13 Aug 1885
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1885
Page
1
A collage of social musings contrasts a self centered young woman at tea with lively male company to a larger portrait of the New York woman as creative, refined, and society guiding, against a backdrop of cholera notes and barber shop anecdotes. The piece mixes anecdotes on class, city life, and a Lincoln quote about horses.
Cards of five lines or less per year standing advertisements changeable SPREE ET RH ee we feee two dollars All Business Locals ten cents a line first insertion and five cents a line for each additional insertion Entered at the Post Office in Ames as Second Class Mail Matter
Ames sits on the Chicago and North Western Railroad at the junction with Des Moines and Minneapolis Roads, thirty six miles north of Des Moines. It hosts the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with hundreds of students, a well appointed public school, and surrounding productive farming lands.
County officers named include County Auditor G McCauray and Clerk of Courts I L SmMiv. Treasury J A Milis and Recorder H Ht Bores listed with Sheriff A K Bases and Superintendent Ove O Borsain noted. Surveyor Joan I Hosterrer and Coroner listed. Board members for Union J 2 Burgess, Lincoln Anthony ek Collins Township.
The Methodist Episcopal church lists services on alternate Sundays at 7:30. Evening services every Sunday. Sabbaths 12 m. General meeting held Wednesdays. Pastor VERLY presiding.
Sunday School 112M and worship services every Sunday morning and every alternate Sunday evening. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at seven. Pastor G H Starr ing.
Regular communication of Arcadia Lodge No. 249 A F and A M held on or before the next full moon. Worshipful Master A H Duckworth presides with secretary L Q Hoagarr recording minutes.
Regular meeting scheduled for the second and fourth Tuesday evenings each month. Soren Ree and J. S. Brooks listed as officers.
The G A R Fallswort h Post No 30 meets on the first and third Saturdays at 7 30 PM in Masonic Hall. Souter Master T J Miller and Henry Wilson Jr welcome all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors to join. Initiation fees 2 00 dollars and annual dues 5 cents.
Attorneys Stevens and Hays operate in Ames and Nevada with offices listed in Ames over Barstow's drug store.
D McCarthy attorney at law and collection agent opens office in Stevens new building Ames Iowa with a local address and contact details for the service.
Graduated roster lists professionals including GEO A UNDERWOOD attorney Ames IA with office over Union Bank and physicians M TEMPLETON YS SURGEON Ames IA at City drug store G A MEREDITH physician Ames IA EL office over Hutchinsons grocery C A BEVERLY M D FLOM IPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Ames first door West of M E Church Story County Iowa E B CRAMBLIT surgeon Ames IA five doors south of New York My King of Pain ad line notes and stock patent medicines King of Pain pill advertised locally
Real estate and loan listing from Nxvapa Iowa promoting farms for sale and a loan on farms. Advertisement notes annual interest rates of six percent and eight percent commission upon loan origination.
A speaker recalls the old gray mill on a hill, its wheel turning as waters rush past. He remembers Nellie the miller’s girl and is told that twenty years have passed since he stood there. Nellie is married, the miller dead, and time leaves all to ruin, yet toil binds them to fate.
Fitzgerald wins the race for Miss Dale as Arnold and Ventnor lose out entirely. The trio entangles at the West End Hotel during the Monmouth and Branch seasons, with Arnold pursuing Helen Dale and Fitz leveraging charm while Ventnor plots to win her affection.
The San Francisco Chronicle argues clergy sacrifices and public scrutiny demand better pay and pensions. It notes ministers face hospitality costs and charity duties, leave little chance to save, and urge parishioners to remove financial burdens to protect old age.
A column from the Philadelphia Call presents a playful exchange between two girls, one from Chicago and one from Boston. The Chicago girl claims aristocratic lineage, the Boston girl counters with a boast of ancestors, and the Chicago girl retorts with a joke about four husbands in two years.
