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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
6
The item notes rural free mail delivery in Iowa, with 300 to 350 routes by month end and 522 more applications on file. It emphasizes the program is past experimentation and will extend wherever farmers meet requirements, enabling daily newspaper access and market news.
The article notes strong cash flow as movers flood Story county with household goods and farm equipment. It links high rents and rising farm land prices to a spring wave of migration and investment, calling the area the garden spot of the world as capital shifts into Grand and peerless town.
F. J. Green of Lancaster New Hampshire credits Electric Bitters with curing chronic indigestion and nervous debility after years of failure with other remedies. He notes his wife also remains in excellent health and praises the tonic for female troubles. 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed by L. M. Bosworth, Druggist.
If you have a loan on your place that can be paid on any interest pay day see us let us take it up and reduce your rate and also get you a loan on which you can pay any amount on any day you choose. We charge you no commission on such a loan. Story County Bank.
Return fare 29 30 from Chicago area for an inaugural trip via the North Western line. Tickets sold Feb 28 to Mar 2, valid only for trains arriving in Chicago after Mar 1 and return by Mar 8. Apply to Chicago & North Western Ry agents. Also local ads for perfumes and dried cherries and canned fruit specials.
The list records transfers ending March 2 1001 detailing numerous Ames parcels. Widespread deeds involve J F E Stewart C W Allen trustee Wm Crooks Scott French Chas W Sowers Catharine Wa AL Johnson H Mea Michael S Helland Peter L Falland James A Baker Nancy A Joselyn etc. Amounts range from 160 to 1400 dollars with many lots and blocks exchanged across Ames additions.
George W Waitt of South Gardiner Maine reports a severe cough cold and grip. He credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with relief after one bottle and endorses the product while noting it is sold by Tilden Loughran.
Unprecedented club offer combines The Iowa Homestead The Poultry Farmer and Special Farmers Institute editions with our paper for a one year price of 1.45. Local county and general news included. Samples available for examination at this office.
A humorous exchange finds a caller asking a gas company clerk about race entry openings. The clerk insists the gas office knows nothing of races while the caller clarifies the request is about entering a gas meter. The brief vignette showcases playful confusion in a Tit-Bits humorous column.
Indianapolis Press notes a farmer's tale of long saved burned matches leading to a kitchen blaze. A contrasting ad mentions Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised by F P Moran for children and no opium content.
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