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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
7
Ames piano dealer proclaims seven years in business and staying. They sell over twenty makes, buy direct for spot cash, offer small profit, and invite customers to compare prices, noting discounts around 30 percent versus rivals.
Friday reception honors Mrs I L Smith and daughters in Ames with music and hospitality. Reports of construction in Marshalltown, a chlorine kerosene incident in Collins, a shoe theft in Slater, a bridge accident near Story City leaving Henry Hanson with possible paraplegia, the death by strychnine poisoning near Maxwell of Lewis Bell, and multiple railroad excursion rates and notices from the Chicago Great Western and Northwestern lines.
A naturalist argues the human ear is deformed by the brain’s growth and a weaker neck. He claims mankind started with erect ears, but skull weight outgrew neck support, yielding the pillow induced crumpling and universal deformity.
A silver library in the royal Ko nigsberg collection contains twenty mostly theological books bound in silver with gold ornaments. Made in the late sixteenth century by order of Albert, first Duke of Prussia, likely in Nuremberg where he served three years. Accessible to students via heliographic copies after reformer contact.
Four well bred Chester White pigs including eight boars and one sow offered at reasonable prices. Pedigreed stock. Contact G. W. Welch, Ames, Iowa. Also travel ads: Excursions to Yellowstone and St Louis via Northwestern lines with low round trip rates from Ames and dates in August.
Story County Bank promotes real estate loans with flexible payment on any interest pay day or any day, no commission charged on such loans, and the ability to pay any amount any day.
Advertisement urges family trips to the St. Louis fair, claiming it surpasses past expos in value and cost. It promotes three daily Wabash trains with tickets read Wabash and directs readers to W. Flint in Des Moines for maps and details.
Special personally conducted round trip trains from Chicago to San Francisco via Union Pacific and Northwestern lines. Departures August 18 and 25 with stopovers at Denver Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City. Tickets on sale August 15 to September 10 at low rates from all points. Two daily fast trains over the double track to Missouri river, Overland Limited travels under three days.
Very low excursion rates via the Northwestern line from all stations August 15 to September 10 for the K T Conclave and S O O F Sovereign Grand Lodge meeting in San Francisco. Special trains leave Chicago August 18 and 25 with stop overs and side trips. Two fast through trains daily to California: The Overland Limited with electric lighting and under three days travel, and The California Express with drawing room and tourist sleeping cars. Contact Chicago Northwestern Railway agents for itineraries and full details.
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