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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1883
Page
5
Tar InTs notes printing office plans to relocate next week to a larger, better lighted Story County space. Miss D. E. Dix offers fresh hats and goods at low prices with prompt, neat, stylish service. Bierton & Hunrixacron advertise drug sundries and a year of Chicago Daily Herald for ten subscribers. Sisson & Green promote Wool Flannels at low prices as next week stock moves to a new building.
A scattered set of Sage Creek era items includes Dr Bevery visiting Odebolt to treat an incurable case, a Talmage quote on child discipline, sales pitches for second hand goods at Thomas & Loud and Sisson & Gheen, subscriptions for Skandinaven and Daily New York Sun, and varied local notices about cows, a farm near Ames, rental space, a missing handkerchief, lamp dealers, new residents, and undergarments at a ladies shop.
Reynolds & Co open a new bea spring factory in the room above Geo. France’s harness shop. Calls to visit the shop and meet the workers. Also notices on farms, houses for rent or sale, and other local business offerings.
Miss Lucy Tillotson to teach at flowing well this winter. Tax Story County Teachers Assoc meets in Nevada Saturday. Cracuir Court with Judge Miracle to convene next Monday. Four new dwellings reported in Cawbridge. Subscriptions offers for St Nicholas and Inter Ocean. Congregational Sunday School seeks Osborn's Palestine map. Sewing Society meets at Mrs Baskett’s next week. Dr Thomas of Chicago to lecture Social Forces in Nevada Thursday. Mrs Fisk withdraws divorce petition. Mrs Sisson advertises millinery stock. low prices. Luther’s birthday observed. Protestant services noted. Mr Turner McLain builds new residence on Milford farm. Painters finish new home. Chicago Weekly Herald ad appears. Sisson millinery stock praised. Premium offers from The Intelligencer and State Register. Subscriptions drive ongoing. local newspaper promotions.
Ole Nelson, host of Brains and Good Sense, spoke at the Nevada road meeting Friday about Palestine Two and the county spending. He noted a $1500 yearly outlay and $26,000 on paper but not on the roads, summarizing concerns over funding.
Garland stoves and ranges are praised for quality and urged for readers to examine their merits. Sold by Bingham & Co. Mr. Samuel Watt had a painful accident while assisting a neighbor to butcher. He fell and struck a marger, bending several ribs and remains bedridden but expected to recover with medical care.
An Ames correspondent reports a humorous note about a woman hiding an empty oyster can and re filling it by the restaurant owner. The writer then provides practical gardening tips on trimming grape vines, warning against trimming during freezes and advising to cover trimmed vines lightly with earth to reduce evaporation.
The schedule lists events for Commencement Week with date and times: Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday November 11 at 2 pm by Prof. W. H. Wynn. Class Day Exercises Tuesday November 13 at 2 pm and address before the College and Board of Trustees by Rev. H. W. Thomas of Chicago at 7 30 pm. Wednesday features a board meeting at 8 am and Commencement Exercises at 10 am with closing examinations throughout the week.
The Intelligencer urges readers to settle small bills of 1.50 to 12.00 promptly as a remedy for hard times. It notes crops in Story County and higher east interest, urging economizing and paying debts to weather economic squeezes. It emphasizes paying little debts first to improve financial readiness.
Mr. and Mrs. Goble spent Sunday in Boone. Several residents announced moves and visits including Geo Sargent purchasing a Kansas farm to move in spring and Mrs Welch's health concerns after a European trip. Trustees of the I A C gather for an annual meeting as Miss Kellogg and others visit relatives in Story City and Webster City.
Farmers gloomy as rain and damp conditions slow corn drying and harvest. William Breezley returns from Colorado claiming a dissolved partnership while G W Barrows comes back content with Cambridge. C Bidwell nearby plans a fine home and hints of a new wife. Town sees building boom, lively fall business, and merchants stocked for winter. Local saloon license remains $500 per year despite a council push to cut it.
A reader summary highlights Iowa News Items, military affairs, and the Twentieth General Assembly with member names and post office addresses. It notes partial election returns from last Tuesday, a full Woman Suffrage Ottumwa Convention report, and diverse features on public domain, nature, exhibitions, graves, and cultural profiles.
The I A C Board of Trustees plans no faculty changes beyond filling inevitable vacancies. The writer urges replacing J L Geddes, praising his decade of service and urging consideration of loyalty and fairness to a respected Christian soldier of the college community.
Officials report the Nevada road convention Friday last produced limited results with no major plan adopted. The public demands better highways and calls for highway repair reform. The Legislature is urged to tackle the persistent road problem and curb wasteful spending under the current system.
A. D. Gaston of Ames is proposed as a doorkeeper for the lower house. An ex Union soldier and First Iowa Cavalry veteran wounded at Vicksburg, he is praised by Representative McCall and Hon. W. D. Lucas as capable and well qualified. Strong Republican backing noted with broad local support.
The entry highlights a widely advertised cough and bronchitis remedy now selling in regular sizes priced at 50 cents and 1.00. It emphasizes market availability and consumer choice for relief from coughs and bronchitis symptoms.
