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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1893
Page
9
European reports describe a wild pea variety, lathyrus sylvestris, as a hardy fodder plant that grows in any soil and yields twice the nutrition of alfalfa or red clover. After decades of breeding to remove cattle-harmful alkaloids, German agriculturists claim a major advance for domestic animals and note the Munich exposition gold medal awarded in June.
A critique of endurance and poverty arguing brutality and moral decline accompany excessive toil. The piece contrasts nobility and slum populations, cites Balzac, and asserts civilization rises when farming reduces backbreaking labor, freeing minds for innovation and betterment.
A Dutch classroom method enforces speaking a single language for a week, fines lapses, and auctions fines to fund the library. A student-turned-superintendent collects and returns funds, while rotation of languages spans months. The piece notes public land openings and Brazil news as distractions from national progress.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio. It asserts internal use with no mercury and claims to affect blood and mucous surfaces, urging buyers to obtain genuine products and testimonials, priced at 75 cents per bottle.
A miscellany of advertisements and notices including thief-proof watch claims, Castoria nostalgia for babies, Krause headache capsules, and Ripans Tabules cures. Mentions Ames drug company products, DeWitt’s remedies, political commentary on Cleveland and Wright, and various regional ads and travel notices.
A jumbled column notes products like Castoria and Parks Tea, mentions Eaton Hall rebuilding, a Washington cigar shop claim, and a Park’s Sure Cure. It cites Rand McNally atlas sales, Ripans Tabules, and Van Alen diplomacy comments. It also references Texas Governor Hogg and a Voorhees bill.
The advertisement list touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve curing piles burns sores ulcers and other ailments sold by Ames Drug Company. It also notes a race to run electric launches in the Grand Canyon area and mentions wedding principals in Covington Kentucky.
Advice on hiccough relief for children including cold water on the face and changing position. Warns hiccoughs may signal indigestion in kids and references parental blame. Also provides a recipe for Virginia Tea Cakes with butter sugar eggs lemon milk and baking powder and notes they are safe for children.
A guide to keeping sponges in good condition by drying after use. Wash out soap with warm water, rinse in cold, squeeze dry without wringing, and dry in sun in summer or with artificial heat in winter. Avoid closed damp storage and store on a hanging tray or wire basket near the bathtub.
Quarter and core 12 tart apples. Do not pare, cover with a gallon of water, bring to boiling point and cook without stirring for 20 minutes. Add a tumbler of quince jelly, strain through cheese cloth, add a pound of sugar, juice of 6 lemons and a pound of white grapes cut into halves. Serve in punch glasses. Very good.
A 19th century style advice column urges using common kitchen hard soap for oily hair with quick application and rinse. It cites a tested homemaker, an English maid and a lemon pulp root rub as affordable alternatives to costly products. The piece emphasizes simple, readily available remedies over expensive beautifiers.
A plan for an evening gathering uses paired cards with opposite adjectives such as sweet and sour. Each pair is given to a man and a woman to find their opposite. Gentlemen may introduce their male peers to three women and ladies may do the same for three men.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is praised as truthful and reasonable with endorsements that the financial world would accept. Hood Pills are advertised as curing liver ills constipation jaundice sick headache and indigestion. A political note states the Democratic plan to shift focus from the silver question via a House debate on repealing Federal election laws miscarried.
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