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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
4
M J Adams & Co, led by Story county native Mr Adams, expands Ames business with a new 7 500 square foot building due June 1. The firm offers a full line of furniture including bedroom sets, dining items, carpets and an undertaker department with embalming services.
The Novelty Store operated by C. W. Hunter on East Main Street is highlighted as a prominent local business. Hunter, who took over from Cairns & Co. in February 1904, brings eleven years of clerking experience in Story County and a reputation for fair dealing. Mrs. Hunter assists, contributing optimism and talent to the shop’s neatly arranged stock of novelties, hosiery, skirts, and china.
The Fair Store owner J Jacobs dominates Ames commerce with a 6500 square foot retail complex and 6500 feet of basement storage. The enterprise features clothing footwear carpets watches jewelry musical instruments and Kimball pianos heated by steam and lit by electricity. Judge Lowell C Tallman supplies optician services as Jacobs gains esteem on the school board and Carnegie Library board.
The article profiles F C Glidden and J E Judge as rising local business figures in Ames. Glidden runs a comprehensive oil and gasoline delivery and retail operation, praised for price, service and variety including dry goods and groceries. Judge, from Wisconsin by birth, leads a jewelry optical goods and musical instruments firm, building a strong reputation in a short time.
J W Tinsley launches a jewelry, watch, and clock repair business in Ames at Cagwin's drug store. With twenty years of experience and a strong reputation, he also installed a street clock in the Odd Fellow block regulated by electric apparatus. The article notes large hardware stock, Spaulding sporting goods, and plans to install brick hot air furnaces.
The ad touts Chamberlains Pain Balm as a fast acting liniment that relieves rheumatism allowing rest and sleep. It notes many users experience lasting relief beyond initial hopes and cites Mrs. W. H. Leggett of Yum Yum Tennessee as a testimonial. Sold by Loughran and Bauer.
This edition highlights the towns progress through its business and professional leaders. It profiles A. L. Potter a hardware and sporting goods dealer on the north side of Main Street who moved to Ame from Stock.
A. Good Suggestion Mr. B Wainwright of Lemon City Florida writes manufacturers that better results come from using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in hot water. He claims it acts rapidly and targets the stomach pains and cholera morbua. For sale by Loughran Bauer.
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