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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1885
Page
1
The notice lists subscription prices: One Copy six months in advance costs 75 cents, four months in advance costs 25 cents, and two dollars per year if not paid in advance. Additional charge of two dollars applies if sent out of county.
Advertising rates for five line cards per year with monthly price changes. Ames, at the Chicago and North Western Railroad junction, thirty six miles north of Des Moines, hosts Iowa State College and a large public school, with surrounding productive farming lands.
County Auditor A L PR sis 5 pee vas Clerk of the Courts Ce ic shah edcecnnvsees Treasurer KK H Boyes Recorder A K BANks Sheriff OQueO Bor Sup’t of Schools BR o Morcemes Surveyor Joan I Hosterrer Coroner BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ARWEN ERStany Union Township J Q Burgess Lincoln Township AxstTuosy Hare Collins Township
Sunday morning and evening services alternate each Sunday. Sabbath School at noon. General Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening at 7 30. H J Ever y Pastor.
First and third Saturdays at 7 50 PM in Masonic Hall. Henry Wilson Jr to announce quarter matters. Honorably discharged soldiers and sailors invited to join with initiation fee two dollars and quarterly dues twenty five cents.
Dr. H. M. Templeton a practicing physician and surgeon based in Ames Iowa announces his office at the City drug store inviting patients to seek medical services in the local area.
A mixed essay collection examines the social roles of women from frivolous bonnet fashion to the duties of home life. It contrasts parlor daughters with kitchen mothers, critiques temptations facing girls, and cites classical and historical examples to argue true virtue lies in domestic responsibility.
A fragmentary moral sketch contrasts a modern office traveler with a savage, then surveys Paris society, detailing the Rothschilds hospitality. It highlights Baron Alphonse de Rothschild and family dinners, and Mile. Helena de Rothschild as a strong, independent figure amid Parisian high society.
A chorus of anecdotes and quips on modern manners and romance. Humorous vignettes poke at teachers, fashion, red hair deceit, and a New England variety of sly gossip across cited papers and verse. The piece ends with a lyrical nod to Hashery Row’s beauty and a doomed future board bill.
Des Moines plans a 400 foot Locust street bridge while Des Moines and Dubuque offices face pay cuts. Keokuk lays a $30,000 Episcopal church cornerstone. Encampments set for Aug 10 15 and Sept in Dubuque. Notable deaths include Captain H H Griffiths and Foster Bragg.
Biographical sketch recounts Russell A. Alger of Michigan a Civil War major general later lumber operator and governor elected in 1884. Also profiles Jeremiah M. Rusk of Wisconsin born 1830 who served as major colonel and general, sat in Congress and as minister candidate, governor elected in 1881 and 1884.
A friend named McPhail is struck by a laughing illness that starts with grins and grows to roaring laughter. Doctors fail to cure it and a somber mood follows as tears flow, until a visitor's arrival ends the fit and leaves him solemn.
Excerpt blends a comic Boston romance with a Texanscape portrait. Endicott Winthrop Smythe woos Minerva Beaconstreet, faces sharp wit about vision and status, while a San Antonio cowboy character strides through plazas with a six‑gun and rope, near the Alamo and Chili con Carne vendors as evening falls.
In Volume II a middle aged Endicott Winthrop Smythe comes home with a cache of boodle and plans to woo Miss Beaconstreet, who remains a spinster with many suitors. The narrative revisits twenty years of pride vanity and social nuance in Boston society.
Endicott Winthrop Smythe ascends the marble steps to propose to Minerva in a dramatic scene. He offers a ring of silver and his own “spec” while she demands his spectacles, finally yielding with a kiss as the exchange ends.
An unruly seven year old on a Detroit train provokes a potential spanking from an older man. After a swift punishment, the boy sits calmer and the crowd sighs, the incident ending as the train readies for departure.
A quip from Barber's Gazette features a man told his head needs a shampoo to be absolutely perfect beyond memory and language skills. The phrenologist agrees, noting his traits as memory and learning ability while the punchline delivers the shampoo requirement.
In a Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegram joke a class answers questions on church architecture. The teacher asks about the nave and student Mr Brown replies with a quip that the nave is the Sunday school superintendent who is cashier of a bank.
An old-time quip in the Fall River Advance notes that seniors frequent minstrel shows to refresh memories of circus jokes from childhood days. The playful remark reflects nostalgia for simpler entertainments and the familiar humor once heard under the tent.
The Clinton Herald reports Iowa’s 1880 population at 1,624,615 with indications of substantial five year growth. A published figure suggests Iowa surpasses 2.2 million, though 1870-80 gains imply a smaller rise for 1880-85. Cities like Des Moines Council Bluffs Cedar Rapids and Davenport show notable increases versus 1870 and 1880.
Isaac P. Gray native of Pennsylvania, served in the Civil War with rank of Colonel, was a wounded and defeated candidate in 1866, later Indiana State Senator, delegate at Cincinnati in 1872, elected Lieutenant Governor in 1876, failed in 1880, United States Senator in 1881, and Governor in 1884 as a Democrat.
A fragmented, whimsical meditation compares human vision to looking through a plate-glass window filled with fixings. It ponders how a woman might see through a man weighing two hundred forty pounds with the clarity of a godsend wisdom, touching on perception across distant realms.
A Kansas man won a large lottery prize the same day his wife gave birth to twin boys. His mother-in-law, visiting in trans, was struck by lightning. A debtor sent nine dollars owed, completing a curious chain of events surrounding the family.
The piece laments finding good hired girls at fair wages while noting many will endure long night shifts then marry for shelter and pay. It contrasts a man with vast knowledge facing a simple humiliating question from a small, ignorant figure.
A dramatic line describes a fly’s bulk as three thousand times a man’s strength while Boston residents keep windows screened and doors unlocked for Sullivan, highlighting a paradoxical scene of vulnerability and power.
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