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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1879
Page
3
Fisher lo 5. Little WG Vandusen appears in a brief sports or social item with scant OCR text. No clear event, teams, or outcomes are readable.
Appointment for Col Carpenter shifted from Tuesday 16th to Monday 15th. He will speak at Nevada Tuesday and here Monday urging increased Republican majorities as Iowa and Story County follow Maine and California. Local notices mention McCune’s goods, photographs by Compton, saddle and glove trades, a car accident with a thumb injury, and a planned stock sale at the college. A telegraph link connects Ames to Des Moines, with Nevada to gain from the improved route.
The city public schools resume Monday for a nine month term. The fall term runs fourteen weeks and ends before the holidays. Pupils should report to the same rooms as last term.
A buyer from Odebolt paid Wm. Blount for a two year old half blood Percheron filly weighing 1500 pounds. He refused a later offer of 200 dollars, praising the filly as a beauty. The piece also notes a local heat indicator theft and a Sept 7 Ames marriage of Warren Phetteplace to Lena Jacobs. DIED HEDDING QUEAL: 82, former Ames resident, died in Cawker City, Kansas, after years in Chicago.
The note reports that Alexander Bryce, a former prominent Republican and Union League organizer, was shot near his home by longtime political opponents. The incident recalls the Dixon affair and signals ongoing political violence in the region.
All kinds of hair dressing ventilating wigs and tipques offered with a rooter machine to set roots uniformly. Work warranted first class. Shop with Chas Cranshaw and Mas L Cranshaw.
Dan McCarthy of Ames earned first premium for his imported stallion Monarch at the State Fair. Officials report three days of bill settlements with a predicted surplus over three thousand dollars after expenses and premiums. The Iowa gubernatorial voice praises Governor Gear for thrift and honesty.
The Congregational church at Kelley will be dedicated on Sunday September 21 with services at 11 am. Revs Frisby and Adams are expected. invitations extend to all. Also reported is a collision of two C N W freight trains near Ames causing two hours delay. The editorial attacks candidate Graves and defends the Republican stance, citing local political disputes and a condemned act over cattle impoundment.
A large gathering gathered Monday at the Andruss residence to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their marriage. Tin gifts symbolized the decade with items like a tin hat and a wash boiler with copper bottom. Rev. Perkins offered congratulations as friends expressed hopes to attend their golden wedding in 1919.
Fragmented 19th century dispatches reveal campaigns with grandiose rhetoric. Notes itemize locals like Col Harper and Graves amid personal notices of Eugene Favre and Des Moines telegraph moves.
No. 1 two seated wagon for sale by W D Lucas. Wagons to trade for horses. Fifteen new first class farm wagons available for trade for good horses. Sold by Van Valkenburgh & Co. Also a cholera remedy advertised with praise. Joe Coxe.
It offers 117 second hand chairs from Cook's Hall now for sale. All chairs are in good order and priced cheaply.
The piece explores a moralizing essay on going west with advice on choosing a location and the value of civilization, followed by a detailed schedule of Republican meetings across Story County Iowa. It lists townships, schoolhouses, speakers, dates from September 16 to October 13, and urges turnout and attendance by Republicans and Greenback supporters alike.
General Order designates Story county fair grounds in Nevada Iowa as the Soldiers Reunion site. Districting committee fixes September 26 27 1879 for the reunion and directs organized regimental companies and any state soldiers in Story county to report September 25 1870 at 1 pm with blankets cooking utensils and three days rations for further orders.
Rev George H Thayer praises Shiloh's Consumption Cure as lifesaving for lung diseases. He and his wife credit the remedy and endorse its use at a local store. Sold by Thomas McLaim with doctors Match ett and France listed in Bourbon lad dated May 15 78.
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