A Cassell’s Family Magazine excerpt surveys a married woman’s daily life and roles. It details her social duties, reading habits, charity work, and balance between family and self-improvement, portraying her as a devout churchgoer, devoted mother, and skilled conversationalist.
Leaf from the diary of William Cullen Bryant’s mother lists daily tasks such as making a coat spinning tow spinning linen teaching Cullen letters sewing a shirt quilting weaving washing and ironing reflecting 19th century domestic work in Atlanta Constitution excerpt.
A Chicago Herald note cites a completed authority stating about 250 women physicians exist in Russia and they may only treat women and children. It also claims country apothecaries are barred from dispensing prescriptions from female doctors.
Women seek ease with a new spring spiral crinette skirt. Fixed lengthwise steels wrap around the waist forming coils that flatten when seated and rebound, preventing side bulge or ankle exposure. Inventor hopes importers order fast for a bustle that stays put and endures sitting.
In a short exchange under a small umbrella Charlie offers to carry it but fears his arm will still wet Fannie. Fannie teases him about space and mentions Gus Clark and Mary Martin as a precedent. The tale closes with a patient note from the Merchant Traveler.
A Brooklyn Times item recalls Jim Taylor once known as a liar who reformed and died a year ago on the tenth of the previous month, as Sanderson relates during a visit. The tale highlights a sudden change blamed on death rather than confession.
Annie Jones rose from a Boston boarding school tale to become a celebrated staff officer to General Stahel. She rode with the German brigade commander, ate and nursed with him, and passed pickets as a recognized maj or. Her bold exploits and close association with Hooker and Custer made her a famed figure in Union ranks.
A Brooklyn Eagle reminiscence describes a house ruled by Spiritualism four years earlier. A dining room seance gathers sages and a boy torments the group by tapping a hidden cord on a dancing manikin, causing a lively illusion before being left for dead and ending seances for weeks.
A summary of how mastication and swallowing affect digestion and circulation, explaining why bread cheese and dessert follow a meal. It notes the need for gastric juice and blood to brain centers during eating and the impact on heart rate from swallowing and chewing. A second item recounts a Michigan saw mill bear incident where a bear wrestles a fast running saw and ends up dead, with workers sharing bear steaks.
Miss Coshannigan asks what a schooner is and Flipkins explains it as a two masted sailing vessel. Clairette shows interest in yachting but declines, while Mr Sharp praises Flipkins for navigating schooners without wrecking.
A collage of quips and anecdotes from various papers. It blends jokes on politicians, philosophers, lovers, and language with brief humorous exchanges and verse. Notable lines reference one legged orators, goofs about goose eggs and chairs, and a maidens guest seeking a son in law.
A mixed Iowa roundup notes Burstington’s history, Halli from Pottawattamie burying his wife, Delos Donance found dead in Le Claire, and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum pond at Council Bluffs stocked with fish. Council Bluffs census gains, desertion of a street car speed issue in Keokuk, and a caravan of Arabs near the city are recorded. Veterans reunion set for Oct in Fairfield.
A critique of Michael Mulhall’s claim that mercantile statesmen lead nations better than agricultural leaders. The Iowa State Register argues history shows top leaders gain virtue and governance from farming life, citing economy and fidelity to constituents as the source of their character.
A Boston Post item notes a man claiming to be a scientist seeks a volunteer to bore the earth to prevent its bursting. The speaker says a friend, who has focused his boring energies on them, might try the task on the rest of the earth.
Mayor W. R. Vavenax defends Council Bluffs against reports of disorder and Prohibition unrest. He cites strong police, full gas and electric service, robust water works, and $800,000 in new public buildings amid low bonded debt and $28,000 in saloon license revenues. Vacant properties are scarce as trains run daily.
G L Brown of the Bulletin Des Moines describes the new Capitol Building seen on his trip to the city. He notes its dome shines gold from afar, walls of yellowish brown stone, and a river dividing Des Moines into two seas. The project began fifteen years ago and should finish with grounds in order at around 000. The last session met there a year ago under Governor Harmon, the first to occupy the new State House.
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