Sam Johns sent a fine Jersey Red pig to Peterson Iowa on Monday and another to Ames today. The Ames pig weighed over 200 pounds at six months. Eidora Ledger notes a Nevada girl explains a door side kiss ritual rooted in a biblical principle. Ellsworth Post Comrades and friends enjoyed Saturday night with addresses from Commander Wilson and Mr Rees. Bigelow is slated as next speaker.
Arrangements with this paper enable students to enter Peirce's Business College in Keokuk Iowa at one half the cost of competing schools. The college promotes a practical education affordable for thousands unable to attend higher priced institutions.
Iowa residents from the Mexican War call a meeting in Ames on November 20 1883 to organize attendance at the National Reunion in Washington DC December 7 to 9 Free rail transport is hoped from Nashville 1881 and Washington hosts to be entertained free of charge L Q Hoecarr chairman. Also notes Breeders Gazette praised for livestock farming coverage and a local accident with Dr Aplin and the Warren brothers on a dark bridge none seriously harmed.
Des Moines resident A. T. McCargar announces candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Binder. A former twice secretary of the State Senate and former publisher of the Spencer Reporter, he now runs the Western Lithograph Company in Des Moines and is praised as a worthy, active Republican.
The court dismissed the bigamy case against E. B. Johnson at the Story county courthouse with all costs to the defendant after witnesses including Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson and County Clerk I L Smith attended. The town hears of a November 15 cheap land excursion to Southern Nebraska offered by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad with half a million acres for sale and guides to choose prime lands near Lincoln.
Local ad endorses Parker's Ginger Tonic as a cure for nervous disorders. The notice urges readers in the area to try the tonic, asserting it has cured many people in the section and recommending it heartily.
The Story City Herald reports a new mayoral appointment in Sr. Patrick and notes events in Sheldahl and Nevada including a temperance society push after a lecture by Dr. Hutchins. It laments the Herald’s decline and discusses the newspaper’s value to community growth, plus local ads and medical cures from Shiloh’s remedies.
A. E. Lucas announces Farm 1 O4ANR at six percent annual interest with optional payments. Nevada date October 23 88. Neuralgia relief claims via Ponp's Extract bath and ten drops every two hours. Immediate toothache relief described. Sold by Edward Barstow Ames Ia.
Advertising note offering farm mortgages at six percent annual interest with principal payable in installments. Borrowers may choose installment plan. From J. A. Fitchpatrick in Nevada Iowa.
If Bosworth and Co do not succeed it is not for want of faith. He has such faith in Dr Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup that he will give a bottle free to each and every one in need of a medicine for coughs colds consumption and lung affections.
John McKinley of Clearmont Indiana reports Dr Wood's Worm Destroyer removed nine worms eleven inches long from his child. He orders seven more bottles for seven neighbors. Sold by Bosworth & Co.
Statements from Papillon Manufacturing Company officers affirm strict honesty and truth in all dealings. The firm, described as legitimate and well-capitalized, attributes its business success to meritorious remedies and sound ethics. Sold through Bosworth & Co and Ed Barstow.
A new treatment for piles is announced by Dr. Deming claiming immediate effect. Barstow Druggist offers a free sample box to prove its healing power and convince skeptical patients.
An advertisement claims Dr. Bosanko's Piles provides instant relief from intense nocturnal itching and can cure all forms of piles including Itch and Salt Rheum. The remedy is sold for a price in cents, manufactured by Dr. Bosanko Medicine Co. in Piqua Ohio and distributed by Bosworth & Co.
Free trial bottle of Marsh's Golden Balsam, a cough remedy, is available to all Ames residents suffering throat or lung ailments at Bradley and Templeton's drug store. Large bottles cost 50 cents and 1 dollar. thousands have been distributed. Also advertised Boop & Liver Tonic for blood and liver health with a sample bottle offered.
Ames druggists secure the agency for Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption and throat ailments. Sold with a one dollar bottle guarantee. Trial sizes free. For sale by Bosworth Co.
An 19th century advertisement promotes Shi loh s Porous Plaster for lame back side or chest at 25 cents Sartor s Coven and Consumption Cure guarantees to cure consumption Sartons Viralizer claims to treat constipation loss of appetite dizziness and dyspepsia with bottles priced 50 and 75 cents Shiloh s Cure relieves croup whooping cough and bronchitis listed for sale by Bradley and Templeton.
An ad promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children claiming it relieves crying, pain, and teething symptoms. It touts a universal cure for fever, diarrhea, and stomach issues, praises a famous female physician, and notes the product is sold by druggists worldwide at 25 cents per bottle.
An early 19th century style patent remedy advert promises a universal cure for burns ulcers fevers skin eruptions and assorted ailments. It guarantees satisfaction with a money refund and states 25 cents per box available at all druggists.
Sample bottle of Brown’s Expectorant available at Barstow’s Drug Store. Claims to cure coughs hoarseness whooping cough and consumption in early stages. Describes as scientific, pleasant to take and harmless. Free Taraxine memorandum books offered.
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