Ames Intelligencer Adverts and Local Notes
Advertisement urges large ad purchases in July and August to grow business. Ames Intelligencer priced at $1.50 yearly with a $0.50 advance discount. Local notes mention a July 4 lawn social at Douglas Street by Mr. and Mrs. Cairns and a Story County old soldiers reunion planning for August 4 with quartermaster Giddings and Col. Kelley in charge.
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Robert Cairns
Douglas St
Robert
Ellsworth
Story County
Giddings
Col
Kelley
Geddes Receives Elegant Medal From Loyal Legion
Toorr Geddes, son of the late Gen Geddes, is awarded an elegant gold medal from the Loyal Legion of Honor. The honor is transmitted to the lineal male descendant of a member, reflecting the organization’s wide reach across the Atlantic to Pacific and from the Lakes to the Gulf.
Marriage of Mr Spencer Pui urres and Miss Louisa Snyder
The couple from Til Westerman & Co and Grin nell were wed in Grin nell on Tuesday morning. Mr Phillips prepared a home on the south side and now resides there with his bride. Congratulations are extended for a joyful life voyage. The Ames Base Ball Club thanks Nevada citizens for 4 July hospitality, especially Captain Wilson, praising the kindness shown to the visiting team.
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Spencer Pui Urres
Til. Westerman & Co
Louisa Snyder
Grinnell
Phillips
Ames
Nevada
Capt. Wilson
Daring horse theft foiled by Ontario boys
Eddy Aylesworth and Willie Keifer watched two men circling Thomas Aylesworth’s barn on Thursday night. The pair confronted the intruders as they loaded a horse into a buggy. Willie struck with a club, felling one man. Eddy fired with a pistol, wounding the other. The injured man was led away and the assailants disappeared.
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Ontario
Eddy Aylesworth
Willie Keifer
Thomas Aylesworth
Eddy
Willie
Iowa
Eddy Ainesworth
Soap Sales and Local Notices Highlight Convenience Products
Nourse advertises White Russian Soap six bars for 25c and White Laundry Soap six bars for a quarter, along with other soap offers. Mentions Joan Watts attending college and Jim Kiley, a former employee, as college-bound. Also touts 2 bars for 1 and a baking powder substitute with a money back guarantee. Des Moines context implied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nourse
Joan Watts
Jim Kiley
Geo. Loud
Des Moines
Arcadia Lodge Schedules Special Masonic Meetings
Arcadia Lodge No. 249 A F and A M holds a special meeting Thursday evening July 7 for work on degree 24 and another on July 14 for work on degree 3. By order of L M Boswerry W M.
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Arcadia Lodge No. 249
L. M. Boswerry
W. M
Local Oil Prices At Boswoerth’s Corner Drug Store
Machine Oil prices sold at the corner drug store include Eldorado Engine 30 cents per gallon No 1 Golden 25 cents No 1 Black 15 cents and Castor Machine 30 cents per gallon continuing the same old prices.
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Boswoerth’s
Eldorado Engine
Castor Machine
Chicago Yeast Powder Guarantee Offered by Nourse
Louis Wilson of Story City committed suicide Thursday night by poison. He left a fourteen year old girl involved in the incident. A general advert for Chicago yeast powder assures complete satisfaction or money back, sold by Nourse the Cash Grocer.
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Chicago
Louis Wilson
Story City
Bargain Roundup and Local Notices from Nourse and Hamilton Co
Local ads promote cheap goods at Nourse’s store including 20 pounds of Plumes for a dollar and Fairbanks soap at 80 cents for 80 bars. A lawn sociable planned by the Good Templars for July 14 at Dr. Richmond’s place offers ice cream and cake. A widow of Mr. Lia Briley died after long illness. Crop reports from 97 counties show corn conditions around 90 to 200 on a 100 basis. Highest butter and eggs price noted at 10 cents per dozen.
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Templars
Compton
Lawa
Hamilton & Co’s
Fairbanks
McCarthy and Van Nile Tie The Knot In Nineteenth Century Ceremony
Henry McCarthy married Albert Van Nile with Eve Tarrant present in a simple ceremony. The event marks a union announced in local notices.
Missionary Secretary to Speak in Ames on Sunday
Chaplain McCane, General Missionary Secretary of the M E Church, will address Ames on Sunday evening July 10. The gathering will be on the old school grounds if weather is fine, otherwise in Opera Hall.
