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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1896
Page
8
Local miscellany lists Adams Bros pickles and cheese, Bargain Store offers, Loughran buggies, and Thurston & Graham hardware. Church and society announcements, potluck, meetings, an evangelist street service, a cyclone kitten, athletic suspensions, and a railway excursion sale.
Ames Iowa council meets June 1 1896 and approves ordinance 111 issuing electric light bonds and ordinance 112 water works bonds on second and third readings with unanimous support. Mayor and six councilmen vote yes. no votes recorded. Adjournment to June 2 granted.
Tot Bigelow is among the sick this week. W O Brien of Colfax visited Ames at the week’s start. H C Smith of Jewell calls on Turner McLain’s folks today. Geo Richmond leaves tomorrow for Waverly to work in a store. Ben Keeney returns home from Kossuth County for Sunday. Del Maxwell returns from Chicago and Illinois. Editor Myers of the Radcliffe Signal rode between trains toward Des Moines. Gates Brown returns from Chicago after Northwestern Medical College graduation. Miss Fellows called from Montour for their mother’s illness. M Rose of Sac County visits Henry Keltner’s southwest of town. Mrs Fred Bradley and baby Helen depart for Hastings Neb for two weeks. Capt I L Smith visits from Nevada to see his son, Mayor Smith. Mr and Mrs Richmond of Dallas Center visit AL Walkey’s family. Cle Wyant, formerly a Times compositor, now in Carroll, visits Ames friends. Frank Fowler leaves for a two week vacation at Colfax. Frank rests after hard work. Miss May and Charley Spring of Des Moines visit W W Spring’s family. Miss Laura Coffelt of Trenton Neb visits W W Spring and friends in Ontario. H G Emmel and Mrs Mullenback of Chicago, siblings of Mrs La Pammel, visit the Pammel home. J C Mabry of Centerville, decoration day orator, and T B Lockman of Albia, are Times callers. Mr Cook of the city secured the grand address. Mrs D G Ferguson departs for Traer to attend her brother’s wife’s funeral, Mrs Campbell, who died Saturday morning May 30 after brief illness. Mrs Ferguson returns Tuesday with her mother Mrs Henrietta Campbell from Bancroft to visit.
An assurance to consult when property insurance nears expiration offering policy options and competitive rates from reliable companies presented by Suripon and Shelden.
Frederick Phinney manager of the Iowa State Band visited Ames seeking subscriptions for an open air concert. Local businessmen contributed 75 dollars. The advertised seventy piece Iowa State Band performed with only about fifteen players mostly from Marshalltown, disappointing the crowd and casting Phinney as a persistent fraud.
Send your address to H B Bucklen Co in Chicago to receive a free sample box of Dr King’s New Life Pills. The ad touts relief for constipation headaches malaria and liver troubles with pills described as safe purely vegetable and energizing to the stomach and bowels. Regular size priced at 25 cents and sold by L M Bosworth Druggist.
An advertisement fragment touts low rates for insurance and a syrup offer at 25e per gallon. The snippet mentions Suxipon and Shelden and G Hamilton in a busy classifieds style.
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