Ames Year Of Growth And Prosperity Highlighted
Ames closes a prosperous year with strong business, rising home construction, and continued public improvements. The city reports fifty new residences, a booming construction season, and major campus projects including a Central building creamery and new heating plant. Plans for the coming year include a $50,000 Methodist church and extensive civic works.
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Ames
Story County
United States
Fourth Ward
Lockwood Grain Co
Cup Shoot a Big Success at Ames Gun Club New Year
The Ames Gun Club held its monthly silver cup shoot on New Year’s day drawing many local enthusiasts. Nineteen shooters joined contests amid cold weather and occasional equipment issues, with scores ranging from poor to strong as participants braved the chill.
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Ames
Talbott the
Steiger
Rich
Horton
Pierce
Lang
Brown
Wing
Leonard
Young
Gilbert
Proctor
Talbott
Kooser
Jeffrey
Adams
Clark
Worthy
Local Grocery Ad Promotes Fresh Produce and Coffee Demo
A city grocer advertises beans sugar flour and canned goods with item prices. It promotes free coffee samples Friday and Saturday and offers free delivery plus a money back guarantee for all items.
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New York
New England
Ben Davis
Darner’s
Startled Natives Witness Fire at Walter Simmons Home
Natives in the Highland Park addition of Ames rushed to Walter Simmons residence when dense smoke filled the rooms. A bucket brigade formed as Walter, center of the room, breathed through the smoke while neighbors gathered to help. Fire origin traced to a pine tar vessel on the cook stove left to thaw.
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Highland Park
Ames
Walter Simmon
Walter
Ames housing list signals growth toward 5000 population
A 1907 view of Ames progress shows hopes of surpassing 5000 residents by 1908. The report lists numerous electric lighted furnace heated homes built in the past year with estimated costs and notes several residents and local figures along with ads and notices.
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Ames
Convvins
Eee Rao
F. A. Nordstrom
Granson Hickle
John Nelson
BE. W. Rutherford
Lydia C. Tilden
F. W. Linebaugh
Emmaline Chamberlain
Wies
C. W. McWilliam
Gen
J. R. Lincoln
Colfax Clipper Satirizes Kissing Banter
Ham Robinson in the Colfax Clipper mocks a kissing banter, urging grooming and citing a medical journal that condemns public kissing as spreading germs. He warns against kissing the sick or infants and says women should avoid kissing each other.
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Clipper
Ham Robinson
Ham
Suffer from Rheumatism Relief Offered by Balm
An advertisement urges relief from rheumatic pains with one application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It promises easier rest and sleep and notes Judisch Bros. sells the product locally.
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Judith Bros
Chamberlain
Judisch Bros
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F. M. Darner
Iowa
Iowa State
Baptist Parsonage
Christian Parsonage
Henry Wilson
John Lowe
Cooper
Judish Bros
Elgin
State
Clark Street
Kod
Ames Volunteer Fire Company
Aseer Seeee
Rf O
Smith
Loughran & Bauer
Morrisanna Medah and
Hirano
Saginaw
Lincoln
Eastern Gem
Little Rock
B. A. Lockwood Grain Co
Frank N. Fowler
Illinois
Hamilton
Hampden
Trust
Waltham
Crescent
Boss
Crown
Geo. E. Baker
Union National Bank
W. M. Greely
E. W. Stanton
W. Pres
T. A. Dodds
Bankers National Bank
Chicago
National City Bank
N. Y
Valley National Bank
Citizen's National Bank
Des Moines
Chapman- Smith
Pure Food Commission
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