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Ames Intelligencer in Ames, Iowa
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1887
Page
1
Ames Iowa an agricultural hub on rail line
Ames lies at the junction of the Chicago and North Western Railroad and the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road thirty six miles north of Des Moines. The town serves the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with a strong public school system and productive farming lands surrounding it.
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Ames
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Iowa
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Noted County Officials and A Lyrical Verse Fragment
The document lists county offices and officers such as County Auditor Henry Wilson Jr District Clerk Gro W Dyer County Attorney J A Mills Treasurer J M Ingram Recorder and Sheriff along with Superintendent of Schools Mitchell Surveyor Sie clos and an ending poem titled Only A Woman After All from the Boston Courier.
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C. G. McCarthy
Henry Wilson, Jr
W. Dyer
J. A. Mills
J. M. Ingram
Ae Se
Sherif Oe
Mitchell
vSerenen
Foraging in Baton Rouge After Battle
The narrator recalls bivouacking on Government grounds after the Baton Rouge battle. Company H of the Sixth Michigan forages near Magnolia Cemetery and the penitentiary, cooks beef and a pig in a deserted house, then decides to retreat as gunboats shell the area.
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Baton Rouge
Sixth Michigan
Magnolia Cemetery
Penitentiary
Corporal Joe Shaw
Joe
Mason the drunken fighter turned hero of Mission Ridge
A long anecdote recalls Captain Mason once a drinker and fighter in the Hickory Bayou. He was sentenced to be shot for striking an officer but escaped when Mission Ridge battle began, freeing him to lead a daring charge that secured the redoubt and broke a Confederate defense.
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Mason
Colonel Baker
Cairo
Iil
Hickory Bayou
Mission Ridge
Jet C. Davis
Realism versus idealism in modern art debate
A collection of quotes and excerpts reviews realism in art and literature. It contrasts skepticism and unbelief with the claim that realism degrades art. It cites Arlo Bates and others on how war and society shape artistic value and calls for noble aims over degraded realism.
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Charles the Second
Arlo Bates
Scribmer’s Monthly
My First Case by John Jasper
A young attorney recounts his early practice and a bold, mistaken identity crime scheme. Grace Northrup and Dr. Northrup enlist him to post bail for a counterfeiter, only to reveal a crafty ruse that flees to Europe as he pays a heavy price.
Death and Bravery at Brentwood and Spring Hill Battle Reminiscence
Eyewitness account recalls a prolonged camp near Brentwood Tennessee with less than two hundred Twenty second men. Confederate raids cut wires as Forrest’s cavalry pressed the Federal line and a Fernand of the Nineteenth Michigan faced heavy fire before surrender. A tale of Private John Morgan’s self inflicted wound and a court martial twist for Mason reveals courage, punishment, and promotion amid Civil War hardship.
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Coburn
Spring Hill
Twenty - Second
de Brentwood
Tennesssee
Pike
Ashville
Franklin
Nashlle
Granger
Kentucky
Curiaco Ledger
Forrest
Brentwood
Nashville
Garison
Aremant
Michigan
E. Bloodgood
John Morgan
Morgan
Johnny
Lake Michigan
H. McIorosna
Out but not down up to the people Arthur retort tale
A story recounts President Arthur replying to an Indiana man who misspoken. Near the end of his term the Hoosier said he was leaving. Arthur answered I presume you are getting ready to step down and out. Out, but not down. Up to the people.
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Greep
Boston Courier
Valgue
Canada
Somerville
Calcutta
Suir
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Smith
Brertie
Mr. de Garmo
de Garmé
Bertie
Ohio
Indiana
Newman
Henry
Amelia
der Floh
Hamilet
Ireland
Bridgey
Podner
Dakota Bell
Mr. Lacy
Ms. I
Hut
John Northrup
Papa
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Carlyle
Nature
Johnson
Coleridge
Boswell
Dibbin
Quincy
Heaven
Earth
Sterling
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mason
Arthur
Remembering the fallen and shared glory of the flag
A National Tribune correspondent notes comrades exaggerate personal glory for regiments in the Civil War. He recalls a Lookout Mountain soldier who, mortally wounded, urged to see the flag and said he helped lay it there. The column honors those who fell and emphasizes collective effort. J. B. Kowsn, Co. M Merrill's Horse, La Forrarsr, Kan.
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The
National Tribune
Lookout Mountain
J. B. Kowsn
M. Merrill
la Forrarsr
Kan
No Slate in That Saloon Seedy Party Exchange
Dialogue shows a saloon dispute where a patron demands whisky and the bartender insists on cash. The exchange ends with the patron expressing indignation and the bartender offering a payment rule rather than service.
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Puck
Ixsantes From Friends Fret and Gall More
Arbuthnot notes that lingering fretful memories of Ixsantes persist among friends and acquaintances, and the memory proves hard to erase as time passes.
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Ixsantes
Gall
Arbuthnot
Curious Insane Asylum Experiment Cited as Cure Attempt
In a New York asylum two patients with delusions were told the other was lunatic and tasked to watch over and protect him. Each patient, sure of the other's weakness, focused on duties outside themselves. Their vigilance and external focus reportedly contributed to recovery. The tale, initially viewed skeptically, circulates in scientific press.
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New York
Foote
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