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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1886
Page
4
Poetic lines describe trees as fuller when pruned and rooted against tempests. The verse contrasts enduring scars with the forge of character, noting that hardship builds strength and stability like a strong cornice and sturdy care.
In Sunday School notes a reader warns against profitless discussions during Bible classes. The author urges focusing on teaching truth and contrasting it with error rather than prolonged arguments. The piece cites Spur on dealing with a crooked stick by laying a straight one beside it.
A reflection on how God shapes life like a painting with light and shade. The author urges control of voice and emotion, balancing restraint and expression to develop inner virtue, love, and compassion in all encounters.
The passage argues that extending Sunday labor would impoverish workers and harm the nation, imagining endless toil and societal ruin. It contrasts this view with Napoleon’s moment of reflection at Brienne, noting even emperors are moved by time and memory.
A excerpt notes the Sabbath sustains workers through hardship by offering spiritual freedom, family life, and self-respect. It argues worshippers, despite civil oppression, remain God’s freedmen, sharing sanctuary, song, and domestic harmony to renew vigor for daily duties.
A Chicago News humor piece extols the hairpin as a versatile tool for women, noting its use in securing hair, buttons, nails, and even opening locked items. It mocks the ingenuity and variety of daily hairpin applications with playful exaggeration.
A collection of short pieces includes a talking crow near Plainville Connecticut and Germantown Pennsylvania. A tale follows a turtle attempting to cross a road by digging and the advice of a dog. The moral thread centers on kindness and charity through a child named Madge helping a poor girl Jane and her mother with five cent pieces saved by readers.
A compact reading guide links letters A to L and beyond with biblical figures and places. It pairs each letter to a named person or site such as Esther Daniel Judges David Paul Acts John Sam Isaiah and others, summarizing writ passages and moral lessons in verse form.
The piece suggests judging a future wife by hand light tests and links finger gaps to miserliness or thrift. It advises selecting a husband by hand color for temperament and cites a young man in Athens Georgia claiming to live on 30 cents weekly as a comparative remark.
A mother’s weekly five cent allowance shapes four older children and a baby, with Madge the climber discovering a sugar dolly saved by old Tim and a stranger girl on the curb. The Vanderbilt anecdote follows, detailing a young Erie operative who advances through offers from Commodore Vanderbilt to become a top railroad freight executive.
A language desk reports English words increasingly entrying a French dictionary, narrowing remaining space for native terms. Editors weigh adding purges or stricter inclusion rules as usage shifts influence lexicon balance.
An anxious mother waking to a sleeping intruder uses a boiling fat plan to save her child and home. She pours scalding fat from a pan onto the man’s face, repeating until he is subdued. The deed haunts her, and the house later becomes a ruin said to be haunted by the boggart each year.
Governor Proctor Knott tells a tale of four Kentucky constituents in New York who visit A. T. Stewart. The party attends a theater, meets Stewart in his counting room, and gains access to his private box after an eloquent hablan from Col. Boone. Stewart personally escorts them and offers Kentucky bourbon and champagne.
A collage of comic exchanges and quips building on social foibles in New York society. Jests target vanity, drafts, misprints, and dating mishaps, with a running thread of sharp one-liners about love, wealth, and manners.
The conductor recalls breaking up card games on the Union Pacific after disputes. A notable Eastbound trip from Ogden featured a cigar box with a cockroach as the ante, betting on which lump sugar the roach would reach first. Over $700 changed hands, and the man with the box reportedly netted $1,500 in Frisco.
A humorous vignette features a burlesque actress asking if a dog bite below the knee will leave a noticeable scar and a doctor replying the visibility depends on her. The snippet also mentions Red Star Cure and Dr 8 K Cox in Washington D C with a twenty five cent price.
The passage extols St Jacobs Oil as a universal remedy for pain and suffering, claiming it conquers pain and urges households to supply the product as a great specific endorsed by many recovered users.
The article notes that English and French controls on hairpin manufacture ended in recent decades as the United States expands output. It details how specialized wire, reels, clamps, and multiple machines produce 120 pins per minute with nonstop operation to meet demand. The enamel step, baked in ovens, requires utmost cleanliness to avoid imperfections.
The advertisement claims Hostetter's Stomach Bitters shields all regional residents from malarial disease by fortifying digestion liver and bowels. It asserts irregular stomach liver and bowels worsen malaria and that Bitters aids digestion secretion and overall vigor to resist intermittent fevers and remittent malaria.
A Chicago minister's son travels to Montana hoping to find a business opening but returns broke without watch or chain. The exchange with his father reveals he found many chances yet lacked the right hand to seize them, asking for about 52 dollars.
AnExtract praises Dr. Jee's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Diver as effective cures for weak lungs and coughs with testimonials from Mrs Emily and others. The piece also promotes Buckwortham’s Dye for the whiskers as a permanent color and mentions an indirect tip about getting tea at a boarding house.
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