suitable choice for the position. The National Weekly is cited as the source of the anecdote.
Dialog notes two older female astronomers as old maids and jokes about the man in the moon. Free Congressmen attend circus in Washington and quip an ordinary circus would be a novelty to a Congress man.
Washington letter details Senator Bowen coaching Senator Kenna in poker. Kenna misreads his hand after drawing two queens and an ace, believing he has two pairs, while Dolph shows three aces. Bowen jokes that four queens beat three aces, ending the unlikely mentor pupil pairing.
In London Vice-Chancellor Bacon rules in favor of the Vogeler Company of Baltimore against H Churchill & Co of Brisbane. Churchill cannot register St Patricks Oil as a mark and must pay costs. This is Vogeler's second English trade mark victory in three years.
The piece argues Chattanooga should use a stem-winder road to higher ground a thousand villas up the froat plateau. Tramways would shuttle passengers to the mountain foot and create a day and night town with health and business resorts. Ancient Greece is cited for acropolis benefits as Red Star Cough Cure is advertised at twenty-five cents.
A Dakota resident Shaw reports relief after cancer treatment by Dr FL Pond. She claims the cancer tumors shrank rapidly and were eradicated, citing medical approval and urging others to seek Pond’s care. The article says hundreds of testimonials and free circu lars are available on request.
Grass cloth, a Chinese handkerchief fabric made from a nettle fiber, promises wider use. The fiber yields a glossy transparent, strong material, with beltings tested to bear 8326 psi versus leather at 4249 psi, suggesting growing adoption after trials by manufacturers.
A letter to a postmaster requests personal details on a man named Dillworth or Dill worth including occupation wages property wife age appearance and handwriting samples. The note emphasizes rapid disclosure and even hints at marital infidelity as a motive. A separate New Orleans Exposition accident reports engineer E R Joyt injured by a falling derrick-pole. three applications of St Jacobs Oil relieved swelling and pain.
A jocose farmer asks why his deceased grandmother is like a threshing machine. The wife seeks Mrs. Pikrust, resolves the riddle is dead grandmother and a mowerless threshing machine, and repeats the punchline with triumph.
A promotional pitch extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a restorative tonic that rekindles vitality in the weak and invalid. It claims improved appetite sleep flesh color digestion and blood nourishment with a safe vegetable composition.
In the Rochester Union echoing a Shakespearean exchange Cassius accuses Brutus of vanity and corruption. Brutus deflects noting Brutus has grown eloquent while Cassius eyes his rival with a lean hungry scrutiny. The fragment frames a power struggle among conspirators in Rome.
A Kansas City Squib mocks the idea that rural marriage to farming life matches the ideal. It contrasts a city girl’s fond dream of becoming a farmer’s wife with the messy, hard realities of a month on a farm, including missing wood, splinters for cooking, and chores in wet clover.
The Rochester American Rural Home offers 150 Cloth Bound Dollar Volumes as premiums for every $1 subscription to the weekly 48-column, 16-year-old publication. The volumes are 5x7 inches, 300 to 800 pages, bound in cloth.
A quirky note mentions croquet and tennis stirring quarrels and racket in a Boston Commercial line. It also references Cure will eradicate malaria poisons and a Srovux Indian near Alexandria studying a tobacco sign. It adds a line about Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers coloring gray or sandy beards brown or black.
Dr Robert Newton former president of the Eclectic College in New York and former Cincinnati physician endorses Dr Hall’s Balsam as a sovereign lung remedy. He states it cures consumption and all pectoral complaints and should be widely prescribed by physicians. He cites living patients restored to health by the medicine.
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