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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
3
Local advertisement touts Adams Furniture as offering a large new Christmas line and extensive framing services. It invites customers to visit now for convenient gift shopping and to bring in personal pictures for framing.
The Ames Times prose collage quotes forecasts of mild winters, airship fears, politics in Des Moines and Boone, a seventeenth child in Lynnville, a record ear of corn in Newton, and satirical jabs at editors, ministers, and barons. It notes mail before Christmas and a shooting accident in Estherville along with local opinions on tariffs and public figures.
Eliza A. Post transfers to Harry A. Poage for west 50 feet of south half block 8 Nevada. Harry A. Poage transfers to J. M. Whitney for same parcel. Ambrose family trades multiple Nevada parcels totaling several thousand dollars in Stewarts addition and other blocks. Multiple tracts exchanged in Ames and Burris addition with Globe Land & Loan Co. and others. Read the Ames Times every week.
The Western Passenger Association announces no excursion rates on western lines after January 1. They express hope roads improve by then as traveling is difficult currently.
Swick of the Boone Independent laments engine issues and compares his woes to John D Rockefeller. He recalls Old Job’s harsh temper and misfortune, noting the era’s industrial friction and the stubborn pull of dated machinery.
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