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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1886
Page
4
A speaker recalls cold winds and hunger in a critique of social neglect. The lines condemn doors closed to the outcast and praise deeds of mercy. a tomb inscription from Beni Hassan extols a governor famed for feeding the needy and aiding the widow and the poor.
A quotation from Mrs. Beecher extols making home the priority over fame and power. It argues that cultivating a home teems with love truth thought and charity is nobler than public triumph. The piece questions whether public success can compare to guiding a family where husband and children rise and bless.
A Virginia clergyman laments mothers sacrificing themselves for children and urges gratitude to fathers. The piece also surveys Russian peasant life, detailing a crowded cave-like home, sparing meals of bor shtch, long workdays, tavern debates, and village governance guided by starosta and collective shouting.
In El Kab Upper Egypt tombs the rock walls carry statements from the deceased about life and virtue. One inscription praises family love and modesty, another portrays a prudent man who loved God and aided the poor, and a third vows not to be proud or quarrelsome.
A fragmented column blends a meditation on chess as life with moral sketches and vignettes. It contrasts death as an unfailing opponent in life with reflections on discipline, virtue, and kindness drawn from poems, fables, and historical musings.
Bobbie brags from a chair that Algernon’s head lacks grass proving his boast false. Maud asks in doubt what is not true as Howland notes the situation remains unknown in this fragment from the Detroit Free Press.
The narrator describes Druze neighbors performing outdoor chores and food preparation in a yard with mulberry trees. A daughter rejects religious change for her faith, another avoids Sabbath school, and the father participated in the 1860 massacre of Christians. Nearby women wash wheat on sunlit roofs, drying it on mats.
Attorney General Garland confesses lack of poker skill while Henry Clay is described as luckier. The piece recalls Clay hosting card parties at the Ashland home and notes a visitor once asked Mrs. Clay if poker shocked her. Her reply says he mostly wins.
A judgeless accident aboard the H M S Allat Road steamship at Port Hamilton occurred after target practice when a loaded Nordenfelt gun was triggered. Three boat crewmen were struck. two were killed and one fatally wounded.
Frederick N. Patner, former Brattleboro Postmaster under Polk, leaped from a Portland steamer with his four year old grandchild and drowned. He originated the first American tage stamp engraved for a postmaster’s personal use. The stamps predated government postage and Palmar stamps command high prices, with recent sales at $145 and past sales around $300.
Thomas A Stratton of Lincoln County Kansas observed Arbor Day by planting 11 000 trees with his own hands on his timber culture claim. The Russian moul berries were 2 years old and spaced four feet apart. He started at 6 am and finished at 6 pm with a noon rest. He is the inventor of a tree planter and operated the machine himself driving a team to place the trees.
Miss Champeraix, famed in London and Paris, recounts a strange New York experience. A woman brushed her cheek with a handkerchief and asked if the color was natural, a curious moment that contrasts with ancient Athenians’ tastes for new sensations.
Sweden now makes wood oil on a large scale from stumps roofs and timber-cutting refuse. Used in special lamps it provides very satisfactory light and is the cheapest illuminating oil available.
A prudent choice tests a moment of trust when an ostentatious friend seeks a loan. Weigh the personal bond against the financial risk, choosing either to help without endangering your finances or to protect your stability by declining.
A compact op ed noting disputes among medical professionals and the role of an undertaker in interpreting differing medical opinions. The piece reflects on ethical questions surrounding medical authority and palliative decisions.
A Buffalo Courier reader envisions a subterranean hotel under Niagara Falls on Goat Island with an observation piazza facing the falls. The design would tunnel beneath the channel, add iron pillars for support, and use late glass doors to keep visitors dry while enjoying the spray.
Descriptive tales cover the Yucca palm as a desert plant now used for papermaking by London Telegraph with Arizona plantation. Also notes on the Gila monster lizard venom and differences from snake poison, plus reflections on bullfights and early piano history with a Queen Elizabeth myth debunking.
An advertisement touts Honsteller's Stomach Bitters as the finest tonic and preventive health aid. It claims to invigorate the constitution, strengthen stomach function, improve liver and bowels, prevent fevers, purify blood, and aid nervous debility and despondency.
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