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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1886
Page
6
Advertising rates listed per line for first and additional insertions with weekly changes. Postal handling notes indicate post office entry in Ames as Second Class Mail Matter with pricing for 500 and 1200 line contracts.
Ames is located at the junction of the Chicago and North Western Railroad and the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road thirty miles north of Des Moines. It is the seat of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with a well funded public school and substantial surrounding farming lands.
Fragmentary OCR shows names and titles for city offices and council members including Mayor Recorder Treasurer Marshal and street commissioners. The legible items name E R Chamberlain C E Haverry L Van Dusen G H Maxwell H Westerman A Perkins and others in a council context.
Sunday services listed but incomplete details show morning and evening gatherings. Prayer meeting is stated for Wednesday at 7 30 with a pastor H J Everly.
Sunday morning service alternates with Sunday evening, Wednesday prayer meeting at 7, Pastor H. W. Wilson presiding. Services are announced for regular weekly worship and midweek gathering.
Congregational church announces Sunday morning service at 10 45 and evening at 7 30. Sunday school follows the morning service. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7 30. Pastor B C Moulton.
The poem lauds a creator who paints strange figures on porcelain and glass items. It celebrates her talent for vivid, fanciful designs from lilies and jacquard motifs to dragons, reptiles, and odd birds, urging brighter subjects beyond squirming creatures. The stanza blends praise with a challenge to shift to pleasanter themes.
An epic romance unfolds on the New Jersey coast as John Standon pledges eternal fidelity to Lita though she loves another man, Richard Earnest. In battle, Standon dies shielding Earnest, confessing undying love, while Lita confronts a tragedy of broken vows and fate. A Maine girl tale follows a vow to marry after three years, ending with a second happiness when the original lover returns rich from China.
The piece argues that Delsarte’s scheme ignores natural dramatic expression and individual genius. It claims universal language lies in gesture, not trained elocution, citing Cooke the actor as a counterexample, and asserts tradition should not limit innovation on the stage.
A writer argues many English market transparent soaps are glycerine free and sugar is substituted to imitate it, criticizing unfair writers who mix ignorance with malice and burden readers with extra work.
A mixed column of light verse and social sketches notes mothers and maids from Kennington to Onion Creek. It includes playful lines about Sweet Anne and Hartford Times figures, plus a chatty anecdote from Mrs. Simmons about ranch life and constant chores from cattle to children.
A society young man at a dinner party is questioned about the Knights of the Bath. He misreads the topic and blurts out with a joke claiming they are “Saturday nights,” illustrating his ignorance of history in a humorous exchange reported by the Buffalo Courier.
A Westbound train scene shows a young wife recounting her marriage to a Board of Trade man who is actually a janitor in Chicago. The Chicago Herald ad offers divorce services. A New York theater tale follows, detailing a stage wife choosing independence over wealth and examining female individuality and self-reliance across society.
In a close knit village every resident knows the others and individuals emerge as one or two prominent leaders. The piece reflects on how such leading men are selected and perceived within the settlement.
A historical quotation notes the paradox of self knowledge and future potential attributed to Shakespeare. The line contemplates identity and possibility without specifying a source or context.
A composite column recalls a young preacher in a suburban church who struggled to lead services and relied on a deacon for prompts. It also recounts Civil War era scenes, including Porter’s balloon ride and Tyler's restored clerks, then shifts to a touching aid story of an Italian family helped at a railway station.
A Utica Observer correspondent recalls a meek man at Sheepshead Bay racecourse who, after mis judging a sandwich price, apologizes for overpaying and offers 10 cents to cover the damage. The scene ends with the man retreating from the hawker’s stern glare as a Alabama iron ore report notes a price of 12 dollars per ton with claimed 8 percent profit.
S. S. Cox notes widespread use of square American tin oil cans in Turkey and the archipelago. He cites imitations of Russian oil and praises the can as a versatile vessel for water, mortar mix, irrigation, and humble repairs from hillside to palace road.
A New York aunt asks her Boston niece to read the thermometer. The girl reports seventy degrees Fahrenheit, prompting the aunt to compare the mercury height and remark on the occasion as described in Life.
A reflective line on how some fail to value great things they hold and instead cultivate envy in others. The mood suggests moral lessons about appreciation versus covetousness.
In a prison tale an abbe helps De Makeshift escape by converting shirt scraps into a ladder with improvised hooks. A later American realism passage follows Samuel, a shy man moved by a girl’s giggle, tracing a hesitant romance and unspoken longing.
A mother teaches an infant daughter a short prayer ending with Forget me not Lord. The flower’s name prompts reflection on memory and faith as the mother hopes the child learns the habit of prayer amid a calm, domestic scene.
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