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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1898
Page
2
A correspondence in the American Agriculturist notes success using corrosive sublimate to prevent potato scab. Procedure involves soaking seed potatoes in diluted poison for ninety minutes, then drying and cutting as usual, with cautions about handling, containment, and avoiding contact with metal and animals.
Chapel address announced by Rev W. 2. Pobhustone. Visitors include Miss Lillian Porterfield and Miss Jane Saylor. I A C buys Kinsley addition, athletic activity grows, and construction on bell tower resumes after frost. Marriage of Miss Fellows and Alford Banks reported with Chicago guest Mary Fellows attending.
A. E. Slater offers Tus Early Ohio potatoes for sale as the earliest variety. Local buyers encouraged to place orders.
An advertiser urges mothers to empower daughters and describes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as strengthening and regulating female health. The copy claims it targets delicate feminine organs, fosters self knowledge, and invites readers to send 21 cents to the World’s Dispensary in Buffalo for Dr. Pierce’s Medical Adviser.
Travel cheaply on Tuesdays April Sth and 19th via the Homeseekers Excursions to the south west and northwest. Round trip fare is only two dollars more than operating costs. FH Hunter, CGW Agent at Des Moines, will answer inquiries about rates routes or train service.
The recipe instructs melting one pint of tar with one pound six ounces of resin, then adding half a gill of spirits of turpentine as it cools. It mixes in charcoal and sawdust to form a dry paste, spread in layers to cool, then broken into pieces that burn bright and ignite coal and wood when placed at the grate.
In the reign of Edward I there were three brothers at Bristol who became eminent clothiers and woolen weavers named Blanket. They started manufacturing the blanket material, which was then used for peasants and bore their family name.
A humorous exchange where Pickins teases Dickins about his wife adapting from farm life to urban living in St. Louis. Dickins responds with a wry defense of country sensibilities.
A quip about dead tongues mocks gendered chatter as Mrs Reader asks about the dead and Mr Reader claims women have spoken themselves to death in a terse exchange. The snappy dialogue reflects social tensions and wit.
Agents in every county in Iowa urged to sell the new washing machine. Call on or address Northwestern Mfg Co of Ames Iowa to secure distributorships and ongoing commissions.
Wants to trade horses wagon and harness three head cattle hogs and farm implements for town lots or a house and lot. Contact D Barker at the first door south of Hematreet's residence.
One of the finest dwellings in Ames for sale with barn, well, cistern, fruit, two lots and modern improvements located three blocks north of the depot. Also advertised are 10 cent Down to Date coffee and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy touted for whooping cough. The North-Western Line offers Home Seeker's excursion tickets to the West and South on April 15 and 19. For details contact M Hemstreet Ames la.
March 28 reports a strong market day with broad gains across stocks grain and provisions. July wheat led as prices climbed while May corn rose amid a buying surge and long purchases, despite ongoing liquidation and weak oats. Market talk also notes expectations of yellow fever and southern disease concerns.
Seep Corn-IL offers 7 bushel seed corn for sale. Gtp W. PB advertises wallpaper and paper mill products. Agents claim direct factory pricing and wide color patterns with low costs. Local call at first door promised for business and satisfaction.
All accounts on current books dated January 1st 1808 must be settled by April 9th per order of J H Qu.
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