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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1894
Page
2
Local notices cover illnesses and recoveries in Grant Ames and Tama County. Residents report weather gloom, community visits, schooling plans, and upcoming elections as readers share social updates, travel, and civic notes.
A patchwork of community items including a literary society discussion on tariffs, wood hauling for a new house, post office disappointments, election losses, plans to move to Ames, a grain buyer and city marshal busy with traffic, sheep farming talk, and humorous quips about mutton and crossbreeding Chester and Poland china hogs.
Mr. Robert Hunter visited Wall Lake earlier this week. Milford creamery hires a new buttermaker replacing Snyder. Rumors of a creamery in Story county towns persist as locals push for dairy development. Families relocate from Curtis timber to Nevada and Ames visitors linger on the Ridge as Blanche Dodds' health improves and Miss Fannie Curtis of Nevada is noted.
At Grinnell the Iowa Intercollegiate Baseball association approved a schedule. Drake meets A C at Ames on April 13 and Cornell at Mt. Vernon on April 14. S U L plays Drake in Des Moines April 20 and Grinnell hosts S U J on April 21. Cornell faces S U LT in Iowa City May 4 and Grinnell May 5. Des Moines hosts I C versus Drake May 11 and Ames hosts I C versus L A C May 12. A C meets Cornell at Mt. Vernon May 18 and Iowa City May 19. I C versus S U Lowa City is listed as complimentary prior to April 28.
Jas O. Jane publisher of the Mexia Texas Leader recounts a severe grip infection and a second attack. He credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with reducing bed time and severity in both instances and urges rapid treatment. Bottles priced 25 and 50 cents available from Westerman and Arnold.
A testimonial from Wo H Farris of Wilton Wisconsin claims Dr Warner White Wine of Tar Syrup cured his wife asthma after years of illness and says he would pay fifty dollars a bottle. The notice also requests customers to settle accounts with Adams Bros.
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