11 Jan 1900
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1900
Page
1
More than 300 pairs of Lace Curtain line up in Ames as a retailer touts the best line ever brought to town. Shoppers are invited to visit and see the new selection, promising practical gains for home decor.
Fragmentary specials list shows varied prices such as 9.5 cents 3.3 cents and 85 cents for items, with entries including 1.00 and 25 cents. The text is partial and appears to be a shop flyer or advertisement snippet lacking complete item names or contexts.
The item references an official paper or notice related to Story County. Details are sparse but imply local government or public record context. No additional names, dates, or events are provided in the readable text.
The writer argues Cummins remains a clean politician despite criticism of some associates. He notes the race is over, Gear remains US senator for six years, and suggests the Republican stance on prohibition aligns with Cummins' past views. Local farmers plan a cooperative creamery near Maxwell.
The Iowa house caucus last Saturday evening elected Dr Bowen as speaker by forty three to thirty eight, effectively making John H Gear U S senator for six years. Cummins men fought hard but were unable to negate the outcome in the capitol room.
The piece argues for direct popular elections of U S senators, mentions Roberts the bigamist, notes Iowa’s senatorial fight, then highlights the 1899 export report showing 135,000,000 bushels of corn shipped abroad and 798,000 barrels of corn meal, urging continued growth to improve prices and backing canal construction in Panama or Nicaragua as the key national improvement.
A lady editor offers flirtatious guidance to friends seeking romance, comparing prospects to a honey harvest in Nebraska. She suggests they "bee" someone's honey, risk a "cell," and avoid being a drone while aiming to be the "queen" in lighthearted pun driven banter.
Des Moines dealers meeting endorses open door and cross continental trade. Col Kingman argues for a Panama Isthmus canal to unite eastern and western markets and notes high rice imports to China, suggesting Iowa corn products could undercut rice prices and profit farmers.
Miss Ellen Terry offered a kiss for charity auction in Collier’s Weekly. Bids climbed from two guineas to 30 before a final 100 pound bid by a colonel who then revealed the kiss was for his grandson’s birthday and settled the debt with the actress gifting the kiss to the child.
J C Sherman of Vermontville Echo credits Electric Bitters with warding off nervousness sleeplessness indigestion heart trouble and rheumatism. He says it gently stimulates kidneys tones stomach aids digestion and improves appetite noting it has helped his wife and himself. Only 50c at Tilden and Loughran’s drug store.
Advertises annual subscriptions for Iowa Homestead Poultry Farmer and related titles plus Ames Times at prices from $1.35 to $1.50. Also offers a 100 piece imported dinner set for $7.50 and claims to save subscribers the agent's commission on any paper worldwide.
Mrs Burton, described as the wittiest woman in India, told how Kipling began. She urged him to improvise at a hill station entertainment, remarking he did not know how to write. That hillside event and her young son’s chatter provided his initial “copy.”
The article notes that boomerangs were used by Egyptians long before modern times and are still used by Australian Aborigines American Indian tribes and Dravidian peoples of India. It explains that the Dravidian thrower’s missile differs by being thicker and non returning and that wind shape and throwing method cause return.
Heinz extra family mince meat in 1 and 2 pound cans priced at 10 and 20 cents per can. Sold by J. B. Kooser & Co and T. J. Miniter & Son.
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