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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1903
Page
3
A weekly sale lists canned plums and prunes at $1 for 30 pounds and 1 pound rice at 5c. Coffee 10c to 40c, fresh oranges bananas apples potatoes onions parsnips and green vegetables featured. Household items include bathware and pans priced 10 to 15c and kitchenware like waffle irons and pancake flour at 20c to 35c.
Advertises Ethan Allen Flour and Success Flour with a money back guarantee if not satisfactory. Prices listed: $1.15 per sack for Ethan Allen Flour and $1.00 per sack for Success patent flour. Also notes a request to open an account.
The town catalogs a busy slate from the Breezy Time show at the opera house to salon notices. Local firms advertise belts paints brushes and baked beans while politics and school board results spark city chatter.
A long list of local people and visitors prompted by business, family visits, or travel are noted as passing through or staying in Ames and nearby towns. Names include Carrie Horton Elmer Coffin Hansen Graham Bawden Gridley Glidden Sisson Davis Lang Counthan Holmes McLain Butler Meredith Sisson Hemstreet Ballard Haverly Hanson Cairns McFadden Harriman Larson McKee Smith Elliott Bailey Waltmire Davis Caldwell Cramer Zenor Elwell and others with trips to Des Moines Waterloo Boone Denver and Chicago.
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