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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1883
Page
4
A weary mother sits in a home lit by fire and lamp as her three boys read near the chimney. The tale reflects on wartime scarcity, family care, and the mother’s quiet endurance while lamenting rising costs and future care for Edward and Joe.
In colonial Maine a settler Mark Stanton defends his cabin from Pequaket war bands. With his wife and a straw effigy decoy he lures and fatally ambushes Kalama avenger, while surviving Indians falter. The tale ends with a reflection on husbands and wisdom for women.
Stanton discovers a wounded native foe and rescues his daughter Annie, then returns home to a grieving wife. Morning finds a dead ape left near the scene and tracks indicate the killer’s friends moved the body. A rattlesnake skin arrow marks a death threat signaling the avenger’s presence and a vigilant watch begins.
The text praises George Eliot for her rare conversational gift to draw out others. It notes she spoke few words yet offered insights that made people feel wiser and left them impressed by her quick judgment.
The text offers scattered phrases about letting a physic go to the Biscay and avoiding gin tacneik and whisky. It urges cheerful sports and warns against fear, recommending cold water as a path to health, though the meaning is unclear and oddly garbled.
A medical voice urges constant mental activity to prevent hysteria and decay. It targets young women in towns, condemning idle habits, maternal overprotection, and calls for structured work, music, languages, and activities to sustain energy and health.
De Witt Talmage denounces tobacco use by ministers, citing cancer risks and moral decline. He condemns clergy who smoke or chew, describes blue rooms and blue spirits, and urges temperance. He also stresses sleep's role in strength, warning against midnight oil and irregular hours for professionals.
The article presents a collection of kitchen preparations and sauces. It includes Breakfast Cakes with tor wal milk and soda, Lemon butter for tarts, Parsley Sauce for fish and boiled fowls, Baked Apple Pudding with apples crackers and butter, Sauce Turtare a mayonnaise based relish, and a Beef Pot Au Four style dish with sherry and bacon, baked slowly in a covered pan.
Enthusiasts study sun spots and solar storms and their possible connection to terrestrial weather. They cite seven year sun spot cycles and note aligned atmospheric disturbances on Earth, with 1581 marked by violet storms and earthquakes.
Brother Gardner quotes old proverbs while recounting members maxims and mottos. The piece notes Comeback Jones and other club figures, highlighting sayings about hard work and resilience and sharing several member mottoes in a regional dialect.
A guide for frugal decorating using acorn glass sprouting, chestnuts, sweet potatoes, carrots, and turnips. Grow sprouted roots in water or sand to create hanging or wall accents. Children can learn botany through patient observation and experiments while adding ornamental greenery.
The Interchange details how to color a pine floor partially covered by rugs using turpentine, linseed oil, and burnt sienna or Vandyke brown. It advises washing the floor, mixing oil with turpentine and paint, applying with a thick brush, rubbing with two rags, and guiding strokes along wood grain. It cautions on proportions and drying, plus weekly wipe with diluted sour milk to keep the stain.
An 19th century critique argues against overprotective child rearing and leading-strings. It praises natural exploration, minimal interference, and physical play for stronger, healthier children, noting injuries from excessive caution and urging gentle guidance over excessive control.
The passage argues that true character and dignity come from the poorest rising in virtue, urging Christians to live as a blessing to others rather than avoiding blame. It compares national governance to music and architecture, requiring harmony and proportion.
The excerpt argues that reading should have a clear purpose and moral direction. It warns against absorbing fiction that distorts virtue and emphasizes relying on authors who stimulate thought and action toward noble aims. It praises reading that educates and inspires real-life improvement.
The article contrasts comfortable readers with impoverished women who face harsh poverty and isolation. It urges greater charity as society appears out of joint and questions the virtue of those never tested by hardship.
The passage instructs buying veal at fourteen cents per pound max and trimming it to seven or eight pounds per piece. It details dressing with butter and pepper, stuffing the pocket, browning in a hot oven, then adding water and basting until done. Serve sliced with gnach, left overs usable for sauce or salad.
A distressed man, muddy and disheveled, misses a train and endures a series of comic misunderstandings with officers. He recalls little, mentions lemonade and whisky, and faces sixty days in the work house after a drunken episode. The Detroit Press reports the humorous, chaotic scene with color and local color.
A writer notes Tunisian Arabs prize flowers, some starving to buy blooms. He praises Tunisian roses, especially a pale large rose whose scent yields famed attar. He describes perfumes distilled in Tunis and hints at fragrant exploitation as roses are processed into delicate caskets and crystal flasks.
The piece argues millions want to write for pay but few have the aptitude and discipline. Success comes from steady work, understanding public interests, and improving craft as education rises. It urges readers to persevere, aiming for higher literary and newspaper standards.
Wool fibers have jagged edges that lock under pressure causing felting and shrinkage. Excess rubbing and thermal changes worsen the effect, especially when moving from hot to colder water. Cotton and linen fibers are straight and smooth and do not shrink in washing.
A writer argues that smallpox and varioid can be eradicated through vaccination and revaccination at proper times. The piece asserts two diseases cannot coexist, that mild diseases can prevent severe forms, and that smallpox spreads via air bed clothing letters and is hard to avoid for the unvaccinated. Vaccinated individuals may contract variooid only after smallpox exposure.
A meditation on common sense as symmetry of mind and purpose that elevates ordinary people, anchors dignity, and empowers action across governments, society, business, science, and culture. It stands as true manhood and the engine of progress guiding history and civilization.
A essay urges boys to practice courtesy and propriety at home first, noting that true civility shows in all settings. It warns against feigned manners and stresses that a good character shines beyond the parlor and kitchen, influencing behavior in society.
A partially legible excerpt discusses seen garden canal journeys and comfortable cars, with a critic tone about religious work and self denial. Dr J W Aller voices courage and independence, questioning the path described in the Testament.
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