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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1895
Page
2
In a New York sermon the preacher expounds on Daniel amid Persia’s lions and the window toward Jerusalem. He urges listeners to keep spiritual ties with homeland and heaven, contrasting worldly allure with the New Jerusalem and urging prayer and perseverance.
Belgium reports revenue from drink habit rising from 4 million to 33,006,000 francs over forty years while crime increases 200 percent and insanity up 128 percent.
The piece recalls a bitter Civil War scene where two brothers, one prisoner of war and the other held for suspicion, suffer in a snowbound stockade. An officer shelters the ill younger brother through a freezing night before they are separated. one dies in jail, the other survives to remember the cruelty and courage of that night.
The Union commander James B. McPherson was killed during the Battle of Bald Hill near Decatur on July 22 1864 while directing Dodge and Blair's defenses. He rode to the front amid confusion to seal a gap when a volley struck him and he died instantly.
A Virginian officer captured in a skirmish during the last year of the Civil War is confined at Meade’s headquarters in a bull-pen near Culpeper Court House. He discovers his own delicate youngest brother among the prisoners in the split pine stockade close to his former family home.
A man on a Bryant Park bench proposes a philosophical exchange about suicide and dignity. He sketches a plan if destitute and humbly asks for help, reframing the talk as a test of gentlemanly conduct before revealing his own claim to being the only true gentleman nearby.
The article recounts Gen Fitzhugh Lees story illustrating Confederate devotion to Gen Robert E Lee. It recalls Lees cavalry leadership and the moment after Appomattox when a North Carolina veteran learns Lee has surrendered and remarks Bob Lee would never surrender.
Aurora special reports Military Jack, a famous dog of Company A, Fourth Regiment, Illinois National Guards, died in Aurora at age about fifteen. He joined the unit in 1882, attended encampments at Springfield and stood by the company during East St Louis railroad troubles and the Chicago strike. His loyalty during a sham battle marked the peak of his military career.
To attract bees to a garden plant blue flowers. Sir John Lubbock notes bees prefer that color, guiding gardeners to choose blue blossoming species to invite pollinators.
On a honeymoon tour, Mr. Nuwed urges immediate exit as the front cars telescope and the train catches fire. Mrs. Nuwed refuses to leave until he repeats his love, a moment captured in Brooklyn Life.
A humorous scolding promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the cure for dyspepsia biliousness and constipation. The copy claims Bitters drives away these ailments and also exterminates malaria rheumatic and kidney trouble and nervous ailments.
In a brief exchange, Miss Singler confronts a matrimonial agent about her age. Asked to lie about being younger, she reveals she already claimed five years less, asserting she had already done that.
A contrived pitch argues that laziness won’t bring riches yet hints a man could live well and save for a rainy day, though the promised rainy day never arrives in Grand Valley. The note invites readers to write to Zeph. Chas. Felt at 207 Boston Building, Denver, Cola.
Fragment suggests a social scene where women worry about neighborly judgment. The phrase implies pressure to conform to local expectations within a community. No explicit events, dates, or named groups are present.
A brief note cites Locke and a quotation about education and reading. A March 5 entry from Sprague, Washington, adds a line on being all things to all people, reflecting on prosperity and purpose.
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