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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1902
Page
3
Items include entertainment and lecture notices, cabinet and wallpaper bargains, dental products, a Calico carnival fundraiser, church programs, a Red Tag Sale at Vandermast’s, a funeral notice, legislative visit postponement, barber shop change, and local marriages and deaths shaping community life in Ames and surrounding towns.
Local society notes recount visits and travels of residents: J F Snake to Lorimer, Miss Crane with Mrs Galen Tilden in Cherokee, Lou Allen visiting Eldora, Charles Guilford in Des Moines, Mrs Caroline Taylor from Madrid, and many others. Also mentions deaths, weddings, divorces, licenses, and community events including a patriotic service and a theater performance in Ames.
A 1900 Winfield Indiana letter reports relief from twenty years of dyspepsia after using Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. The writer, Wina RuEBSAM, declares full stomach relief and recommends the remedy to others. Sold by L. M. Bosworth.
Woodmen are called to a special meeting in Red Men's Hall on Friday February 8 for initiation. Gro E Baker serves as Clerk.
The London Graphic recounts two harsh military punishments for theft the gantlope or gantlet where a sinner faced a line of striking soldiers and a sergeant with a halberd, and a second method tying the offender to four halberds while each man in the file passed a cat of nine tails for successive lashes.
The piece asserts two cat curiosities: yellow hairs mark females and blue eyes imply deafness, noting blue eyed cats are rare and some deaf cats may lack blue eyes. It also lists cattle for sale, Pure bred Short Horns of either sex, with prices right and Mutual Phone 822, A. J. Graves & Son.
Miss Carrie Hurst visits Ames friends as February closes district schools. T J Kegley holds a closing out sale on Thursday Feb 6. Miss Lulu Wood of Boone visits the Kegley home. Box supper at Keltner schoolhouse Friday. Groundhog sees shadow predicting six more weeks of cold. Maple Grove schoolhouse hosts an entertainment led by Miss Fenton Thursday evening. Mr and Mrs Chas Busby host a large company Friday with games music and refreshments.
The advertisement touts a huge demand for Dr. King’s New Life Pills as a remedy for constipation sick headaches biliousness and general stomach liver or kidney troubles. Priced at 25 cents at L. M. Bosworth’s drug store.
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