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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1886
Page
3
The notice outlines pricing for local business notices at ten cents per line per week, with a proposed discount to five cents per line per week if continued. It mentions an order from the head of "Business brevities" and a yearly contract with no rate variation except ampersand related terms.
Subscribers in Story County are urged to pay pro rata price differences when changing address. The notice also markets printing services and stationery offerings, mentions chess interest in Ames, and cites political results from Iowa with details on county votes and Republican gains.
Marriage ceremonies held at four miles northeast of Ames with Lewis Carr and Bessie James as couple. Twenty five guests attended and enjoyed refreshments prepared by Mr and Mrs Shaw. Numerous presents listed include silverware and china.
On Saturday October 30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moses three miles east of Ames a surprise party marked their fifth anniversary. Mrs. Hardcastle led the preparations with many helpers as about forty five guests enjoyed an ample feast and later left gifts and farewells.
An old advertisement urges travelers to prepare for variable weather with Sprague's Threat and Lung cure claiming it cures TV and Lung troubles. Wes terman holds the sole Ames agency to supply bottles, offered at about one dollar.
Superintendent Roe visited the public school this week. Dr. Bradley is in the city. Charney Stearns goes to What Cheer as day telegraph operator. Dr. Yeomans preached in Opera Hall Sunday evening. Laura Moulton will teach Gilbert school this winter. Mrs. Root of New York leaves Ames after visiting relatives. Balliet will teach a singing school in Bloomington. Rev. Nash preaches at the Baptist Church next Sunday. Mrs. E. W. Clark has temporarily returned to Ames.
The Till family renowned for European tours and recent North American performances will perform in Ames Friday evening next week at Opera Hall. The quartet Miss Till soprano Miss Annie Till contralto D Till tenor and Wm Till bass will debut the Rock Harmionican a sixty piece instrument with five octave range. Tickets sell at local drug stores and the post office jewelry store.
Miss D E Dix advertises agency for the New Jennie June High Arm Sewing Machine and invites women to call and examine. Notices warn cash or bankable notes for accounts due by January 1 1887 and include a social event at Mrs George Tildens’ home next Friday evening November 12. The Ames Chautauqua Club reports reorganization and local merchants emphasize cash on delivery and prompt job work.
Arrangements are perfected for a telephone line linking Nevada to Colorado, creating a continuous line to the Mississippi. D A Bigelow & Co advertise blankets at right prices. J J Keigley offers to trade a heavy young work horse for cattle. Boone Republicans claim large majorities in state and county races. Overcoats and winter goods advertised. The Circulating Library opens Saturday November 13 with ticketed and per book options. Mrs Best is librarian.
Ladies will find a fine quality of Camel's Hair Underwear at a very low price at D E Dix's Millinery and Ladies' Furnishing Store. Black Cashmere Hose Gloves and Mittens Toboggan Caps and other Wool Goods. Her Millinery Stock is complete with the latest styles of Hats and Trimmings.
Springfield retailer Brad Paxton advertises a full line of stylish dress goods at D. A. Bigelow Co. with emphasis on variety and value for shoppers.
J C Mitchell will hold a public auction on his Nevada Iowa area farm on November 18 1836. The sale features short horn bulls high grade heifers milch cows brood mares colts young horses fillies hogs corn seed cattle and farm machinery. Auction begins at 9 50 a m with Colonel John Scott as auctioneer and bills in circulation for terms and details.
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites is described as a remarkable food that increases flesh and heals throat and lung irritation. Advertised as palatable for adults and children, it claims to aid wasting diseases and act as both food and medicine.
What next? Very likely it will be an incurable case of catarrh or consumption unless you take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and cure your cold. Sold by Il Westerman.
A local auction note lists 500 in a book for sale at Bosworths and Westermans Ames with commission merchants and grain buyers mentioned. The listing indicates a sale at the Ames location and another without specific details.
Review covers baccalaureate and inaugural events at the State Agricultural College. President Chamberlain’s sermon, the welcome by Dr. Wynn, and a large audience mark commencement week. Fellows, boards, and dignitaries attend as theses are praised and the veterinary work of Dr. Stalker highlighted.
An OCR fragment lists patent remedies like Rough on Itch and Rough on Cats and a Wells Jersey City vendor. It also briefly mentions a house and lot for sale in Ames with a request for inquiries. The readable items center on medical cures and a real estate teaser from an old newspaper.
Weekly report lists transfers recorded at the Land, Loan and Abstract Office of J A Fitchpatrick. Entries include Blair T and Sarah J Beverly transferring lot 2 block 29 to Ames, James M Holmes to Holverson for 3000, J Bradley to T J Graham, Mary Jane Blair to Margaret White 100 acres in section 34, and numerous other deed exchanges with sums ranging from 60 to 3000 dollars.
The Independent promotes itself as a comprehensive weekly paper from New York with 32 folio pages and 21 departments. It urges readers to request a free specimen or subscribe for thirty cents monthly, $3 yearly, or $5 for two years, and provides the address 251 Broadway New York City.
The Story County Board of Supervisors met and reviewed late election tallies. Voter figures for Jackson, Sells, Farnham, Lyons, Twombly, Baker, Pray, Eversole, Conger, Carpenter and others show small variations from prior figures, with district congressional results listed alongside.
An advertisement lists subscription options from one month to five years with varying prices and notes attempts to lure readers to subscribe for magazines or newspapers at lower than publisher prices. It mentions The Independent at 251 Broadway, New York.
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