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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1886
Page
3
Local business notices are charged ten cents per line per week and five cents per line per week if continued. the head of Business Brevities should order at five cents per line per week. No rate changes except by yearly contract.
Subscriptions in Story County whose readers move outside the county should pay the pro rata difference between 1 and 1.50. Jon Work offers printing services and stock stationery. Ellsworth Post reports a profitable open meeting with speakers Moulton Geddes Miller and O Bren, noting an amusing incident about the Chaplain.
The Des Moines Daily State Register is recommended as the best daily newspaper in Iowa. It is delivered in Ames at 8 30 a m and available with a subscription offer combining The Intelligencer and Weekly Register for one year at two dollars, with further details for local delivery and political alignment noted.
The article explains how the phonograph evolves into a practical reporting tool. Edison’s toy years give way to Bell’s waxed paper cylinder, promising accurate repetition of speech and preserved tone. The device could record meetings, debates, and letters for later transcription and even convey emotion in transmission.
A Garretsville, Ohio man touts Papillon Catarrh Cure as the last resort for his wife's chronic throat catarrh. He claims she is now fully cured after using the flax extract remedy, with large bottles priced at one dollar and marketed by druggists.
JJ H Queal Co urges immediate settlement of old accounts. D D Dix launches Coronet Corsets at 1.00 and Ladies Favorite Corset Waist with extensive hat and millinery inventory. Marshall County inaugurates a new court house with ceremonial openings praised as one of the state’s finest. Also ads for letter and note head printing, Good Enough Family Oil Can, and a help-wanted notice seeking a good house girl in Ames.
W. and R. announce that all customers will receive account statements on December 1. Settlement is required at that date by cash or note. All past due notes must be settled. no credit will be extended to those with unsettled balances.
D. A. BieELow & Co. require all outstanding balances settled by cash or note prior to January 1 1887. The firm stresses prompt payment to avoid collection actions.
Nevada photographer Hamilton offers a free half dozen panel photographs with every order of a dozen cabinets through January 1. Limited time before the holidays. Satisfaction and quality guaranteed.
A Ft. Dodge woman used her wire bustle to cage a captured squirrel while her companion held it. The odd incident draws remarks on female ingenuity as a humorous local tale. Also noted is J J Keigley offering to exchange a heavy work horse for cattle. A barber lures waiting customers with "next in three minutes" while chairs are full.
Now is your time to procure winter goods as D A Breetow and Co invites patrons to view a very complete assortment and extended selection. The notice requests respectful patronage from customers.
D. A Braxton and Co invites go to their store for first class blankets overcoats suits odd pants vests hats winter caps underwear and furnishing goods all new and neat Prices always right. Give us a squint.
The Tur INTELLIGENCER and the State Register offer a one year subscription for $2 paid in cash in advance.
A playful word riddle explains removing letters from Hank to reveal related words like a bit and it. The punch line: to rid yourself of a bad habit you must throw it off altogether, highlighting a gradual letter removal sequence and a final message.
An nostalgic note on Castoria used across family stages from infancy to motherhood. The text evokes a long running association with the product as a comforting caregiver across ages.
A Boone telephone subscriber used yearly election returns to gamble among townships and laid bets among the voters. His wagers paid off as official results confirmed his guesses, collecting enough to cover his annual rental. At least one man believes telephones are a useful invention.
Thanksgiving is noted with turkey and cranberries while warnings and weather talk fill the page. The piece mentions rising eggs prices, scarce water, and a severe winter forecast, interwoven with reflections on mortality, family life, church services, and a local benevolent committee idea. It also advertises a Homhey publishing catalog and notes Thanksgiving services at the Congregational Church.
McElroy’s vivid battle description in The Red Acorn is praised as among the war’s finest fictions. The 14th army corps badge inspires the title, and the first chapters will run in The Intelligencer mid December. The volume costs $1.50, or the paper offers the whole year for $1 with additional content.
Local social notes recount Thanksgiving dinner at the Giddings in Mason City. Milo Manning takes charge in Rollins Wyoming while Captain Jones attends his sick wife. Howard McLain brings back deer and antelope from Nebraska. Des Moines Homestead mentions retirement of Prof Thyma and plans for Prof Holstein to California.
The writer laments reserved seat mixups by ushers and urges better handling to prevent future annoyances and boost receipts. On the 10th, over fifty relatives gathered at Mr and Mrs John Noble’s residence northeast of Ames to celebrate their fourteenth anniversary with dinner and many gifts including bed spreads, glass dishes, towels, and assorted keepsakes from family and friends.
The piece argues towns fail more from lack of business confidence than external rivals. It urges optimistic effort to build up the town, noting hopeful, proactive citizens attract investment while doubt drives people away. It calls residents to consciously create a lively, progressive community.
The subscription price is $1.00 a year in advance and $1.50 if not paid in advance, a rate that will always be charged.
Capt Coleman and his crew on a schooner report instant relief from sleeplessness and chest soreness after using Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption. His children also felt the benefit from one dose. Free trial bottles available at L M Bosworth Drug Store.
