Ames Station Featured in Regional Mail Notice
At the Ames post office Second Class Mail is noted. The town lies at the Chicago and North Western Railroad junction with the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road about thirty five miles north of Des Moines. It hosts Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with many students and a public school.
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Ames
Chicago and North- Western Railroad
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Iowe
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Church Service Times and Pastors Across Denominations
Methodist Episcopal lists Sunday morning and evening services with Sunday School at noon and Wednesday prayer meeting at 7:30 led by Pastor Everly. Baptist shows Sunday and alternate Sunday evenings with noon school and Wednesday prayer at 7 led by Pastor Wilson. Congregational notes Sunday services at 10 45 and 7 30 with Sunday School after the morning service and Wednesday prayer at 7 30 led by Pastor Moulton.
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Methodist Episcopal
H. J. Everly
Baptist
Ervices
H. W. Wilson
Congregational
E.C. Moulton
The Fireflies’ Dance at Moonlit Riverside
A verse recalling a moonlit night by the river in which fireflies gather for a magical ball. Fairy dancers wear gauzy garb, illuminated by dew, as water-lilies perfume the air and crickets and frogs provide the woodland concert until daybreak. Doston Transcript.
Bruce Collins Tramp Hero Saves Florence Vernon
Bruce Collins a penniless drifter helps Florence Vernon from a wreck after stowing away on a freight train. He rescues her from burning wreckage at a river bend and later marries Florence as the Western World editor, his benefactor, looks on with growing admiration.
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Judge Vernon
Bruce
Western World
Bruce Collins
Florence Vernon
Deserter Turpin's Death Sentence in Civil War Louisiana
The piece recalls military justice in the Civil War, detailing the execution of a deserter named Private Charles Turpin in Louisiana after a court martial. It contrasts wartime mercy shown by Lincoln with harsh penalties, and notes Turpin’s cowardice at Bisland followed by a later failed chance for reform.
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Port Hudson
Turpin
Baton Rouge
Port Huron
Banks
Urpin
New Orleans
Parish
Vicksburg Cotton Press
Co. B. Thomas
Charles Turpin
Earthquake City Charleston Hears War Echoes
A veteran recalls Charleston South Carolina known as Earthquake City. He speaks of duty as a Southern soldier, brave men and women enduring terror, and the sorrow of his brother’s fate beside him in the sea city’s wartime trials.
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Charleston
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Loyal Old Agriculturist Sells Vegetables in 1861 Oath Scene
In 1861 General Patterson advances toward Winchester a veteran farmer comes to camp to sell produce. He is forced to take an oath and, misunderstanding the demand, angrily swears at Jeff Davis Floyd Lee and other rebels. He is deemed loyal and trustworthy as Union troops capture citizens seeking allegiance. A Fort Monroe scouting party debates what to do with a rattlesnake and a drunken soldier jokes about swearing it in. Nearby East Tennessee residents recount a skirmish involving Longstreet and Woolford and the destruction of an ash hopper.
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Winchester
Jeff Davis
Floyd
Lee
Fort Monroe
East Tennessee
Longstreet
Woolford
Question on gendered baby behavior and social responses
A fragmented letter questions why all boy babies are described as bouncing while girls are not and asks why gender differences persist. The writer opposes threats to remove a child, suggesting a buyout as an alternative, and mentions Waterloo Observers in a frustrated stream of thought.
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Texas
Dakota Beil
Lacy
Tommy
New York
Pittsburgh Chronicle
Brown
Fogg
Boston Transcript
Arteer
Massachewsitts
Morocco
Tammas
Arkansaw Traveler
Lemon juice praised as universal health tonic and remedy
The article from the People's Friend extols lemon juice as one of the best and safest drinks for all, curing and preventing illnesses from jaundice to scurvy. It cites multiple uses including dental whitening, skin care, fever relief, and even malaria experiments, with sailors using it daily.
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Rome
Handsome cabs driven by self-made London king of cabs
A London gossip notes the rise of a cab owner who started as a coster with a barrow, built a vast hansom business of about 130 cabs, and now runs two large yards. He charges 16 shillings daily, never credits, requires strict punctuality, takes one holiday a year, and maintains a teetotal, thrifty life. He rebuilt wealth after a property deal with the Board of Works and remains the second largest operator after Lord Shrewsbury's.
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London
Shrewsburys
Board of Works
Lord Shrewsbury
Brighton
London Exchange
Carl Petzels Philosophy on Domestic Bliss and Pride
The Sunday National quotes Carl P Etsel in a humorous phonetic piece about married life and pride. It warns that when funds are tight there is little help, but when wealth is abundant people may rely on themselves rather than on others.
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CARL P@ETZEL
Sunday National
Forts Sill and Supply Couple Wed by Telegraph
Cuard Surrs of Fort Supply and Miss Gussy Nason of Fort Sill were married by telegraph with a “fall ceremony” felt to be conducted by lightning. The couple were 200 miles apart at the time of the ceremony.
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Cuard Surrs
Fort Supply
Gussy Nason
Fort Sill
Gospel Hymns Piano Players Sought in Western Towns
Reader note on Sundays finds few pianists in Western mining towns. windows open music not welcome here. Strong implied social tension around public piano performances and Sunday afternoons.
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Grats
Curious Quotes and Jests From Old Newspapers
A collage of witticisms and cartoons from various papers includes lines on tight shoes causing corns, a thief as financier, courtship quirks, hunger root curiosities, playful banter in weddings, misreadings by students, and humorous exchanges between a tramp and a woman.
Copper Plating for Preservation and Brain Metallizing
A Frenchman proposed copper plating to preserve human bodies and create demonstrative facsimile casts. Broca’s method metallizes the brain by hardening the organ, silver nitrate immersion, exposure to sulphurized hydrogen, forming a metal sulfide, then electrotyping with a thin deposit. The brain is removed via a small hole, washed with lye, dried, and the shell filled with plaster.
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Broca
Paris
Musk Atoms Invisible Yet Detectable By Smell
The article explains that musk molecules are infinitesimally small and unseen by the eye, though the sense of smell can detect them. It notes that musk does not lose weight when dispersed and that a single drop of thyme oil mixed with sugar and alcohol can scent twenty five gallons of water.
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