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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
2
Local items note lectures at the I S C, visits by Mrs Cavell and Miss May Taylor, and travels of Dr Beardshear. Des Moines visitors, mules shipped to Kansas City, and a Reidelsberger concert ticket sale. Excursions to Omaha and Lafayette day observances are mentioned along with campus sports and various local notices.
From Soldiers' Home St James Mo Jan 28 1898 Dear Sirs please send me another 40 oz bottle of your Syrup Pepsin It is the very best laxative I have ever used and I am always troubled with constipation Mrs W D Crandall Matron Just received another car of Polar Star Fancy flour none better Bradley White Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded Try a sack and be convinced
Local notes advertise dressmaking services by Miss Erickson, rooming at Hatteberg's residence. Ames, Iowa. Farmers urged to inspect our scoop board before buying elsewhere. Northwest Merc. Co. promotes old fashion dress care but not old fashion remedies. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is sold by druggists. Also offering Poland China pigs for sale three miles east and one mile south of Ames. C Barbour announces removing stock to Sisson’s room and discount on mens furnishings, hats, caps, trunks, valises, and shoes up to 40 percent.
From neighboring towns report multiple farm sales at good prices and eager cattle buyers. Gravel road work proceeds three miles north from James Brown’s farm to Story City under Will Baker’s contract. Local jurors, migratory wildfowl, and swine disease impacting small pigs are noted. Calves bring $9.50 each as Robert McCracken sells ten head.
Claude Crane travels to Des Moines for schooling while Lewis Stinson of Minnesota visits friends. Agent Foster returns from a western trip. A Shields of Nickerson Kansas visits relatives. Lytle of Sterling Illinois and J W Lytle visit from last week. Miss Nettle Kelly ends her term in Hutchinson. John Peterson of Des Moines visits friend J Hutchinson. Geo Copestake returns from Omaha expo. Egleston active in northern state thrashing and returns home. Mrs Stark visits at Ward. Stark drives down. Depot broken into last night. Miss Lou Gossard’s dress pattern stolen by express. Baled hay and other feeds delivered across Crooks Yard.
J M Nickle of Nickle B merchants Nickleville Pa reports two children prone to croup episodes are prevented by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. He notes it is the county’s essential medicine and sells more than any other cough remedy. Available through druggists.
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