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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1885
Page
4
A Southern Churchman juvenile column reflects on grandmothers shaping boys lives. It compares grandmothers favorably to aunts, praises hymn singing at night, and laments grandmothers must die, urging prayers for boys and happiness today.
In a attic corner a wooden bed-wrench becomes a doll for Janet named Tabitha. Janet dresses and nurses Tabitha, sharing the secret garret sanctuary while family members mistake the toy for a bed-wrench. Uncle Silas discovers Tabitha, but Janet repurposes her, paying a penny for the toy and resuming her cherished, hidden companionship.
A fragment notes the controversial Monterey consulship in a city that resents American rule since Gen. Taylor's capture. It recalls past anti American sentiment and the consulate attack two years earlier, describing the posting as an invitation to danger.
A collage of observations on the Indian River irrigation era contrasts grim river scenes with canals and prosperity. The piece notes sullen waters, crocodiles and wrecks on sandbanks, then shifts to critique of modern verse corruptions and humorous misreadings in American journalism.
The article discusses classic methods of settling disputes by coin tosses, noting the phrase heads or tails and the cross pile as an older English variant. It mentions Roman usage with capita aut navim meaning heads or ships, referring to Janus on early coinage.
An old man winds a parable about three flawed investors and a railroad scheme. He notes a line that only covers expenses and barely profits while dragging in weak partners. The exchange ends with a weary, satirical verdict as Wall Street News reprints the tale.
A collection of short maxims on truth fortune and faith. See pithy lines about lies punishment poverty prayer and gender roles with sharp wry observations. The pieces mix moral critiques social insight and playful imagery resembling a Merchant Traveler column teaser.
A religious meditation notes that true faith is shown by righteous deeds and a life lived for others. It likens pious conduct to fruit on a tree and emphasizes the church as a vessel for sacred growth and salvation.
The piece urges religious education as a universal duty beyond schools, stressing home influence over church and Sunday school, with parents as primary teachers and the home atmosphere shaping a child’s moral course. It contends God as head teacher and ethics as core aims for all communities.
A series of moral reflections discuss the impact of good deeds in a corrupt world, the danger of self deception, and the interdependence of individuals within society. The passages cite Canon Farrar, Rev. J. C. Larned, Professor Swing, and Dr. Thomas on virtue, morality, and social cohesion.
Eli Perkins in Richmond visits a grand and ancient building and learns from a driver that it is a meeting house where Patrick Henry delivered his liberty or death speech. They note the crowd—and the outcome—“they gave him both.”
A passerby dressed as civilization confronts a coastal hut resident in Africa demanding clothes taxes and an occupation plan. The dialogue satirizes forced Westernizing rules with threats of jail and martyrdom, ending with the native fleeing into the woods.
Felt and wool hats flow from Germany to the Philippine Isles where the hat defines status. Natives prize European made headwear, while home made cane hats are seen as plain. A bright silk lining with a gold ticket adds allure as the Manila dandy displays a new hat.
A four footed bird on Marajo Island in the Lower Amazon was described by Mr. E. M. Brigham. The early embryo shows two fore-feet that appear and remain formed for several days after hatching before being shed. the zoological name is not given in the text.
Louis KR Redmond, a South Carolina moonshiner, refused to surrender after being cornered, claiming never to yield to men firing from his back. The piece extols drawing first, mocks physicians, and lauds Warner’s Dead Shot as a guardian against back attacks, referencing several gunfights and deaths.
An account from a survivor of Harpers Ferry describes the siege in which John Brown was cornered in the engine-house. Lieut Green of the marines killed Brown with a sword thrust, severing his skull according to the prisoner witness. Brown refused surrender and preferred death.
The caterer describes a methodical camp breakfast with woodcock birds baked in paper over hot coals. He details lighting a stove, coffee, gathering dry brush, preparing six birds, wrapping them in buttered paper, covering with ashes, and a simple meal with Maryland biscuits and Java. The note ends with affection for woodcock and a seasonal law window from July to January.
A editorial critique of the Present Generation’s fast pace and tobacco use notes dyspepsia and loss of vigor as consequences. It urges regular hours and meals and a course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to prevent health issues and aid convalescence, including appetite and recovery from various ailments.
A Clinch County physician keeps a roaming owl at his home. The bird is a terror to rodents and cats, and the doctor has trained it to perform tricks. He can lay the owl on any surface and command it to sleep, then wake it with a dream to startle it, as the owl suddenly jumps up in fright after about thirty minutes.
Joe James flaunts his almond-eyed wife noted for extreme beauty in a Flowery Kingdom store scene. The reporter describes her tiny feet and batwing hair, styled into a schooner yacht silhouette with hair wired stiff for three weeks. She sleeps with a wooden neck block to preserve the elaborate head dress.
A male sparrow finds bright calico on the grass and calls a dozen hens to share the prize. They argue whether the colors are fast, then a rag-picker appears, leaving the birds with the calico absent and the question unresolved.
The Chicago Herald notes spools produced in vast quantities with one factory making 100000 gross daily and using 2500 birch wood cards annually. Spool yardage is determined by spool size and marked as 100 200 or 500 yards.
An old physician recounts dangerous calomel use and salivation in a patient with bilious liver disease. The remedy praised is Dr Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets a vegetable product that avoids salivation and allegedly cures headache dyspepsia biliousness constipation and piles, available by druggists.
The passage asserts a Frederick the Great aphorism about facts and extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a powerful liver vitalizer. It claims the remedy cures dyspepsia constipation dropsy kidney disease sick headache and other diseases caused by liver disease and promotes it as available from all druggists.
The notice explains travel and lodging details for city visitors, highlighting the Grand Union Hotel with 600 rooms at a cost of about one million dollars, offering upscale accommodations and services. It mentions the Grand Central Depot and related transportation facilities, including horsedrawn cabs, stage, and elevated depots, asserting families can enjoy better living conditions at the Grand Union than in other first class city hotels.
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