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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1900
Page
8
A collage of short items shows ads and notices for goods for sale including a typewriter and a graphophone, properties for sale or rent, farm implements, and evergreen stock. It also records numerous social visits, migrations, and community events across Newton and Jasper County with many named individuals, towns, and institutions.
The Clothing Furniture and Drug departments promote a spring opening sale starting Monday for one week. They boast 23000 samples of opening ware and advertise price cuts on fine carpets including wool ingrains and Granite Ingrain patterns. Cornelia carpet and 90 inch wide options are offered at special rates while quantities last.
The Sherwin Williams agents promote Juvena art squares in ingrain colors. A sale runs from April 9 for one week with price matching in no store, offering 3x3 yard art squares at 5.20 dollars.
An English porcelain sale promotes a 100 piece dinner set for 87.81 with optional substitutions. Featured patterns include Pink Dorothy and Blue Rosa from Alfred Makin, with mentions of W. H. Grindly & Co. and renewed interest in English ware designs. Also advertised is a Workshop Repair Outfit, plus Arctic Freezer at sale prices, noting build quality and durability.
The item describes a dented top pan roaster that collects juices to moisten meat, made from smooth steel with strong wiring. It mentions double self-adjusting wood scrapers for cleaning the can interior and aiding freezing. The Arctic Freezer allegedly yields fine smooth velvety cream when directions are followed.
The East Side Fair Store will open in the Mersdon block on April 18. Millard Cox notes the Record. The item mentions Newton avoiding trading stamps and piano schemes, with merchants in Iowa towns regretting ventures. Lost item from Jasper Co. includes Laird family references and an incubator machine introduction. No reward offered. cannot be returned.
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