County Republican Convention Delegates Named
The county convened at Nevada to select delegates for the State and National Republican Conventions. James G. Blaine was named as the presidential candidate, with instructions to back his nomination, and Ole Nelson noted for national delegate selection. Delegates include J A King Ole Nelson J L Stevens James Sowers C H Balliet J W Ambrose R W Ballard A Apin J Q Burgess W R Wood H R Boyd.
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Nevada
Collins
Hale
Shearer
Guy Shearer
Franklin
Marshall
Allen
Barnes
Stewart
Grant
Matthews
Beckwith
Stere i
Peterson, Boyd and Erickson
Ichla
J.C. Lovell
Ars
Johnson
Ersland
Apashington
Messrs. Stevens
Fairchilds
Soper
McCarthy
Jones
Rex
Chrisman
J. L. Stevens
W. O. Payne
James G. Blaine
Oley Nelson
Messrs
J. A. King
Ole Nelson
James Sowers
C. H. Balliet
J. W. Ambrose
R. W. Ballard
A. Apiin
J. Q. Burgess
W. R. Wood
H. R. Boyd
Norman and Loud start new Ames furniture firm
Mr. Chariry Norman purchases Mr. A B Thomas’s interest in Thomas and Loud furniture. The community welcomes Norman back to Ames trade and hopes the Norman and Loud firm will prosper supplying residents with elegant goods. AYER’s Cathartic Pills are advertised for stomach and bowel irregularities.
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Chariry Norman
A. B. Thomas
Thomas & Loud
Mr. Norman
Ames
Norman & Loud
Ayer
Fresh milch cow for sale and assorted goods
RB P Shields offers a fresh milch cow. A car of flour from a Topeka mill is guaranteed equal to Winter wheat flour. New stock includes cloaks dolmans and summer wraps. Nourse's sells 12 full kegs of syrup, cigars at L M Bosworth, clothing stock from Bier Low Huntington, and one Emerson piano for sale or trade at Raynor House Ames Iowa.
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Topeka
Kansas
Emerson
Raynor
Ames
Town
Puito Pierce
Towa
Philo Pierce
D. E. Dix
Brazil Nuts and Pecans at 10 Cents Per Quart
Nourse's advertises New Brazil Nuts and Missouri Pecans at ten cents a quart. The copy likens spring to bon fires with scents of dried grass pine boards and roasting rubber overshoes.
American Express Co. Money Orders Offered
The company sells money orders at all offices with receipts issued and refunds issued if lost. Payable at 6,500 places with rates listed as $5.5c, $10-Se, $20-10c, $30-12c, $15c, and $50-20c.
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American Express Co
Breetow HUNTINGTON Pitches Spring Suits and Agents
Farmers urged to buy through Plano and Osborn Self-Binders agents. The note promotes elegant comfortable nobby Spring Suits and highlights Breetow & Huntington as the seller.
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Plano
Osborn
Breetow & Huntington
Oranges and Lemons at Nourse's and More Store News
The column notes 25 cents per dozen for Oranges and Lemons at Nourse's and mentions a new line of Gent's Neckwear. It also cites local political notes naming C. T. Morris as Boone's representative to the Republican National Convention and remarks on orthography of delegates.
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Nourse’s
Gent's Neckwear
The
Register
C. T. Morris
Boone
C. T. T. Mason
Medical Lake Salts and Health Claims Ad
A lithograph of the celebrated Medical Lake of Washington Territory is offered with a box of Medical Lake Salts from the Medical Lake Manufacturing Company. Claims of cures for rheumatism catarrh dyspepsia and other ailments are noted. E S McComas will be in Iowa City until June 1 seeking canvassing agents and offers to mail a box for 50 cents.
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Washington Territory
E.S. McComas
Medical Lake Manufacturing Company
Iowa City
Medical Lake Salts
United States
Canada
Renner Manufacturing Co
Smithfield St
Pittsburg
Trustees Set Meeting Tonight at State Agricultural College
The new Board of Trustees of the State Agricultural College will meet on Tuesday next. Miss Marie Burger sprained her ankle while roller skating at the rink.
