05 Jan 1893
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1893
Page
1
The note appears to advertise a publication with the banner SEE TIMELES mentioning Long, Hardin and the editor. It emphasizes a price of one dollar per year. The readable text is fragmentary and lacks clear publication details or dates.
Ames shows a booming period with $143 500 in improvements and new structures. The growth follows the Union National Bank building Tilden’s store and Story County Bank offerings, plus Read’s Meat Market and numerous residences and additions. Local projects include schoolhouse improvements, a new agricultural hall, and a remodeled depot with various residents and merchants adding to the town’s prosperity.
The Story County Bank Building at Onondaga and Douglass Streets, built in 1891 for about $11,000 by Douglass & Boyd, houses the bank store and offices with an upstairs suite. The Ames & College Railway operates from C. & N. W. depot to the college, five cent fare, hourly service, under officers Stevens Fairchild Smith Shelden.
Ames reports a vigorous 1891 1892 building year with nearly one hundred new residences adding to the town. The feature list includes Perkins & O'Brien brick block G G Tilden and many private houses with costs ranging up to several thousand dollars, plus the Opera House Block erected in 1891 by J L Budd and J L Stevens with six hundred seating capacity and two fine ground floor stores.
New years day was unusually pleasant while sleigh riders stayed warm all day. The city boasts miles of sidewalk built in the past two years, a source of great pride to its citizens.
The Farm Journal of Philadelphia offers to publish a twenty five to thirty line reading notice for the Times three times if copy is sent and marked. They would place the Times on their exchange list for a year and charge advertising at regular rates worth about 3 75 dollars. The author argues Farm Journal is overvalued and mocks eastern farm papers as fake while praising western or local papers with Wilson Farm Department.
Old Peter Surrer, long known around Polk City, killed his wife with a hammer last week. Townsfolk recall a history of abuse and erratic behavior, and repeat gossip about his first wife’s death and the odd coffin episode as context for the act.
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