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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1904
Page
4
A local note lists one measles case on Duff street and a string of visits and brief stays by residents and visitors across Des Moines Boone Ames Nevada Story City and Marshalltown. The piece also mentions a failed armory proposition and various community activities and travel.
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A Devoe Co. advertisement touts all paint as true paint, strongest, and full measure. It argues Devoe offers the facts, promises best looks, longest wear, and keeps customers, urging belief in its unique claims.
Sidney Walter Stevens died May 7 1904 at the Underwood home in west Ames after returning from Michigan where he had lived. He was born Feb 12 1875 four miles east of Ames and married Sadie Underwood Jan 1 1902. One child Miss Ethelyne survives. funeral by Rev Herr, buried Ames Cemetery.
The Nye company shows nightly in Ames with moral dramas and farce comedies to large crowds. They present lifelike moving pictures and popular song stereo views. Tonight they perform Diamond Dick, Saturday Belle of Manila, and A Mexican Ball Fight. a gold watch and chain and a barrel of money will be awarded as prizes.
Erma May Guild born November 24 1908 died May 7 1904 in Ames IA. The infant faced a brave fight for life and passed peacefully with belief in a better world. Our hearts stay sore yet hope beckoning hands await on the other shore. OC H Thrap former Ames Art studio is in town working for the Nonpareil Camden company. Ames and Story City baseball played at Story City with Story City winning 8 to 0. the Ames squad known as the Motor Dodgers was a makeshift team with limited practice.
A market listing shows shelled corn at 40 cents, oats at 84? cents, wheat 14 to, Timothy 1.75 per 100 pounds, butter 20 cents, eggs 14 cents, potatoes 1.25, seed potatoes 1.40, lard 11 to 12 cents, hogs 4.15 to 4.25, sheep 3.50 to 4.00, chickens 8 cents, turkeys 10 cents, ducks 7 cents, veal 4.00, total 450.
In a hard fought college game last Friday Ames beat Iowa City 7 to 6 in the twelfth inning after no score from seven through twelve. Deshler Evans McGregor Reese Brown and Oretzmeyer led with multiple hits while Reese and Oretzmeyer combined for strong pitching and nine innings apiece. Attendance was about 1,500 with Wing umpiring and a 2 15 time of game.
Real estate transfers reported include J Kelley Kibbey to Arvilla Serena Cave for 76 ft lot 4 block 1 Beardshears addition Ames. Lucretia E Atkinson to J Mahoney for lot 8 block 14 Jenks 2 addition Slater. Irene E Johnson to Alley Morgan for lot 2 of lot 2 Jacobsons addition Albert Station. John A Johnson to Alley Morgan for lot 1 Jacobsons addition Gilbert Station. J P Booher to Howard Adam for lot 8 block 7 Bigelows addition Ames. M E Hix to M 8 Shelton for lot 9 block 2 Cornells addition Nevada. Alletta H McFarland to Mary J Hansen for 6 80 ft lot 1 block 1 Blacklist addition Ames. William H Hoskins administrator to Laura Jones administrator D for lot 7 and sublot 6 block 30 Cambridge. Jerry Sullivan to John Hopkins for sw 20 84 22. J F Martin to Agricultural Society of Story County for Fair grounds Nevada. P W Hopkins to Elmyra Hopkins for ne se 8 and 84g nw sw 9 83 21. Mr and Mrs J W Weeks left for Capital Park Des Moines. Weeks to take flagman position at 18th and Capital Street crossing.
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