Local Notices and Visitor Announcements at Ames Area
Local brief items note Mrs Bowman returning from Town City and Paul Skelly traveling to Chicago on business. Mr and Mrs Will Garretson and family visit from Ames, with Jennie Langk ay and Miss Mary Hancvcl traveling to Cedar Rapids for a summer school. A sale at Mann’s offers 12 dozen tall sherbet glasses reduced to $2.80 in July.
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Bamley's
H. Bowman
Paul Skelly
Chicago
Snow White
Will Garretson
Ames
Ana
Jennie Langkay
Mosa
Mas
Strickle
Mary G. Hancvcl
Cedar Rapids
Palmerethod of Penmanship
Mann's ‘S
Price Cuts on Flatware Units Hit Clearance Sale
A sequence of reduced prices lists various flatware items including salad forks pickle forks dessert spoons table spoons knives and forks cold meat forks cream ladles gravy ladles and gravy with numerous discounted figures. The entries show inconsistent formatting but indicate a broad clearance of kitchenware with multiple price reductions across different pieces.
Lost boat prow on Maquoketa River near Camp Black Hawk
A gray double prow raw boat disappeared on the Maquoketa River around July 5 near Camp Black Hawk west of Pirhsok Maquoketa. Finder to notify Geo. Anderson M C A Clinton Iowa or Shade Burleson RFD and claim reward. Also notes about social visits and sales ads follow in a crowded local notices set.
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Magquoketa River
Black Hawk
Pirhsok
Maquoketa
Sherbert Glasses Sale With Three Assorted Patterns
Sale offers tall sherbet glasses priced at 9.50 each with genuine crystal thin blown glass in three patterns star grape and pansy. Reduced per set to 82.80.
Bees Attacks Hit Hay Loader and Horses at Will Swift Farm
Thursday afternoon near Arcade, Martin Teshak was loading hay when a swarm of bees attacked him and three horses. The rig was wrecked and the horses suffered swollen bodies and heads, with blindness and lack of appetite. Teshak called it the worst experience he ever had and stated he was stung all over. Also notes Mrs Ed Gibson and two children returning from Morrison, Mrs Clem Grants visiting Krieble home and returning to Mobile, Alabama last Thursday.
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Martin Teshak
Will Swift
Arcade
Teshak
Clem Grants
Mobile
Alt
G. L. Krieble
Notice to Contractors for City Hall Exterior Painting Bids
City Council will accept sealed bids at the July 19 1920 meeting for painting the city hall exterior walls and clock tower in Maquoketa Town. Bids cover labor materials tools scaffolding and rigging. Details on paint quality and work are at the city hall office. Mayor W G Morden signed the notice.
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Tow
Maquo
Keta
W. G. Morden
Small Things of Great Moment on a Transatlantic Liner
A twine snag in the steering gear of a transatlantic liner caused repairs costing SLOHU80. A careless word once dropped by an office worker endangered lives and fortunes, highlighting how small errors can trigger major consequences at sea.
Prices drop on dinnerware patterns and sets
Advert says 50 open stock streck patterns now $30,00 10-piece set $12.36, $24.00 two for $34.28, reduces to $55.00, 96-piece set, 100 fancy decors, salad bowls down to $1.00. Indicates a broad sale on assorted dinnerware with substantial price cuts.
Glassware sale prices for star cut tumblers and pitchers
Reduced pricing on star cut water tumblers from twelve per dozen to 1 95. water pitchers cut from 2 00 to 1 69. Other items show reductions to 1 20 and 10 00 for sets as describ ed in the note.
Bargain Jewelry and Clock Items Deeply Discounted Today
Local store lists deep reductions across watches clocks rings and chains including sapphire and cameo pieces. Highlights show dramatic price cuts from 14.00 to 2.80 on alarm watches and from 99.59 to 18.00 on select wrist watches, with numerous lavaliers and Waldemar chains deeply discounted to single digits.
Cameo Rings Sale Thrown On Colorful Mountings
Ring shop offers cameos in green and yellow gold finger rings with price cuts. Prices drop from five dollars to four for GN and 480 750 varieties to six to nine dollars, with further reductions to ten and up to twenty dollars.
Umbrella Sale Across Colors and Styles
An advertisement lists umbrellas in colors black blue green silk and linen cotton with multiple price reductions. Original prices range from four to ten dollars with discounts shown such as four dollars reduced to three twenty, six dollars to four eighty nine, and seven fifty to six dollars.
Pearl Necklace Prices Cleared In Odd Shop Listing
A garbled price list shows Pearl Necklaces with various reductions such as one dollar and several unclear amounts. The scattered figures suggest a sale, though many numbers are unreadable. The ad style implies a small storefront promotion with disrupted OCR text.
Vision for a Better City by Maro Fesler
The passage envisions a city built on sanitary, convenient housing for rich and poor, with beautiful streets and architecture. It speaks of clean sheets, clear lines, accessible parks, thriving commerce, education and art in homes, and leadership through character. It calls for a world where people unite, generations improve the city, and public devotion guides growth.
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Etter
Maro Fesler
Spring Cleaning Urges Community Toward Tidier Neighbors
In a lively exhortation, the writer promotes thorough spring cleanup from rugs to garrets. The piece notes discomfort for a reluctant family member, urges cleaning vacant lots and junk piles, and claims a tidy neighborhood boosts comfort, happiness, and property values.
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Jason
Ted
Everyboy
Eve Ody
Ingame Exchange
Tinting the Tale: editor rebukes heavy color in prose
A editor critiques a bulky manuscript, urging restraint as a line of vivid, overbearing imagery is challenged. He notes the old man’s rage, the villain’s envy, the heroine’s confusion, and the cabman’s dicey fate as examples.
The Bulge That Counts
The bulge noted by observers appears at the pockwise location. The report mentions a lah a iro tur event tied to a local siege and notes related counts.
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Pockwie
Looking at Elephant Sketches and Rat Sack Sale
Mr C Dunster recalls a hotel stay in a small Pennsylvania town where a stable hire revealed dead rats packed in a sack, described as looking like a battlefield in Europe. The scene is tied to a ratSNA?p sale carried by Snow White Pharmacy and McAllister Stores. Little Catherine, four, watched an elephant at a circus first sight and commented on Lingua’s tail near his eyes.
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Europe
Mr. C. Dunster
Pennsylvania
Snow White Pharmacy
McAllister Stores Company
Catherine
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M.C. A. Clinton
Iowa
Shade Burleson
R.F.D
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Joe, G. Roberts
E. B. Brown
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Ente
Philadelphia
G. L. Mann
Dorothy Tabor
Baldwin
Miriam Matthias, Jr
J. O. Elving
Escanaba
W. H. Gibson
Roy Carson
L.B. Carson
Chas
Kaler
McAllister’s
FT. W. Rathie
Mitchell
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Welton and
DeWitt
Hamley’s
Sherbert Glasses
Ed Gibson
Mondey
Morrison,, Ti
Lavaliers
Harison
Towa
Maquoketa Kron
Algo
A. Rosenberg
Fletcher
Sentinel Realty Co
Harry Mealey
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