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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1895
Page
7
Local miscellany from Ames includes Bishop Adams Bros. selling kitchenware and hardware at bargain prices and a turkey and cranberry festival. Teachers from Ames travel to Nevada for a meeting, and local races prize corn with winners listed. Theatre acts feature Sergéj Concert Co and Tommy Downs, plus a Shakesperian impersonator. Community notices cover weddings, a fire recovery, and new shops, with ads for dry goods and groceries.
Local items note condemned prices on clothing and groceries, reports on residents visiting Des Moines and Chicago, and public auction plans. Farmers advertise dairy cows for sale, a death in Polk City, and notes on the Harris Comedy Company and city affairs.
Jemima Cochran Noble died Sunday morning November 24 1895 at her home in this city. She married James Noble September 17 1846 in Marion Indiana and had eight children three of whom survive. The deceased joined the Christian church early in life and was respected as an old settler in Story county. The funeral was conducted by Rev. J. K. Hester and burial followed at Pleasant Grove M E church cemetery.
A concise ad from a town store lists wool per yard 25c and 20c for dress flannels, blankets per pair 3.00 or 0.50, children's underwear 2 for 25, ladies fleece lined underwear 25c, baskets 15c, New York apples 3.25 per barrel, Watertown flour specials, and wholesale prices for five and eleven sack lots. The seller notes willingness to pay cash for fars and plans Saturday town visits.
The Northwestern Line will offer cheap excursion tickets on November 27 and December 11, 1895 to numerous points across Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas Indiana Territory Oklahoma Texas and Arizona. Tickets and full information available from Chicago and Northwestern railway agents.
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