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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1878
Page
3
A jumble of shop notices from Thomas Soper & Son offer shoes and ladies slippers, flour from Polk City and car lots, Thayer’s butter eggs and seeds, a tea trade push, and a May wedding bells notice. Auctions and second hand goods fetch modest sums while watch repairs promise satisfaction. Strawberry season nears Iowa towns with fairs and milk festivals drawing crowds.
Thayer has just gotten an invoice for genuine Vermont maple sugar and notes demand is high as it typically stirs strong sales like hot cakes.
Jxo. Couz orders temporary removal and announces plans to burn several thousand brick as the city prepares to rebuild rapidly after the shift. John expects swift development and growth in Story City.
Gorn and France continue full production of harnesses, offering well made goods at low prices. Their efficient operation and fair dealings drive strong sales and growing business in their community.
Central Iowa offers the largest stock of implements at J C Mitchell's Warehouse in Nevada. Potential buyers are urged to examine his assortment before purchasing elsewhere.
McLain bag reports extensive purchases to supply croquet goods. He holds the largest, best and cheapest sets ever offered for sale in the market.
W G Wright offers fencing wire of all kinds including plain and barbed. Customers can buy it cheaper or at least as cheap as any other house in the county.
Ligvrp offers ready mixed paints in all shades at McLain's with white lead oil and paint materials in stock and large quantities.
Inventor J Worrick of Ames Iowa has patented and manufactures a grain separator praised as neat reliable and desirable. The note extends best wishes for his success.
Demolitions began on the old wood structures between Greeley and Soper bricks. A new brick building of 26 by 65 feet two stories high will be started immediately. the Lucas estate will own the property.
A reflection notes the missing winter poems in this year's exchanges and hopes the old quoted line about winter lingering in spring will be forgotten by next year.
During a storm on his way home last Wednesday night Dan McCarthy was in a buggy accident on Squaw Creek bridge. A vivid lightning flash frightened his team causing them to jump the railing and plunge into the water. the buggy was damaged but McCarthy escaped unharmed, described as cast iron proof.
Friday evening the Council passed a resolution instructing the city attorney to draft an ordinance for a sewer across Onondaga street from lot 16 to lot 6 and under the railroads. The cost would be modest, with drainage benefits for Onondaga and Douglas streets, and authorities expect the project to avoid any city debt.
A Nevada letter discusses a peculiar theater ticket incident and a man who used two tickets then charged a woman. It urges proper channels for grievances to the Mayor and Council. The note claims confidential treatment for citizens who object to liquor sales and comments on Eli Perkins and patent medicines.
On a trip from Chicago to Ames John W. Cole meets a dry goods dealer from Council Bluffs who asks him to cash a $500 draft for express charges. Cole refuses as it’s not in his line of business, leaving the messenger disappointed and possibly losing his cut.
Two Illinois gentlemen prospecting a first class hotel in town as we need more lodging. G K Ayers of Ayers and Snider sells local property and plans to move to Ontario. A C McCracken ships harness weekly to meet high demand. R R Paine spoke at Murphy meeting with politics a recurring theme for the Sheldahl Club.
The late Legislature appropriated 85 000 for the New State Capitol and varying sums for the Anamosa and Fort Madison penitentiaries Mount Pleasant and Independence Insane Hospitals the Asylum for the Blind State University School for Feeble Minded Children Orphan's Home Reform School for Boys and Girls and the Fish Commission with details and conditions on school notices and board discretion. C W Von Cozi Superintendent of Public Instruction notes governing board quorum sub district claims and teacher payment timing while outlining notice standards and discretionary powers in student suspensions.
Reports recount seven baptisms at a river service led by Rev. D. D. Proper with spectators on bluffs. Also covered are Grand Junction’s Junction House fire, suspected arson, $400 loss, no insurance, and Manchester’s suspected church arson plot. Additional items note Eldora terra cotta works sale, a Greenback presidential hint for 1880, a Mechanicsville to Sedan name change, and Illinois Central Chicago and Northwestern rail connection shifts effective May 1.
Long term money at reduced interest offered by Tunsex and Everett in the Litozxcer Building Ames Iowa. An improved farm is for sale or trade for city property in Ames or Nevada. A garbled chain of third hand gossip ends with a bakery sales pitch.
An old advertorial claims many Americans die from aspepsia or liver disorders and promotes Green's August Flower as a cure. It urges readers to try a 10 cent sample bottle sold by J. J. Bousquet in Ames Iowa, asserting three doses suffice for relief.
An old advertisement urges readers to treat ailments such as dyspepsia constipation yellow skin loss of appetite and headache with Shiloh's system vitalizer. It promises guaranteed relief and includes a sales claim through A. B. Thomas.
Business men urged to adopt blotter tablets for letter notes and bills highlighting neater organized stationery. The illustrated bound books include blotting pad covers with the calendar year printed and claim exclusive rights in Story county.
A new compilation titled The Home Guide gathers nearly a thousand practical recipes hints and tips contributed by 500 lady readers to the Home department of the Chicago Tribune over the past few years. Never before published in book form it offers more information than any cookbook at its price and emphasizes practical home keeping experiences.
B. M. Watson advertises over 100 strawberry varieties and other seeds from Old Colony Nurseries and Seed Warehouse in Plymouth Massachusetts. Offers 25 packets for 1.00 by mail with prepaid shipping and a wholesale catalog for trade. Established 1842.
An offer announces several half scholarships to Baylies Keokuk Mercantile College to be disposed of cheaply to interested young men who wish to attend a winter term at an institution of learning.
Sixty five acre farm located about one and a half miles east of Ames under fair improvements and good orchards. For details inquire at 42tf Jonux Bovas Box 39 Ames Iowa.
G W Wright holds exclusive Ames agency to sell a celebrated cooking range praised as the best and most complete on the market. The firm invites customers to visit the store to examine the new range which is gaining popularity across the United States.
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