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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1900
Page
4
Geo D Loud is the licensed embalmer. Judisch Bros sells Harp's stationery and C F Letts offers salt and supplies at Letts. Mr and Mrs Frank Rich welcome a baby boy Sunday night. Various social gatherings, a runaway team incident, and local notices of bids, funerals, and club meetings fill the Ames community column.
Numerous Ames residents are noted in a wide sweep of visits and travels. Milo Wilkinson from Mapleton, George Foster celebrating the Fourth in Ames, Geo Tilden returning from Madison, and others from Chicago, Des Moines, Sioux City, and Illinois towns are mentioned with gatherings, conventions, and family visits.
Ames marks Independence Day with heat and a park program led by Mr. Ballreich. The highlight is the 51st Iowa Minstrels performing two hours in the afternoon and evening, with fireworks praised as the best yet. races, prizes, and local ads fill the pages along with a theft arrest and notes from the Philippines and national politics.
Rose Shafer Holmes aged about thirty died in Ames after a Thursday illness from small pox complicated by other diseases. Burial occurred at sunrise Tuesday. She leaves husband C E Holmes three children Carl Gladys and Harry and sister Mrs H Banks. She was a Baptist and longtime Ames resident.
At the bride’s parents home near town on Wednesday June 27 1900 Cora B Noble wed Bert R Cory About fifty relatives attended The couple will move to the northern part of the state for their home They received many useful presents and are wished prosperity and happiness Also note business closure and debt settlement instructions from D Empree
Observations at sunrise 2:00 pm and sunset near Ames by Isaac Young report June 1900 weather. Highlights include 96 degree high on the 26th 44 degree low on the 11th 8.15 inches rainfall over 9 days and 52 degree monthly range. Odds include thunder on several days parhelia rainbow and prevailing southeast northeast winds.
A sensational claim from Cammack Indiana reports Mrs. Rena J Stout once weighed 90 pounds with consumption. After using Dr Kings New Discovery she reportedly gained 37 pounds and was cured. The ad promises cures for throat chest and lung diseases with a money back guarantee. Trial bottles offered free at L M Bosworths drug store.
Excursion tickets to the races at Marshall Town Iowa on the Northwestern Line will be sold at reduced rates from July 9 through 12 and limited to July 13. Apply to agents Chicago and Northwestern Line.
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