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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1893
Page
3
Train schedule lists No 58 56 62 freight and passenger trains for Chicago and North Western Railway with arrival times and lines to Omaha Denver Overland and Dak and Des Moines routes. notes limited service and Sunday restrictions. agent Geo W Rogers signed off.
Ames residents and visitors are noted in a long list of calls and travels. Names include Harry Bryant J A Kerr from Chicago Mrs Frank Patrick in Nevada and many others visiting Des Moines Marshalltown Nevada and Omaha. The column also records community events and upcoming meetings.
Local merchants announce sales and new stock at Hamilton and Co offering gal lon cans cherries fresh cabbage parsnips and rutabagas and for sale tame hay. George D Loud promotes office chairs rockers and an embroideries line while Grove Bros highlights ladies and children’s muslin underwear and Hebra’s Viola cream from L M Bosworth. Northwestern Land Co advertises farm lands in South Dakota with small incumbrance and trade options for horses cattle or merchandise. Des Moines Iowa. 404 Lake ciscoes arrive at Hamilton & Co.
A local advertises 4000 dollars of clothing at half price to be sold within 20 days, featuring men boys youths and childrens 2 piece suits. The article reports Grand Chancellor Cope visiting Ames to reorganize Champion Lodge No. 150, initiating 11 new members and installing lodge officers after midnight with 30 existing members.
J F Kin t z key outlines a strategic campaign against the rivals labeled as the Big Two. He details flank maneuvers and entrenched shooters at the fortress Watson to shell the enemy with price cuts. Simultaneous pressure from Fort Greeley will use red hot shot of 10c shaves and 25c hair cuts to attract customers.
S. E. Hiestand will hold a sale next Wednesday afternoon on Mrs Graham's farm one and a half miles north of Ames. The sale will include three head of horses, six head of cattle, some shoats and farm machinery along with other property. Also arriving is a car of White Rose and Wauseca flour. Adams Bros.
No extra charge for extracting teeth without pain at the dental parlors of C. E. Hunt. Ad offers various discounts on lamps, winter caps, furniture, poultry food, and gloves. Also advertises a weekly paper about Arkansas with costs and address.
Keer writes from Chicago urging a general meeting of Ames business men and others interested in securing the Hec la manufacturing factory. He reports consultations with three managers and stockholders, expressing faith in good faith and contract fulfillment. The Intelligencer invites attendance next Saturday at eight for a decisive town welfare update.
Loans negotiated and money lent with good notes bought. Real estate bought and sold across all categories. Insurance available at low rates from oeareeer and Mehar.
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