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The
State Agricultural College
Marie Burger
Dissolution of Thomas & Loud Co Partnership in Ames Iowa
Notice declares the firm Thomas and Loud Ames Iowa dissolved by mutual consent. Claimants or debtors should settle with A. B. Thomas.
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Thomas & Loud
Ames
Iowa
A. B. Thomas
May Harrer's Magazine outlines mixed arts and science content
May Harrer's Magazine marks the sixty-eighth volume with Howard Pyle frontispiece and illustrations. It reviews portraits of William, Monroe, and others, travel pieces on Kairwan and Fraser to the Columbia, and essays by Mahaffy and Osborn. It also notes immigration, naturalization debates, and diverse fiction and poetry.
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Harrer
Howard Pyle
Closson
Titian
Belle
William
Bismarck
Busch
Schliemann
Mahaffy
Monroe
Rufus King
Henry Clay
Col. Higginsons
Kairwan
Tunis
A. F. Jacassy
Fraser
Columbia
Ernest Ingersoll
Rideing
Bank of Engand
Wm. Black
E. P. Roe
Abbey
Dielman
Gibson
Alfred Parsons
Wm. Sharps
Dr. Jeffries
Paris
Journal Des Debats
Brander Matthews
Parker's Ginger Tonic Restores Health for Pain Sufferer
I limped about for years with a cane and could not bend down without ex cruciating pain. Parker's Ginger Tonic effected an astonishing cure and keeps me well. It is infallible. M Guilfoyle, Binghampton NY.
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Parker
M.guilfoyle
Binghampton
N.Y
Beautiful Iowa tribute by 8 H M Byers volume review
Porms details 8 H M Byers poet soldier and American Consul at Zurich who wrote Iowa themed verses. The piece praises his volume as touch ing droll and moving with a celebration of Iowa and its people. Sale info lists Cupples Upham Co Boston as publishers offering the book.
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Porms
H. M. Byers
Sherman
Byers
Iowa
Resaca
Kenesaw
Atlanta
Savannah
Byer
Zurich
Switzerland
Lowa
Towa
Cupples, Upham & Co
Washington Street
Boston
Southern Land Excursion to Tennessee and Mississippi
The Illinois Central Railroad announces Land Excursion No. 5 on May 7 1884 with low round trip rates to Jackson Tennessee for the State Horticultural Meeting May 9 10. An Old-Fashioned Barbecue will be hosted by W H Andrews of Vicksburg May 12 14 and a Grand Farmers and Dairymen’s Convention will be held in Nashville under Capt A J McWhirter. Tickets allow stopovers south of Cairo in both directions. Premium lists and circulars available from J F Merry Manchester Iowa.
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Southern
Illinois Central Railroad
Tennessee
Mississippi
Jackson
Mississippi Delta
W. H. Andrews
Vicksburg
Nashville
A. J. McWhirter
Cairo
Tenn
Mississipi
Manchester
Iowa
J. F. Merry
West
How James Ross Gold Watch Cases Are Made
A summary of the James Ross process for making watch cases begun in 1854. The only case made under this process uses genuine gold plates of standard quality and thickness, with wear parts like bow crown and hinges in solid gold. The firm Rend and cent stamp to Keystone Watch Case Factories in Philadelphia for an illustrated pamphlet on how these cases are produced.
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James Ross
Rend & Cent
Keystone Watch
Philadelphia
Keystone Watch Cares
Pond's Extract Popularity Outshines Other Medicines
The Indianapolis Journal notes Pond's Extract remains unmatched in popularity after fifty years. It relieves sprains bruises burns and common ills instantly and safely without a doctor's aid. Physicians endorse it and use it in practice, making it an indispensable home remedy.
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Jalianapolis Journal
Marsh's Golden Balsam Promises Quick Throat Lungs Relief
Advertisements praise Marsh's Golden Balsam for throat and lung ailments with testimonials from Chas F Lee Eldridge & Son J W Brown and notes that Bradley Templeton Ames druggists stock Marsh's Golden Balsam and Marsh's Golden Blood Liver Tonic in large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar.
