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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1896
Page
15
Ames notes crowded with shop items and notices. Adams Bros. sell cultivators at 12.50 while Soper's lists neckwear and hardware bargains. A school board meeting, church events, and several visits by residents fill the town bulletin with purchases, repairs, and social happenings.
Pasture for horses and cattle offered at 1.25 per month. Riverside stoves advertised as low price leaders from Thurston and Graham's. Chamberlain's remedies promoted for bilious attacks and coughs with testimonies and 25 and 50 cent bottles available from local druggists. Home Seekers' excursion tickets to western and southern points offered by the North Western Line on April 21 and May 5. Delivery wagon now available for light draying and trunks delivered for ten cents. A Long Beach resident touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after a winter sickness.
The Ames Iowa council met April 15 1896 in city hall with nine members present and approved minutes. The water committee reported sewer conditions and ordered monitoring after repairs. An ordinance to provide food and employment for tramps passed first reading and moved to third reading and adoption as Ordinance No 110. Board of equalization adjourned with unchanged assessment for John Longsdorf and reduced Bingham & Co from 1000 to 700.
In Ames, Burt Jarnagan at Bingham's hardware advertises hair cutting 10c and shaving 10c. Shampoo 10c, alcohol seafoam quinine tonic 10c, bath tickets $1 for six baths or 20c for a single bath. New goods arriving daily from J. B. Ellgort. urges customers to come and get the latest styles.
Men's suits five to fifteen dollars and boys suits one to eight dollars. Men's pants one to five dollars. Knee pants for boys at popular prices. Encourages customers to inspect stock for cash value. Also notes tools from Bigelow & Smith and Loughran Machine Co with products like planters and cultivators. Twin Randall & Co listed.
Soft lamp coal sells at 2.50 and 2.75 delivered while Nut coal goes for 2.25 delivered. The notice is from B. A. Lockwoopn.
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