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Ames
McCane
M. E. Church
Opera Hall
Osborn Binder and Champion Mower For Sale
For Sale. One Osborn Binder and one Champion Mower. Inquire of M. Brooks or Alba Person. Ninth Annual Reunion of the Old Soldiers and Sailors in Story County scheduled at the Nevada Fair Grounds August 4 and 5, 1887. All old soldiers and sailors invited. Program to be announced. By order of T. C. McCall. Adjutant I. L. Smrrx. Nourse sells more goods for a dollar than any grocer in Story County. Everything first class.
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Osborn
M. Brooks
Alba
Story County
Fair Grounds
Nevada
T.C. McCall
I. L. Smrrx
San Jose
Cal
EB. M. Carson
A. M. Warren
Kan
Germany
L. FP. Phelon
P. M
Greggs
Ohio
H.C. Plimpton
Joliet
Tess
Zimmerman
Francis Patterson
Patterson
Elmira Street
United Sates
Elmira
See
Palestine
Lovelock P. m
Farm for Sale in Lafayette Township 160 Acres
The undersigned offers for sale a 160 acre farm in La Fayette Township. 80 acres are tiled and the property includes a house stables and other improvements. Located 44 miles from Gilbert Station and the same distance from Story City. Jacos LArP.
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la Fayette Township
Gilbert Station
Story City
Jacos Larp
New Train Service Speeds Sioux City Sleeper
The Sioux City sleeper now travels via Carroll and Onawa to Sioux City arriving at 9.40 a.m. cutting three hours. Return departs at 6.05 p.m. arrives in Chicago 2.05 p.m. A through sleeper runs Chicago to Lincoln and back leaving Chicago at noon arriving Lincoln 12.40 p.m. and return departs Lincoln 3.10 p.m. arrives Chicago 2.15 p.m.
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Sioux City
Chicago & North Western Bay
Carrol
Onowa
Chicago
North-Western
Lincoln
Neb
Corner stone laid for new M. E. Church in Ames
Cornerstone ceremony held Friday under Rev. Everly with Dr. Miller and Dr. Chamberlain addressing the crowd. Speakers tied the church to education, noting colleges grew from churches and the role of ministry, while funds were boosted by subscriptions.
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M. E
Ames
Mr. Everly
Jeffries
Miller
Moulton
Everly
Des Moines
Chamberlain
The
Central Christian Advocate
Christian Advocate
Personal and Social Notices From Ames Area
Capt Henry Wilson Jr in city yesterday. Mrs Del Maxwell’s mother visiting daughter. Hicks and Pitsors spent the fourth at Cambridge. Giles Cook celebrated at Story City. Lanning grandmother and daughters at Costa Iowa. Charley Soper at Des Moines games. McCarthy left New York for Havre aboard La Gascane. Fairchilds to Minneapolis. Dolliver of Fort Dodge in Ames. Flo Fitchpatrick spent fourth at Eagle Grove. Maggie Bigelow in Des Moines last week. Nourse couple spent fourth in Des Moines. Mrs Nourse at the capital. Jesse Gaston visiting Cedar Rapids. Gay Starr in Ames last week. Della Jones went to Minneapolis for summer. Aggie West from Eagle Grove. George France and wife in Ames. Harley Stuckslager with family in Traer. T S Warren of Warrenville Illinois visiting Ames.
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Henry Wilson, Jr
City
del. Maxwell
Hicks
Pitsor
Cambridge
Giles Cook
Story City
Grandmother Lanning
Mertie
Mellie Lanning
Costa, Iowa
Charley Soper
Des Moines
Squire Dan McCarthy
New York
Havre
Illinois
Mather
Guild
Ames
Ames People Face Weather Funnies And Local Events
The piece notes dry weather and a humorous take on Ames life with remarks on roads, prohibition, and civility. It mentions M Morrison filming locals, early hay buying, and a Christian church move near the city hall. It also recounts Fourth of July events at Cambridge with Rev. Lucas and Oley Nelson addressing Norwegian speakers.
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Squaw Creek
Skunk River
Iowa
Ames
Everbody
Everthing
M. Morrison
City Hall
Cambridge
D. R. Lucas
Des Moines
Lucas
Oley Nelson
Sheldahl
Nelson
Professor Wynn Joins New Atchison Lutheran College
The Atchison Daily Champion reports a new university founded by the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Atchison commits 50 000 dollars cash twenty acres for a campus five acres for faculty homes plus a half share in net proceeds from 600 acres valued around 350 000 dollars. The city pledges 280 male students and the church will focus its efforts on this college with endowment goals of about one million dollars. Professor Wynn will assume a faculty post mid August with Dr M Rhodes acting as temporary president.
