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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1895
Page
3
Adams Bros promotes new buckwheat dried fruits and 45 cent laundry items. Tax Lockwood elevator shipped corn, five loads, price fifteen cents. Northwest Tank and Northwestern Fence Co. advertise hardware and building supplies. A baby girl is born to Mrs. T J Loughran but dies soon after, with community condolences. A missionary meeting and church confirmands are noted.
The LIMES paper cites clerk Buell delaying marriage licenses after questioning a couple from Story City Kamrar and nearby towns. It notes color vision tests for new railway engineers and recounts social tales from Webster City and surrounding towns, including a funeral, a restored restaurant, and a sales pitch for the Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad with discount fares and sleeping car routes.
A brief note urges making a call to Brett Under at Story County Bank. The message contains a contact cue and bank affiliation for outreach.
A 1 bit basket for 15c and a box of 32 soaps for 80c are offered by S. G. Hamiltons in Ames Iowa. An Ames area 160 acres of clear land in Greeley county Kansas valued at 1600 dollars is listed. Also advertised are Carbondale Nut prices and Log Cabin maple syrup availability with delivery options and orders via local elevator manager F N Fower.
Mrs Phoebe Thomas of June City Illinois credits two bottles of King's New Discovery with curing consumption after doctors gave hope she would not recover. Eggers of 139 Florida Street, Lan Cisco, reports similar success, saying the medicine cured a dreadful approaching consumption in two weeks. Pharmacy ads tout the product as effective for coughs and colds.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers twice daily trains from St. Louis Evansville Louisville and Cincinnati to Nashville Chattanooga Birmingham Atlanta Montgomery Thomasville Pensacola Mobile Jacksonville and Florida gulf coast resorts with Pullman sleeping cars. Low rates to Atlanta during the Cotton States Exposition and tourist rates to Florida. For details contact Geo B Horner J K Ridgely C P Atmore or Chicago and North Western agents.
Old people needing bowel and liver regulation are urged to try Pric Bitters from L. M. Bosworth. The tonic claims to be non intoxicating and non mutating, aiding digestion and strengthening internal organs. Fifty cents per bottle.
A satirical poem from the New York Sun mocks the People's Party proposing utopian prosperity. It rails at plutocrats and mortgagees, imagines abundance, and envisions political upheaval with phrases like the great P P knows it and Uncle Sampas. It uses whimsical imagery of silver cheese and dollar trees.
A vintage advert claims the salve treats cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions and promises money back if not satisfied. sale by L. M. Bosworth.
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