Local Retailers List Features Ames Businesses and Names
Readable fragments show a roster of Ames merchants including National Bank of Ames, Gengrad Merchandise, Bigelow and Huntington Bradley and Paxton, and several shops selling millinery and shoes. Names appear like N G Cook and Miftinery firms with various partners and sales items.
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Gengrad Merchandise
Bigelow & Huntington Bradley & Paxton, Phemas Hron
Soper
Jane
Deveit
National Bank of Ames
Miftinery
The Widow's Lodger and a Family Reconciliation
Mr Parker witnesses a touching reunion between two sisters and their niece Mary as Uncle Michael Allenby returns home. Margaret schemes to repair rifts with Mary while balancing family duty, pride, and a looming decision about Arthur's boy.
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Mr. Parker
Mary
Mamma
Darling
Baby
Michael Allenby
Margaret
Cranmore Square
Michael
Arthur
Forbes Winslow
Martha
Miss Allenby
Mr. Barker
George Hyde
Mr. Hyde
Allenby
Emigrationconcerns from Fort Dodge in Dakota letter
The Dakota land story from a Pierre area letter reports ground impossible to plow due to hard soil and a near total wheat crop failure. Farmers sell stock and leave by team seeking markets, as drought devastates crops across Hughes County 480 acre landowner describes harsh conditions.
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Tux
Fort Dodge
Dakota
Dakotas
Pierre
Hughes County
Book sale items listed at local stores in Ames
For grain buyers and merchants, 500 items are offered in a sale at Bosworth's and Westerman's drug stores in Ames and at The Intelligence office.
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Stevens & Hays
LAW
Ames
Nevada
Barstow
D. McCarthy
LAW and Collection
Stevens’ Pew
Iowa
Bosworth’s
Westerman’s
Intelligencer
World's Fair Exhibits Largest Squash From Shelby County
A 195 pound squash raised in Shelby County will be shown at the World's Fair in New Orleans. Claiming to be the largest squash in the world, the exhibit highlights local agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gsomis
Tuk & Co
Augusta, Mai-e
Tuere
New Orleans
Shelby County
Who
Man Promised Telephone Link Dies In Silent Megaphone Trap
A man eager to install a day-time phone line is defeated when his wife, frustrated by delays, buys a megaphone to monitor him. The plan ends with a pistol shot as he arrives home, and he dies at the door.
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Father
Mrs. Allenby
Michael
Charlotte
Victoria
Tory
Arthur
Margaret
Mrs
Suits Over Liquor Law Reported In Town
Six liquor law prosecutions were filed Thursday in Town City, including a $3,000 civil damage suit against J. Hotz, the county recorder and re election candidate, who reported 1 700 distinct liquor sales in August. A second prominent suit targets M D Wood, St James hotel proprietor, for $1 000 damages for disorderly conduct. The piece notes shifting public sentiment and the impact of aggressive local advertising in nearby towns.
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Town City
J. Hotz
Hotz
M. D. Wood
St. James Hotel
Local Pride Builds Town Through Public Spirit
The passage urges belief in a town’s future and urges citizens to support home merchants and worthy tradespeople, showing a resolve to make the community better through present sacrifice and local pride.
Be a Adventuress Delighted by Thackeray and City Quips
A quirky collage of social snippets and quotes from late 19th century life. Thackeray's remorseful note to his daughter contrasts with urban banter about trains and beggars. A merchant traveler tea label and light country manners blend with a taunt about fresh air children and a cheeky dinner invite.
Tomatoes yield and factory demand in Marshalltown season
Dr SubeKk of Marshalltown grows twelve acres of tomatoes this year and expects about seven hundred bushels per acre. A large canning factory nearby could be kept busy by eight thousand bushels. Also notes a noiseless roller skate invention that cannot silence a first time rider who ends up on his back.
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J.E. Duncan
Aan
Chicago and North- Western Railroad
Dex Maines
Minneapais
de Mornen
Iowa State College of
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Official Directory
C. Dg
Metoorrm
Scala Oe
S.A
A. BK
RSRMS
Board OF Superv
Lsurs
Ames Business Directory
Attorneys At Law
G. A. Merdich
P. McCarthy
Stevens & Hays, Gv
A. Underwood Moses Rees
Physicians
A. Beverly
Vetrinary Seri
N. G. Cook
D. EB. Dix. M
A. J. Sweeney
T. K. Soper
Nettie Barndeslar
H. Lightner
Enj. Read
Merbeth
JU. Queal&Co
C.D. Nerman
Henry Wilson
Tr & Co
Snriol Betete
Cook & Shield
Weat
Raynor House
Harace
Uorse
Gooda
George K
France
Ulackemitha
Tae
Cooley & Bail
Stone
Tarterer
George F. Stimmeons
Stueckslager & Son
Shoemater
Ireland
Charles Kilmer
McDow
Burgess
Paxton
A. J. Graves
Giddings
Gi. W. Staves
Methodist Episcopal
Ervices
D. Thompson
W. P. Benwreg
Masonic
Aesons Lodge
A. F
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Toot Retiee All Moon
A. H. Duceworth
W.M. C. BE. Taylor
United Workmen
MES Lodge
M. Sorzr
Kee
G. H. Maxwent
M. Ww
A. Allsworth
G.A
Masonic Hall
J. EK. Duncan
Henry Wilson, Jr
C. E. Turner
Bigelow & Huntington
Geo. A. Underwood
U. S
District of Office
Union Bank
A. K
Madrid
M. Pp. Webb
Shbeldah, Iowa
Webb Brothers
Sheldahena
Lowa
H. M. Templeton
Aura, Lowa
G. A. Meredith
Ames, Lowa
Hutchinson
C. A. Beverly
M. E Ames
Story County
Veterinnary Burgeon
New York
King of Pain
Complex Ak
Kime of Pain
Jess Baircied
Chas.e. Hunt
Weat Tious
Flown
T. C. McCall
Fagate and
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Ordened
Joe Davis
Latis
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Chicago & Northwestern &Y
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H. A. Ancuzz
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