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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1896
Page
9
A local notice advertises a clearing out sale aimed at reducing stock. It touts inducements including discounts of 25 percent on ladies muslin undergarments and similar reductions on other goods, noting prices are currently higher.
sale offers 25 discount on ladies velvet and beaver shawls 25 off undergarments and underwear 25 cents for select items gents undershirts drawers and heavy random underwear at low prices half price on dress goods coats and jackets via factory prices ladies and children's cloaks fur and cloth vests plush coats offered below manufacturer prices
Local items report Lyle Gates and Lt Kennington capital. J W Remine of Colfax tending to business. Miss Millie Briggs visiting Colfax. Jack Peters from Des Moines visiting family. Kirkpatrick of Reasnor in Newton. many residents, trades, and events mentioned including depot work, Woodmen meeting, and theater engagement.
A scanned seedy ad page lists items from cough cures and corn beef to coal subscriptions and 6- note promotions. It mentions Houghs store in Newton and Wilson Harve Livery Barn, plus three purebred Scotch Collie pups for sale with “hard times” prices. Old subscribers are urged to pay up by January 1906.
Local notice records the regular February 4 meeting of Hook and Ladder Move Co postponed one week to Pebrue ary Hl by order W. H. Lasment See Pstix. Also potatoes for sale by Shaul on Brown St Main St raised 165 bushels on 3/4 acre of Rural New Yorker variety at 34 cents per bushel. Memorial for the late A C Shropshire held at the Christian church with prayers and hymns. Death notice states he died January 20 while visiting Paris Kentucky at age sixty two. Mrs Shropshire and the widow’s relief corps attended. Also concert program for Myrtle Drew at the Congregational church February 1 with a sequence of vocal numbers.
The note warns readers about a con artist posing as a Demorest pattern agent, using the name Geo. and a fictitious company to collect money for advertising or subscriptions. It explains that Demorest’s never hires traveling salesmen for pattern sales or magazine subscriptions.
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