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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1905
Page
12
Local ADS rates and notices, plus parish and social news from Ames Iowa. Mentions of Chautauqua arrangements, visits by residents, births and deaths, school staff movements, and travel notes across Story County with multiple named residents and nearby towns. The period tone is clear with dates and local events.
Hundreds of yards of dress goods in Wool Mohair mixtures blacks and fancies regularly 50c to 1.50 a yard offered in short lengths for waists and children's wear at 1 3 off plus odd and ends in shoes hosiery under wear waists silk coats wash suits and more to be cleared.
New season stock arriving daily includes clothing, shoes, shirts, dress goods, prints, percale, carpets, and rugs from a neighborhood retailer.
Advertisement promotes Yellowstone valley irrigation land near Billings Iowa buyers urged to invest in fertile, water rich soil with high yields. Uncultivated land available at 85 dollars per acre with 10 dollars down, five year terms. Prices to rise to 50 dollars per acre on September 1. A 2250 dollar round trip August 16 for buyers to inspect the lands. O O Pugh Des Moines Iowa Manhattan Building.
The Ames Onautangqua opens its second annual session with William Jennings Bryan drawing a packed crowd. Bryan spoke on The Prince of Peace to a lively audience as three thousand filled the grounds and admissions neared five hundred dollars. Evening lecture by Col. Geo Bain on The New Woman and the Old Man also drew strong interest. Prospects for a successful chantanqua are bright if weather holds.
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