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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1881
Page
3
The notice advertises discounted subscriptions for Tee Dwrenzi- GENDER and the State Register at $2.50, plus $2.40 for Tax Drrentcencer and the Chicago Journal for one year. It invites readers to join with all major papers and save on rates for this paper.
Local notes report Bain of subscriptions and new features planned for the paper. Highlights include Baptists benefit, corset ads, lectures on electricity, winter weather, a blizzard, and a diphtheria death near Ames. Mentioned are Col Sanford, Otis Briggs, J C Miller, Rev Bennett, Elder Lane, and D D Loper among others.
Advertises high cash prices for horses and inquiry visits in the city. Church notices invite attendance by Rev. D D Proper at the Baptist Church with services Sunday morning and evening. Local commerce boasts holiday trade gains with comments on Iowa prosperity and mentions leaders John W Porter and John R Shafer of the State Agricultural Society. Prof Couch lectures in Des Moines on celestial courses and terrestrial consequences.
Des Moines residents hailed Col. Sanford's lecture as the best ever delivered in the city last evening and expressed hope for another opportunity to hear Iowa's gifted, earnest and eloquent speaker.
Weather report notes a mean temperature at 7 A M and 12 M with a weekly precipitation of five hundredths of an inch after snow melt. January 12 marks the warmest day in four weeks according to C E Bessey.
A reader advises home treatment for a cold using powdered borax snorted into the nostrils camphor inhaled on a handkerchief and frequent smelling to ease congestion. The method, said to shorten illnesses, is shared as personal experience from Germantown Telegraph.
The Intelligencer offers to sell a nine column Washington hand press an eighth medium Gordon a 40 inch plow paper cutter a 0 inch etc all in No. 1 order. About 250 pounds No. 4 Brewer type 100 pounds No. 4 nonpariel an imposing stone and a large lot of job and advertising type cases galleys sticks etc. Cash buyers may purchase whole or in part at second hand rates.
Col Sanford delivers vivid tours through France the Nile Judea Palestine and Turkey with dramatic description. His lectures attract record crowds and high interest, marking the most successful series ever presented in our city per the Dubuque Times.
The Enterprise Literary Society of Grant township presents a January 19 entertainment. The program includes society songs, a regular discussion on whether reward governs behavior more than fear, with affirmative led by J. W. Mathews and negative led by G. H. Spence. Additional items: music by W. H. Betts, ten minute speeches by H. D. Bryant, Grace Everett, Charlie Blood, and recitations and essays by J. E. Carr Lael Bocas W. Switzer and Betts. Business meeting and adjournment follow.
A. 8. Burnell of the Marshalltown Times Republican visited the city yesterday. Mayor George Tilden spent the week in Sac County and praised the Odebolt area. President Welch and Professors Budd and Knapp were in Des Moines for State Agricultural Society events. A. B. Shaw bought a half interest in the Adams County Union at Corning, hoping for success.
At the south side school house Ames on Friday evening January 14 the Debating Club will argue that landlords in Ireland should be forced to sell lands to the government for resale to settlers. The following affirmatives and negatives are listed with participants. A second debate Friday January 21 will tackle the question whether the protective tariff serves U.S. interests with respective affirmative and negative debaters named.
Weather records drop to 30 degrees below zero drawing notes on Iowa winters. Ames residents discuss corn cribbing rates, local business changes, and the idea of a Village Green Association to attract permanent residents. Old settler memories contrast recent cold with historic Iowa blizzards and the Boone Republican notes.
Rev M D Collins recalls the brutal 1856 57 winter in Northwestern Iowa with four foot snow on the ground and many perishing. He notes Hand near Ft Dodge survived after severe freezing costs to limbs and a long snowbound trek. Council Bluffs records show 1857 January extremes with 38 degrees below and deep snows, contrasting log cabins warmth.
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