Ames Antelligencer Subscription Notice
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04 Oct 1884
Page 1
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1884
Page
1
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The text describes Ames Iowa located on the Chicago and North Western Railroad at its junction with the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road thirty miles north of Des Moines. It notes Ames hosts Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with hundreds of students, a well appointed public school, and a large public school building amid productive farming lands surrounding the city.
A scanned roster lists McCarthy Stevens Hays and many firms with trades including dentistry veterinary surgery general merchandise photography millinery boot and shoe dressmaking bakery grocery flour hardware tailoring markets grain and various crafts. Names such as George F Simmons Cooley Ballstone Nellis Kilmer and Staves appear among carpenters masons painters and moving services.
A Jeffersonian style speech outlines Republican tariff doctrine, internal commerce gains, labor safeguards, and a call for industrial growth. It covers protection for American industry, the balance of foreign and internal trade, civil service reform, Mormon polygamy opposition, currency standards, and the need to protect the ballot and national unity. The piece treats economic policy as central to national prosperity and civil harmony.
The New York Tribune notes a condensed Republican tariff plank urging duties on imports to aid American labor and national prosperity. It contrasts with Democratic shifts, arguing workingmen should judge which policy best serves labor interests and broader prosperity.
The article argues presence of mind is learned not instinctive, gained through familiarity with danger. It cites soldiers sailors and medical men, noting experience shapes quick judgment under risk and contrasts reactions in a fire emergency with a complacent mindset.
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