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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
8
Come early to take advantage of the June Special with new spring styles priced at four and five dollars and two dollars.
Retailers urge shoppers to act now with wide selections of lightweight suits for summer wear. Local stores advertise discounts on linen and seersucker ensembles, highlighting special prices and limited stock to attract early buyers.
The page lists sales and promotions at Novelty Store including hats, embroideries, laundry soap 25c for 10 bars, and June specials. It notes ship notices, invitations to weddings Miss Genevieve Kegley to Carl Peterson and Miss Lena Randall to M. A. Lyons, plus auction sales, and a report on community events such as a church mission meeting and a city council session with mayor absent.
Lee Beverly visits Chicago for two weeks while Miss Helen Stuart and many others travel for visits and business. The column lists numerous arrivals and departures from Ames and surrounding towns including Des Moines Chicago Wall Lake and Boone with engagements such as weddings and Masonic events and employment moves.
Reads like a collected page of Ames Iowa items including Cagwin's Drug Store promotions, a rental ad for a seven room cottage, church services and speakers, alumni turnout notes, a silk under skirt offer, a Memorial Day address, a request to return a cloths brush, a house fire with losses, a flour sale, and university board actions covering faculty promotions and building bids.
Mrs J B Grove and family express heartfelt thanks to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of their beloved husband and father.
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