Social Roundup Sparks Village to City Ties
Dell Maxwell and many residents were in Des Moines Gilbert Ames and other Iowa towns Monday and over the weekend. Visitors included Miss Gertrude Yelton Mr Frank Curtiss and Prof Weld along with families from Nevada Boone Des Moines and Council Bluffs. The Macbeth performance at the opera house featured Madam Janauschek with praise for her enduring stage presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Curtiss Esq
Ames
White
Sioux Rapids
Belle Rutherford
Mrs. Giddings
Des Moines
Col
Miss Chambers
Miss Westerman
Opera House
Madam Janauschek
Arnold
Mort Moulton
Carpenter
Mort
Temperance talk and baseball results from Iowa
Rev Rickman will discuss the temperance question from a non partisan Christian viewpoint at the Baptist pulpit next Sunday night, with letters from murderers illustrating saloon effects. Thel A.C. baseball team defeated Cornell college 20 to 4 at Mt Vernon and State University 10 to 2, with a college sendoff upon return.
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Rickman
Iowa
Root and Branch
Thel. A.C
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Ag’s
State University Club
Ames Cemetery Association Sets May 18 Meeting
The Ames Cemetery Association will meet in A. H. Thayer's office Thursday May 18 at 7 45 p m to elect officers for the ensuing year and transact such other business as may come before the meeting. C M Sorer Sec.
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Ames Cemetery Association
A. H. Thayer
C. M. Sorer
Sec
Local notices and ads mix in scattered Ames area items
A collage of short ads and notices including watch chain for sale by K W Brown and a request to call pay for notice, rental housing, performances by Prof Ott at the opera house, flour purchases, tourist umbrellas, pasturage near Ames, canned goods at Hamilton & Co, salt price, straw hats, rockers, new footwear lines, outings at Grove Bros, bicycle ads, and seed potatoes from Adams Bros, all promoting local goods and services.
Real Estate and Loans Advertised by Local Firms
House and lot for inquiry 8 BR Little Nevada. Zenor & Son offer bicycles as energy boosters. Sugar deal 19 pounds for $1. BriceLtow & Smith arrange loans with good notes bought. HemstrrReer & MCLAIN provide all types of real estate trades and insurance at low rates.
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Tood Insurance
HemstrrReer & McLain
Bargain Hair Services and Shaving Ad Drift
Advert shows low priced hair cuts and shaving services at ten to fifteen cents. It promotes Avery & Brown cultivator and urges purchase at cost from Thurston Swan & Co with emphasis on best work in the city and assorted goods like sand soap and marbles.
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O. K
Thurston, Swan & Co
Avery & Brown
Prohibition Committee Reorganizes in Ames May 1893
In Ames on May 13 the Story County Prohibition Convention reorganized the county central committee with Wm West as chairman and D M Hayden as secretary. Delegates to the state convention May 31 include J A Kerr and F P Harris among others. Nominations announced for county treasurer H N Silliman and others.
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Story County
Ames
Wm. West
D. M. Hayden
D. J. Bunce
Nevada
W. W. Danner
K. W. Brown
H. N. Silliman
Cambridge
R. Richardson
Elwell
D. P. Wood
Colo
J. A. Wellington
Story City
M WD. Livingston
County Central Committee
M. F. Sims
Five Year Old Violin Prodigy Delights Y M C A Crowd
Master Tommy Purcell, a boy in kilts, dazzles at the Schubert Symphony Club show in the YMCA Hall. At five, his violin technique is polished and his Irish recitations draw hearty applause as his father manages the act and Tommy recounts his early public beginnings.
