28 Apr 1892
Page 1
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1892
Page
1
Town boasts 2000 residents with no vacant houses and talks of a beet sugar factory. It's described as the most enterprising city in four banner Iowa counties, amid rich farming country and lively growth in central Iowa.
A promotional tract describes Ames as the place for health wealth and comfort with education sobriety. It highlights the Agricultural College seat, fine schools and churches, a great trading point status, solid banks and manufacturing interests, a noted horse breeding town and a valuable newspaper plant. It notes a fine water system in operation electric lights and a contemplated kite track and private railroad enterprise with special incentives for growth.
A descriptive piece extols Ames Story County Iowa as a thriving, debt free town on the Chicago Northwestern line. It lauds education with public schools and the Agricultural College, notes water works, a West Hotel, multiple churches, and a strong banking sector. The writer praises the region’s climate, soil, and industry, and promotes Norfolk and beet sugar prospects while presenting Ames as a model of progress and civic virtue.
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