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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1880
Page
4
Senator Conkling argues in Cincinnati for preserving tariff unity and national policy over sectional pressures. He blasts southern influence in trade and currency policy while praising northern industry and investment, urging support for a strong federal approach to reconstruction and finance.
Nasby rants on Indiana Ohio elections at Cross Roads meeting in Kentucky with gloom over Confederate flags draped around and a somber mood. He lampoons the Democratic party and mocks political figures while narrating campaign fallout and rural distress amid postwar political chaos.
The speaker laments poverty and isolation in a shadowed valley. They plead for help, noting ruined shivelry and missing post offices, and express shame at begging as they feel trapped with no way to rise out.
After a tense gathering at Bascom's, the group debates liquor and money, then proposes fines on the Republikens and an offis bid. The speaker claims defeating the Republikin party is the quickest path to ending the current corruption as several men echo the plan.
A speaker denounces Democrats for secession and wartime actions while praising Republicans for preserving the Union, funding bonds, and rebuilding the nation. The address contrasts party legacies, urging voters to trust the GOP and reject the Democrats based on twenty years of policy.
A colonial-era piece describes restrictions on Jews in Morocco with ghetto terms and legal limitations. It also profiles Lucy Roper of Princeton Massachusetts, sharing anecdotes of her age, kindness, and a visitor’s account of her life and home life.
The article notes rules requiring Mussulman recruits to wear a black fez and black slippers, forbidding red headgear or footwear. Bournous must be worn with the opening on the right, preventing use of the left arm.
The Rural World reports Superintendent E A Filley opened the cattle pavilion at the St. Louis Fair on the last day. Premium herds across breeds including Short Horns Herefords Holsteins Devons Ayrshires and Jerseys were marshalled for inspection by enthusiasts and judges alike.
An essay by N. S. Shaler discusses limits and hopes in meteorology. It reviews two major efforts in forecasting led by Admiralty in England and the US Signal Corps under General Myer, highlighting how weather history and movement enable better tracking but not precise prediction. It notes telegraph advances, forecasting challenges, and the question of predicting origin and timing of storms. The piece reflects on scientific progress and the inevitability of further discoveries.
A New York Dispatch tale recounts a well known divine who tests a hat price dispute with a store clerk. The clerk offers a costly beaver and a cheaper tile hat, while the parson considers whether the cheaper option suffices. The episode ends with a suggestion to take the more expensive hat, or accept the cheaper and pay the difference. Boston items note Pastor Savory and a Saint Jacobs Oil cure claim for sciatic pain in minutes.
The piece notes Richard Henry Stoddard once a diligent worker now famed as a controversial poet. A Hood acquaintance asks about his cough. he replies humorously that he has been practicing all night. A James River incident reports an eagle diving for a large fish and vanishing underwater.
Our state has won the high honor of nominating a President candidate at the late convention and now must begin electing the native. A druggist on March 7 adds a relief suggestion, praising Hamburg Drops for its noted efficacy and numerous testimonials.
Warm a bowl over boiling water and beat one cupful of butter with one and a half cupfuls of sugar until light. Add three eggs, then half a cupful of milk and half a teaspoonful of saleratus. Sift one and a half cupfuls cornstarch with one teaspoonful cream of tartar and fold in. Bake on two sheets. will keep a month.
Jennie June recounts a tale of a young girl who, inspired by a piece of straw embroidery, creates a full gown of silk netting worked with wheat, oats, and grasses using fine split straw.
An old treatment of oral medicines for kidney disease is condemned as inefficient. The correct method, absorption, is highlighted by the noted success of Day's Kidney Pad.
A letter from Rev. Iga AC N. AUGUSTIN praises Discovery for curing a daughter aged 18 once deemed incurable by doctors. A Nevada, Illinois audience is promised $690 in Hop Bitters prizes for the youngest child who says Hop Bitters clearly in any language before July 4, 1881.
An 19th century advertisement page offers free medical books on liver diseases and female health remedies from Lydia E. Pinkham and Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. It promotes J Monroe Taylor's Gold Medal Soda and Saleratus, Kerribie loss of life with Rough on Rats, Ague Conqueror for fever and ague, and other patent medicines with prices and purchase locations.
A page fragment showcases various old advertisements and notices. It includes humorous anecdotes about a widow delaying mourning rites for ham, plus tonics and soaps like Glenn’s Sulphur Soap and Hunt’s Remedy. Also advertised are dyes, boot aids, business colleges, axle grease, liver remedies, and war claim services.
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