Local Tax Notice on Penalty and Advance Payment
A notice outlines charges of 150 dollars per bin and two dollars annually if unpaid in advance. It specifies two dollars in advance if sent out of county.
09 Jul 1885
Page 1
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1885
Page
1
A notice outlines charges of 150 dollars per bin and two dollars annually if unpaid in advance. It specifies two dollars in advance if sent out of county.
Advertising rates listed for five line cards and standing ads with monthly changes. Local business lines priced at 10 cents for first insertion and 5 cents for each additional line per insertion. notices mass mailed as second class matter in Ames.
Ames lies on the Chicago and North Western Railway at its Des Moines and Minneapolis line junction thirty six miles north of Des Moines. It serves Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with hundreds of students, a well appointed public school, and a large public school building. Surrounding farms produce abundant crops and fruit.
GEO A UNDERWOOD attorney offers practice in all U S courts for the District of Iowa at Union Bank Ames Iowa. C A Beverly M D o m c e o p a t h i c physician and o t h e r services listed.
A Chicago Current verse praises various figures from a sewing girl to the honest boy and the man of might. It extols endurance, labor, and virtue amid hardship, urging public praise for those who toil, fight for rights, and face death with dignity.
Susie Guthrie and her brother Guy leave wealth for country life under Aunt Sophronia. George Maynard, loyal friend, plans a future with Susie. Minnie Little inflates gossip, sparks a mistaken engagement rumor, and reveals true love when truth uncovers a pen slip.
The piece lists expected female duties from dress and sewing to managing a household and caring for children. It contrasts Mrs role with male attitudes and jokes about hair, corsets, and daily chores, ending with assorted light quotes and poems about everyday life and skating scenes.
A historical portrait lineup highlights Capt. Freda H. Marsh United States Marshal for the Northern Illinois District with background on his Civil War service and local roles. The column also sketches a literary tribute and brief notices about physicians editors and legal officials, plus a profile of Sir Julius Benedict and his career in European and American music life.
Mrs Mangos and Mrs Pebley discuss a husband who insists on picking beef at the butcher’s every morning regardless of weather. He rises before dawn to ensure meat is chosen personally, sometimes returning with nothing. A frostbitten morning swap at a saloon follows, ending with Mangos joking about forgetting the meat after a few drinks.
A Chamber's Journal excerpt presents a temperance reformer asking a beggar if he drinks. The beggar answers yes and asks where to go for alms. The fragment conveys moral testing in a historical charity context.
A streetcar driver complains of women delaying his route and takes aim at their seating choices. A young man notes the broader selfishness of some men and women as passengers, while later reflections explore the behavior of shop girls. The piece shifts to scientific notes on whale anatomy and movement, including breaching and the panniculus carnosis, and contrasts it with human limitations in buoyancy and swimming.
Two ladies contended for precedence in the court of Charles V. They appealed to the monarch who awarded the eldest should go first. Such a dispute was never known afterward.
The swallows spend winter in Central America and southern Mexico and appear in the southern states by February, rarely reaching New England until May. Robins winter in the southern states and northern Mexico, forming flocks in the Gulf States where they are often killed in large numbers. The migratory instinct is weaker in robins, and in Ohio they may remain in sheltered places all winter, strongly attached to familiar spots.
The Brooklyn Eagle details Rev John Wesley's romantic misfires in Georgia and England. It recounts his entanglements with Mrs Williamson, Grace Murray, and John Bennett, plus his eventual marriage to a wealthy widow.
A San Francisco Post item recalls a street conversation between schoolboys about catching fish yesterday. An English sister writes that one to three months of hard work cures sentimental girls who take up nursing as a fancy.
A long-winded survey discusses mask styles, origins, and costs. It notes the drop mask remains dominant for comfort and disguise, with French production favored over German. Modern wire masks imitate faces and even allow eating or smoking through openings.
A narrator likens changing a stubborn husband to finishing impossible tasks. The line suggests that individuals resist admitting fault to spouses, equating honesty with an unattainable goal and highlighting the futility of forcing accountability in marriage disputes.
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