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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1899
Page
4
A busy ames note sheet lists local vendors, medicines, societal visits, musical programs, theatrical ads, and prison news. Items mention Judisch Bros. selling sponges and medicines, Miss Metcalf and Mr. Shaw in college concerts, social gatherings at the McElyea and Beyer homes, visiting figures like Gen. Lincoln, church services, and the impending dedication of a new Masonic hall.
The ad touts mens suits and strong tailored suits with customer satisfaction. It asserts better stock than competitors and promotes a large range of overcoats and fur coats with prices from 7.50 to 20.00 and invites shoppers to inspect the selection.
Letts highlights flour as a specialty while Mrs. W H Thurston remains very ill with fever and Mrs N S McGuire is ill during the prevailing epidemic. Doctors Hunt and Brownlie have moved into new offices in the Hunt building and offer what is described as the finest dental parlors in central Iowa.
A local ad touts the largest stock of shoes and rubber goods. It lists children calf shoes 5 to 8 at 75c and 8 to 11 at 85c, misses sizes 11 to 2 at $1.00, ladies shoes from $1.50 to $3.50, Daniel Green felt shoes, rubbers and Arctic styles, and men’s Mackintoshes from 95c to 7.50. The seller claims lower prices than competitors.
The advertisement highlights a wide range of gloves and mittens in Ames with emphasis on hats and caps for men and boys. It promotes low priced caps at 25c 50c and 75c and touts a durable shoe department with dress shoes and hard wearing options including a "Crack-a-jack" line at 1.50 dollars.
Editor Lees Wenders and Editor W. W. Barry of Lexington, Tennessee, while exploring Mammoth Cave, contracted piles. Their quick cure with Bucklin's Arnica Salve convinced them it is a world wonder, claimed to heal piles injuries inflammation and all eruptions. Only 25 cents at Tilden & Loughran's.
Captain C G Dennison, famed Africa commander, writes from Gryburg Bechuanaland dated Nov 4 1897 praising Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He states he used it for bowel trouble and gave it to his men with beneficial results. For sale by druggists.
A collage of small town notices offers to pay one cent above market for corn and oats delivered to B A Lockwood Grain Co and TILDEN Bros Co. Other ads promote ladies shoes, groceries, coffees, olives, heating stoves, and various merchants including C F Leris J J Grove Bradley White Letts W H Thurston.
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