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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1887
Page
1
Advertising rates listed include five line cards per year at 500 dollars for standing ads, changeable monthly per inch. business locals 10 cents per line first insertion, 5 cents per line for each additional insertion by contract. 500 lines changeable weekly at 25 dollars. 1200 lines at 50 dollars. Post office registered as Second Class Mail Matter in Ames.
Ames lies at the junction of the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road, thirty six miles north of Des Moines. It is the seat of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with several hundred students and a well appointed public school building. The surrounding farming lands are productive and yield abundant fruits and orchard crops.
A brief fragment lists A Richmond Van Chamberlac Haverty G H Maxwell H Westerman A Perkins as names connected to local civic matters, with no further context or details available.
Church notices list services every Sunday morning and alternate Sunday evening, with Sunday School at 1 am and 12 m. Prayer meetings held each Wednesday at 7:30 or 7 o'clock. Pastors named include H. J. Everly H. W. Wilson and FE. C. Moulton.
Office over Palace Drug Store in Ames Iowa advertises services for real estate and personal property. The snippet lists items related to insurance and collection offerings in a period storefront context.
A poem by Harry 5B Smith surveys rumors around Marie’s marriage to a wealthy fiancé. It questions whether wealth defines happiness or love, noting Marie’s new life with luxury, fashion, and the trotter Nellie, while implying uncertainty about genuine affection and the cost of social success.
Arthur Bowen recalls a lost fortune and a missed farewell at Lake Geneva Eloise Graham's silence after his reversal tests their love. A chance reunion reveals her mourning vow and his sincere devotion. Their explanations lead to marriage and a new life in Ohio.
The Cleveland Leader reports on prominent American widows and single women amassing vast fortunes. Names include Clarkson Potter’s widow, Mrs Edwin Stevens, Mrs John Ray Barton, Tom Scott’s widow, Mrs M W Baldwin, Catherine Wolfe, Miss Jennie Riggs, Miss Garrett, Miss Helen Eben, and Miss Sarah Hitchcock. Catherine Wolfe holds an annual income around half a million with extensive New York real estate.
A Coon Range shopkeeper comments that no man is good enough for a barely decent wife. Lazy Sam, known locally, notes rising equality as his wife previously faced wood chopping and water fetching. He claims progress now shifts chores, with his son to fetch water once big enough.
A young lady questions the poetic instinct prompted by long hair while a poet and a sharp enfant terrible joke about money and self criticism. The piece ends with a quip about being the best accountant by tallying one’s own errors and mentions a new perfume named Phoenix rising from its sachets.
The piece catalogs American women who control vast fortunes, noting New York and other cities boast many $1,000,000 plus heiresses. It highlights Hettie Green and several widows, and blends in reflections on British workingmen in Parliament and other varied historic anecdotes with a broad, opinionated tone.
In Berlin the police employ specialists for each crime type and maintain a wide network of informers. a European dress movement in Japan pushes for foreign styles to secure rights, with Tokio schools enforcing attire while restricting materials. A scattered piece reflects on education’s value and questions the usefulness of learned facts in life.
Describes Bulgarian rural housing with sunken huts, high enclosures for livestock, and a single room per home. Notes modest living, simple comforts, and sleep on the floor. In towns Bulgarians are mainly artisans, not traders, with a fusion of Oriental and European dress and diverse fabrics and jewelry.
A short note tells how W R Tray, famed Wall Street wit, and his wife discussed motto placement at home. He suggests adding a line to balance the room and wonders what motto should replace or accompany the original.
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