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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1884
Page
4
Local business notices set at ten cents per line each week with five cents per line under the head Business Brevities. Marker report from Chicago shows cattle to 6.00, hogs to 5.50, wheat 0.80, oats 0.28. Ames market lists cattle 3.00, hogs 4.00, wheat 0.75, oats 0.30, corn 0.35, butter 0.11, eggs 0.11.
In a presidential year the Intelligencer announces a $1 yearly subscription for new and up-to-date renewals, with $1 for over-paid subscribers at expiration. Existing and other readers pay $1.50 if paid this year, or $2 if paid after the year ends. The offer targets Story county residents and may be withdrawn anytime.
Last Saturday nine flat car loads of black walnut logs passed through Ames for Europe. The logs may be used for fine furniture or veneer and re-shipped to the U.S. as English walnut, a result tied to European starvation labor. The piece questions who pays transportation costs, implying consumers.
A Victorian era patent medicine advert promotes Electric Bitters as a cure for depressed spirits loss of appetite general debility disordered blood and bilious diseases. It claims rapid improvement new life strength and cessation of pain with a purchase at Henry Westerman for fifty cents a bottle.
A Boston paper recounts a villain who captured two cats tied them by the tails and threw them into a church cellar. The cats complained in the middle of a sermon prompting the pastor to call the choir to wait for its services. Wright Ives offer cast iron binders.
Fragmentary lines show player initials and numbers like Baker 6 Nettles 2d Glidden 3, Munden 2d, McDermit 3, Winters, Hackett, Blythe, von Ceskis, Barstow 3, McFadden. No coherent game report or results due to damaged OCR.
Monthly report shows 22 pupils enrolled in Franklin Township District 4 with 19 days taught and an average daily attendance of 17. The roll of honor lists Inez Hunter Minta Tilden Agnes Tilden Earnest Hunter Harry Allen Anna Manges Florence Sawyer Howard Sawyer. Term closed July 11 with Inez Liun terthe the only scholar not absent or tardy. Ella Morris, Teacher.
An 19th century style advertisement promotes a salve claimed to heal cuts bruises ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions and to cure piles with a money back guarantee. Price listed as 25 cents.
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