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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1896
Page
17
The page lists ads for Adams Bros offering pickles and plumbing, Elliott's ice cold refrigerators, Loughran's buggies, Bargain Store 5 and 10 cent counters, Thurston & Graham screen doors, and Bargain Store tin and granite ware. It also mentions community notices from the Ladies Missionary Society, garden reports, charity samples, church events, school athletics, and upcoming sales and exhibitions around Ames.
The Ames council met June 1 1896 with Mayor Smith and six members present. Ordinance 111 introducing electric light bond issuance was read and passed on first reading and then on second with rules suspended. A third reading and adoption were approved unanimously along with publication ordered. Session adjourned to June 2.
Ans reports council met in adjourned session at city hall at 8 50 p m with mayor M K Smith and six councilmen present. Ordinance 112 for water works bonds introduced, read, passed on first and second readings by unanimous vote, then third reading and adoption ordered for publication. Council adjourned until June 8.
Frederick Phinney manager of the Iowa State Band visited Ames to solicit subscriptions for an open air concert claiming a 70 piece band would perform Monday. The crowd paid 75 dollars, but the concert featured only 15 players, many not from the State Band, leaving locals disappointed and accusing Phinney of deceit.
Send your address to H E Bracklen & Co Chicago for a free sample box of Dr Kings New Life Pills. The pills ease constipation and headaches and aid malaria and liver troubles. They are vegetable, nondeleterious, and invigorate the system. regular size 25 cents per box, sold by L M Bosworth, Druggist.
An advertisement notes affordable insurance options from SHELpoNn and SHELDEN and nearby Syrup at 25 cents a gallon offered by S. G. Hamilton. The fragment emphasizes low rates and promotional items typical of a local classifieds page.
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