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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1883
Page
4
Sparse ads list Thomas Bros and Soper’s furnishing goods and Gray Bros shoes, with invitations to settle accounts by January 1 1864 or cash/notes. Mentions Buy Nourse baking powder, Autograph albums, heating stoves sale, Dix items, cider vinegar, and Tax Intelligencer distribution to ministers in Story County.
Righty Springs offers a $2.00 Spring Bed with money back guarantee. Bosworth & Co promotes Silk Wristlets Silk and Woolen Scarfs Satin Ties and gloves while supplies last. Nourse’s advertises the largest Christmas candy display and fruit goods. Nourse’s also sells albums at cost and bids high for Butter and Eggs. K W Brown Tuomas Bros Soper and others push assorted holiday goods and low prices with limited trial periods and free testing.
A mix of local notes reports warm and cold forecasts for Tux Iowa Center and nearby areas. Items include a wolf hunt, an industrial exhibit, a bank opening in Boone, sales at Bosworth Co and lecture by Mr Abbott on prison life, plus politics and leap year plans for social events.
Hon D C Haskell, congressman from Kansas, died in Washington Sunday. He was a warm friend of the editor of the Intel l igencer, a young man of fine ability and promise with a brilli ant future cut short by death. Squire Fitchpatrick declares war on anyone who says he can pay more for turkeys chickens ducks geese and snow birds than he can. He offers stall fed turkeys and chickens about 25 cents a centimeter and slopped ducks and geese 500 a ton with prices varying by age and size.
The M E Sabbath School hosts a Christmas program at Opera Hall on Monday evening, December 2. Admission is free. Gifts may be left with the hall committee by 5 PM to allow a nicer display. The King of the Nations performance starts at 8 PM.
The Intelligencer sends a merry greeting as Christmas is celebrated worldwide with joy and song. Ames churches will be beautified with trees and gifts, and children, the invited to come unto Him, fill the air with happiness and melody.
A public notice urges all debtors in Story County to settle owed amounts promptly. It warns that creditors have little produce or stock to exchange and stresses mutual settlement options, noting debt harms happiness and shortening life. The message repeats a call to settle and links it to improved holidays.
The Register reports on neighbors and visitors in Des Moines and nearby towns. George A Underwood is listed as present Friday. Shoemaker of De Witt Observer visited Dr Meredith’s family Sunday. W G Wrights left for Canada for several weeks. George G Tilden traveled east to Vermont for a few weeks. Jacob Horner plans a Clinton Indiana trip to see brothers after thirty two years. Emma Wells visits C E Taylor house. Eva and Winnifred Starr head to Mechanicsville and other relatives. Savilla Eibert and Mary Eibert go to Superior while Jennie Porter travels to North Bend Nebraska. Chris Ebert leaves for Superior.
In Ames a surprise gathering at the parsonage honored Prof J H Heighton and his family before their move to Kansas to settle farther south and west. Baptist church members, led by the pastor and wife, filled the minister's home with friends, presenting an album and traveling bag as tokens of esteem.
Mrs A A Stewart visits her ill daughter Mrs W B Needham in Ames. Mr and Mrs A B Thomas spend Tuesday in Gilbert. Frank Liddle returns to Lincoln soon to await a Des Moines trial in May on $1000 bond. T W Layn rents Stewart farm for a year. Coal trade livened by cold weather. five cars daily needed. Christmas preparations and committees busy. Local livestock injuries from fence. Keigley improving. Eugene ill. typhoid fears. A reader contests ad profits with a long example praising advertising and low margins.
Superintendent H C Burt of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad issues a general order urging all employees to abstain from intoxicating drinks at all times and to avoid visiting places where such beverages are sold, stressing that a man's character is defined by his associates and calling for self government.
Inside Pages summary covers O’Donnell’s death and Washington matters amid Iowa News. It notes Railroad Commissioners Report and Forty fourth Congress Senate committees. Other items include Tom Edison the electrician and pieces on domestic life and poetry.
J A T Hull secretary of state visited for farm transfer in Meadow township section 17. He sold the property to Rev D D Proper for 6000 dollars about 12 dollars per acre. The sale ends Hulls pleasant local visits though he gains a good price. Spencer Reporter.
The Tus Alden Times argues for trustees chosen by the Legislature with liberal education and advances ideas. It praises John L. resent Prosecu Eleventh Judicialing Attorney of to first graduates of the college and urges placing a competent man aware of the college needs on the Board. It notes November Aurora and the college Monthly say Mr Stevens will not allow his name to be used.
Dio Lewis announces Monasty a leading illustrated magazine focused on sanitary and social questions. Dr Lewis will write on hygienic topics with other hundred writers contributing living subjects at a price of 2.50 dollars yearly or 25 cents per issue.
At 6 per cent annual interest with optional payments. A. E. Lucas. Nevada. October 28, 88.
Santa Claus on Deck and Holiday goods flood the sale with slippers, lamps, ornaments, and a wide boot and shoe stock. The notice touts very low prices, claims stock clearance by Christmas, and urges customers to buy now to save 2 to 20 percent as Ames market staff push holiday bargains.
Massive public response praises a new cure promising quick recovery from coughs colds bronchitis and related ailments. Advertisements claim dramatic relief and widespread acceptance with guarantees of positive results. Sold by Bosworth Co and Barstow.
What causes the great rush at Bos worth and Co Drug store is the free distribution of sample bottles of Dr Bos anko s Cough and Lung Syrup the popular remedy for coughs consumption and bronchitis now on the market Regular size cents and 1.00
Advertisement claims a cold relief remedy named Pepillon Catarrh Cure is available from Orth & Co and Rd Barstow. It asserts instant comfort after exposure to a draft and addresses head colds with nasal relief.
Dr Deming announces a new remedy for a dreadful disease. A single application is claimed to convince skeptics of its healing power. Barstow Druggist offers a free sample box to prove its curative qualities.
A remedy called Papillon Skin Cure is offered by Bosworth Co. and Ed. Barstow for dandruff itchy scalp barbers itch pimples grog blossoms carbuncles and boils. The ad promises it never fails.
Brooklyn physician Dr BeNNeET writes of October 1830 praising Pond's Extract as a universal remedy for inflammatory conditions and piles. He claims extensive personal use in practice and recommends it for every family, noting availability from Edward Barstow.
The untidy beard should not be allowed. Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers can instantly color them brown or black at discretion, helping maintain a neat appearance and good looks.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a quick cure for biliousness and general debility priced at fifty cents per bottle. It notes Bosworth & Co and Rev Dr Steely selling the remedy and adds a dubious remark about a missionary.
A promise of a speedy cure for Burns Bruises Cuts Ulcers Salt Sin Fever Sores Cancers Piles Chilblains Corns Tetters Chapped Hands and skin eruptions. Guaranteed to cure or money refunded 25 cents per box, available at all druggists.
An old advertisement touts Dr Bosanko's Pile Medicine claiming quick relief and permanent cure for piles and worm complaints. Sold for 50 cents by Bosworth & Co and manufactured by Dr Bosanko Medicine Co Piqua Ohio. Also mentions sale of a fancy Japanese dodger paper at The Intelligencer Office.
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