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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1899
Page
3
Auction style notice announces a clearing sale of footwear for ladies gents and children lasting until March 15. Stores offer friendly service and will show goods with liberal discounts on rubber items and a guarantee as if paid full price.
Local notes report Miss Lucinda Scratchgravel song at the convention and the Thimble Club meeting with Mrs. H. 8. Goble on Feb 17. Other items include births, illnesses, college activities, Shriners visit to Des Moines, and community notices from Ames and surrounding towns.
Clergy, social notes, and local business blurbs cover a range from a poem recital by Tillie Toots at the Old Maids' Convention in Ames to a plan for a public entertainment at the opera house. The issue notes civic promotions, garden and horticulture updates, and local commerce from Miller & Kooser and Adams Bros. amid weather and civic notices.
Rail expansion rumors in 1899 Iowa edge toward Mondamin to Wall Lake, with implications for double tracking Tama to Missouri Valley. An eighty pound steel upgrade is noted between Jewell Junction and Wall Lake, and the Soldier River extension to Mondamin. Also local notices: Easter Sunday April 2, services, a newborn, and community ads for Letts and Ames happenings.
One of Chicago's oldest druggists promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for la grippe noting prompt relief and it counteracts tendency to pneumonia. For sale by druggists.
Tilden Bros. & Co announce completion of their annual inventory and a new business year. They plan the largest spring assortment yet and offer winter goods at extremely low prices while awaiting arrivals of spring merchandise. They emphasize honest merchandise at reasonable prices and seek continued patronage.
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