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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1895
Page
8
The Fair E invites Ames and nearby residents to visit the new store and inspect its line of dry goods and furnishings. It promises affordable prices for all purses and lists merchandise including boots, shoes, notions, tin ware, glassware, queensware, wood wares, lamps, and stationery. It asserts only the best goods at the lowest prices and offers bargains to prove the claim.
A Detroit paper catalog lists best Lemon or Vanilla Extracts and sewing machine oil among 1c and 15c items. It markets 5c gents goods such as overalls, jumpers, socks, handkerchiefs, pants, overshirts, knee pants, knee suits, flannel waists, and hats with varied sale prices.
Local advert promotes a broad shoe sale with prices for ladies gents and children. Items include Ladies Fine Shoes at 1.13 and 1.38, Gents Fine Shoes at 1.50 and 2.50, Gents Good Boots, Child's Shoes, and Misses Never Rip Shoes with various price points.
Notions and sewing shop items listed include safety pins paper pins leather goods buttons Belding sewing silk and embroidery silk spools hooks and eyes belt pins hair curlers pencils large tablets buttermilk soap and a large stationery line. Prices are shown per dozen or each with small unit costs.
The speaker asserts years of experience in their business and offers to share expert insights. They claim to distinguish good articles quickly and vow to sell at the lowest prices while demanding payment for their knowledge and goods.
Illinois residents buy Iowa farms while Sid Foster praises Iowa. Johnny Crum wins at Bayomie New Jersey, Labor Day passes without Ames notice. Rep Cairns writes from Ames about Iowa crops. Woolstock loses its paper stance. Clay County News changes hands from M H Richards to Gillespie and Randall. Gillespie, a founder, returns. The News office features a devilish Times editor.
The Sovereign boycott of the national bank note began Monday and its impact is unclear as the Times has not encountered any of the notes since the order. An Indiana exchange notes a Greensburg farmer growing a seventeen pound tomato and joking that they also raise unusually heavy bars.
The fragment notes that bank notes have not lost value at the office and that The Tres continues to accept them for subscriptions advertising and job work when opportunity arises. It urges not to be backward about tendering them.
Last Saturday the first jury was drawn under the new law. Names of all county voters are drawn and placed in a separate box, and will not be reused until the entire voter list has been exhausted.
An out west editor responds to a question about baldheaded women with a pointed denial. He states he has never seen a woman in town with a cigar, fishing with a bottle in her hip pocket, sitting all day in damp ground, coming home drunk, or removing her coat to swear she could beat any man, asserting women are not built that way.
Col Mackey warns the party faces a lasting storm as he declares loyalty to the people even if the Democratic party sinks to hell, insisting the fight for democracy continues despite divisions at a Marshalltown convention.
Farmers report grain delivered in exchange for flour and feed was promptly attended to by grist mill operators.
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