Crossing the Plains Aboard Sixty Wagons and Buffalo Encounters
Narrative recounts a westward trek with sixty wagons two hundred forty oxen and a hundred eighty people crossing the plains. The narrator describes river crossings skirting mountains buffalo herds Sioux and Pawnee interactions and lessons from an educated Sioux chief named White Cloud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains
Lewis and Clark
Fremont
Pawnee Indian Reservation
St. Joseph
Platte River
Grand Island
Rocky Mountains
North Platte
Fort
Phil Kearney
Missouri River
Miami University
Oxford
White Cloud
Buffalo County
Arkansas Valley
Texas
Taxes Must be Paid Before October First to Avoid Penalty
A notice directs residents of Ames and surrounding areas to pay taxes by October 1 at Story County Bank to avoid penalties. The list of payment locations is provided for convenience.
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Hall of
Ames Lodge
C.C.F
John B. T
Ames Times
Ames Intelligencer
Asm
Rica Guo
W. O'Barex
Ames
Story County
Local remedy saves dysentery cases in Pikeville
Demand for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is high as residents report cures where other treatments failed. Frank Jon S from Pikeville Indiana endorses it and Loughran and Bauer supply the medicine locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Frank Jon
Pikeville
Ind
Loughran & Bauer
Very Low Rates to Chattanooga Excursion Tickets
Low fare to Chattanooga Tennessee offered on the North-Western Line from September 14 to 16 with favorable return limits. Discounted tickets apply through Chicago and North-Western Railway agents. Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga cited as the occasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North-Western
Cchicamauga
Chicago and
Ba Y
Chamberlains Colic Remedy Promoted For Home Use
Advertises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a quick relief for colic diarrhoea and dysentery urging families to keep it on hand and citing testimonials. Mentions sale by Loughran Bauer and a summer travel ad for Humboldt excursion tickets. Includes clutter about paint by Carama and pigeon breeders in Iowa and Stanhope sale notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakotas
Canadian
Egypt
Chamberlain
Loughran & Bauer
Very Low Excursion Rates to Pacific Coast by Train
Excursion tickets will be sold from all stations to Portland Tacoma and Seattle daily and to California points on various dates. Two fast trains to the Pacific coast daily The Overland Limited electric lighted throughout under three days en route. Another fast train The California Express with drawing room and tourist sleeping cars. For rates apply to Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle
California
Pacific Coast
California Express
Chicago & North Western R’y
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Pike’s Peak
Fremont’s Peak
Gro. E. Mason
Ayer
Tuscumbia
J.C. Ayer CO
Lowell, Mass
L. M Bosworth
Chattanooga
Humboldt
Dakota City
Iowa
Chicago & North-Western Ry
M. O Stockland
M. E
Little Falls
Minn
Carara
Citizens Lumber Co
A. L. Dunton
Gilbert
New Stanhope
Times
J. Jacobs
Nevada
Chicago
North- Western R’y
Towa
MFGR
Huskers Liniment
Isses Eulston
Church
Henry
Fall Street
Colanders
C. W. Hunter
San Francisco
Los Angeles
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