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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1880
Page
3
Local notices report grass and items for sale at Bingham Co and J C Mitchell, stock shipments, new books, uniforms, tools, and farm work. Circulation includes artesian well talk, circus coming to Ames, school and college updates, law and county news, and farm horticulture tips.
The Chicago & North-Western Railway plans excursion round trip fares from all stations to Chicago and back for the National Republican Convention on June 2. Tickets go on sale May 50 to January inclusive and are valid to June 5. The piece also notes college music and cadet honors, plus a $500 appropriation for an electric light machine at the Physical Laboratory.
The Van Amburgh & Co. great menagerie merges with Frost's Roman Circus for 1880 and will pitch thirteen tents in Ames on Tuesday June 1. The 60th year marks the oldest wild animal show worldwide now boasting broader variety and a 250 person crew with nearly 100 performers including twelve equestriennes and a famed female hurdle rider.
On Tuesday about 5 p m the Waterbury residence in Swede Point was burned down, the largest dwelling in town, with most furniture lost. The family was away. the stove is blamed. This marks the third fire in months. Loss about 500 dollars, insured for 159. A loaded gun discharged as the building burned, wounding a sleeper but causing no further harm.
Sr. Nicholas for June 1580 presents outdoor summery content across poems and prose with seventy two pictures. It highlights Olive Thorne Miller's account of The Summer Home charity by the Children's Aid Society at Bath New Jersey with seven pictures by Jessie Curtis. It also includes Daniel Beard on camping cheaply and three serials Jaca and Jill Alcott and The Fairport Nine with illustrations. The issue has five complete short stories, all illustrated.
The Van Amburg company brings the Great Golden Menagerie and Noman Circus Colosseum to Ames on Tuesday June 1. The show features the largest elephant in America, twenty nine cages of wild animals, 100 equestrians and gymnasts, wittiest clowns, and dazzling performances promising strong patronage.
A special execution issued in Story County Iowa from the April 20 1880 judgment of James Braley against Fannie Coulter forests upon all of Coulter s interest in Lot 8 Block CC Burns 2nd Ames. On June 10 1880 at 11 a m the sheriff will sell at the Nevada courthouse door for cash to satisfy debt 112 75 costs 1045 attorney fee 25 60 and accruing costs to the highest bidder.
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