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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1893
Page
3
Train schedule details for routes east west and north south. Includes express and limited trains with arrival and departure times and a note that no other trains carry passengers except Sunday. Official agent Gero. W. no longer specifies additional services.
Neighbors and friends are thanked for help during illness and death of a loved one. Local merchants advertise curtains rockers leather seats and plush swings at Sisson's and the old reliable furniture store of Geo. D. Loud. Zenor & Son promote bicycles and flour. THURSTON SWAN & Co announce sales of cultivators plows and wagons. Adams Bros offer Pure Ohio seed potatoes. Ze nor & Son tout Columbia bicycle stock.
Local notice promotes Sisson's flour as ideal for bread making near Ames. Claims bakers in the area can obtain this flour to improve their loaves and satisfy hungry residents.
The notice lists cultivators stirring plows disc harrows harrows and wagons at low prices. It advertises Zenor & Son bicycles Hebra's Viola cream at Bosworth L M and Sons sugar flour and white flour shipments with a call to return a lost account book.
Local real estate actions include loans negotiated and notes bought. Various properties traded. insurance offerings presented with low rates by HemsTreer and MCLAIN.
Notice states on Tuesday May 16 1893 at 2 pm I will offer for sale the old bridge material one mile west of Ames on the college grade and the old bridge at Worrell's Grove to the highest bidder R W Lippe Ink County Supervisor
Removes lumps blemishes and swelling in horses including spavin splints sweeney ring bone and stifles. One bottle claims to save 500 making it the most wonderful cure. Marketed by L M Bosworth, Druggist, Ames, Iowa with warranty.
An advertisement for the O K Barber Shop touts low prices on haircuts shaving and related services with a list of charges including 10c 15c and 5e items. The message claims the shop offers the best work in the city and is located under Union Nat Bank.
The Des Moines Philharmonic Society reveals plans for a May 16 festival at Calvary Mission Auditorium featuring Sousa's Great Concert Band plus seven vocalists and a leading violinist. Afternoon and evening programs differ with no numbers repeated. Tickets at fifty cents with reserved seats 75 cents and 1.00, seating for 3,500. Advance reservations to G F Selleck.
The Ames community records the May 4 wedding of Seth N. Kingsbury of Rodman Iowa and M Rose Hemstreet of Ames with Rev H J Everly officiating. A May 5 death in Ames occurs for W H Cunningham aged 62 with burial in Ames Cemetery. A letter from Annie Duren of Albuquerque expresses comfort to the Bacon family over son Ray’s death and notes Ray’s final days and supportive locals.
Reports note Janauschek appearing at the opera house on May 13 as a valued entertainment. Carrie and Ruby Fitch of State Center attend the Kingsbury Hemstreet wedding as cousins of the groom. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Congregational church schedules a May 16 meeting with president Mrs. H. Wilson.
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