Hon. Charles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, died at his Mount Vernon Street home. Born in Boston August 16, 1807, he graduated from Harvard in 1825. He served five terms in the Massachusetts legislature, two in Congress, was minister to England from 1861 to 1868, and ran for governor in 1876. Funeral held at Quincy on Tuesday.
Dry goods dealers report constant sample requests for silks plush ribbons and fabrics as young ladies collect pieces to make holiday quilts and mats. The practice has become so common that some merchants refuse to cut samples at all to curb the trend.
A historical note lists portraits on currency: one dollar with Martha Washington and earlier dollars featuring Washington Jefferson Jackson Webster Hamilton Franklin Lincoln and others. Silver certificates show Morris Decatur Everett Sumner Marcy and more. Gold notes include Garfield Wright Benton Lincoln Hamilton Madison Jackson.
A correspondent from Pocahontas notes the town longs for a railroad monopoly to end its thirst and hunger under a soulless corporation. The piece contrasts two counties without lines to those with rail access, citing residents’ curiosity as a driver of action.
The Till Family provided entertaining performances in the Opera Hall on Friday night. The fairly filled room housed a refined audience as the program offered top quality entertainment, making the evening rare and highly interesting for those in attendance.
Rev Mr Moulton opened a set of Sunday sermons on the Labor problem with continuation planned for next Sabbath. The speaker is regarded as capable of explaining the knotty issue affecting capital and workers. Mr A J Hunter of near Ames died Thursday night of typhoid fever and was buried Sunday. He was about 45, a good citizen, leaving a family and many friends. The Greene Press notes farmers in Pleasant Grove suffer losses from poultry thieves. The Dorcas Society will meet Wednesday December 1 at Mrs W G Wright.
Gen William Vandever, formerly of Dubuque, has won election to represent Stockton California in Congress confirming a new coastal district representative.
Harper's Magazine announces 1887 offerings including Marka a Russian life novel by Kath leen O’Meara April Hopes by W D Howells Southern Sketches by Charles Dupley Warner and Respecca Harpine Davis social studies railway problem articles and new illustrations by Gibson Roy Parsons and Rsppey.
Harper and Brothers announce subscriptions for their magazines including Harper's Weekly Bazar and Young People with postage to the United States and Canada. They offer bound volumes for three years at 3000 per volume with cloth cases 50 cents, and an Almanac index from 1850 to 1885 at 400. Remittances via money order or draft to avoid loss.
Harper's Weekly proclaims itself the leading illustrated news paper in America with strong public esteem. It promises pictures, serialized novels, short stories, poems, and papers by popular writers, aiming to remain a safe and welcome household visitor in the future.
Fragmentary Harper's pages listing magazines and library price details. Includes Harper's Weekly Harper's Magazine Harper's Young People and Franklin Square Library One Year subscription information and regional references United States and Canada.
The advertisement notes volumes of Harper's Weekly begin with January and outlines subscription terms. Three years back bound volumes in cloth binding are offered by mail or express, freighting up to one dollar per volume, at seven dollars per volume. Cloth cases priced at one dollar each postpaid. Remittances by post. Nsers restricted from copying without Harper & Brothers order.
An old advertise promising relief for Coughs Cols Asthma Bronchitis and Consumption touts Sprague's cure as sovereign. H Westerman offers trial bottles free and sells large sizes 0c and 1 for sale by H Westerman.
The Century offers an illustrated monthly with 225000 circulation. It features The Life of Lincoln by Nicolay and Hay, Gettysburg coverage, naval and prison life stories, novels by Stockton Cable Foote Hawthorne Eggleston and others, plus articles on Russia Siberia and the Labor Question. Subscription $4 a year or 4 cents a number. Send for catalogue and back numbers. Mention this paper. The Century Co New York.
Announcement of The Ideal Magazine Sr Nicholas a yearly 3.00 subscription with 2 cent per issue option. Highlights include serials by Louis M Alcott Frank R Stockton Mrs Burnett and Frances Courtenay Baylor war stories by Gen Badeau and various short articles and child sketches from Geo lot. Numerous notable contributors are listed with a focus on youthful readers in the centenary company publication.
Our Home Correspondence reports blizzard warnings and social visits in Story County. Mrs Rawson’s sister from Colorado visits, and Mrs Hetlestaeter dies after weeks of illness. School begins eight miles southeast next Monday, and Philomathean Literary Society forms with officers Harper, Meyers, Remnius, Snider, and 1 critic. Clara Shannon of Audubon visits W H H Myer.
Weekly report lists transfers in Nevada and Ames involving Keeney, Schultz, and Ulm with parcels in Black's and Blair's additions. Also notes cures for drunkenness and coughs with Golden Specific and Shiloh remedies, plus local medical advertisements by H. Westerman.
The notice lists bound volumes of HABAbi viAtiee and BAZAR volumes with January numbers. It states current pricing and ordering terms, including shipment methods and free freight up to a limit per volume, with a stated $700 per volume price.
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