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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1883
Page
3
A fragmentary column blends a sedate tale of a somnambulist sister with a festive night and a Neapolitan camellia dream, then shifts to ventriloquism craft and a physician anecdote. It closes with social musings on childhood manners, vision deterioration, and a Chicago contrasted morality tale.
A Chicago scientist explains hog cholera as a disease that devastates pig herds through inflammation and fever. He argues for concerted destruction of diseased cases and isolation of healthy animals to prevent spread, noting the need to understand its forms and transmission.
The Scientific American notes Dr A S Payne of Southern Medical College argues early vaccination after initial fever can prevent spread and surgery hospitals should be replaced by patient isolation. The piece also records Dr James Moore on lemons for smallpox and ends with moral reflections on happiness, religion, and near spiritual presence of departed friends.
The passage quotes Disraeli pondering the collective effort of humanity and the duty to balance existence with hope. It contrasts the power of art and beauty to illuminate hardship and the moral pull toward grace and virtue amid oppression.
A Chicago paper notes a revival of finger print identification using inked prints on paper. It argues that unique finger line patterns offer hereditary similarities and could identify murderers through prints, with potential use in petty theft cases and even linking stains to suspects.
A columnist contrasts two boys raised in the same neighborhood under different parenting. One grows pious and studious, the other given license, engaging in reckless acts. The piece argues on how upbringing shapes outcomes, noting how temptations and peers influence behavior and future character.
A village tale contrasts frugal clerks who save large sums with farmers who fail to prosper. A Scotch migrant turns small capital into lasting wealth, and the piece urges studying money making by buying and selling, lending at six percent, or investing in business to grow capital.
The writer mocks medical fads that label tobacco beer wine coffee and tea as health hazards. He recalls shifting opinions from tea with milk to saturated cream and new cautions, then declares personal resolve to ignore medical admonitions and enjoy food drink and pleasure, claiming improved health.
A garbled collection of jokes, sayings, and quips from various voices. The text includes quips about drinking, skating, misheard lines, jokes about marriage and love, a Dublin notice about trust in a wife, and stray aphorisms. It offers a glimpse of humorous fragments and misquoted remarks.
A long, period style guide outlines common household remedies for digestive distress, wounds, burns, nosebleeds, and poisons. The piece lists baking soda cures, corked quicklime cautions, sweet oil for burns, salt for hemorrhages, peppermint for wind, and a stocked med nook with ginger, bicarbonate, arnica, and whiskey for emergencies. It emphasizes quiet, proper dressings, avoidance of purgatives, and simple diet for children and ill patients.
An advertisement extols work as a universal cure for mental distress and insomnia. It argues labor calms nerves, improves appetite, and steadies waking thoughts, claiming it outperforms patent medicines and lacks harmful effects.
A fragmentary prose piece urges steadfastness against ill fortune and urges readers to resist melancholy. It references moral guidance, calls to keep a positive outlook, and mentions misquoted wisdom attributed to Sidney Smith, with scattered allusions to religious and social contexts. The readability is uncertain but conveys a didactic tone.
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