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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1893
Page
3
Poem excerpt from Estelle Thomson in Home Magazine reflecting on maternal care and daily duties. The verses evoke a mother’s patience amid household needs and a child’s requests, highlighting family dynamics, affection, and the guiding role of maternal love.
Sibley Fairbanks returns to Glenburnie for Amelia Lorimer's past, Nora Lorimer fights to uncover the truth. Dick and Nora confront family secrets as Ida Fairbanks and Ninette await the homecoming.
Sibley Fairbanks reaches the Dalton region to attend his father’s funeral but is intercepted by Sheriff Martin Hastings. The warrant identifies him as a fugitive, forcing surrender and transport to New Orleans in custody. Cato and Ida’s family turmoil frames the dramatic arrest amid a tense farewell scene.
Rev. T DeWitt Talmage frames seaweed and ocean life as divine flora in a Brookly n Tabernacle sermon. He contrasts weeds with noble sea gardens and urges reformers to see street children as flowers not their squalor, citing rescuers and reformatories turning waifs into productive lives.
A shocked woman confronts a wax impression and a taunting letter as she weighs a brutal murder’s mystery. She fears a jealous killer may strike again while she contemplates action to help Mellie’s memory and await a suspect’s three day journey.
A preacher urges compassion for newsboys and poor youths, then pivots to praise of sea life and science. He cites Franklin, Vanderbilt, and Astor as proof that the downtrodden can rise, and extols hydrographers and algology as revelations of God’s works. He revels in underwater exploration and marine flora as divine creation.
The spirit of faith bids a man to cry earnestly and to wait patiently. It teaches that mercy rests in the Lord's hand and will be given in the Lord's time.
Long excerpt outlines Pauls argument in Romans five, detailing peace with God through faith, access to grace, rejoicing in tribulations, and the love of God poured out in Christ. It contrasts justification by faith with the resulting hope, endurance, and joy in God through Jesus Christ, referencing scholarly notes and biblical cross references.
A Kansas City man has a stepson ten years older. an Englishwoman cured somnambulism by sewing shut her night attire. In Vanlue a wife has buried six husbands and wed a seventh. A New York company refused life insurance. A St Louis capitalist hid 1735 dollars in a stove saving the next morning. The servant woke first and observed the fire burned the money to ashes.
The United States has the lowest percentage of blind people, and its population density rose from three per square mile in 1820 to twenty by 1890. It lists 242 life saving stations, 1 255 lighthouses and beacons, 32 light ships, 107 steam fog signals, 187 clockwork signals, 1 761 river lights, and 4 296 buoys. Postal volumes reach 20 million articles daily and 500 000 letters to the dead letter office annually.
Harper's Bazar offers a vivid view of Javanese fairgoers noting their stature skin tone and hair styles. Women wear calico skirts and blue tunics while men mostly go barefoot though some wear American shoes. Children are tiny and fed on bread and milk as mothers move with ease picking up objects with toes.
A stout countryman asks for a book with a story in it and selects the middle volume of a three decker. He offers a half crown but only buys the middle volume, saying the beginning and ending do not suit him. He pockets the book and departs. The anecdote is from Chambers Journal.
A man curses an elevator attendant as the car races past floors. The attendant refuses to reverse, then shoots the rider to the tenth floor and back, enforcing a blunt, vindictive justice. The incident ends with the attendant claiming victory in a brutal display.
A Chicago Record quip shows Mrs Rambo questioning Absalom about lodge hours. Absalom admits it’s about twelve, then confirms it takes three and a half hours to return home, noting lodge bodies move slowly as Mrs Rambo goes to bed upstairs.
An Inter Ocean snippet notes Ethel and Florence discussing a man named Much eash, with the line about being introduced yesterday morning on the tennis grounds. The exchange captures a social encounter and a mildly comic moment about a “mad dog” running by.
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