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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1899
Page
2
Ames reports on school grounds needing trees and repairs, local socials, protests against dilapidated landmarks, and a busy schedule of lectures, stock judging, field days, and a state federation talk on girls training for work. Cornell and Ames to play ball Saturday.
Local items note Imperial oats at Letts and Grove’s lunch goods and fruit. Reports of rainfall, public speeches by Dr Beardshear in Nevada, and Bruce Hutchison building a 2000 dollar residence north of McCaskey. Community notices include church services, PEO gatherings, Epworth League events, and postal weighings. Memorials include the death of Maud Allen and local sales and ads.
A South Burgettstown, Pennsylvania resident reports a near fatal whooping cough attack healed after using Chamberlains Cough Remedy. The testimonial asserts a few doses cured the child and calls it the best cough medicine in the house. Also advertised are children's bonnets, canned goods, and White Loaf flour from local merchants.
Corrected Thursday morning by Lockwood Grain Co. notes mixed corn values and old crop figures. The brief entry lists price readouts and percentages with unclear supplementary figures.
The weekly list includes Fitzhugh Edgar H Grange Mrs Geo Gardner Burt Henry Mrs Alice Jameson James Johnson Peter D Wesley LG Wheeler Mrs EO Wiliams Miles for letters remaining unclaimed at the post office.
Arrangements are set for a grand opening on Wednesday May 17 at Watkins Well with Bill Myers directing. Speakers include O B Peterson and Rev Lang, music by Story City cornet band and orchestra, and amusements such as races shooting matches and jumping vaulting. The Story City band will also perform at the Story City opera hall that evening.
The Ames United Brethren church invites official members and others to the third quarterly meeting at Evergreen church next Saturday evening at 8:30 after a 7:30 preaching service by Rev. W. F. Cronk. A. T. Wrieur urges attendance for important business.
Rifle not returned. The parties renting a Stevens rifle on April 15th, will please return same at once and save trouble. Geo. Roberson.
The sea steadily drowns coastal areas of Norfolk and Suffolk. Dunwich, once a royal town and port with monasteries, is now a tiny village of about 200. A long-ago sand blockage sealed its decline while the Cromer anchor lies two miles offshore.
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