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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
3
Readable portions show prices and item counts for breakfast foods and grains. Items include Egg-O-See in four packages at 20C, Malta Vita at 25C for three packages, Puffed Rice at 25C for three packages, Falcon Pancake Flour six pounds, Royal Pancake Flour six pounds, Boharts Pancake Flour toc package with nine noted, and Boharts Steel Cut Oats toc package.
The narrative recalls the Grant home in Galena Illinois with monuments and earthworks linking to the Spirit Lake massacre history. Capt Carter, a friend of the era, guides a visitor through the grounds and the famous residence presented by Galena citizens.
Excerpt from a travel diary recounting a July route through Heidelberg Freiberg Zurich and Munich. The writer notes rain in the Black Forest, scenic valleys Lake Zurich and Lake Constance, Tyrolean dress, Innsbruck impressions, and evenings in German eateries and streets.
A memoir fragment recalls 1857 Iowa Indian scare and Spirit Lake incidents, a romantic elopement story with a mad general and a forgiven couple, plus reflections on Gen. Ulysses Grant memorabilia. The account mentions Prairie du Chien, the Davis lineage, and a monumental herbarium gifted by Mrs. Leland Stanford to Mrs. U. S. Grant.
An Ames writer recalls copper and brass bronze buttons seen on the streets, reflecting a faded yet mighty sentiment. He invites neighbors to share memories as he recounts a memory of Galena Illinois and a Smithsonian funded exhibit, mentioning distant pages from Alexandria, Mt. Sinai, and Jerico and a three thousand dollar offer for a book.
Homeseekers tickets go on sale via The North Western Line from Wisconsin points on the first and third Tuesdays each month at very low round trip rates to western northwest and southwest destinations. Special low one way colonists' rates apply on same dates in February and March to Colorado Wyoming and the Black Hills with Pacific Coast points daily in March and April. Ask agents The North Western Line for particulars.
The North-Western Line offers reduced winter fares including second class one way tickets from Chicago at 33 dollars and through Pullman sleeping cars Chicago to San Francisco Los Angeles or Ireland with a double berth at seven dollars. First class round trips and liberal return limits are available through agents.
Engineer L. H. Shull of Boone was guest of honor at a January 31 banquet hosted by the Chicago and North Western Railway Company.
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