02 Oct 1902
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1902
Page
1
Ames news carries a mix of shop ads and social notes with Danforth's confectionery as a staple, Kooser & Co promotions, sewing and boarding notices, and community events. It reports Loughran & Bauer supplies, a high school football win for Ames over Nevada, church sermons, and weekly social gatherings plus a golden wedding coincidence and a bootlegging court case.
Many residents and visitors are listed with brief notes on travel, visits, and relocations. Etta Budd returns from Chicago. Dan McCarthy on a Mt. Pleasant business trip. Mrs Chester Morrison visits Ames. Wirt Wells visits from Des Moines. Lola Compton Cooper and Annie Allen travel and guests move about Ames, Alden, Williams, San Antonio, Ogden, and other places as well.
Ames marks the fifteenth anniversary of Samuel H. Mitchell and Mary A. Hollowell with afternoon and evening gatherings at Capt. K. W. Brown’s residence. About 100 guests attended the afternoon, 140 in the evening, and gifts included a basket of gold coins totaling 226.75 dollars. Notables and family readers sent letters and congratulations from Chicago and elsewhere, with local officials and clergy presenting tributes and gifts.
An old advertisement urges readers to try Bucklen’s Arnica Salve to vanish eczema blotches eruptions pimples and other skin woes. It claims to beautify the face cure sore lips chapped hands chilblains and piles, with a 25 cent price at L. M. Bosworth’s drug store.
North-Western Line offers excursion fares to New York with limited return until October 14. Tickets valid October 2, 3, 4 and 6 with return by those dates. Apply through Chicago and North-Western Rail. For sale also a seven room cottage on Clark Street inquires to A. A. Seymour.
Miss Libbie Graves and Mr A F Bowman wed at the bride’s Story Street home in a quiet September 24 ceremony officiated by F D Ferrall. Family and close friends attended as autumn décor and white silk attire set a formal mood. The couple will begin housekeeping at once and are warmly wished bon voyage.
A minister from Trilla California California? endorses a lung remedy, stating it provides more relief than any prior treatment. The letter invites others with lung trouble to try the product and notes it is sold at Coye Pharmacy.
The Chicago Record-Herald asserts its readers enjoy a weekly news supply, Sunday included, unmatched in range and completeness. It combines its own independent facilities with the New York Herald and Associated Press, plus popular special features, creating a unique national newspaper presence.
G A R annual encampment in Washington D C scheduled for October 11th 1902.Chicago Great Western railway offers a $24.20 round trip from unspecified locations with sale Oct 2 through 5 and return by Oct lath or Nov with extra 50 cents. Contact any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Ill for details.
The past week was cold and cloudy with excessive rain delaying planting seeding and corn cutting. Wet weather impaired immature or unharvested crops and degraded corn fodder quality. Reports suggest 40 to 50 percent of the extra heavy corn crop may be below market standard though it could have feeding value if harvested and protected from wind and frost. A period of normal dry weather is urgently needed as the situation remains critical for the advanced crop stages and market value depends on future weather.
The Beggar Prince Opera Co will open a five show season of comic operas in Ames starting Oct 27. Season tickets are four dollars for reserved seats or five seats for two dollars. Half-price general admission is 50 cents. Notable cast includes Frank Walters and Irene Palmer, with PF A Wade in comedy roles. Tickets available from managers or L M Bosworth. payments due by opening performance. Davis & Corrr, Merchants.
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