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Newspaper

Ames Intelligencer

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 18, 1890

Page

4

Grain-Saving Thresher Praised by Farmers

A notice extols a thresher as the era's best for saving grain time and money. It highlights superior ore craftsmanship material and finish and praises the threshers performance and exclusivity.

Early Morning Vows For Domestic Harmony

A playful verse outlines daily duties for a husband. It emphasizes rising early to light the fire and treating his partner to ice cream. It warns against rushing tempers over money and returning home intoxicated with flimsy excuses.

Uncle Mose’s Thrilling Crane Adventure Recited by Hunter

The famed local hunter Uncle Mose, slight in build, recounts his near death while pursuing a white whooping crane. He describes a perilous swim after the bird, a capsized dugout, and a dramatic rescue attempt, set near Rutherford Lake in the county.

Rutherford Lake Grimes

Ways of Bachelors A Good Wife the Best Cure

A New York Ledger opinion argues marriage can reform eccentric bachelors. It claims a wife guides men to gentler behavior, transforms the boastful or miserly, and steadies the course of life like a tiller steering a ship.

Nimrod Adirondacks Canada Wilds N. Y. Ledger

Curious lifetime food tally by M Soyer in London

French savant M Soyer now chef at the Reform Club estimates a 70 year epicure will eat 30 oxen, 200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs, 2,200 fowls, 1,000 fish, 30,000 oysters, 5,475 pounds of vegetables, 243 pounds butter, 24,000 eggs and four tons of bread, plus wine tea and coffee, weighing nearly forty tons.

M. Soyer Reform Club of London St. Louis Republic

They say passim in rumor and moral reflection

The verse questions rumors and the harm of repeating unproven tales. It weighs malice and envy against the virtue of speaking only truth, urging focus on sharing good rather than spreading ill and seeking to mend or soften wrongs.

Tris Apeheaded Tompkins Bartholdi Brooklyn Bagis Chicago Randolph St Lord G A U.S C.A Snow & CO. Orr Washington BD. C

End of a Courtship in the Western Wilds

Peggy Piggott recalls a long courtship with Ebenezer in a harsh frontier setting. With wolves near Hawkleigh Acres as the winter deepens, she stages a desperate plan to save him, arming herself with a pistol belt and a blazing brand as she contemplates the peril that looms after his departure into the night.

Father Mother Eben Hawkleigh Acres

I Wasn t a Girl Who Often Cried

A woman and Eben face winter wolves while courting in a remote farmhouse. After a night of strain and danger, Eben defends them with a pistol and lantern, proving true devotion. They survive to pledge lasting happiness as a united couple.

Eben Hawkleigh Acres Peggy Amanda Reed Willett N. Y. Ledger

Capital and Labor Sparks in a Wry Exchange

A humorous exchange from Munsey's Weekly shows a rich uncle offering $100 to his impecunious nephew and calling it capital while the nephew accepts. A separate quip contrasts American and French sensibilities as a French girl hears an American sister say You make me tired and replies You turn my blood.

Larry Shiloh Tenth Street Schumann Chopin Beethoven Saint Cecelia Munsey's Weekly Philadelphia Ledger

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