10 Jan 1885
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1885
Page
1
Advertising rates listed for five line cards and standing ads per year with changes monthly per inch. Local business ads priced at ten cents per line for first insertion and five cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Classified notice indicates second class mail matter registration.
Ames sits at the Chicago and North Western Railway junction with the Des Moines and Minneapolis line thirty five miles north of Des Moines. It hosts the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with hundreds of students, a well appointed public school, and surrounding productive farmland and orchards.
CG G McCamtu y is listed as County Auditor and J L Surre as Clerk of the Courts with other officials including Treasurer H H Borms Recorder A K Bawns Sheriff Oise Roz Superintendent of Schools R H Mitchell and Coroner Jons I Hosterrer. Board members include J Q Burgess.
Methodists announce services on alternate Sundays and Sundays with Sabbath school and midweek prayer meetings led by H. J. Every and G. H. Starr ing. Masonic Lodge No 249 meets on regular moons with Duckworth as W M and L Q Hogarth as secretary. United Workmen and A O U W No 166 hold regular meetings on second and fourth Tuesdays with C. M. Sopgn as recording secretary and J. S. Brooks as master workman.
Fragmentary text lists Post 30G American Legion or Grand Army of the Republic meeting times on the first and third Saturdays at 7 p.m. The piece mentions Miller Duncan Wilson Jr and station fees around $2.00 and 200 cents, with references to sailors and dues.
A compilation of Ames Iowa legal professionals includes C E Turner attorney and notary public with office above Bigelow and Huntington, Stevens and Hays attorneys above Barstow's drug store, D McCarthy attorney and collector with office in Stevens building, Geo A Underwood attorney practicing in state and U S courts over Union Bank, M P Webb of Keldah Iowa, and Webb Brothers attorneys at law, real estate and collection agents in Sheidah and Midrid.
E. B. Cramblit of Ames Iowa advertises veterinary services with an office location near the New York House and offers remedies including a labeled and stamped product named King of Pain.
In a calm night watch a prank on Pendulum Banyard escalates as crew members hoist him by the armpits and mock his danger. The captain confronts the crew, irons are demanded, and a near mutiny is averted as breakfast is finally served and discipline teeters.
A light northeast wind fills the brig’s sails as the crew shows morale and the captain loosens rules. Old Windward trials linger with a puffed eye, Beauty Blant gains praise, while Deacon obsesses over a diagram hinting at geography or a new theory. Pendulum Banyard is mentioned after being aloft as the scene shifts to the forecastle under moonlit sails.
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