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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1884
Page
4
An advertisement from Harper’s Magazine and Harper’s Young People offers subscriptions for one year at $300 per volume with neat cloth binding and binding cases. It lists volumes 1 to 60 dated 1850 to 1860 and shows ordering options by post office money order or draft to avoid loss, from Harper & Brothers, New York.
Harper's Weekly announces its twenty ninth year as the leading illustrated weekly in America with enhanced literary and artistic offerings. It highlights an illustrated serial by W E Norris and articles on the West and South including the New Orleans World Exposition, plus entertaining illustrated short stories and expert discussions on current topics. Subscriptions are urged for a trustworthy political voice and a wholesome family paper free from objectionable content.
Harper & Brothers advertise annual Harper's volumes for January issue, with free subscriber access in the United States or Canada. Last five annual volumes available, all bound volumes mailed postpaid for seven dollars per volume. orders to be paid by money order or draft to Harper & Brothers, New York.
Harper's Bazar is presented as a world leading weekly combining literature and art with the latest fashions and household adornments. It offers Paris and New York style illustrations pattern sheets and cut patterns to help readers dress themselves. The journal covers cooking servant management housekeeping etiquette and needlework with high literary merit and humorous pictures likened to an American Punch.
Harper's magazine and weekly issues promote subscription plans for Harper's Bazaar. Readers in the United States or Canada can receive postage free copies, with annual volumes available in cloth binding by mail or express. Remittances should be sent by post office money order or draft to Harper Brothers in New York.
The item promotes Harper's Young People as an illustrated weekly with dramatic fiction and wholesome pictures. It highlights stories on war science travel and sports coupled with informative athletic and pastime features aimed at juvenile readers.
Postage prepaid with a two dollar yearly rate begins November 1884. Five cent stamps are noted. Remittances should be sent by post office money order to avoid misdirection. hairpins and letters are not accepted at the stated address. Haeren & Bros Renn Brothers, New York.
Advertisement notes branches of Book-keeping in the North coast area offering cheap rates. Mentions J. L. Wallace of La Crosse Wisconsin as a contact for full information sent by mail.
Gerald Fane marries Ste, a mysterious bright-eyed wife, under suspicion from his sisters. Ste’s devotion brings him back from illness and artistic block, aided by Mark Percival, but she proves faithful. Reconciled, Gerald paints no more, yet Ste curates a new life with a beloved child Ray, Raymond.
In New Orleans manners are open and genuine. The letter praises real heart and courtesy from streetcars to society, noting universal politeness, helping women with fare and seats, and a social warmth rising from the city’s core to its upper echelons.
A fragment notes England preparing a vast display of American scenery and a dialogue about someone staying at home and speaking to no one. The text reflects cross cultural interest in American imagery and social talk about solitude.
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