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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1886
Page
3
Local business notices are charged ten cents per line each week and may drop to five cents per line if continued five cents a week. Rates apply to the head of the Business Brevities column with no variation except by yearly contract.
An advertisement lists printed materials and prices: Letter Heads per 1000 at 2.75 and Note Heads per 1000 at 2.25. It promotes subscription offers for INTELLIGENCER and State Register and notes address changes pro rata. The ad also mentions Jos Work offers various job printing services and new type with modest prices.
The Intelligencer promotes Colonel O. T. Beard’s long war and reconstruction book Bristling with Thorns priced at 2.00 per volume. As a subscriber premium, five new subscribers pay 1 year cash in advance. or two new subscriptions plus 3 in cash buys a copy.
McElroy’s vivid description of the Murfreesboro fight from The Red Acorn, tied to the 14th army corps badge, appears in The Intelligencer mid December. The volume costs $1.50, or readers may receive the full story plus year’s matter in The Intelligencer for $1.
A catalog notes forty five complete novels and works by renowned writers printed in pamphlet form on good paper. The collection includes Widow Dett Papers, Fancy Home Work, The Home Cook Book, Family Physician, Manners in Far Away Lands, and works by Hay, Collins, Wood, Mulock, Braddon, Conway, and others. The Intelligencer library subscription costs $2.00, or the library itself $1.25.
The passage extols the Des Moines Daily State Register as the best daily newspaper in Iowa. It notes its delivery to Ames at 8 30 am and offers special subscription deals combining The Intelligencer and Weekly Register. The piece asserts the Register serves both republicans and democrats with timely coverage.
The notice describes a scalp disease causing continuous hair loss and claims Papillon Clerks of flax Skin Cure stopped the thinning and restored hair where it had been sparse. The remedy was obtained through reliable druggists with prepaid delivery.
The sheet records Capt Lincoln to publish a Western Guardsman in Ames, carload flour deal, changes to Ames entertainments, debt notices for January 1 1887, new art supplies at Bosworths Corner Drug Store, widespread illness among children, holiday merchandise displays, a hiring ad for a strong capable girl, dining room staff for Iowa Agricultural College, an oyster supper at Pleasant Grove, a school report for district 5 Franklin Township, Maxwell fire damage, and Stella Bartlett spraining her ankle after Sunday School.
A poetic reminiscence of a lively festival with corks popping turkeys roasting and mince pies as friends from vale and mound share kindness amid mirth. The verses describe a joyful dinner, loud laughter at the door, and a playful warning that opposite things can never agree and the shivering shouts of revelers.
Miss Bird Estes and Rev Dr. Richmond are among residents noted in Ames visits and illnesses. The piece urges strong support for the local paper, arguing its business, moral, and educational value benefits the entire town and its institutions.
The article notes TopAyY as the ninth and claims Professor Fos ter’ s storms have not yet appeared. It suggests he should publicly display a traditional label reading I am somewhat of a to emphasize his meteorology credentials.
The piece notes Jack Frost's artistic touch onTuesday night decorating shrubs trees and outdoor objects. It laments the lack of local happenings and readers’ dwindling letters as summer’s breath fades and summer rustling stalls. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is sold by H Wester man.
At the bride’s home near Gilbert on December 7, 1886, Rev. E C Moulton joined Joseph M. Kennard and Victorenia Marshall of Story County in matrimony. Friends extend heartfelt congratulations as the couple begins life together in Gilbert.
Alex Geddes and his female companion tipped on Kellogg Street when their cutter was crushed by a falling animal. The horse slipped but both occupants escaped injury as the sleigh and animal suffered damage.
The Nashville students display confidence in their classical singing while asserting a broader aim to bond children and communities, sharing truthful performances that blend song and acting in a plantation setting as described by the San Francisco Chronicle.
An advertisement claims a universal salve cures cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions and even piles. It guarantees satisfaction or price paid in full, offered by Pickett & Co. drug store.
The mystery of how men who loaf at corners survive remains unsolved. Day after day they are found at their posts and seem as well fed as nearby workers, prompting puzzled speculation about their income and status.
Harrisburg man Edward Shepherd credits Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve with healing a eight year leg wound after doctors warned amputation. He reports full recovery after using three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes Arnica Salve available from L. M. Bosworth.
Nearly 500 illustrations and instructions for fancy work embroidery knitting netting and many crafts. Features designs for a wide range of home decor items and gifts with prices and postpaid delivery from Hotmailay Publishing Co Buffalo NY. Orders filled same day and offer for three friends to share a discount.
A large group of town youth gathered at Gust Reinius home by invitation of Sherman Reinius and C V Russell to celebrate a birthday. Mr and Mrs Russell ensured a pleasant evening with refreshments and games. A wedding followed at the bride’s parents home in Sheldahl on Wednesday December first at 2 PM. Philip Berggren wed Miss Sarah E Scott with Rev Father Linn officiating.
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