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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1879
Page
3
AL VIRDIN and PETERMAN advertise barbery and hairdressing services. VIRDIN offers hair cutting and shaving in the latest style at one door west of Harnese Street. PETERMAN provides barber work of all kinds at the next door to Bingham & Co.
The article extols Tamarsoid as a remedy to ease the burdens of housekeeping on women. It claims to restore mental and physical vigor, improve complexion, and promote lasting health and cheerfulness for the female system.
Fragmentary note questions why a pod is allowed in a system and warns of serious maladies like Pneumonias and hemorrhages. Mentions Boschee's German Syrup as best selling for coughs colds and chest cases and references Dr Boschee's son and relief claims in a garbled old advertisement style.
An advertisement claims Shiloh's Consumption Cure cures common and chronic coughs in half the time and relieves asthma bronchitis whooping cough croup and consumption in more cases than rivals. It praises ease of use and lists prices and distributors Thomas & McLain.
Regular monthly city council gathering will be held Monday night while city schools reopen for the term. Looming farm and market news include corn prices rising and a planned tile drain factory with W D Lucas securing Pittsburgh machinery for Bloomington farm operation.
During Merch month, Clerk Smith issued licenses to wed for couples including Zim Keef with Alice Seal, H Lincoln with Mary Barrett, Ole G Apland with Julia Thorson, O L Tesdall with Martha Johnson, T O Larson with M Sheldahl, Jacob Kautson with Agsa Mortvedt, J J Holm with Caroline E Jacobs, Geo Robinson with Alice Gregory, W A Rackey with Viola Parker, Theos Moran with Florence E Hoskins, D N Vincent with Florence A Gifford, Ole B Bergeson with Mary Johnson, Geo W Barrett with Mary E Farrington, Andrew Ankeny with Sarah A Billman, Eli Postgate with Francis A McKee, John Wolf with Charlotte Darly, Frank Baker with Eliza Davis.
The Reform Club of Nevada SQsat down on C Dale Armstrong after hearing of the Wire scandal. His temperance lecture was canceled and other speakers filled the time. An afternoon and evening event included a hired Hall and his explanation, which listeners judged lame and unsatisfactory, with claims of escapades.
The following named officers and directors will meet at the Ross & Irwin office on Monday April 7 1879 at 10 o'clock a m to discuss holding the annual Carmvilon Nevada meeting. Attending: H F Murphey President W B Woodward Vice President L Irwin Treasurer Jacob Macon S Chandler R M Harper J C Level W W Utterback Incob Erb John Christiansen Richard Jones Mal Turner McLain T J Rows Thomas Ok Pired ts Secretary.
A Cerro Gordo county farmer's wife began poultry raising in spring 1872 with stock cost of 6.40. By March seven years later she had sold 650 dollars of poultry and eggs, kept 80 dollars of fowls on hand, and fed her eight member family entirely. Fraud tale surrounds Giles Pearce who advertised Peru wheat to swindle farmers. he bought wheat near Muscatine, sold at 35 cents spoonful, then fled as authorities pursue him.
A new edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin uses the same electrotype plates with iptcirontone and omits the red-line border. Bound in simpler style, this $2.00 edition includes the Introduction and Bibliology from the Holiday issue and is pitched as a desirable re reading of a timeless tale. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. publishers.
A moral tale on how to handle slander and scandal. The preacher Mr. Spurgeon walks in mud and learns to let mud dry rather than rub it in. The lesson warns against hastily brushing off rumors or stirring trouble, noting time aids erasure of wrongs.
In Nebraska W Tripp from Franklin township saw a magnesian stone carved with a reposing man and the inscription John B Hill Illinois May 1850. The stone, found along the Fremont trail over a year ago in Jefferson County, is thought to mark Hill's grave used by California gold rush travelers.
Ogden Reporter notes Prof Fox conducts music at the Agricultural College in Ames with Prof Wynn leading a Sunday choir and an eight piece orchestra. Rev G G Perkins delivers sermons in Congregational church. N A Rainbolt attends district court in Eldora. J Kintsley returns ill from Wyoming. W H Porter to Guthrie for work. Ole O Roe of Story City reports new dwellings planned. J J Butler sick. James Kearns ill at home. Wm Clerk returns from Minneapolis after selling most horses.
News from Kelly reports Mr. Worick of Nevada moving buildings here and R P Shields relocating his hardware store across Washington township. The hall building shifts for M C Stevens dwelling while Wm Allen sells his shop and contemplates leaving. J G Patterson of Benna Vista buys south side lots to build a home. An April fool’s mood notes a postal dalliance. Farmers sow grain as a cold snap looms to halt operations.
A five shot Colt revolver once carried by W. D. Lucas of Harris Guards is returned to East Gainesville New York after decades in Virginia. A postal card recounts Lucas’s 1861 blue uniform and brief service in the Shenandoah Valley before the weapon was lost. The finder offers it back for five dollars as a relic of the South’s loyalty to its former government.
Friday evening session approves change to Appleton's Series of Readers. Board notes low introductory prices, expects savings for patrons as students move to higher classes next Monday. May meeting scheduled. Langstroff bee hives marketed by J A Savitts announced.
The list names students who were never absent or tardy in March across High School North Intermediate North Primary South Intermediate and South Primary divisions, plus occasional last month omits. Notables include Ida Bardwell Henry Barroll Rosa Peterman Mont Turner Eva Starr John Byrnes Charlie Stambaugh and others. A separate notice advertises a good house for rent by A J Graves.
A practitioner announces weekly Wednesday visits at the West House for several weeks to provide dental services. He asserts prior success and pledges continued patient satisfaction, inviting early appointments for engagements. Directed by Dirrensacken.
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