29 Sep 1892
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1892
Page
1
The Intelligencer published in Ames Story County Iowa lists subscription terms of 1.50 dollars per year payable in advance. The notice is issued Thursdays by HH and S HK Wilson.
County Officers and Board of Supervisors listings for Taos include names such as J Minin H C Direa Q G Ashford H Chamberlin Franklin Two John Johnson Palestine Two Sherman Two Parley Sheldon A B Maxwell Chamberlain John Hoggatt and other city officers. The document records auditors clerks treasurers superintendents surveyors coroners and district court roles with multiple nominal entries.
Sunday morning services at the Methodist Episcopal Church are followed by a Sunday school session. A midweek meeting is scheduled for Wednesday evening at 7 30 with Pastor R W area leading.
The notice announces Baptist church services every Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. A prayer meeting is held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Sunday School follows the morning service, and Christian Endeavor meets an hour before the evening service. Pastor M. Rickman is listed.
The schedule lists 1:00 and 7:30 p.m. services with Sunday School after the morning service and a prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m. The announcement names Pastor Douglass.
The church invites the public to worship with the United Brethren on Sundays and weekdays. Morning service at 1 and evening service at 7 30. Sunday school at 10. Union praise at 3 30 p m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Pastor Braon Clank delivers the sermons.
The text lists services led by Pastor J. K. Hester with morning worship at 11 and evening at 7 30. Sunday School is at 12 noon and Wednesday prayer meeting scheduled in the evening.
Acadia Lodge No. 249 A F and A Masons set regular communication on or before the full moon. F J Wear serves as Worshipful Master and L M Bosworth is secretary.
Dr A Beverly A M D and Surgeon, the only Homeopathic graduate in Story County, operates an Ames clinic above Union National Bank with offices open at all hours.
The New York Press reports George Ticknor Curtis, a leading Democrat on constitutional law, stating protection for American industry is constitutional and beneficial. He condemns party leaders for denouncing Republican protection, urging independent thought amid labor market and industrial growth concerns.
National church report shows 2,790 counties and territories with representation in all but 485. It lists 25,861 organizations and 22,844 churches with seating capacity 6 302 708 and total valuation 96 723 408.
The Illinois Central Railroad has established a through sleeping car service between Chicago and Memphis. Trains depart Chicago at 8:00 p m and arrive Memphis at 4 50 p m the following day. Return departures from Memphis are at 8:05 a m arriving Chicago at 7:20 a m the following day. For circulars contact local ticket agents or J F Merry Assistant General Passenger Agent Manchester Iowa A H Hanson General Passenger Agent
The piece notes a transfer of ownership from John L. Sullivan to James J. Corbett. It also reports the upcoming nationwide introduction of a simplified postal money order system allowing payments from one cent to three dollars with minimal writing, endorsed like a check, guaranteed by the government.
A handwritten reminiscence describes picking green tomatoes before a cold snap, wrapping them in paper, and storing them in baskets. By Christmas they ripen, though more brittle and tart, with ripeness tested by pressing the paper. The writer, E L Huffman, notes pride in the tomatoes and contrasts this method with natural ripening.
The flag began as the English blue field with St George’s cross and evolved through union with Scotland to a thirteen stripe and star pattern. By 1775 Congress replaced crosses with stars on blue, adding stripes as needed until fixed at thirteen stripes and one star per state. July policy defined star additions for new states.
A wager among six couples leads to a morning competition sewing buttons onto muslin with needles and thread. Each participant aims for quantity and quality in half an hour. a girl wins the prize, while caricatures mock the boastful pair with the caption Button, button who has the button.
The article notes Directore as a pre Napoleonic French era influencing Empire and Josephine styles this fall. Recamier and balloon sleeve variations gain popularity alongside La Mode de Paris and Paris Album fashion publications priced to $3.50 per year, with La Couturiere at $3.00 and La Mode at $1.50.
James Russell Lowell will publish his fifth installment on the Old English Dramatists in the October Harpers Magazine. The focus is Beaumont and Fletcher, whom he calls the double stars of our poetical firmament.
Advertisement promises a great work with color plates on disease its cause and home cure sent for three two cent stamps. It directs to A P Ordway & Co Boston Mass. The October Harper’s frontispiece will feature a drawing titled Sorcery by A B Frost.
An editor notes pimples freckles and tan are caused by impure blood. The only sure remedy cited is Sulphur Bitters, claimed effective in hundreds of cases. The Fashion Gazette editress adds a literary note about Mr Howell’s novel The World of Chance reaching its eighth instalment in Harper's Magazine October issue.
A Flint Michigan contractor Warren E Russell endorses Dullam’s Great German blood liver stomach and kidney cure. He claims long biliousness indigestion and insomnia resolved after one bottle, urging others to try it. Sold by L M Bosworth.
Professor Dr. 8S. Ruge of Dresden will contribute to Harper's Magazine for October a scholarly paper on the character and achievements of Columbus based on the latest researches.
The lesson recounts Saul of Tarsus before Damascus, his revelation of Jesus as Lord, and his conversion through Ananias. It notes Saul’s three days blind, prayer, visions, and acceptance by believers, leading to baptism and mission as a witness for Christ.
A call to Iowans to favor Weir heating furnaces over rivals, with a pledge of no pay until purchase and a push for year round work. The note invites readers to Des Moines to 105 West Locust Street for a catalogue and patron list, claiming fifteen years in the furnace business and high quality reading on the subject.
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