16 Oct 1890
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1890
Page
1
The piece surveys lobbying trends in Washington as tobacco and liquor revenue rise in early fiscal months. It cites Kansas mortgage patterns as homes falter and notes readers' concerns about health fashions and old age care. The report also covers Irish leaders Dillon and O Brien, judge Thayer on Tolstoy, and the Kreutzer Sonata controversy.
The article notes America leads in Indian corn and Europe faces a weak potato harvest amid overall grain shortages. It argues world wheat reserves will be drawn down until 1891 harvests ripen, keeping grain prices high unless markets are manipulated.
The year 1899 yields record feats across sea travel, power, engines, and sport. Teutonic sailed Europe to America in 5 days 19 hours 5 minutes, electric light reached 2,000,000 candle power on Jutland, and the largest Corliss engine was built for Homestead Steel. Philippa Fawcett set a Cambridge senior wrangler record, and Dalton swam sixty miles from Folkestone in 22 hours 28 minutes. Gus Moffert lowered the American championship swim record to 29 minutes 39 25 seconds. Delaware swimmer D M Barringer swam twenty miles in 9 hours 15 minutes, and racing mares saw most records fall amid crowding feats in horse events.
The Illinois Central Railroad announces three excursions to destinations in Mississippi Louisiana and nearby states on September 9 23 and October 14. A round trip fare applies with tickets valid for 30 days. M Branch will sell for the evening trains the day before. For an excursion circular or guides address Manchester Iowa. J F Merry assistant general passenger agent.
A reflection on finding a soulmate and lifelong friendship lasting beyond mere familiarity. The piece notes Dion Boucicault as a great playwright with a critical view of his treatment of his wife. It then discusses a French railway using compressed air motive power and a New York inventor’s self filling compressor on the car.
The passage hints at a dramatic allegation about a dynamite plot involving Michael and a plan to strike in Trafalgar Square and London Railway. It references government discredit and the Salisbury administration as historically weak or strong, but the meaning remains uncertain.
A commentator argues that after abolition, the treatment of political prisoners to Siberia remains civilization's worst stain. The remark contrasts American progress with harsh punitive exile abroad.
Historical advertisement listing various patent medicines and tonics. Names include Shiloh’s Cure Westerman & Arnold Dr Winchell’s Teething Syrup Salty Uncle Sam’s Condition Powder Uncle Sam’s Nerve and Bone Liniment and other tonics. Prices 10 and 75 cents per bottle.
A critical account of conscripts known as Tommy Atkins describing harsh diet shortages clothing and discipline in the British army. It notes recruits joining amid poverty faced with poor pay and meager provisions and recalls harsh conditions aboard troop ships. It includes stray advertisements for patent medicines.
The Best Salve in the world claims to raise sores ulcers salt fever sores tetter chilblains corns and all skin conditions and cures piles with satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box and available from druggists and general stores.
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