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Newspaper

Ames Intelligencer

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 08, 1885

Page

2

Transfers Recorded in Week Ending Oct 6 1885 by H L Carreton Agency

Transfers listed include Iowa White to Robert White in Nevada Iowa with $1500. Smith to Michael Carmody partial 3-21 with $500. Silvis to John Seska NE 10 partial. Ringel to Susan Hoggatt NGSBU OGGA IK G Ames with $100. Williams to Mary J Kintzley with 21 bik 10 Ames at $300. Paimatier to Anna De Wilcox lets bik 15 Blair's Add Ames. Jedall to Joseph Widner lot 9 Nevada with $. G Brown Henry and G Brown wd 321 with $10. Erb to Geo A Underwood SW 2nd NW NW SE and lot 4 in NW SE with $41.

Reby H. L Carreton Abstract Man Agency Nevada Iowa White Robert White Smith Michael Carmody Oo Silvis John Seska Susan Hoggatt Ngsbu Ogga Ik G. Ames Williams Mary J Kintzley Bik Joodell Joseph Widner G Brown Henry Brown Zee G Brown Geo A Underwood Lot

Arnica Salve and Cholera Remedy Ad

An old newspaper ad touts Arnica Salve for cuts sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. It also promotes Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as a lifesaving medicine claiming it cures cholera morbus dysentery and diarrhea and protects kidneys or liver. Sold by Palace Drug Store.

Cklien Arnica T & Co Palace Drug Store Hunt's Remedy CO Providence R. I

Advertising Iowa Exhibit at New Orleans Exposition

Commissioner Fairall announces Iowa will more than double its 1910 exhibit at the American Exposition in New Orleans opening November 10 for five months. He says railroads and costs rise, but Iowa’s educational agricultural and manufacturing interests will be shown in a novel format with a larger attendance anticipated.

Fairall Iowa City New Orleans Iowa

Ames Dress Goods Sale At Bretton and Huntington

Fall and winter assortment of dress goods and nations invited to Ames residents to view new lines including dress flannels tricots plain and plaid dress goods underwear notions and assorted items on exhibition Friday and Saturday Goods cheerfully shown Bretton Huntington. Hair cleansing ad promotes Ayers Hair Vigor as best for dandruff scalp cooling and renewed growth prescribed by physicians.

Ames Bretton & Huntington Ayer

Republican State Ticket for Iowa Governor and more

Ames Iowa Thursday morning list of Republican candidates includes Governor WM Larrabee Lieutenant Governor J A T Hull Supreme Court J M Beck Superintendent of Public Instruction J W Akers State Senator 31st District Cot John Scott County Representative Ole Nelson Auditor C G McCarthy Treasurer J A Mills Sheriff A K Banks Superintendent Ole O Roe Coroner J J Hostetter Supervisor R W Ballard and Surveyor R H Mitchell with each position named.

WM. Larrabee J. A. T. Hull J. M. Beck J. W. Akers Republican County Ticket Ole Nelson C. G. McCarthy J. A. Mills A. K. Banks Ole O. Roe J. J. Hostetter R. W. Ballard R. H. Mitchell

Reconstruction Proposals Fit for a Dark Era

The piece denounces a plan to pack the Supreme Court with Democratic judges and to split Texas into several states under coercive rule. It warns that such actions would wield the South’s influence, with a Northern ally added, to seize power and enforce a Confederate political agenda.

Supreme Court Texas

Scott Named Republican Senator Nominee by Boone Story Coalition

The Republican Convention at Boone last week nominated Col. John Scott of Nevada for the Thirty-first Senatorial District. The Story County Convention previously foreshadowed the choice, and the Boone body ratified it, pledging to secure an old-time Republican majority for Scott and uphold the party in the district and the state.

Boone John Scott Nevada Story County Boone County Story Col Scott Col. Scott Republican Party Agricultural College

Whiting and Iowa Campaign Dynamics in Prohibition Era Debate

The report discusses Senator Whiting avoiding a war record focus and notes a strong Republican hold on the state ticket. It cites mixed views on election outcomes in Iowa, reflects on Prohibition and Democratic challenges, and mentions Weaver Moore and greenbackers shifting affiliations amid fusion losses.

