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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1907
Page
5
The old A. B. Parsonage is for sale with inquiries directed to Rev. J. W. Stiverson regarding purchase details and contact.
Nine room house with electric light furnace well cistern and city water available August 1st apply W J Semmons Wanted to rent small house or cottage close in wanted by last of August address the Intelligencer Wanted reliable boy for work in a print shop steady employment at this office at once
Ames in brief reports visitors from Indianola and Winnipeg enjoying trips and the country. Local business changes include W Hunter selling his racket store to a Jewell party and plans to move to Dakota. Interurban service to main street is extended. John Steigerwalt’s hardware business dissolves and he plans to leave Ames in September.
Two bank robbers lodged in the city jail for cafe keeping Sunday. They escaped from Algona jail last March by sawing bars with steel from their shoe insteps. They were recaptured near Marysville Kentucky during a return trip. one robber described as particularly bad, the other new to crime.
Mr J S Brooks who has been in Ames the past weeks has returned to Lucas South Dakota and his ranch. He is pleased with the new home and reports his family well and contented. He thinks crops will be good despite a period of dry weather.
Mr. 8S. B. Frey of Milford township records a $5,000 loss after Montelle, the premier breeding horse imported to America, dies from poisoning after escaping through a stap le door and getting free. The death occurred Friday at 11 o'clock.
Line U K Service Loon Col D J Palmer Nathaniel 8 Ketchum and Dwight N Lewis with state officials inspected the Interurban and Northwestern railroad crossing in Ames Tuesday. They approved the crossing and service may start when the company sees fit. The road is almost ready with cars expected down main street today as ballasting uses 400 cars of gravel, promising first class street conditions.
Ames plans two new city carriers to begin September first 1907 if streets are named and houses numbered. Assistant Postmaster Rich is notified extending the July first deadline. Examinations for August third cover spelling arithmetic handwriting copying geography and reading addresses. Applicants file with J M Shoemaker St Paul MN by August first.
Cambridge reports Dr. P. H. Hanson county coroner grew angry over telephone accommodations at a local office. He joined a scuffle and an operator was thrown from a window. He pleaded guilty and paid a three dollar fine. Operators plan to sue for damages.
The Nevada Journal announced the installation of a Mergenthaler type-setting machine in its office signaling a modernization of its production. The triweekly Iowa publication notes hand composition was too uncertain for a up to date paper and credits the change with growth in circulation and popularity. The Intelligencer praises the Journal’s progress.
A tall Ames resident famed as the city’s fastest talker visits a drug store to praise Bradley cigars. Townsfolk marvel at his sales patter, while the pharmacist calls him a safety valve for the city council and a source of local color.
The ad urges keeping Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at home for cramp colic and cholera morbus. It claims prompt treatment saves lives and cites Loughran Bauer and Joel C. Cagwin as sellers.
The coming week schedule lists Nevada at McCallsburg today, Roland at Story City Tuesday, McCallsburg at Nevada Wednesday, and Stanhope at Ellsworth Thursday. Nevada lost to Story City Friday three to nothing despite solid play.
An old advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup as non opioid and gentle laxative. It claims to drive the cold out by moving the bowels and notes it contains Honey and Tar with a maple-like taste. Sold by C. A. Gamble and favored by children.
A Louisville Courier Journal verse line lists a graduate girl doing many activities. She poses seaside in a bathing frock camps in the mountains yachting and golfing while a youth speaks of love. Her mother cooks as her father toils.
Alexander Talbott aged 82 died suddenly at the W. W. Talbott summer home on Lake Okoboji July 11 after feeling ill at the residence following a walk. Heart failure listed as the cause. Born in Indiana, he had long resided in Iowa.
J. J. Grove adds two automatic weighing machines in his model grocery store. The scales compute weight cost and bulk of items, speeding clerks’ calculations and modernizing furnishings. The piece notes the machines discourage youth from pursuing education in mathematics.
A Connecticut unit clung to its torn flag rather than surrender during brutal Civil War fighting. Surviving soldiers later sewed the fragments to restore the regimental banner, now kept in Hartford. Also recounted: Captain Isaacs and his brothers endure capture and wounds in Kentucky and the loss of their mother in 1862 near Williamstown.
Alfred Isaacs, 73, once a Confederate captain, lies in Indianapolis City hospital and recounts the war’s impact on his brothers who joined the Union army. He recalls a clash at Foxtown Kentucky and learns of his father’s Union trial during the conflict.
Solomon Lanham recalls Civil War battles while traveling with steers on No. 5. In a sleeper car at Topeka he and James Sanderson, once bunkmates, meet decades after their war service. They embrace and plan to travel together toward Oklahoma and Colorado.
Edward Young recalls a 1872 tale from St Petersburg where Baron Rosen asks why a Republican like Greeley ran against Grant. Young reports Grant’s blunt reply that Greeley wanted the office, and Grant did not.
William Casserly of 152 West Randolph Street Chicago was killed by tramps on the Lake Shore railroad tracks and his body dumped into an empty box car. A roll of money missing. letters in the dead man's pocket identified him.
Bulletin No. 98 from the Agricultural Engineering section at Ames compares gasoline and alcohol on heat value, light production, power production, and safety. It cites a 1907 law allowing tax free domestic alcohol withdrawal and notes the bulletin’s findings will interest readers and directs inquiries to Bulletin No. 93 via Rector Chas Curtiss, Iowa Experi.
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