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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1898
Page
3
Ames area notes cover produce pricing at Adams Bros, college openings, local trades, and social events. Mentions Des Moines exposition visit, Ames soldiers, house moves, fair plans, baptisms, funerals, and community concerns with a focus on people and places in Story County.
Des Moines July 12 1808 state crop averages show winter wheat 97 spring wheat 00 corn 102 oats 98 rye 97 barley 100 millet 98 flax 98 broom corn 93 potatoes 102 sweet potatoes 97 sorghum 99 meadows 108 pastures 105 apples 70 pears 71 plums 70 peaches 85 grapes 99. Last year’s figures were markedly lower across most staples.
Local sale advertises 500 pairs of shoes and oxfords half price, men's suits trousers and shirts waists cleared at 70 and 10 cents, straw hats and pants offered cheaply. A testimonial from G M Law of Keokuk Iowa praises Chamberlain's colic remedy for infant cholera and diarrhoea, sold by druggists.
L M Bosworth offers Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. The remedy is promoted as a cure for asthma bronchitis hoarseness and throat chest and lung affections. Trial bottle is free with regular size priced at 50 cents and 1.00 guaranteed to cure or price refunded.
The Chicago and Northwestern advertises a grand excursion to Des Moines next Sunday July 17 to visit Battery A Iowa Artillery in camp before they go to war. A special train will pass Ames at 10 40 am and return from Des Moines at 9 00 pm. Fare one dollar.
Levine and Buck advertise as agents for the gold medal dress system inviting country and town ladies to call and learn. They offer cut patterns to order and promote their dressmaking services.
Remaining unclaimed items at the Ames post office for the week ending July 9 include mail for Coghlan Miss Gertrude Garvitch Fred Heater Lettie Miller M P Morgan Evan Mollander C Nelson John Nelson C J Posegate Eli Vrinse Anne Pederson Laurids Stevens Isaac St Clair Miss Lillian Wertz J E Wyman Miss Susie Lon G Harpy P M
The Story County Normal Institute convenes in Nevada on August 1 1598 and will sit for three weeks. All teachers or prospective instructors in Story county are required to attend. A notice by G. W. Painnius and sale of a good list money by G. T. Stebbins.
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