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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1883
Page
4
An advertisement promotes the improved pillow sham holder and lister for households. Brnenam & Co. Ge Tuk Ames INTELLIGENCER offers six months subscription for fifty cents to new subscribers, with withdrawal planned for September 1.
June or C. C. Cole will speak in Ames on Tuesday evening August 21. The Story County Medical Society will hold its next meeting in Cambridge on August 21.
A varied pasted list of local notes includes sales calls from Whenr & Ives in Keokuk and coupon offers from Pierce's Business College, Keokuk Iowa. Personal visits and travel notices cover Grinnell Nevada St Paul Ames Gilbert and Zenorville Iowa with events and preaching plans.
Patchwork of farm loans six percent interest on mortgages on sale at J A Fitchpatrick Nevada Iowa. Farmers urged to consider J I Case Sulky Plow from Brackenham Co. Advertising list includes Andrew A Soften and others. Paint supplies and oils offered by Brapley Templeton with widest stock in Ames area. Several Nevada farms for sale.
Abstracts of Title offers complete county abstracts at low rates and real estate loan services. Postmasters in Story County urged to sell subscriptions to the Intelligencer until Sept 1 for six months at 50c. Life insurance of $2,000 from Mr. RB. L. Clingan who was assassinated at Polk City on July 10. Ames Lodge No. 166 Association pays Assessment No. 9, already listed. New threshing machinery season follows, with an incoming Davis Oscillator invoice for inspection.
Bosworth's Go To Dr Beverly markets Bovey’s Perfection Carriage Jack praised for quality and use by 3,000 daily. M W Quick, Ames, sells tinware pumps and wringers at 1.0 and 1.75. Also notes farm mortgages at six percent from J A Fitchpatrick Nevada Iowa. Marshall Times reports Ames card proposing a game with Agricultural College Club before Cedar Rapids and Des Moines.
Jackson Wagon touted as best wagon. Whear & Ives sells. Hemerrerr & MilleEn list farm and city property for sale. Travine hires W A Ottoman as baker for quick orders. City Bakery offers party and wedding cakes. Thayer promises satisfaction for ten. Ginger Tonic praised by Hemstert family. Gorpow credits Brown’s Iron Bitters. Weekly State Beetsren offered to clubs for campaigns. Upright piano offered at $900. cash small balance or trade.
Twenty ladies gathered at 1 30 to the second on Thursday at the Congregational Church for a social at Mrs Smith s in the country. A large party fished the Skunk with Profs Beal and Stalker and others, Wilcox sending a fine wall eyed pike. Terrible wind hail storm hits Audubon counties. one woman and cattle killed. crops destroyed. Judges Henderson Miracle set 1884 85 court dates. The Intelligencer offers six months of subscription for 50 cents. N G Cook Ames photographer praised. Missionary tea at M E Church raises twelve dollars. Tramps seen in west town. plan to use them on sewer project. Heywood New York Mastodon Combination coming to Ames Opera House Aug 25.
A family of Smiths in Ohio led by a 64 year old father and six sons all enlisted to defend the Union. Aaron Smith, now 66, plans to meet with comrades at Cambridge next week. Also noted is Hrywoor's Masropons touring Ames on Thursday Aug 23 with a wide range of acts and performers.
Mass GARARD preached in Opera Hall Sunday evening. Rev THORNBRUE of Nevada was in town Wednesday. Boisterous thresher activity returns to the land. A tight rope performer drew crowds Thursday. Major Hoymes drafted for speeches. Suerrr BANKs drove up Tuesday. A K expects a thousand vote lead. Tramps visited homes Tuesday night with little loot. D E Dix handles Queen City Suspender Co. goods. Cote to speak in Ames August 21. Bessey and Bupp left for Forestry Convention in St Paul. W D Lucas spent weekend in Ames. Old ties may pull William back to be one of us. Baptist Church interior repaint delays service next Sunday. normal services resume the following week.
Mr Henry Wilson returned from Denver Sunday afternoon after a grand time at the G A R reunion and in the mountains He described the peaks and canyons of the Rockies with delight and recalled snow balling in July by the boys last week.
Story County veterans plan a Cambridge gathering Thursday and Friday with enrollment in the morning and war sketches. Prizes will honor the best army experiences with the officer of the day at Ellsworth Post and Comrade Ives set for second. A third wager may go to Com. Wilson in the free for all.
