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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1892
Page
3
A jumble of ads and notices from Rolfe Iowa including stoves sold cheap at Bingham and Co and Wuewn you have sugar and flour prices from local merchants Hamilton and Co and Soper's. It mentions Episcopalian services at Odd Fellows hall and a glue product with instructions and address Lock Box 38 Rolfe Iowa.
Ames readers report a busy holiday season with parties and entertainments. notices include theater at Ames Opera House, a Faust and Marguerite show, a Marshalltown orchestra dance, and gifts to a local minister and his wife. The piece notes local weather, commerce, and upcoming year preparations.
A proposed plant location in central Iowa seeks 80 acres adjoining Ames with 150 pledged lots at $250 each. Purchasers receive $250 in stock per lot plus $800 value for their $250 and eventual free lots as the factory operates. The firm runs two factories in Chicago and the East with a plan to consolidate, employing 150–200 workers. A business men's meeting is urged at the Intelligencer office this Thursday at 7:30 PM with Mr. Wilson coordinating.
We require immediate cash or note settlement for all accounts by December 31 1892 in accordance with sale terms cited by J H QouEaLé Co.
I offer my entire stock of millinery at cost and some items below cost until January first. An opportunity to procure holiday millinery cheaply. Mas. J. J. Boru.
A dental note from C. BE. Hunt’s dental parlors announces that extractions using itunder pose no additional charge and promise painless procedures.
The Times extends season greetings to readers and customers with wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. It thanks patrons for their liberal patronage over the past months, noting it enabled the usual volume of business despite new competition.
The Ames business scene shows a healthy boom with most firms expanding while others trim inventories for the estate. Operators explain it is prudent to reduce certain lines or close them out at a sacrifice of profit to sustain the season's stability.
State of Iowa Story County. An instrument in writ purporting to be the last will of Jane Richmond, late of the county, is on file in the Clerk's office. A hearing for probate is set for February 14, 1892, at the District Court in Nevada. All interested appear to show cause why the will should not be accepted. Witness M Morse, Clerk, on December 23, 1892.
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