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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1894
Page
11
The record notes market prices for corn and potatoes with per bushel and per dozen figures. Prices cited include wheat and other commodities, with certain values shown in bushels and hundreds. Names or initials appear, but many lines are garbled.
Local notices advertise varying goods and services from sweets, paints, groceries, and furniture to dry fruits, honey, and shoes. Mentions of sales, store events, and political updates accompany social items and personnel notes including Mrs. Williams, Miss Rath, and Mrs. Kuizaie Huth during a busy Eldora period.
Ackley residents browse a week of commerce and social notes, with merchants Esser & Gueltel, Will Weik barber shop, and Grobe Bros hiring shop and stock. residents like Miss Clara Conzett and Mr. John Meyer appear amid marriages, travel, and town improvements. Local events include light plans for Main street lighting, a veterans encampment, theater at the Opera House, and public notices on sales and exchanges.
Advertisement notes silk waists marked down from five dollars to three dollars with a blue ticket, claiming great value and urging readers not to miss the opportunity to buy at actual cost.
Three thousand dress buttons offered at per dozen on a bargain counter this week. Look them over and keep cool with a sale promoting fans. This is pitched as Ackley’s greatest clearance sale ever inaugurated. don’t miss it.
We have purchased a stock of plain and fancy crockery and glassware like never sold in Ackley. Bought for cash at hard times prices, we will pass the benefit to our customers with these value offers.
A complete grocery department offers a full range of goods with free delivery within the city limits for all purchases made from us.
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