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Furniture and lumber yards a feature of Ames trade
The article highlights Loup furniture and Loud’s stock, 40M. QUEAL & Co lumber yard led by Chamberlain, and a bustling Ames business scene with Hamiltons grocers, Paxton jeweler, Soper’s department store, Downs lumber, Allen livery, and local real estate firms. It profiles notable residents like Hemstreet, McLain, Thayer, and Col. O’Brien, detailing insurance, banking, and public services.
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P. Loup
Mr. Loud
Ames
Loud
Ut Kitchen
Queal
Pioneer Yard
Chamberlain
Seventeen
Tumber
Mississippi River
Arkansas Mills
Mies Ollca
Wath
Guaranta
Vi of
Iowa
Minnesota
Iota
M&m. Alller
Charles Hamilton
S.G Hamilton
Chas. Hamilton
Hamilton
Towa
Chase & Sanborn
Drayman
Brnding
Paxton
Story County Bank
S.jhe Boris
Perhelion
M. Hemstreet
Mr. Hemstreet
N. Y
157Th
New York
Hemstreet
F. T. McLain
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Liverpool
London and Globe
England
Onent
Hartford
Conn
Frm
McLain
Warwick
Odd Fellows Lodges
Roass Bower & Sorenson
Es. Downs
Mr. Downs
Sioux County
Downs
Ater Furning
Soper
Bigelow & Smith
Brokaw Manufacturing Company
Wilson
Monarch
Ife
Union National Bank
Mancca
Thayer
Equitable Life of
Waterloo
24Th Town Volunteers
F. O'Brien