The Big Challenge Sale Blasts At The Fair
The Fair hosts The Big Challenge Sale with special reductions on dress goods. Limited-time discounts attract shoppers seeking value on fabrics and clothing materials.
14 Jun 1906
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
1
The Fair hosts The Big Challenge Sale with special reductions on dress goods. Limited-time discounts attract shoppers seeking value on fabrics and clothing materials.
Crowds gathered as bargain prices and quality drew customers from across the county. The ad claims not an old pattern remains in clothing, shoes, or dress goods and urges shoppers to follow the crowds to The Fair where last week's low prices still apply.
Attractive price drop offering $3 to $6 savings on suits you cannot miss. The ad promotes Peacedale System and Schloss Bros hand made clothing, claiming prices will rise by $3 to $6 for the same suits. Each purchase includes beautiful souvenir postal cards.
A Sioux City Journal item notes Bryan as the Democratic candidate for president in 1908. It also covers satirical remarks on auto travel and campaign rhetoric, Smoot being urged to resign, and local observations on public life and press disputes involving Cummins supporters. The piece reflects early 20th century political culture and everyday Creek-like commentary on public events.
A column mix of political jabs on Iowa primaries. It references Hamilton county voting, Republican figures Cummins and Perkins, La Follette’s salary, and a cascade of quips about advertising, packing houses, and old campaign tactics. It questions caucus integrity and urges party unity or openization.
The Jubilee edition of the Cedar Rapids Republican appeared last Sunday as a seventy two page issue. It offered a history of Cedar Rapids over the past fifty years and included a variety of other engaging material.
The seventh district congressional committee meets at Des Moines Grant Club this afternoon to set the date for the congressional convention. Mose Cohen, the chairman, says the congressional convention will ante-date the state convention but gives no timing for the meeting. The Boone Democrat notes W. V. Payne and the Times fought hard to defeat Cummins in Story County and lost. it asks what they will do now. The Times and Democrat align in past actions, while the Register and Leader accuses standpatters of planning a bolt. The paper suggests 1908 could name a progressive Republican leader or Bryan could win.
In Chicago Richard G. Ivens awaits execution for the murder of Mrs. Hollister. A flood of women delivering flowers and speaking to him led the jailer to issue a strict order prohibiting any flower deliveries to the condemned man. The ban aims to curb interruptions of jail routines and public sympathy.
The piece notes President Roosevelt’s packinghouse cleanup orders prompting swift reforms and broad reaction. It mentions W. J. Bryan’s touring Europe and hints at Democratic presidential prospects for 1908 with Roosevelt as the sole viable Republican against Bryan. It also criticizes the Register and Leader for missing editorials on primaries and a Black Hawk County ballot discrepancy.
The Des Moines Woodward interurban opened for traffic Monday sparking a Woodward celebration. Bre’r Cummins and Hon. F. D. Coburn, named U S Senator from Kansas by Gov. Hoch, declined the post. A Johnson County farm sold for 110 dollars per acre as a notable local highlight.
John Thompson, editor of the Ogden Messenger and a free silver Democrat, endorses Gov. Cummins. In last week's issue he accused the Times editor of bias after Cummins carried Story county.
There is no more appropriate gift for a graduate than a good pen or Kodaks offered in a full season assortment. Prices range from 25 cents to 20 dollars, with delivery available and telephone contact provided.
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