Luke Corgin, driving a corn load, failed to insert a front end rod. At a town bridge the wagon collapsed, throwing him under moving wheels. He suffered two broken ribs and other injuries but was taken home in critical condition with horses stopped and corn scattered.
Eprror Duncan of Ames IN TELLIGENCER confesses about "them screens" and asks District Attorney Stevens to present the matter to the next grand jury. Eldora Cor and Iowa Falls Citizen note no interference is needed. an obituary and a French province birth description are promised. A Jewish synagogue rabbi in Chicago to lead Hebrew service. Papilion Medicines directions listed in multiple languages. See ec sale by Bosworth and Dannow.
Hawley Tallman Brown advertise Four leader selling Pillsbury’s Best Rose of Kansas and Sunny Kansas flour direct from mills at wholesale and retail. Teas cut from 75c and $1 to 50c and 86c. Also launching fall and winter boots from top U S factories sold cheap for cash. Ames Iowa August 83.
In a sharp local disagreement, Bal lou accuses the county of not funding the delinquent tax list publication while insisting the county bears no publishing cost. He frames the claim as a falsehood and urges accountability.
An advertisement promises rapid improvement for depression loss of appetite and general debility with Electric Bitters. It claims renewed energy and relief from pain and misery and notes the product sells for fifty cents a bottle at Bosworth Co and other druggists.
The event is run by the ladies of the Ames Baptist Church and hosted at Mrs. D. G. Ferguson near Union School House. The Aug 4 gathering offers ice cream and refreshments, with proceeds toward a new carpet and church improvements. Mr Maxwell will shuttle guests from 7:30 p.m. First come first served.
A California lion and a prairie dog appeared on the corner of Onondaga and Kellogg streets this week, drawing curious locals with a brief wildlife demonstration and scattered spectators.
Fifty thousand envelopes in bundles 5s 6s 64s 9s and 10s at this office. All kinds of printing and binding. Hotel registers at low rates. Shilohs Cure quickly cures hacking cough and sleepless nights. Shilohs Vitalizer promises to cure dyspepsia and liver complaints. Catarrh remedy offers health and fresh breath with nasal injector free. Bradley and Templeton sell Shiloh products.
An Ames advertisement touts Marsh's Golden Balsam for the throat and lungs. It cites an anecdote from J W Brown of Kansas City about relief after trials with the remedy and notes Bradley & Templeton druggists sell large bottles for 50 cents and $1.
In Greenfield Iowa Mr Kinne Democratic governor candidate is quoted endorsing saloons on every hill top roadside street and public place. The item also notes temperance opposed reactions and a clarification about Ballou and a move of Mr Russ and family to Harvard Nebraska for grain business.
Barstow’s Drug Store offers a free sample bottle of Brown’s Expectorant claiming to cure coughs hoarseness whooping cough and early consumption. The ad promotes regular bottles priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar and mentions Taraxine Memorandum books as a free gift.
An advertising notice touts a new method for learning music on piano or organ that requires no prior knowledge. It claims anyone, including children, can play familiar airs and learn notes easily. It offers mail delivery with four pieces of music for $1.60 and lists Chicago suppliers and other medical advertisements.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winston's Soothing Syrup for Children Teething, claiming rapid relief from teething pain, dysentery, diarrhoea, wind colic, and improved energy. Marketed as the prescription of renowned female physicians, it is sold by druggists worldwide at 25 cents per bottle.
Daily use brings joy to homes by saving many from early graves. Dr King’s New Discovery claims to cure consumption coughs colds asthma bronchitis hay fever loss of voice throat and lung diseases. Guaranteed trial size free at Ames drug stores large size 6 1.00.
A letter from Jackson Minnesota dated February 5 1882 requests five dollars worth of Dr Pengellys medicine. The writer claims it helped a woman once bedridden with consumption recover enough to walk daily and do housework with hired help dismissed.
An advertisement touts a guaranteed cure for dyspepsia claiming thousands die from the disease and promising Wilsonia Magnetic Appliances will cure or no charge, with reference to another page for details.
Dr. Deming announces a new treatment said to cure a dreadful disease with a single application. Barstow Druggist offers a free sample box to prove its healing power and satisfy skeptics.
An historical advert claims a topical remedy can cure Burns Bruises Cuts Ulcers Salt Rheum Fever Sores Cancers Piles Chilblains Corns Tetter and all skin eruptions. The seller guarantees satisfaction or refunds 25 cents per box and lists Bosworth Co as a distributor.
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