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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1883
Page
4
A crowded Ames column lists railroad schedules for the Chicago & North Western. It notes a heavy snowstorm, local business updates, meetings including the Dorcas Society, and various notices from residents and stores. It mentions St. Paul Des Moines express trains and local commerce.
The passage notes Ames, Iowa at the junction of the Chicago and North Western and Des Moines Minneapolis roads, thirty eight miles north of Des Moines, housing Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with many students, a fine public school, and productive farming lands. It urges readers to notify the paper of visiting friends or notable events in Story County.
Reap Bigelow Huntington and rivals trumpet low prices and large inventories. Bradley Templeton touts 3000 rolls of wallpaper, while Nourse Bros. push stove wood coal and secondhand wagons. Nor man Doolittle and France offer lumber and plows. Firms boast season styles and guaranteed quality with heavy local competition.
Ames residents learn of a station agent moving into the Maxwell residence once vacated. Bradley and Templeton list a stock of knives and razors. Doolittle advertises Marseilles cultivator and Gent’s Furnishings. Chamberlain notes fever at Union Bank. Nourse Bros offer Bartlett Pears at 10 cents per can. Martin & Webb pianos praised. Notice from township trustees calls for scrapers return by April 7, 1883. Maxwell sells city residence. Norman to move to farm. Brown’s Iron Bitters praised for illness recovery. Boots and shoes inventory shown. Tacketchum Wagon highlighted as best material.
E J Hawley testifies in Mormeona Iowa jewelry trade with M E Wilcox as salesman and full credit given for amicable separation. Egg breaking event by M E Sunday School raises over 140 dollars with 50 plus dollars from the largest donor outside the group. Security Mutual Life Society warns against graveyard insurance schemes and Des Moines agents. M E Wilcox listed as agent doings.
Several items cover local life in Ames including Jack Byers welcoming a new baby, the Ames post office closure for Postmaster General memory, Ezra McCartney as guest of Mrs A H Williams, and L H Scavier’s borrowing scheme. Other notes mention J S Lirree returning from Dakota, Grandpa Williams near death, postmaster resignation at Boardman, fruit crop losses from 1883 winter, and a G A R entertainment by Stuart Rogers with Miss Pearson and the Johnston sisters providing music.
Easter Sunday ceremonies included Genevieve Welch Barstow's obituary with a memorial procession from the President’s home to the college cemetery. The piece notes a quiet, dignified burial with tributes from Professor Wynn and family, praising her purity and noble nature. It also lists a sale notice for a printing office including a Washington hand press and assorted equipment from The Intellencencer.
For sale is the first dwelling house south of the old School House describing E 4 Lots 2 and 3 in Block 6 of Black's 3rd addition to Ames Iowa. The seller offers a small cash payment with the balance on long time if desired. Inquire of Mrs B F Allen Story City Iowa.
A. E. Lucas of Nevada Iowa offers farm loan funding on short notice with Iowa money annual interest and installments as desired. Wanted one hundred head of cattle for the coming season with good feed and water. Also mentions a medical tonic Wilsonia and electricity treatment claims.
An advertisement at Barstow's Drug Store offers Brown's Expectorant with a free bottle and claims it cures coughs hoarseness and lung diseases. The copy notes bottles at 50 cents and 1 dollar and mentions free Paraxing Mamorentnem Books.
Ames Iowa council met in regular session with all members present. Minutes read and approved. Finance committee reported Treasurer accounts balanced, and city funds on hand. John Watts sworn in as Mayor. Sheldon and Read as Councilmen. C. M. Soper as Recorder. W. C. Shockley named City Marshal and G. A. Underwood City Attorney. Bonds approved for Treasurer E R Chamberlain. Committees formed for streets sidewalks and finance. Adjourned to first Monday in April.
Nursery supplies and seeds offered by local agents. M W Quick tin store advertises sharpened shears and moulding. Real estate loans available through Hix and Allen with various terms and security types. Nor. plows promoted by J C Mitchell. Two hundred five acres for sale near College with bearing trees and pasture. inquire W H Fitchpatrick.
J C MircHELL of Nevada Iowa reports a large stock of harrows corn stalk cutters corn planters check rover attachments walking plows sulky plows corn cultivators seeders and other farm machinery items all first class goods now available locally.
M Hemstreet of Ames announces a Real Estate and Insurance Agency offering buy sell and rent services for city and country properties. The office partners with Dr. G A Merideth in Dr Bradley's building and lists bulk seed and farms for sale by C F Wheeler and A E Lucas of Nevada Iowa. November 16, 1882.
The undersigned opens a tailor shop in Ames inviting owl friends customers and new ones to view first class garments. Shop above McDowel's billiard hall west front room Henry Lightner Seed Oate 500 bushels of gray oats weigh more yield more stand up better than white oats R Jones.
A Chicago company markets a simple piano and organ method claiming any person, including children with no music knowledge, can play familiar tunes and learn notes quickly. For $1, four pieces of music are mailed. ad promotes the Iowa Homestead weekly paper as a farm-focused publication for readers seeking tax and monopoly critique.
Bradley & Templeton's drug store in Ames announces another giveaway of Maria's Golden Blood and Liver Tonic for ailments including scrofula rheumatic conditions and digestive disorders. Free trial bottles available. larger bottles priced at 50 cents and 1.00 for returning customers.
An advertisement promotes Marsh's Golden Balm as a throat and lung remedy for coughs colds bronchitis and consumption. It claims two doses benefit and offers a special bottle free.
A nostalgic advertisement promises instant relief for teething pain. It claims to ease dysentery and diarrhea, regulate the stomach and bowels, cure wind colic, soften gums, reduce inflammation, and energize the system. Sold by druggists worldwide at 24 cents a bottle.
Dr Dem ing announces a free new remedy with a single application that claims to convince skeptics of its healing powers. Bars cor machines offer details on its curative qualities and a free trial.
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