New Styles in Menswear Patterns and Hosiery
An offer lists patterns and weaves at regular prices of 12 and 13 dollars. It advertises 50 dozen socks and new men’s fancy ties, with a one week sale and bold product names, though some text is garbled.
03 Apr 1902
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1902
Page
1
An offer lists patterns and weaves at regular prices of 12 and 13 dollars. It advertises 50 dozen socks and new men’s fancy ties, with a one week sale and bold product names, though some text is garbled.
Footwear bargains list low prices with ladies and misses small sizes. Shoes advertised as cheap at two dollars and fifty cents and odd lines closing at one dollar to one dollar and twenty five cents. Limited stock, hurry to save.
A newspaper ad lists granulated sugar at 20 pounds and coffee per package, Finest Beans 7 pounds, white laundry soap, extra fine rice at 10 cents per unit with four pounds for a quarter.
The Times reports on volatile Easter weather with sun and hail and mentions J W Byrne of Burlington declining a U S senate bid and notes DES Moines drafted convention resolutions, while the paper opts to drop further comment.
A columnist urges abolishing the practice of bearing heads bare at funerals on cold days. The piece calls the custom a relic of superstition, notes pneumonia risks for pallbearers, and argues no one has right to demand it while accusing undertakers and grave diggers of approving the practice.
Story County Republicans meet in Nevada to organize delegates for the Congressional and State conventions. They endorse S. F. Prouty for Congress, back John H. Williams for supreme court reporter, and urge fair primary rules while condemning certain primary conduct in the district.
A profile of Bobby Armstrong, once a struggling college student damaged by a fall, who built a journalism career at the Times and Des Moines News before moving to Chicago and New York papers, and finally becoming private secretary to Treasury Secretary Shaw. The Times praises his ascent and wishes him well.
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