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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1897
Page
2
The column reports crop prospects with oats underperforming after rains boost. notes pasture shortages and farm improvements including new barns. It covers travels of residents to Primghar and Arapaho, a burial in Center schoolhouse, visits among Gilbert and Ames residents, minor accidents, bridge work in LaFayette, and a Oklahoma returnee family news.
An Ames resident writes from Pomona California describing travel from July 4 to July 13 1897. He recalls heat in Des Moines and Kansas City and scenic landscapes across Arizona California and New Mexico. The letter praises Pomona valley prosperity electric lights gas paved streets and evergreen hedges, hints at a Pacific plunge and burro ride, and notes a new road law on destroying noxious weeds plus a roadside tax.
A long, handwritten style notice details the engagement and planned marriage of John James Coull and Martha Logsdon, with a history of the couple’s arrangement and a heated committee report from Indianapolis in 1897. The piece includes verse, farewell lines, and a party scene in Ames.
A list extols a single medicine as instant relief for stomach pain colic and cholera morbus. It claims it never fails in severe dysentery and diarrhoea and can cure chronic diarrhoea and epidemical dysentery. It is said to prevent billous colic and to be the most prompt reliable bowel medicine, safe pleasant, with 25 and 50 cent sizes sold by druggists.
Tickets will be sold on the North Western Line at reduced rates within a 1060 mile radius. Dates listed include July 12, 15, 19, and 21 with a final cutoff July 23. Applications should be made to agents Chicago and North Western Railway.
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