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Chas. F. Lee
St Joseph
Eldridge & Son
Thayer
Kansas
Marsh
J. W. Brown
Kansas City
Bradley & Templeton
Ames
Wright Ives Advertise Iron and Wood Pumps at Warehouse
Wright and Ives advertise as headquarters for iron and wood pumps. Grand Detour Plows and Cultivators at Shields and Cook’s. M Hemstreet offers farm and city property for sale at a bargain. Strawbride Seeder shown at Wright Ives’ warehouse. Call and see one in operation.
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Bingham & Co
Wright & Ives
Shields & Cook’s
M. Hemstreet
Cail
Crown Jewel
Maxwell & Son
Farm loans and cheap farm implements advertised
An 1883 notice from A. E. Lucas offers farm loans at 6 percent with optional payments. G. Shields & Cook promote affordable wire and implements. Wright & Ives advertise John Deere cultivators and a range of garden tools. Rosworth & Co. and Ed Barstow sell Papillon Skin Cure for scrofulous skin diseases.
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G. Shields & Cook
Rosworth & Co
Barstow
Great Bos worth & Co Drug Store Sample Rush
The store advertises a rush caused by free distribution of sample bottles of Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup, touted as a popular remedy for coughs consumption and bronchitis. Regular sizes are 50 cents and 1.00.
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Bosworth & Co Prug
Dr. Bosanko
Papillon Skin and Catarrh Cures Marketed by Agents
Bosworth Co and Ep Barstow promote Papillon Skin Cure Papillion Catarrh Cure and Papillon Cough Cure described as remedies of superior merit The Boss harrow also offered for sale by Wright and Lves to farmers and buyers
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Bosworth & Co
Barstow
Bosworth & Co. and
Ep. Barstow
Wright & Lves
Bosworth & Co Promises Free Cough Medicine Bottle
A note suggests Bosworth & Co offers a free bottle of a remedy for coughs colds consumption and lung ailments to anyone in need. The claim implies a charitable or promotional gesture to attract customers and spread their medicine.
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Bosworth & Co
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Paul Ifpson
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RB. P. Shields
HoeTcHinson Bros
M. & A. J. Sweeneys
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Biegelton & Huntington
Nourse
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Ilvutchinson Bros
L. M. Bosworth’s
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Adams
W. M
Belland
Britta O
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Geo. E
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Fuller
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Prof
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J. M
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Mannittsen
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Biert Low
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New York State
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Henry Boyd
Frank Loucas
Clark
Minnesota
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Gilbert
Harrie Porter
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Dorcas Society
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Sheldah
Frank Spaulding
Geo. Tilden
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Bere Saloon
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Paxton
Christian Ladies’ Sewing Society
S. B. Sexton
D. D. Proper
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Kelly
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Franklin Township
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Baptist Church
J. C. Cook
Freeport
Ill
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George A
Des Moines
Marshalltown
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Mas
WM. Brownscrrpe
Raynor House
Gro. D
William Strong
North American Review
Edwin P. Whipple
Matthew Arnold
Richard A. Proctor
Gerrit L. Lansing
Henry F. Osborn
Princeton College
Helen Kendrick Johnson
William Godwin Moody
J. Laurence Laughlin
Harvard University
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DeLand
Marshall Times
Eliza Evens
Upper Derby
Delaware County
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T. C. Miller
T.C
American Manufacturing Company
Waynesboro
Orange Judd
Ajmerican Agriculturist
Ile
Mr. Judd
Ilinois
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Ira Baker
John Queal
Daniel Crambler
Guy Starr
G. W. Ashton
Ed. Barstow
Mate Butler
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A. E. Lucas
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John Deere
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Garden City
Gorham
Wright & [Ves
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Frank Wison
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Rockford
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Story County
Lewis Charison
Hannah Charlson
Thomas F. Jones
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George Jones
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J. A. Savitts
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Lunes
Joe Davis
Ames and Vicinity
Miller
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Ames, Iowa
C. & N. W. Railroad
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Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Clinton
Here
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Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company
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Queen City Suspender Co
Cincinnati
Tor
Queen City
Main Street
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