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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1884
Page
3
Local item list reports business houses in Ames Iowa with multiple firm names and stock lines. Community notes include church posts G A R installation dates and a large wedding and social notices section detailing family gatherings and joinery records.
The notice lists residents in Hampton Gowrie Ames and Nevada visiting and moving. a cold New Year with violent wind and snow yields to a brighter day. Community briefs include society drama plans, legislative timing, pension news, and local business ads. Also mentions health items and local notices about court schedules and sales.
The Story County Iowa Board of Supervisors will meet Monday January 7 1884 and all county claims must be filed by January 8 1884 to be considered. The notice lists a letter list of residents and a call for bona fide listing with affidavits for county printing bids due January 1 1884. A local advertisement promotes Papillon Skin Cure and Nis Cologne. A horse driven bus on Kellogg Street damaged property after an incident with several people unaccounted.
An appeal urges the Iowa Legislature to grant a reprieve for Stanley, a life sentence inmate in Weponssentinel for a murder in Ames twelve to fifteen years ago. The editorial asks citizens to inform lawmakers with full case facts, arguing the crime was premeditated and cold blooded.
The Polyopticon is described as a new winter pastime showing multiple subjects without glass slides. It uses ordinary newspaper pictures family photographs and home made sketches and can be built and sold at about one fourth the price of a standard Magic Lantern. Descriptive circulars are available from Murray Hill Publishing Co New York City.
I have the only complete set of Abstract Books in the county and offer abstracts at low rates. Money loaned on real estate with six percent annual interest. Also houses for sale or rent and farms for sale cheap. Nevada Iowa.
A vintage patent medicine advertisement touts Dr Bosanko’s Cure as a universal remedy for burns ulcers fevers cancers piles chilblains corns and related ailments with a money back guarantee and a 25 cent price. Sleigh-runners and druggist partners are noted along with a free trial bottle offer for coughs asthma and lung issues.
An advertisement extols Papillona Cure as a remarkable cough remedy for all ages. It lists sellers Worth & Co. Ed Barstow G Wright and Bosworth & Co. and includes a testimonial from a farmer near Caledonia Station Boon County Illinois praising the medicine.
Dr Bosankos Cough and Lung Syrup is promoted with free bottle distributions for coughs consumption and bronchitis. Regular sizes sell for 50 cents and 1 dollar. Customer John McKinley of Clearmont Indiana reports dramatic worm removal after Wood's Worm Destroyer, prompting orders for more bottles. Distributed by Bosworth Co.
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