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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1894
Page
3
The Times notes sales ads from the office and merchant inventories as business slows. It records a Dorcas Society meeting, a birth to Prof and Mrs L H Pammel, and sermons at the Christian and Methodist churches. The piece mentions Easter date March 25, early spring, a diphtheria quarantine, and a lively upcoming social by the Odd Fellows and Rebeccas.
Tur Ormond Fuller Company presents Ingomar on Monday and Othello on Tuesday at the opera house next week. Tickets priced 25 and 35 cents. On Monday ladies admitted free with a gentleman holding a paid reserved seat ticket.
Readers urged to mail to The Home Publishers Boston for a set of 91 stamping patterns and two alphabets with 8x10 and 5x8 sizes. A 16 page periodical with stories and fashions accompanies the offer for 10 cents postage. Premium list of 200 premiums sent free to any address. Also noted are real estate ads and a government staff appointment list.
A long notice discusses Ames mayoral prospects to succeed Sheldon, urging a progressive business leader to steer the city. It calls for electric lighting, extended water works, better drainage, and increased summer conventions. It stresses public service over pay and urges caucus selection of the right candidate.
Pat and Mike encounter shoppers with blue wrapped bundles in town. Mike explains a clever advertising stunt by the cheapest store, known for its blue packaging, prompting Pat to wonder which shop uses the blue wrappers.
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