24 Jan 1901
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
1
The notice promotes a Saving Sale at The Fair NSIS by Saving Sale, urging customers to reduce stock on hand to make room for an incoming spring stock. It claims every item is a big money saver not offered daily.
A local ad lists textiles and smallware prices including 40¢ notions, 21¢ to 30¢ items, 15¢ fancy hose, 75¢ gloves and $1 varieties, 12 for 10¢ handkerchiefs, 5¢ to 31¢ handkerchief sets, silk initial handkerchiefs, and men’s fashion items. A pretty line features 25¢ and 50¢ accessories, with ties offered at 33¢.
Advertises women’s wear including jackets at 4.00 and 4.50, 7.00 and 6.00 assorted prices, capes, flannel waists 1.25 and 2.00, dresses 3.75, muff and fascinator discounts, final sale prices around 25c to 1.00, noting mixed stock and clearance.
A fragmented advertisement lists miscellaneous items with odd spellings and several prices. Mentions 39¢, 25% off, $100, and $1.50 deals, with unclear product names and several garbled phrases.
Official paper notes a one dollar annual, N H WuHarey’s anti saloon league work in seventh district, and Upper Des Moines winter meeting set for Forest City February 14 15. A Perry Belmont Commoner critique argues Bryan seeks Great Commoner status while denouncing aristocracy and European socialism and the American belief in equality.
Par Crowe passes Ames Monday and a Des Moines judge rules in the courthouse case, favoring the old siters. Temporary offices will be set up in the Harbach block, with partitions and extra vaults, while the old courthouse is torn down and a new building begun. Oregon plans a 30 foot log exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition, with 13 foot diameter, requiring extra braces in the Forestry Building to fit the log and its support.
A printing office is like a secret lodge where printers keep office secrets as if bound by oath. No outsider should probe authorship or prints. workers regard secrecy with honor. Any breach would ruin a printer and mark him as dishonorable. Press and Printer.
A reader recalls a 1868 incident when a dream at Brenneman’s Davis House led to locating a friend in Mt. Vernon. The note ties dreams to real inventions from sleep inspired by mind prompts, recounting Weaver and Howe ideas, the shot tower, tubular bridge concept, and barb wire, reflecting on how nocturnal visions spark innovation.
A dream inspires a man to rise at one o clock and toil in the barn, wiring several hundred feet before breakfast. The note mentions Mr Brotherton s invention producing tunes lost to him and ends with a quip on bedtimes and mortality. The tone is as a late 19th century humorous column.
It is a mystery why women endure backache headaches nervousness sleeplessness melancholy fainting and dizzy spells when thousands have proved that Electric Bitters will quickly cure such troubles. Mrs Phebe Cherley of Peterson Indiana writes of kidney trouble and back pain being cured. at 73 she can now do her housework. It overcomes constipation improves appetite and health. Only 50c at L M Bosworths drug store.
The paper asks readers if the Trigg's Farm Orchard and Garden department should continue as a permanent feature. It invites feedback from subscribers who have read it for four weeks to determine whether to continue and incur the extra expense.
An Iowa publication, The Des Moines Leader, touts its ahead-of-its-time family newspaper coverage, large circulation, independent politics, and extensive news service. Classified note offers two shorthorn bull calves for sale by W. T. Guivrira, 34-4tpd.
Queen Victoria died peacefully at Osborne House Isle of Wight at 6 30 p m aged 82 Her eldest son Prince of Wales Edward VII succeeds her He reigned 64 years the longest in English history The death closes the era of Victoria and marks a transition to Edward VII Her private life was described as pure and moral The note then shifts to Iowa politics noting reduced interest rates affect permanent school fund apportionment and county distributions with 731 154 school age persons in Iowa and a projected per person share around 12 to 93 cents.
The Mother's Favorite Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is praised as pleasant and safe for children and adults alike. It claims to cure coughs colds croap and whooping cough without opium or injurious drugs and can be given to babies confidently. Sold by Drugegists with a chest protector at Tilden & Loughran.
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