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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1902
Page
5
A drug department ad announces storage of leftover pictures after winter and a chance to move stock next spring. It urges customers to watch special prices on Saturday January 11 as prices may drop further.
Shoe department advertises misses and children's footwear with multiple styles and sizes at prices under 2 dollars. Includes misss kid lace and button shoes, dong toe options, kangaroo calf, and vesting top styles, plus a $1.19 ladies’ kid shoe and a $1.49 to $1.98 range for various fits. Also notes Arctics reduction and in-store repairs.
A local grocery detailing bulk overstock sale across multiple lots. Items include peaches in syrup 4¢ each, fancy peaches 19¢, Prince brand peaches pears and apricots 19¢, KC Baking Powder 15¢, Gold Dust 6¢, Uncle Jerry’s Pancake Flour price cut, Merry War Lye 5¢ per can, 3 for 25¢ on pie peaches, and Search light Oil offering bright white light with Oil Meal at $1.63 per hundred.
A clothing sale advert touts 25 percent discounts and a 2 percent cut on all Men's Boys and Children's Winter Clothing. It promises radical reductions on every winter garment in stock with profits not considered and immediate sale. Hart Schaffner Marx is cited as the maker of guaranteed ready to wear clothing.
Bargain clothing sale lists men's and youth ulsters and suits with 25 percent off price points from 18.00 down to 8.50, plus mitts at 38 cents and a sequence of discounted prices. Indicates multiple price lines and a docket-like display.
The Big Store launches its January sale offering deep discounts on women’s coats jackets capes and suits to clear winter stock. Long coats drop from 30.00 to 11.00, box jackets at 8.7, capes 3.00 to 10.00, tailor made suits 6.00 to 12.00, skirts 2.50 to 6.00, silk waist 3.50, wool waists from 1.10 to 2.00, with many items priced to move before spring.
A tribute to George Hanger from A K Campbell describes him as a principled, charitable man active in Wittemberg College and early manual labor education, with lifelong devotion to the oppressed. The piece also notes Dr. Hughes’s descent into insanity due to liquor, his past prominence as a Des Moines dentist, and his impending confinement in an asylum.
Owen Blackledge writes from Denver area describing a recent destructive windstorm in Golden with $5,000 in damage. He notes warm springlike days earlier, irrigation land prices near Denver, and meeting Iowa natives J. M. Irwin and Horace Shepard while visiting Brighton. He mentions his mother’s ongoing health and extends New Year wishes.
Des Moines papers reported the wrecked life of Dr. E. E. Hughes who was committed to the Mt Pleasant insane asylum. He lived in Newton about fifteen years ago, a handsome dentist and local social figure who began indulging in a social drink A common fate for many in his era.
The Jasper County Atlas has been issued by Huebinger Co Davenport after eighteen months of labor by several men. It is praised as superb with finely engraved accurate maps and is expected to become a standard authority for Jasper county for many years.
House and lot on South street for sale. Two story residence with nine rooms heated by hot water. Hot and cold water at bath tub and wash bowl. Good cellar two wells and a cistern. For particulars call at residence of HW. S. Eenor 258t.
For sale a seven room modern house in North Scotist. Enquire of S. W. Saylor. Also offering to duplicate any magazine subscription via the Record For Sale. Very good small hard coal stove offered cheaply. Inquiries at this office. New stock of wedding and party invitations just received at this office at reasonable prices.
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