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Church of Christ
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Boston
Cambridge
Harvard
John Harvard
Christ
Yale College
Congregational Church
Tate
Williams
Amherst
Princeton
College of New Jersey
Presbyterian Synod
Rutgers College
Synod
Brown University
Philadelphia Association of the Baptist Churches
Morgan Edwards
Philadelphia
Wesleyan University of Middletown
Connecticut
Methodist Church
Crown University
Baptist
Baptist College
Stephen Girard
Girard College
Episcopal
United Presbyterian
United Brethren
Littlerap
Church of Christ In All Nations
Wynn
Atchison
Kansas
General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States
Atchison Daily Champion
Highland Park
Church
Board of Education
General Synod
M. Rhodes
St. Louis
Marriage notices from Nevada and Ames dated July 1887
At Nevada Iowa on July by Rev R A Ferguson Mr W J Osborn of Ames and Miss Jessie Child of Nevada. They will live in this city. At the Baptist parsonage July 4 Mr Albert Wire and Miss Alma Foster Rev L W Wilson officiating.
School Reror in Franklin Township District 1
For the month ending July first the district reports 16 enrolled students with an average attendance of 14. Perfect attendance and punctuality awarded to Fannie Dodds Gertie Dodds Ethel Dodds Ira Dodds and Ora Noble. Ella Morris, Teacher.
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Franklin Township
Fannie
Gertie
Ethel
Ira Dodds
Ora Noble
Ella Morris
Walker Injured In Buggy Accident And Arm Fracture
Elsie Walker fell from a buggy and fractured the small bone in her left arm. Dr. Beverly was summoned and promptly set the bones.
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Livry
Elsie Walker
Beverly
Sioux youths finish new manual labor course near Wabash
Fourteen Sioux children completed their study at the manual labor institute near Wabash Indian Territory to prepare for work as schoolteachers or on farms.
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Manual Labor Institute
Wabash
Indian Territory
Our Home Correspondence and Visits Across Town
Mrs Wim McGrath visits friends in Clinton Iowa. Mrs George Person plans week end trip to her sister Mrs Hubbard in Hancock County and will call at Gilbert. Baptist Society ladies host a social with Mrs R Sheehey next Friday evening. Mrs Stailey visiting Ames. Horace Arnold frequent presence in society during holidays. Rev Arnold and Rev Marsh exchange next Sunday. Rev Wilson delivered two excellent sermons last Sabbath.
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Ke.Ley
Wim. McGrath
Clinton, Low
George Person
Flubbard
Hancock County
Gilbert
Ladies of the Baptist Society
R. Sheehey
Ames
Horace Arnold
Rev. Arnold
Marsh
Wilson
Scott's Emulsion Endorsed for Lung Troubles by Dr Simonaud
Dr J Simonaud of New Orleans praises Scott's Emulsion as the finest preparation for affections of the lungs and wasting diseases in an elegant and agreeable form. The ad notes its reliability and suitability for lung illness and wasting conditions.
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J. Simonaud
New Orleans
Louisiana
Scott
Shilohs Vitalizer for Dyspepsia and Digestive Ailments
Shilohs Vitalizer is promoted for constipation loss of appetite dizziness and all symptoms of dyspepsia. Price 10 and 75 cents per bottle. Sold by J H Pickett & Co.
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Shiloh
J. H. Pickett & Co
Weekly Transfers of Real Estate in Nevada Iowa
Weekly report from the Land, Loan and Abstract Office lists transfers of real estate in Nevada Iowa. Transactions include J A FerraTRICK to William Patten lot 7 block 8 with deed fee of 175 dollars, J H Tewin to M C Allen lot 33 85 21 with deed fee 600 dollars, Iowa Construction Co to E M Rod lot 3 block 4 Roland with deed, Julia L Munroe to W C Clark several parcels with deed 80 dollars, Jacob Horner to Ole Halverson lot 1 in ne 17 82 24 with deed 100 dollars, Iowa R R Land Co to Robert Richardson various sections with deed 760 dollars.
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Land, Loan and Abstract Office
J. A. Frrcuratrick
Nevada
Iowa
BE. B. Verry
Wm. Patten
Hearing
J. H. Tewin
M. C. Allen
Iowa Construction Co
E. M. Rod
Roland
Julia L. Munroe
W. C. Clark
Jacob Horner
Ole Halverson
Ned Ne
Iowa R. R. Land Co
Robert Richardson
Wi Swh
Vitality of Great Men Aided by Dr Harter Iron tonic
The article claims vitality can be developed rather than innate and cites observable examples where Dr Harter's Iron tonic aided strength and stamina through persistent and judicious use.
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Dr. Harter
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