This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1893
Page
3
Regional railroad schedule lists southbound trains including the Night Express at 4:10 a.m. and the Des Moines passenger at 1:40 p.m. Des Moines Express at 5:55 p.m. Northbound freight and passenger details show limited service with no other passenger trains and a Sunday balance note for Balcones.
Miss Anna Capps remains seriously ill while Mrs. Hutchinson has been ill a week. Esmond Hoggatt stays with grandmother in Marshalltown. Several locals attend events, travel plans, and health updates. A bridge replacement and an AmesWorld's Fair movement loom as spring arrives amid civic chatter and town anecdotes.
All persons indebted to B A Lockwood must call and settle by cash or note on or before May 1 1893. After that date unpaid accounts will be handed to our collector who will call on you in person. Also Elliott's furniture offers 513 line of rockers and F A Barnes' shop offers buggy repairs and repainting.
Leased Sheldon farm near Ames ready to stock this summer with 200 acres of tame pasture and living water. Local merchants advertise clothing textiles, plows, cultivators, harrows, wagons, furniture, glassware, wind mills, chairs, and real estate services. Also selling peach bleed potatoes, eggs for cash, and a house with four lots for sale.
The notices promote health dental care with painless extractions at C. E. Hunt's parlors, lime and farming products from Zenor & Son and Thurston Swan & Co, flour from Sisson, and various hardware items from Hamilton & Co and F. A. Barnes. May 1 cuts on wire and a large stock of potatoes and goods are highlighted.
The Ames United Brethren church holds its second quarterly meeting with Presiding Elder Miller leading services on Saturday evening and Sunday. Bishop Hott of Woodbridge is expected in Ames Sunday, likely preaching at the college and the U B church. Also mentioned are furniture store arrivals, a hen laying a rare big egg, and a Daughters of Rebekah Lodge installation in Slater despite a snow storm.
Hon A L Stuntz of Story county visited town Monday to see his son at the I A C. He will seek renomination before Story county Republicans this summer and is expected to be renomined and elected if nominated.
The annual Iowa State Sunday School Association meeting will be in Chariton on June 20 and 22 with the theme The Book of Freedom in the Land of Freedom. Rev John W Geiger of Marion leads mass meetings to aid local Sunday Schools and House to House Visitation. A stenographic report from the Marshalltown convention is available from State Secretary Mrs Mattie M Bailey Shenandoah Iowa.
Notice promotes Literary Northwest a high class literary magazine mirroring western conditions and reaching a western audience. Endorsed by Stedman and Friedman druggists Minnesota Lake with 50 cent bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy sold by L M Bosworth.
English Spayin Liniment claims to remove all lumps blemishes and callouses from horses and cure various ailments including splints sweeney ring bone stifles sprains swollen throats and coughs. It markets saving 50 by using one bottle and is sold by L M Bosworth a druggist in Ames Iowa.
Insurance and notarial services emphasized with prompt attention to collections and conveyancing. Special focus on estate lands and related legal tasks.
Obituary notices for Wesley Arrasmith and James Briley recount their births, migrations, church memberships, marriages, and deaths in 1893 with funeral details in Ames Story county Iowa. Additional items mention Rev Rickman teaching on close communion and Anna Capps millinery store opening crowding, reflecting local religious and social events.
The New Hampton Tribune announces new proprietors Messrs Nugent and Bishop with Bishop formerly editor of the L Aler Dispatch. Bishop, a member of the I A C class of 91, is praised as a bright man and the paper will stay democratic under the new management.
Professor C C Carstens of Ames introduced a paper on what we teach in history. History is a science of past earth and humanity, with 80 percent of children not reaching it in school. Alice Mann of Ames spoke on Elocution as an aid to Morality, linking language study to correct speech and action. Col Hoggatt shared Bedford Mail correspondence between Dr Joseph Gardner and Miss Clara Barton on Bedford land deeded to the Red Cross, a 782 acre plot with river frontage and forest, noted as neutral ground under forty-nation treaties.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.