Local notes chronicled Ames Des Moines and surrounding towns
Elmer Edgerton and Fred Munn travel for business and convention. Doctors, teachers, and merchants appear in town notices. A King Perkins Company engagement at the opera house, church meetings, weddings, and civic events fill the week. Fire, illness, and shipments shape daily life. notable moves include Bowers dance, Bartlett misadventure, and a Des Moines marriage of Dr. Gates Brown and Inez Patterson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Corbin
West
Ohas. G. Tilden
Emmettsburg
King-Perkins Company
Opera House
M. Elmer
Des Moines
A. B
D. P. Compton
Kansas
H. J. Keiger
Boone
W. T. Smith
Rex
Nevada
King-Perkins Co
Gates M. Brown
Chapman
Neb
Inez Patterson
Ames
Dr. Brown
Baptist College of
Iowa State College
Chicago Medical
Patterson
Dress Goods Sale Offers Wide Fabrics At cut prices
Six pieces of dress goods in black and fancies selling at 25 to 30 cents. A large line of suiting and jams towns plaids and fancies with regular prices 50 to 65 cents. Widths range 36 to 50 inches. Sale prices include 38 cents and 5.50 patterns with 4 yards bundles priced at 6.50 7.00 and 12.00.
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A fragmentary reading from a local page lists scattered letters and words, with no clear events, dates, or named entities readable. The text appears as incomplete OCR without identifiable persons or organizations.
Best all wool Ingrains worth per yd
Prices listed for woolen floor coverings include 60c and 65c per yard for the finest ingrain and all wool carpets with 60c and 45c rates for wool filled pieces.
Sale on jackets cuts prices this season
Advertises jackets priced at 2.88 for 4.00 to 5.00 range, 3.69 for 5.50 to 8.00 range, and 4.98 for 8.59 to 12.00 range. Encourages asking for trading stamps.
Underwear Prices Drop in Fragmented Ad Text
Advert reads various underwear prices from 50c to $1.00 though the rest is unreadable. The fragmented OCR lacks clear dates or store names but notes a sale or price points.
Shoes for sale women and children closeout today
On sale today at closing price are ladies misses and children shoes in all styles, sizes, and prices. These are broken lots offered to close out at once.
Fraternal Choppers Host Open Meeting and Box Social
The Fraternal Choppers of Camp No. 22 Ames invites all to an open meeting and box social at Red Men's hall Friday night January 25 with a cordial invitation to join and enjoy a royal time. Also local ads offer flour sacks, discounts on overcoats, and various goods at J. W. Adams The New Clothing Store Letts and Mitter & Son with ticket requests and product mentions for apple cider buckwheat and china displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp No. 22
Ames
Red Men’s Hall
Six young bulls and cattle females for sale
Short Horn cattle offered by A. J. Graves and Son with six young bulls and additional females at reasonable figures. Also game boards sold at Tilden and Loughran. Two strangers lifted six pairs of pants from a clothing store last night and escaped. Descriptions of the suspects and goods have been circulated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Graves & Son
Tilden & Loughran’s
Local ads highlight goods and insurance offerings
White Rose flour sold for 90 cents per sack at J. W. Adams. Tilden and Loughran promote pocket books and purses in Story county. Farmers with grain to sell urged to see John L. Sies at the old Fence Factory. Iowa Mutual Tornado Association reports its seventh assessment in seventeen years. Members can pay dues or secure policies with A. J. Graves, Agt. Story county shows 1 841 823 dollars in this association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Sies
Iowa Mutual Tornado Association
Story County
A. J. Graves
Ag.t
Picketts Jailed Over Beer and Whisky Find
Marshall Picketts was jailed after fourteen cases of beer and a five gallon keg of whisky were found last evening at a South Side dray man’s premises. The cache was uncovered by a search warrant issued by Mayor Thompson. Authorities question whether the owner will claim the liquor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Picketts
Boone
Thompson
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Hudson Bros
Pusitsuzrs
Elmer Edgerton
Fred Munn
Minneapolis
Chick” Perkins
Samuel W. Beyer
Michigan College of Ines
Houghton
Mich
Arthur Jones
Keedick
Mrs. Bennett
Murry
Freed
M. E. Church
Sarah Barton
H. P. Douglas
Hemstreet & Campbell
E. J. Penfield
E. W. Gifford
Nevada Journal
Washington Dispatch
W. A. Scott
the Baptist Church
Will Bower
Cooley & Jones
Henry Denniston
Wm. Elliott
Miss Grace Elliott
Collins Liberator
M. J. Adams
J. M. Junkin
Red Oak
Iowa
L. L. Zenor
M. Hemstreet
M. Gratten
A. M. Bingman
Oklahoma
Herbert Davis
Thayer
Davis
Maggie B. Orr
Capt. Greeley
Prof. Marston
State Engineering Society
Davent
J. B. Weems
Fof. Bissell
Frank Gibson
Ple
Jocy
Robert Sies
Cedar Rapids
Chas. Lies
Laura
A. Underwood
Jose
Buffalo
Ry Bartlett
Es Opera House
Mr. Bartlett
Woodmen of America
Sté#y county
Talbott
Cole
Fawcett
Collins
J. H. Reynolds
Gilbert Station
Gilbert
Board of Supervisors
The
Times
the Intelligencer
News
Slater
the Tribune
Maxwell
Soper
P. McCord
Knights of the Macabees
P. A. Hawley
Marshalltown
P. W. Morn
C. E. Holmes
C. W. Hunter
E. Lyman
W.O. McIntire
C. Cooper
H. Matthews
Byron Seymour
Ed. Roberts
H. M. Adams
R. J. Young
Blackman
Baptist Church
Sioux City
Rev
Elwell
E. Greenlee
J. L. Lies
Bartlett and
May and Company
Geo. A. Shockley
Los Angeles
Oval
John Kintzley
West Main Street
OC. M. Peabody
May Agnes Lynch
New Orleans
Eich
Tilden Bros. & CO
L. O. Keepick
Tipen & Loughran
Ninty Cents
J. W. Adams
Minnesota
T. J. Mitter & Son
Tilden & Loughran
F. Lerrs
Tilden & Loughran'’S
China
F. Letts
Letts
New York
Amen
Onondaga Street
Clark Street
Sycamore Street
I Ss
Cal. Giddings
Crry Olerk
Hempstreet & Campbell
J. W. Adam’s
Washburn
Leris
C. F. Letts
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