Ames City Sparks Rail Talk and Oats Yield Optimism
The Ames city scene features new electric light plans, rail speculation on a double track, and depot work as Northeastern trains expand. Oats in Story County bays boast yields near 75 to 100 bushels per acre amid abundant straw and twine usage. Tramps camp near stock yards while clay and child development topics emerge at Cambridge Sunday school convention. The Roland Record notes political shifts toward nontraditional careers and endorses a strong local Republican stance.
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Cambridge
Capital
Ames
Hicks
J. A. Kerr
Ministerial Institute
B. Clark
N. F. Dicks
Wallace to run creamery experiments for bulletin articles
The Board of Trustees appointed H C Wallace to perform experimental work along creamery lines. Results will supply material for bulletin articles. The corn stalk exhibit season opened this week with a stalk over eleven feet tall at Story County Bank after sixty six days from planting. The Iowa Knights of Pythias plan a joint Aug meeting at Marshalltown with about 900 delegates including Gen James Rush Lincoln and Hon William Alfred Peffer espousing a new party platform. The Webster City Freeman cites a farmer quip about crops wearing on the land. The Farm and Dairy will move from Ames to Des Moines soon, with a three story building across from the Savery Hotel, joining the Western Newspaper Union. The weekly paper will be published in a new format and time.
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Nortwestern
Ames
Tts
H.C. Wallace
Board of Trustees
Story County Bank
Iowa Knights of Pythias
Marshalltown
Grand Lodge of Iowa
Uniform
Rathbone Sisters
Jas. Rush Lincoln
Champion Lodge
Henry Wallace
Des Moines
Savery Hotel
George Harney
Register
Western Newspaper Union
The
Wallace
Union
Fourth Street
State Register
August Midland Monthly Highlights Outdoor Beauty
The August Midland Monthly offers vivid illustrations and moments in vast landscapes. Readers discover pieces on the Dells of Wisconsin Mackenzie River and a prize paper Starting a City in Ranchland with stories poems and inquiries in a full page Midland Beauty feature.
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Midland Monthly
Des Moines
Dells
Wisconsin
Mackenzie River
Vergennes
Mobile Bay
Rhenish
Prussia
Sonoma
Ames Faces Nevada Nine In Controversial Game
Ames baseball team lost to a picked Nevada nine aided by a Tama City battery and the same umpire blamed for past Ames defeats. The score showed printers 4 and Y M C L 15 with lengthy accusations of unfair play and rigged officiating amid talk of fair play and coin backed schemes.
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Ames
Nevada
Tama City
Printers
Epworth League Boone District Convention Planned at Ames
The Sixth Annual Boone District Epworth League convention of the Des Moines Conference will meet August 6 and 7, 1895, at the M E church in Ames Iowa. All are invited to attend with official program to follow next week.
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Boone District
Epworth League
Des Moines
M. E
Ames
Iowa
Chattanooga
Christian Endeavor Convention
Boston
Baptist Young Peoples Union
Baltimore
Kelley Community Notes Include Sermons and Visits
Several Kelley teachers begin normal this week while Mrs. Weaver fills the Baptist pulpit with two engaging sermons. Local residents report house nearing occupancy, trips to Kansas City, and family visits including Miss May Fetterhoff staying with Mrs. Cook. A lightning incident kills a horse west of Kelley and social events feature an ice cream social hosted by the Congregational Ladies Aid.
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Bessie
T. Posegate
Stinsland
Kelley
Copestake
Illinois
Ladies Aid Society
The
Congregational Church
George’s
W. E. Tanner
Crocker
New Carpets Ahead From BierLow & Smith
A teaser note invites readers to watch for fresh carpet offerings from the firms BierLow and Smith, signaling upcoming home decor changes and local shopping options.
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BierLow & Smith
Story County Fair set for September dates
Story County residents note the Story County Fair will be held September 18 19 and 20. Local updates mention visitors from Tama City and Ames, church and civic events, and improvements around Main street including a new sidewalk along Queal lots.
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Story County
Main Street
Free Lunch At Adams Bros Store This Week
Adams Bros Cooley Jones offers free lunch to all visitors next Tuesday and Wednesday July 30 and 31 featuring Granola Grané and Caramel Cereal. The notice also advertises rubber trimmed harness at low prices and a 15 cent haircut at the new barber shop over Baker's Jewelry Store by O F Whitmer.
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Adams Bros
Cooley & Jones
Baker's Jewelry
O. F. Whitmer
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John S. Emery
W.M. Greely
Mr. Greely
Agricultural College
Cramer Store
H. P. McLain
Northwestern
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Justice Haverly
McLain
Hubbard and Dawley
Cedar Rapids
James A. Baker
Reed
County Central Committee
Lafe Young
A. B. Cummins
Harlan
Drake
Harland
Lis
Iowa State Press
Eee McLain
Johnson
Denee Elliott
Rf Little
Pitsor
Sisson
Sexton
Elsie
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Miller
Mann
Childs
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Epworth
Mr. D. Robinson
Son Emmett
Attle Ax
Susas Sparks
Old Friends
Baptist Sunday School
Watkins
Milt Little
Geo. Tilden
Pennsylvania
W.3. Anderson
Intelligencer
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Kentucky
Frank J. McNett
Ernest
Jackson
Wyoming
Leigh Hunt
Agricultural College At
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China
Carroll
Opera House
Cramer
Mr. Maxwell
Maxwell
Odd Fellows
Sheldon
Budd
Corliss
Lockwood
NEW Shors
Canier Bros. & Herman
R. T. Sisson
M. Hemstreet
Towa
Opera Book
J. B. Elliott
Morris Bros
Feed Stable
J. A. Fitchpatrick
Leeks
H. Westerman
F. T. McLane Real Estate and Loan Office
Westerman & McLane
New Bakery
Confectionery Store
Perkins
T. Ww. Sheldon
T. W. Sheldon
Jersey
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