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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1893
Page
3
Local items from Nevada Iowa August 10 1893 cover sales and promotions at Daniel Bros Heman C M Soper and Freed s ice cream improvements to water mains parsonage construction and various society personalities including visits from Des Moines and Nevada residents plus a contested whiskey incident and civic commentary on city services.
The notice lists prices and offerings from Thurston Swan Co Bingham Co and Hamilton Co for real estate and farm machinery washers stoves and tin work. Calls customers to pay debts and promotes cellulose mattresses and furnaces with endorsements from Cur tiss and Geo W Rogers.
The text extols Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup as the best cough medicine and effective for asthma. It includes testimonials from Wa H Farris of Monroe County Wis and notes its perceived cure for his wife after two bottles. Also mentions a price claim of fifty dollars per bottle and local residence moves. A railway fare sale to Chicago is announced along with other local notices and a W R C reception featuring Mrs E Flora Evans.
Meteorological observations at Ames by Isaac Young note July 1893 highs of 102 on the 13th and a low of 58 on the 20th. Monthly mean 79.13, total precipitation 2.47 inches on eight days, with thunder on several dates and a near tornado storm. Prevailing wind direction was south and southwest.
The Northwestern Line offers Harvest Excursion tickets on August 22 September 12 and October 10 1893 to points in northwestern Iowa western Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Manitoba Nebraska Colorado Wyoming and Utah. Round trip fares are very low and tickets are valid for return within twenty days from sale with stop over privileges on the outbound trip. For tickets and information contact Chicago and North Western agents.
The Story County Teachers Normal Institute will be held at Nevada Iowa beginning Monday, August 14 1893 and continue in session three weeks. All teachers and those intending to teach in the county are expected to be in attendance. J F Reep County Supt.
The note argues the season’s cash crop is short and blames poor fall plowing, urging growers to speak for their crop at harvest to keep business alive until plowing resumes. It cites G G TriupEnt Estate and mentions twelve cents per dozen at Bigelow & Smith's and offers children’s shoes at Caniel Bros. & Herman's with Havana Seal cigars advertised.
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