This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
4
The Times Local Miscellany reports a leap year ball postponed at the opera house and notes on sleighing, cold weather, and local events. It lists church services, a county board session, and various personal notices and visits among Ames and surrounding towns.
A brief storefront notice from J. P. Watson advertising affordable millinery with a claim to low prices and a promise to help customers buy. The message emphasizes money concerns and desire to attract buyers to the shop.
A Cedar Rapids Republican report notes Iowa State College students J. A. Moore of Calendar and W. J. Thomas of Moingona earned the fourth annual engineering prize from the Engineering News for a thesis on gaugings of the dry weather flow of sewage at Des Moines Iowa. The winners are graduates in civil engineering from the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames. The item also covers local activities from Ames and Boone including dances, sales of chickens, and charity notices.
Mt Pleasant Daily Mail praises McGowen and Busby for the best local performance of Ten Nights in a Bar Room with Edwin Melvin J C Fuller Will Keifer Nellie Harshey excelling. The company specializes in the play and promises a strong production alongside A Wild Goose Chase. Ames Opera House set for Friday January 3 1896.
Rev Pine conducts a protracted meeting at Chapel Ridge with Mr Moser of Des Moines leading the singing. Everyone is invited to attend.
Persons seeking to rent the best store room in the city should call on or address Stevens & Budd or J B Elliott in Ames Iowa.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.