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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1904
Page
6
The store touts a broad collection of HEART SCHAFFNER MARX and MICHAELS STERN suits and overcoats for men, with tailoring by hand and guaranteed satisfaction. It features boys clothing, ladies coats, suits, cloaks, skirts, and special closeout values, promising quality fabrics and fashionable styles at low prices.
A local shop advertises dress goods and waistings including Melrose Whipcords Selicians Mohais Broadcloths Cheviots and Flannels. Prices up to $2.00 per yard. Silk Raplin waistings yarn mercerized with permanent finish offered in black cream cardinal green and two blues at 50 cents per yard.
A local shop advertises shirts for men with several dozen options in soft and stiff bosoms priced at 65c 75c and 1.00 each. A half dozen costs 2.50.
This page lists community items including Mrs. Fred Eighmy hosting a club meeting, a piano recital postponed, births and illnesses, farm for sale, cows for pasture, a housekeeper position, and local notices from Ames Iowa with various events, meetings, and personal updates for residents and organizations.
The column lists numerous Ames area residents and visitors traveling to and from nearby towns. Names include Ray Harmen, T. J. Miller, Leo Burton, Arthur Bauer, Alice Cavanaugh, Ben Cole, Stena Larson, B. R. Rogers, C. A. Aplin, Lillie Simmons, Katherine Stuart, and many others visiting relatives in Boone, Des Moines, Story City, Waterloo, and beyond. Several home visits, trips to St Louis, Oklahoma, and Montana are noted along with anniversary celebrations and social events.
Program for the Program Missionary Social Union meeting to be held in Ontario on November 9 includes devotional sessions at 10 30 led by Mrs C Wentworth and 1 30 led by Mrs Means. A Mexico paper and Nevada convention report by Bertha Jones precede harvest activities and special music. Ontario auxiliary reports follow with recitations by Mrs Kate Briley and Mrs W J Zenor, social and dinner 12 00 to 1 30, Young Ladies Circle work with recitation by Mabel Eastwood, and an afternoon address by Miss Newcomer of Des Moines with solo by Mrs C Holmes of Ames and a business period at 3 40.
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