This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
5
The Tilden Store offers a wide range of gifts for Christmas shoppers with both useful and ornamental options. A tour of several departments suggests this store can satisfy varied wants.
Last year we used a large part of our second floor for a Holiday department and saw very satisfactory business. This season our preparations are greater and we promise better satisfaction to ensure customer return. We offer unusual values to attract shoppers.
A fragment listing numerous goods across categories such as Automobiles, Albums, Books, Clothing, Jewelry, Toys, Furniture, Glassware, and Sporting goods. Includes items like Bedsteads, Drums, Dresses, Hats, Shoes, Stoves, Pianos, Towels, Trunks, and Wagons, indicating a broad catalog from a historical retailer or advertisement.
A display of holiday umbrellas priced at 3.00 3.50 and 4.00 offers silk umbrellas with gold or silver handles. The line targets every buyer with best values seen, matching prices from city stores and jewelers.
Local candy seller advertises bulk candy in twenty or more varieties offered at 15 and 16 cents per pound, undercutting the usual 25 and 20 cents per pound.
A retailer announces a fresh stock of 10 cent pictures along with Post Cards Christmas Cards and Card Albums for sale enhancing inventory for holiday shoppers.
Japanese goods feature open work doilies squares scarves center pieces neckwear and handkerchiefs highlighting fine stitching and decorative patterns suitable for home use and gifts.
Advertisement snippet offers heavy black kersey coats available in sizes 32 through 44. The note emphasizes broad size range and ready stock for quick purchase.
An endorsement of full weight medium length clothing with silk lining and facing noted as luxurious in appearance and feel. The message highlights Hart Schaffner & Marx all wool coats and a range of upscale items including suspenders silk umbrellas house coats bath robes suit cases and more.
The item list covers sales and promotions at Darner's store with maple syrup and groceries, theater and readings at the Armory by Miss Wallace and Naks Wallace, and upcoming meetings including the Homesteaders election of officers and the Ames Hospital Guild. Lost items, new hires at Grove's stand, cafe promotions, and local officials visiting Ames are noted along with social notices and Champlain club news.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.