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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1892
Page
2
Ames sees a bustling list of events and shops as the Merchant’s Carnival lights the Opera House tonight with Soper’s and Grove Bros. promotions, plus holiday items from Adams Bros. and Lockwood stores. A large social scene, church improvements, and local notices fill the column as residents plan purchases, weddings, and community events.
The Farmers Institute will meet at the Town Hall on Thursday December 29 at 10 a.m. The program includes papers on orchard prospects by Prof. J J Budd and sheep farming by Turner McLain with W H Stevens discussing. Five minute speeches by Oil Meal Martin Mauser Potatoes C W Mills Chickens T J Kegley. Afternoon session covers The American Boy and living by Prof James Wilson and farm plans after children leave home by P Wylie Boone county with discussion. A J Groves O D Allen Secr.
We shall expect each account settled by cash or note by December, 1892, per terms of sale. J. H. Queanté & Co. offer entire stock of millinery at cost and some items below cost until the end of January. Opportunity to acquire holiday millinery cheaply. Mrs. J. J. Boru.
Odinmtunder no extra charge for painless tooth extraction offered by C. E. Hunt at the dental parlors. Liste Thread silk or satin suspenders at Soper's. Evenyraine silverware at Paxton's includes cake baskets berry dishes nut bowls salad forks cream ladles berry spoons salts pie trays and other items ideal for Christmas gifts.
A collage of mid 19th century shop ads and travelogue fragments. Promotions for stoves sugar flour and bread, barbed wire, blankets and gloves from Grove Bros and C M Soper. Notices urge payment to Grove & Zenor Co. and feature brief antiquated ethnographic observations and a portrait of General Langdon.
The estate of G. G. Titden announces a 15 percent cash discount on overcoats suits cloaks boots and shoes through January 1st. This sale highlights a limited time price reduction for winter apparel.
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