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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1893
Page
7
Mercy Douglass grows ill while Prof. Franklin's family head east for winter. Various residents including K. Ieer, Miss Wingate, Miss Emma Boyd, and Miss Winona Douglass travel or visit Ames relatives. Officials attend meetings in Des Moines and Webster City. Cochran family welcomes a granddaughter. real estate deal closes as B F Finchem acquires a farm near Gilbert.
An assortment of local advertisements details products and services from Ames Drug Co Ames Hardware Grove Bros Thurston Swan & Co and Hamilton Co. offerings include Hazel Cream violins instruments repairs footwear heaters apples buckwheat syrup old papers and select farm lands in South Dakota Nebraska and Kansas via Northwestern Land Company. Des Moines mail order and business connections highlighted.
Mrs Gilchrist visits Zenorville on Saturday. Miss Virginia Corbett returns to Nebraska after college in Ames. Mr and Mrs Geo Jones and daughter Lennie visit Maxwell Newton and nearby towns. The K P s host an informal reception at their castle hall. Dr H C Hawiey arrives to set up in Ames above the post office and will move his family here. The public library needs funds and support.
All interested in the public library movement should attend the Congregational lecture room next Tuesday evening at 7 30 for the meeting and discussion.
Chas. A. Gardner and his company delivered the finest opera house performance in years drawing a strong crowd. Patrons paid 50 and 75 cents for admission and left satisfied with the show.
The notice touts Best and Seal of Kansas as two of Ames area’s finest flour brands. It proclaims the store as headquarters for flour and invites customers to compare prices with other brands like Boston Rubber Shoe Co’s products at Canier Bros. & Herman's.
We are prepared to saw logs up to sixteen feet long and will not take custom work after starting spring fence production. Bring logs in early to ensure service before manufacturing begins. Northwestern Fence Co. advertises fence work and wood processing.
The Chalk Talk by R F Y Pierce at the Tabernacle M E church impressed listeners with skilled use of chalk to illustrate and complement his spoken sermon. The Ames Baptist church hosted a similar event on November 17.
The Kate Baker Concert Company, a female brass band, arrived late due to missed connection. The audience was small and the performance did not seem to impress with notable merit.
A brief promotional note touts No-to-Bac as a harmless guaranteed tobacco habit cure offered by The Sterling Remedy Co. Indiana Mineral Springs Ind. Free book and mail orders are advertised along with a sales location. Also mentions Hebra's Violank and L. M. Hosworth's advertisement.
To the neighbors and friends who so nobly stood by us in our time of sickness and to the old comrades and the ladies of the W. A. C. for their honor at our dear girl’s funeral we return our sincere thanks. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bingman.
A historical trade advertisement asks if an idea is valuable and patentable and directs readers to contact DuBois & DuBois Patent Attorneys in Washington for guidance.
The twenty fourth annual meeting of the Southeastern Iowa Horticultural Society will be held at Read s Hall in Ames from December 5 to 7. The program is extensive and inviting. Hort iculturalists from across Iowa will attend, and Ames residents may host visitors. Prof N E Hanson will supervise exhibits and answer questions. A few programs remain at the office.
Notice advertises tooth extraction at C. E. Hunt dental parlors with claim of painless service and no extra charge for the procedure.
One first class stove wood base burner and one new delivery wagon. Riverside Peoria and Lexington cook stoves praised by Thurston Swan & Co. The Ames Drang Company offers musical instruments and repairs next to Bigelow Smith. Hard dry stove wood priced at 1.75 per cord by Zenon & Son. Highest market price paid for butter and eggs by Adams Bros. Odontunder.
The Ames W C T U expects Mrs M A Holmes of Marshalltown to speak on Benedict Home Work and Rescue Work at the Congregational lecture room on Friday November 17 at 2 30 PM. She is regarded as an engaging speaker and the ladies are invited to attend.
The Meekers thank friends for kindness and sympathy in their hours of sorrow. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company will visit the town for two weeks starting Monday evening November 27 with part of the performances free to the public.
C G Leecing longtime Ames area resident died Saturday November 11 1893 from dropsy at age sixty five. Funeral at his residence Monday 10 am conducted by Rev H J Everly and Rev Brown with local choir. burial in Ontario cemetery. He was born in Sweden and left a widow two sons and a daughter surviving.
A state geological survey calls for soil samples from infertile soils to analyze essential plant nutrients and saline excess. Prof Calvin, chief, directs collection of samples from barren or spot infertile lands, urging towns to report total area and degree of infertility and to volunteer sample collection before ground freezes.
The Intellicencer and the Des Moines Weekly Register are advertised together for a single annual price of $1.50. Readers are urged to subscribe to both papers as a combined deal.
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