Nevada’s modest factory claim sparks regional optimism
Nevada wakes to world attention with talk of a knitting factory and possible new enterprises while Story County faces oil wealth and a prominent local figure, Samuel White, with three wells and a big income. A Nevada couple defies parental objections by eloping, possibly toward Des Moines, Ames, then St Louis, leaving parents distressed and investigators pondering their destination.
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Cambridge
Story City
Nevada
Ames
Roland Rockets
Story County
Samuel White
Hickory Grove
Cole
White
Chanute
Kansas
Cole Banner
Opera House
Des Moines
Young Lough
St. Louis
Ames News Briefs Highlight Humane Society Need In Ames
Community notes urge formation of a humane society to curb cruelty to animals as cases surface in Ames and nearby Boone. Also reports Gilbert incorporation vote, a preacher practicing faith in Jewell Junction, ducks fined for off season shooting, Billy Sunday’s baseball sermon in Rockford, and a new rapid fatal disease affecting Rockwell City families.
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Ames
Humane Society
Boone
B. S. Miller
August Abrahamson
Jewell Junction
Iowa
Billy
Rockford
Justice for Mr Gay Embezzler? Boone Case Sparks Debate
The Boone Republican reports that F D Gay of Boone was charged with embezzling 7000 but freed after the grand jury indictment was dismissed when his wife’s sale of family property was ruled legal. The paper questions whether the county attorney should have pursued trial and argues crime must be punished.
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F. D. Gay
Boone
Boone Democrat
Gay
Mr. Gay
Iowa
Frank
Mr. Smith
Frank Smith
Surveyors Sighted for Ames to Boone Electric Line
A Boone Saturday sighting reported surveyors tracing a Cedar street to Eighth with lines toward an Ames to Boone electric grid. Residents distrusted the project noting financiers denied knowledge and eastern talks hinted at a Marshalltown to Jefferson route, while officials doubted the venture’s immediacy.
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Boone
Cedar Street
Eighth
Ames
Marshalltown
Jefferson
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T. J. Miller
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Ada Belt
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