Senator Whiting

Not a Single Gray Hair says Mrs J R C of San Francisco

A San Francisco woman writes to a city friend claiming she is fifty and a day with no gray hair. She praises Parker's Hair as Itam made in New York for restoring color, noting it is not a dye and is lightly perfumed. The dressing costs 50 cents.

Industrial education to take its place in schools

A college professor praises practical education as the Northwestern Journal of Education notes the need for experiment and innovation. He predicts a revolution in popular education within five years installing industry as a curriculum element. Also reprints Mr Cragg of Dakota City Iowa praising Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy.

State Agricultural College Northwestern Journal of Education G. W. Cragg Dakota City Iowa Chamberlain

Siege talk and mock bravado from Vicksburg era

A Civil War reminiscence notes picket line banter between Union and Confederate troops at Vicksburg. Soldiers trade taunts about an assault on the 4th, prisoner remarks, and a rebel paper’s rabbit metaphor. The piece ends with an ad praising an actively recommended remedy.

Grant Vicksburg

A Note on Capturing General Grant in 1862

In The Century September issue a diary excerpt from a siege narrative includes a copied note from August 6 1862 at Tupelo. The note warns Captain Gro. L. Baxter of Beauregard Scouts about attempting to capture General Grant, praising energy yet cautioning that failure could be disastrous. The document remains a curiosity of Civil War intrigue.

Grant Vicksburg Jackson Gro. L. Baxter Beauregard

Monument Commemoration Aims at Iowa State Capital

At the Iowa G A R encampment in Senport in April a resolution backed a monument at the State Capital named Iowa's Monument to the Union Soldiers. The Soldiers and Sailors' Monument Association of Iowa formed with officers including Governor as President and J P Bushnell as Gen. Agent. Funds will be raised by lithographed certificates. Des Moines hosts the capitol site with a base shaft and crowning statue depicting infantry cavalry artillery and sailors plus an angel of mercy and a life like General Grant.

Iowa Army Navy Angel of Mercy Sanitary Commission Union Army General Grant J. P. Bushnell Des Moines

Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Provides Croup Relief

In emergency household use the remedy helps a child with Croup. Mrs. Emma Gedney of New York reports rapid breathing relief after small doses. the doctor credited the Pectoral with saving the boy's life. Mrs. Chas. B. Landon of Guilford also endorses the medicine.

Croup Ayer Emma Gedney West 128 New York Chas. B. Landon Guilford, Conn J. Gregg Lowell Mass Mary E. Evans Scranton Crou Wm. C. Reid Freehold N.J

Excursion to Tennessee and Mississippi by Illinois Central

The Illinois Central Railroad offers a Southern Land Excursion to Tennessee and Mississippi leaving Webster City at 11 25 P M October 19 1885 at low round trip rates. A detour via West Tennessee runs about 400 miles through Humboldt Trenton Union City Memphis Somerville Browns ville Milan Paris McKenzie Huntington and Dresden at one cent per mile. Sleeping cars run through to New Orleans for other passengers. Berth applications due by October 15 to J F Merny Manchester.

Tennessee Mississippi Illinois Central R. R Webster City Col. Gates Jackson West Tennessee Humboldt Trenton Union City Memphis Somerville Brownsville Milan Paris McKenzie Huntington Dresden New Orleans Jennings Florida Manchester J. F. Merny Gen. West

Electric Bitters praised by local customer in Girard trial

Mr T W Atkins of Girard Kansas lauds Electric Bitters as satisfying and fast selling. The medicine is touted as purifying blood and aiding kidney and liver ailments at fifty cents a bottle from Palace Drug Store J H Pickett Co. Also announced is a cheap land excursion by Illinois Central R A line to Wayne, Nebraska with a 3 29 a m departure from Webster City on Wednesday October 71st 1885 for sleeping car reservations by J F Merry General Western Passenger Agent.

T. W. Atkins Girard, Kan J. H. Pickett & Co Palace Drug Store Illinois Central R. A Wayne, Pender Startington Neb Webster City J. F. Merry West Ishler C. J. Rhodes Safe Harbor Mishler E. A. Schellentrager St. Clair Street Cleveland

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