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Schubert Symphony Club
Y. M. C. A. Hall
Tommy Purcell
Tom
Mr. Purcell
Tommy
St. Louis Chronicle
Reduced excursion rates to Chicago for world exposition
The Chicago & North-Western Railway announces reduced excursion fares to Chicago and return to view the world expo. Tickets available daily through October 31, 1893 and valid for return to November 15, 1898. Ask at North Western Line offices for details and routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago & North-Western Ra Y
North-Western Line
Chicago
North- Western Line
Local News briefs from Ames Iowa 1893
Reports include a May 20 baseball game between Iowa College Grinnell and I A C club, field day in the forenoon, real estate outlook, a Philadelphia debate pamphlet for sale, weather-friendly farming notes, Dr Kelso and Dr Hunt dental praise, a temperance service at the Congregational church, a Story County fair preliminary list for September 1893, a house fire near Bloomington with partial loss and aid from local neighbors and a Story County Mutual insurance settlement.
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Iowa College
Grinnell
Story County
Nevada
W. H. Heacock
Bloomington
Abe Bingman
William
Story County Mutual Association
Ames
A. M. Bingman
State Center tailor scam drains Colorado buyers
Cunningham opened a tailor shop in State Center and made suits for Colorado customers. He advertised $4.00 suits and supplied flimsy garments by express COD with high trimming charges. Buyers paid COD, found shoddy work, and now seek satisfaction while the tailor is unavailable. It is claimed a written contract exists and others are left with the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunningham
State Center
Colo
Express C. O. D
Hospital remedy praised amid criticism of Fairchild staff
A local reader defends Dr. Fairchild and Dr. Coburn at the I A C sanitary stating that after weeks of adverse press the hospital has cleared its wards. The writer, a patient who was sick and hospitalized, testifies to receiving excellent care and attention despite complaints.
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Fairchild
I. A. C. Sanitary
College Hospital
Coburn
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the Intelligencer
H&s. KE wiLtson
Dell Maxwell
Gertrude Yelton
Gilbert
Geo. Spaulding
Clinton
W. B. Needham
Boone
Fred Bradley
Prof. Weld
Geo. Briggs
Harry Ambrose
E. P. Lodge
Mrs. Gilchrist
Gowrie
David Hutchinson
Dr. Fairchild
Iowa State Medical Association
Burlington
A. J. Hawley
Cole
Marshalltown
Eunice Kingsbury
Cook
Prof. Stalker
Montour
Vayneer
John M. Wells
Robert Cairns
Wisconsin
Ada Howland
Pleasant Grove
Boynton
Statler
Kingheim
McLain
Morse
Scott
John Scott
Harry Davis
Macbeth
E.S. Downs
Webster
South Dakota
Mr. Downs
Messrs
Stedman & Millard
Boone Town
Zenor Co
Gretta Zenor
Franklin Township
Story County Mutual Insurance Association
Lou
E. Armherst
Diamond Bluff
Grove Bros
C. M. Soper’s
Nevada Road
A. Story
Hamilton & Co’s
Adams Bros
C. M Soper
G. D. Loud
Reliable Furniture
Geo. D. Loud
Zenor & Son
Hamilton & Co
C. M. Soper
Ohio
Columbia
Ocean
Columbia Bicycle
House and Lot
Little, Nevada
Hebra
L. M. Bosworth’s
BriceLtow & Smith
Odontunder
C. E. Hunt
Taylor
L. M. Bosworth Druggist
Tudor
New York
J.B. Paxton
Jeweler- Ames
Jd. F. Kintzley
Union Nat. Bank
California
L. C. McGaw
Barndollar
Florence
F. P. Harris
Sec’y
County Central Prohibition Committee
W. G. Wright
B. O. Falland
Prof. Ott
Congregational Church
Story County Mutual Fire Insurance Association
City Hall
Harper’s Quarterly
S. P. McLean Green
Philadelphia
Kelso
Hunt
Carstens
Shoe Department
G. G. Tilden
Haas Bros
Ames, Ia
Price
Martin
O. F. Martin
Loughran Machine Co
Motor Line
Sweeney
Anna Cupps
Virginia Beonze
Russell & Erwin
BiNgHam & Co
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