Unclear Fragments Surface From Township Notices
Fragmentary OCR mentions Union Township and Howard Township with scattered names and places. lacks coherent event or action to summarize a specific news item.
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1883
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR mentions Union Township and Howard Township with scattered names and places. lacks coherent event or action to summarize a specific news item.
Disjointed notes show Masonry and G A R meeting schedules on third Saturday evenings at 1 o clock in Masonic Hall. Names like Wilson and Bosworth appear among officers. mentions of discharged soldiers and sailors and initiation fees of 200 dollars.
M Rees attorney at law in Ames Iowa handles conveyancing collecting and all legal matters. Office over City Stevens Hays Ames. Webb Brothers attorneys at law real estate agents Sheldahl C W Allen surgeon and physician listed.
A New-Year Hymn speaks of a traveler in a valley reflecting on mortality and mercy. The speaker asks why spared to see another year and acknowledges sin and unclean heart while seeking God’s mercy and pledge to praise Him with companions. Hallelujah, let all voices raise to God.
Mr. Geo W Bassett reports to Iowa Agricultural College trustees for the biannual period ending October 31 1883. Endowment valued at about 645 910 64 with annual income near 47 000. Leases and Sioux City purchases yield 521 394 62 in interest bearing funds. Endowment lands to be paid and reinvested. projected 8 percent net may fall short. Total collections since 1862 amount to 705 150 98 with overall income 570 477 96.
Publishers D Lothrop & Co in Boston is praised for upholding public duty through wholesome literature. The piece highlights recent items from American Bookseller including Poets Homes edited by R H Stoddard and others, noting Longfellow Whittier Lowell and Bayard Taylor among featured poets and selections for children and adults.
The Continent shifts imprint to New York signaling broader aims in art and literature. It features an appreciative piece on The Mission of Great Art Schools praising the Philadelphia Academy with abroad paintings, plus a illustrated Tennyson piece The Princess and its Author and a Howard Pyle illustration of Robin Hood, underscoring renewed prosperity and high reading standards.
The Best State Paper for Iowa Readers advertises the Iowa State Register as the largest Iowa paper with farm news and markets. It highlights weekly reading, short stories, and legislative coverage from the capital and offers The Intelligence and the weekly Register for 2.65 dollars per year in advance.
Advertisement claims Papillon Skin Cure eases sunburned skin on hands neck and peereen. Sold by Bosworth and Barstow Co. agents.
Public notice advertises free trial bottles of Marsh's Golden Blood and Liver Tonic for ailments from scrofula to debility at Bradley & Templeton's Drug Store Ames. Large bottles available for 50 cents and 1 dollar. Also promotes Marsh's Golden Balsam as a cough remedy with a sample bottle free.
None but First Class Goods. Messrs Sacky Co Chicago make a specialty of fine goods and watches dust and water resistants. Shurly Co sends single article at the dozen price and is vouched for by United States Co American Express Southern Express F W Palmer Postmaster Gen Geo C Smith Ex S er. Goods sent on approval with privilege of examination. 77 State St Ill. Send for illustrated catalogue.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Wixston's Sooraine Syrup as a cure for teething pain in children. It claims rapid relief from crying, feverish distress, diarrhea, stomach aches, and croup like symptoms. The product is described as pleasant tasting and prescribed by a leading female physician, sold by all druggists for 25 cents.
Lame back side or chest? Use Shi loh’s Porous Plaster priced at 25 cents. Product advertises relief with simple application, targeting readers seeking affordable home remedy options.
Advertisement states Surion’s Cover and Consumption Cure sold with a guarantee and claims to cure consumption. The claim presents a medical-sounding remedy in a sales pitch.
A patent remedy named Surion's Urganizer is advertised for constipation loss of appetite dizziness and other dyspepsia symptoms. It is offered at two prices 50 and 75 cents per bottle.
Local advertisement announces Shilohs Cure as a remedy for croup whooping cough and bronchitis now available from Bradley and Templeton.
Barstow's Drug Store advertises a free sample bottle of Brown's Expectoror claiming to cure coughs hoarseness whooping cough and consumption in early stages. It promotes the medicine as scientific pleasant and harmless with regular bottles priced at 50 cents and 1. Taraxine memorandum books are also offered free.
If Bosworth and Co fail to succeed it is not for lack of faith. He believes in Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup as a remedy for coughs colds consumption and lung issues and will give a bottle free to anyone needing such medicine.
The Magneton Appliance Co advertises the Magnetic Kidney Belt for men claiming to heal back and spine pain, rheumatism, kidney diseases, female disorders, and general debility. Priced at $10 with insoles, order by waist size and shoe size, money refunded if not satisfied.
The article extols Vick's Floral Guide by James Vick Rochester NY praising its complete illustrations and practical advice for flowers and vegetables plus a colored plate set. It notes the guide sells for ten cents and can be deducted from seed orders. Also mentions Andrews of Lowell Carpet Corp cured of salt rheum via Ayer's Sarsaparilla with an 1883 almanac certificate.
John McKinley of Clearmont Iowa reports that Dr Wood s Worm eeme third dose brought nine worms eleven inches long from his child. He ordered seven more bottles for several neighbors. Sold by Bosworth Co Use Simons FAMILY REMEDIES.
A Kansas correspondent describes Allen County Tata and its surroundings in a letter dated Dec 24 83. He notes agriculture fruit crops prices rail connections and a spring with medicinal gas and warm heated hotel use. He laments malarial summers warns of prohibition tensions and envisions a future women’s political equality and a better era to come.
The January Liprincot's Magazine offers varied reading with Philadelphia public buildings richly illustrated. It includes essays on Emerson by Pendleton King, Matthae Arnold in America by Swinburne, and Hawaiian coronation sketches by Bele Osborne. Fiction includes Leila's Tangled Web, Christmas Eve at Teckeywho, and Whither Curiosity Led, plus notes on new publications and holiday books.
A fragmented directory style item lists merchants and trades including general merchandise firms Vi E Crambill Bigelow Bradley Paxton Ives Bank of Teta Deposit Union National Bank of Ames millinery drugs and stationery Bradley Templeton Bosworth clothing and furnishings K W Brown tattering H Lightner M B Wilcox Thomas Loud lumber carpenters Stuckslager Son L Nellis shoemaker.
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