13 Sep 1884
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1884
Page
1
The Ames Intelligencer lists subscription rates and terms: two dollars per annum, payable in advance, with two dollars in advance for readers outside the county. The notice references a four month advance period and mentions a gap copy phrase.
Entered at the Post Office in Ames as Second Class Mail Matter. The text notes the Chicago and North Road at its junction with the Des Moines line near Minneapolis Road, Des Moines’ capital city Des Moines, and references the Iowa State College of Agriculture with its well appointed facilities and surrounding productive farming lands.
A dense OCR readout lists numerous local businesses and trades including attorneys, banks, mercantile firms, millinery shops, shoe stores, furnishing goods, hotels, iron works, blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, and bootmakers. It reads like a directory of names such as Meredith Stevens Hays Beverly Hunt Crambleson Simmons Cook Bigelow Huntington Paxton Sweeney Soper, Bank of Ames, Union National Bank of Ames, Glidden Long Coney Ball Stone, Simmons, Stuckslager, Nellis, McDow, Paxton Graves, Staves and others.
Mary Allenby, a young widow with an infant, inherits a sinking future after physician Arthur Allenby dies. Arthur proposed marriage, secured Mary’s future, and faced opposition from his family. Friends fund a gravestone and plan a modest wedding, while Mary guards the dying scholar’s legacy and faces pressure from relatives and guardianship disputes.
A Philadelphia report describes glass pulleys for cable railways as a strong durable substitute for metal. J. J. Harding of Chicago has tested large glass tires with iron spider supports, aiming to reduce friction wear and extend pulley life.
A Louisville physician’s pet monkey Jocko smeared with green paint then caused chaos around the house. After a wild chase over roofs and wires, the animal attacked the doctor, who now offers 25 dollars to anyone who will steal the monkey.
A Spartanburg young man writes to the paper urging measures to check power and curb extortion. He argues that state greatness requires fostering legitimate factories and restraining wealth and influence from harming progress.
In Lancaster Pennsylvania a seance audience challenged a thought reader who claimed to locate a hidden pin. A Trinity student hid the pin, and after a staged apparent failure the student exposed the ruse by producing the pin from the reader’s own trousers amid jeers.
A chaotic dispatch reports a girl with golden curls and extremely dark skin after arsenic poisoning. The child, described as the owl child of a Philadelphia family, grew darker over time while remaining yellow where not exposed to air. Doctors are baffled as she is removed to Hot Springs Arkansas. she isolates herself and fears even intimate friends.
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes papers misjudge natural gas as a deadly threat yet claims its gravity is half that of air, so it rises harmlessly. It explains mines’ fire damp is mainly hydrogen and carbonic gas in small amounts, rarely enough to harm if ventilated.
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