06 Sep 1884
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1884
Page
1
The notice lists subscription options for the Ames Intelligencer: one copy for one year at ten dollars prepaid. one copy for six months prepaid. one copy for four months prepaid. Non prepaid price is two dollars per year and two dollars prepaid if mailed out of county.
The notice lists advertising rates per column inch and a yearly option, mentions post office entry as second class mail, and describes Ames location on the Chicago and North Western Railroad. It notes Ames near Des Moines, Iowa, with proximity to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanics Arts and surrounding productive farmland.
A jumbled listing of firms and professionals appears, naming attorneys bankers merchants mills tailors and trades in Ames. The fragmentary entry includes banks hotels clothing firms contractors carpenters and various suppliers with scattered names such as McCarthy Stevens Hays Underwood and Soper.
A fragmented poem depicts a bride in white draped in rain and a halo, enduring illness yet crowned by memory. The speaker contrasts happiness with pain as the bride remains surrounded by admirers and a guiding spirit rises to heaven.
The piece laments heart disease among laborers, describing a strong man worn by toil and the futility of urging regular living without addressing poverty. It references a Front Street case and warns heavy labor can end in ruin, then quotes J F T D Smythe on Washington and his controversial reputation and public image.
The piece argues education is an empirical art not a fixed science and cites Quincy Massachusetts as a model. It advocates object teaching with stereopticons, pictures, maps, and camera imagery to teach history and geography, reducing focus on grammar and memorized rules. It cites Chicago learning from Quincy and Adams Jr.
Philadelphia Press recounts a Billings joke about local geography. A lone traveler asks where Billings is and learns he is already in Billings, with Starr & Bullocks store located eighteen miles further along the left haul side of the avenue on the first corner.
A Boston Globe feature notes that diligent genealogists often uncover truths conflicting with aristocratic pretensions. An old Yankee quips that few can trace lineage two generations without trouble, hinting at the rough labor behind ancestral records.
A Philadelphia pastor preached on Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God and warned against praying for health while exposing people to sewer gas bad water and filthy streets in the same plea.
Prof. Forster recounted experiments by Prof. Lendstrom near 67 degrees north in Finland. A copper wire network atop two mountains 6000 feet high supposedly attracted and formed an aurora borealis over the region.
A fashionably shy sitter visits a fashionable artist for a portrait. They exchange awkward glances and the artist asks if he may sketch her despite her squint, noting a bashful grace that challenges both art and nature.
Demorest's Monthly notes a monumental structure rising along the Potomac in Washington. When finished it will stand about 555 feet tall, surpassing Cologne Cathedral by 43 feet, with a granite base and white marble cone. Foundations completed in 1880, dedication hoped for July 4, cost about 1.1 million dollars. Slabs from Greece Turkey China Siam and gifts from several states adorn the shaft.
The piece argues that clerical authority has shifted from office to the person. It notes people now question claims and seek the soul beneathRank and costume no longer grant power. the pastor must earn trust by solving today’s problems.
A young married couple in an open horse-car at the South end observe two old buildings marked with dates 1784 and 1752. They discuss the numbers as signs of age, mistaking the figures for precise ages rather than the years the houses were built.
Miss Susan Benison sued William Craig for breach of promise and won seven dollars and forty cents. James Johnson also sued for breach of promise claiming she rejected him after William Craig jilted her. The court set aside the verdict against Craig and Susan remains forlorn.
A jealous husband, Gen Bryce, suspects his wife’s affair with Jasper Masten. Marion Albrough reveals she has been engaged to Marsten, while Bryce and Marion use deception to protect each other, leading to a twist where Marsten is revealed as Bryce’s ally in disguise.
A Detroit Free Press column blends a Washington club query on fruit ripeness with a milk wagon altercation on Charlotte Avenue. Two drivers quarrel over a love triangle, a police officer mediates, and the tale ends with reflections on love and damages.
A tale from wartime Boston recalls The Advertiser printing a Sunday issue after a late Friday night news rush. Printers sold copies despite opposition, a manager refused payment, and a mock milk compensation negotiation ended with a handshake and a toast to happiness.
The Wisconsin capital features the State Historical Society the university and observatory plus Col Bill Vilas’s residence. The war eagle Old Abe, who followed the Eighth during the Civil War, is dead but stuffed and mounted in the capitol rotunda. While some myths grow he remains a handsome emblem of the era.
A French volume titled The Passion of Christ belongs to the Prince de Ligne family. It is neither written nor printed. every letter is cut from a leaf and interleaved with blue paper for legibility. The work shows remarkable labor and precision, with delicate execution and a cost estimated around 10,000 ducats, about 60,000 in modern value.
A western minister argued the press should include brief moral applications with crime reports. He opposed blank coverage and proposed temperance notes follow each misdeed to guide readers, rather than placing such reflections in editorials.
The Chicago Herald reports per capita coffee consumption is highest in Belgium, Norway, and the Netherlands, with the Netherlands individuals drinking about twice as much as others. In the United States coffee use trails tea roughly two to one and is growing faster, while coffee costs about half as much as tea.
A New York couple shared a romantic moment on a Long Branch evening when a humpbacked man peered through the window and demanded his paper backer, provoking a startled scene as the lovers clung to their vow of lasting love.
Translated by Boston Courier. Essays contrast happiness with passion and dignity with vulgarity. A note on love as unknown pursuit and women’s judgments, then a vivid account of lightning impact described as a tree imprint on corpses and backs.
In January 1852 the famous singer Adelina Patti appeared in Tremont Hall Chicago with Strakosch and wife Amelia, Ole Bull performing nearby. The cold night drew a six hundred strong audience as Patti, barely twelve, sang Home Sweet Home The Last Rose of Summer I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls Billy Grimes the Drover and Coming Through the Rye to enthusiastic praise marking her rise to fame in America.
The new postage stamps feature caricatures of Franklin on the one cent, Jackson on the two cent, Washington on the three cent, Garfield on the five cent, Lincoln on the six cent, Stanton on the seven cent, Jefferson on the ten cent, Clay on the twelve cent, Scott on the fifteen cent, Hamilton on the thirty cent, and Perry on the ninety cent.
The fragment notes a line about Hindoo fairy stories where villains are buried alive. It also features a quip about an actress who fears retirement and prefers constant travel, ending with a joke suggesting marrying a Methodist minister with no artifice in conference.
An Austin teacher asks Johnny what happened after the angel drove Adam and Eve from Eden. Johnny answers they had to eat bread to make them eat. The quip reflects a playful, local humor on biblical lore.
A fragmentary note from the Northviown Herald cites the London Truth urging journalists to denounce creeping influences and ignore dissenting voices. The piece hints at wage-related concerns among allies and calls for reform in editorial practice.
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