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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1893
Page
3
Local notes from Ames Iowa include updates on a theater night at the O'Brien building, a bicycle club oyster supper, new Columbian stamps at Nevada, and a wreck delayed westbound trains. Also mentioned are illness, protracted meetings at the Baptist church, a water works blaze, and plans for a future city library.
Charley Smith from Nevada visited Ames on Monday. Dozens of visitors from Des Moines Boone Clinton and South Dakota spent time with Ames friends. The Ames Improvement Association forms with Prof Budd chairing and committees named. Monday meeting planned to finalize by laws and organize business group.
The Times reports on a January 1886 Story county Board of Supervisors contract with Payne & Son Story County Watchman and Ames Intelligencer to publish proceedings in the two largest papers at the legal rate, with three papers if population exceeds 18 000. The piece notes subsequent charges at full rate in 87 88 89, cites census data and warns readers against green goods and gas scams while listing local ads and notices.
Manager Arnold paid $15 advance for entertainment that did not arrive at Gilbert Station last night. The scheduled act failed to appear prompting questions about the no show. Nearby Gilbert Station also notes a new drug store and a new doctor coming to town.
An advertisement touts German Magic Ointment as curing colds by absorption and a throat chest plaster to cure croup quickly. It also promotes Sioux Blood Remedy as superior for purifying the blood, claiming purity safety and low cost.
Ames Iowa clinic HYSCIANS and SURG SONS operates from 8 a m to 8 p m offering specialists in diseases of women and children.
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