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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1891
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR item listing passenger and freight schedules with times and train identifiers. Mentions Denver, Night D y casts and freight 1:40 P M with a 5:06 Pm note, but many words are garbled. Includes references to Pass'r and Des M.
Mrs. Sexton visits her sister in Des Moines. Creston resident Mrs. Arnold visits son Chas in town. Clarence Spaulding of Clinton visits Ames. Miss Ruth Duncan and Miss Ella Brown come to Ames. Many locals attend meetings, teas, and trips to Nevada, Des Moines, Chicago, and Detroit. A surprise party honors Rev. Smith. P E C and P S C E groups plan activities with Prof. Wilson's address.
Local items report residents traveling to Chicago Detroit and Batesville Arkansas visits with kin and friends. New arrivals and health updates among Ames families. Gilbert Station reports good oat yields and a burglary at Gilbert Bros store with repairs underway. The Normal opens with 165 students and a calm start to the 1891 term.
A public financial statement lists receipts and expenditures for Memorial Day funds for 1890-1891, including subscriptions, deficits, and payments to church, college band, drum corps meals, and G A R relief. Vouchers are available for inspection. Also reports a lively Main Street scene with a traveling dentist and a colored quartet advertising F C L cigars. Miss Chambers invites singers to join the College Choral Union with weekly lessons.
Reports hint at a new physician in Ames depending on a two gentleman experiment and a clock face in Kintzley’s shop. M P Warrick of Nevada in Story county has spent the summer moving many buildings for local residents and aims to relocate Dr Hunt’s brick as part of his growing moving business.
Ruth wife of W L Munden died at noon from hemorrhage of the lungs after years of invalidism. Funeral was held Wednesday at U B Church with burial in Ames Cemetery. Maiden name Rynard, longtime Walnut Grove resident. Married 1853, sixth of ten siblings, survived by husband and six children.
The article recounts the sun and moon imagery for a consumptive maiden, labels consumption the old tale of flattering hope and premature death, notes a third of mankind died from it mainly youths 15 to 25, warns against bogus cures, mentions B S Dispensary Co at Berrien Springs Michigan as a purported success, and reports cemetery trustees tidying graves and requesting accounts to avoid collectors.
West county residents urge community support for the fair and youth bands. The Iowa State Band concert at the College drew large crowds. Nevada sent many fans, and critics praised the selections and execution. Messrs Salmon Kendall impressed, and Prof Phinney lauded the project as a credit to Des Moines and Iowa.
The college music and elocution departments held their first term recital last Friday. A large city crowd used the new car line to attend. Miss Gratz violin impressed, Miss Chambers vocal drew enthusiastic praise, Mr Backus piano pleased, and Miss Thomas delivered a moving Mother Goose reading. The program met high expectations and deserves larger audiences.
The Fourth National Reunion of the Blue and the Gray is set for August 19 to 21 on Elk Horn or Yea Ridge Battlefield in Arkansas. Attendees can expect music, speakers, nightly camp fires, and a hospitality tavern remains on site. Organizers promote wartime reconciliation and welcome inquiries to Mrs. Lucy C. Cox, Garfield, Benton County. The piece includes a poetry excerpt describing Civil War battles around Sigel and Union cavalry actions.
The Chicago and North Western Railway offers round trip excursion tickets to Sioux City for the Knights of Pythias annual meeting. Tickets go on sale August 10 11 and 12 and are good to return by August 16. For details contact C N W agents.
Best Shirting prints four cents a yard Best Standard prints five cents a yard Simpson Dress prints six cents a yard Straw hats at half price. George G. Tilden.
Reports include Parnell and Mrs O'Shea divorce bills, a Yankton diathera outbreak, Noble resignation rumors denied, New Mexico teachers needed under new law, Nicoll to indict NY newspapers, Siegel Cooper fire loss near 1 million, Parkes suffrage rejection in NSW, WCTU protest over liquor at G A R banquet, France allotted expo space, Ohio railroad accident with 14 injured, Seattle fire deaths, libel suit by Margherita Hamm, Oakland flag controversy, Swiss confederation centennial fetes, Genoa 1892 expo plans, Italian patronage, German crime linked to potato spirits, Berlin crisis reports.
Ames merchants GEo. W. O'Brien J.H. Queal & Co and A. M. Perkins advertise a full line of Studebaker wagons Schuttler O'Brien and Ketchum wagons and sulky plows. They thank customers for patronage amid competition and promise ongoing service plus sugar deals of 22 to 24 pounds for one dollar.
An eighty acre farm located three miles south of Ontario is offered for sale. Possession will be given on the first of March, 1892. Applicants should apply to C. Howe on the premises by September 1.
Geo. W. O Brien announces a large batch of Deering and Empire mowers carried over from last year offered at a price well below wholesale. This sale message highlights substantial savings for buyers seeking lawn equipment.
A notice states a mass convention will be held in Nevada on August 15 to support the Ocala and Cincinnati platforms of March 19 for forming a county ticket. It invites distant speakers and urges turnout citing favorable times and likens the movement to Lafayette in 1777. GEO. ROBERSON advertises selling his hardware stock at cost due to business change.
A vintage advertisement copy touts Castoria for babies children and mothers across life stages. The rhythm references treating illness crying at childhood and use by mothers for their own children. It mirrors classic consumer product appeals from earlier decades.
A contest offers a $30 scholarship at Bryant and Stratton's Business College in Malvern Iowa for the student who secures the most new subscribers by September 1, 1891. The college advertises practical accounting training, diploma recognition, and courses in bookkeeping shorthand telegraphy meeting and English, with mail shorthand available.
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