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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1894
Page
3
Community snippets list shop openings and sales at local stores, church revival notices, theater ads for Rebecca's Triumph and Mikado, a Goodyear Glove promotion, and updates on residents. It reports marriages, moves, a death, polling instructions, school opening, and social events at the Greeleys’ home, with farm and property transactions nearby.
A long list of residents and visitors travel between Des Moines Kansas City and Ames with repeat mentions of families and guests. The piece notes marriages and a death, Emma Arrasmith Hunter, born March 1 1866, who died February 23 1894 at the Gilbert Station home, leaving a husband and infant. Funeral services were held at the Christian Church in Ames conducted by Rev J K Hester.
Grandma Sutton born Fanny Harris in Mans field N Y May 2 1810 died February 23 at noon aged 83 after a long illness of la grippe She lived with her youngest son W L Sutton in Des Moines Ames and had ten children four survive She was active in the M E church and funeral was held at home with Rev Everley Des Moines interment Woodland cemetery The family thanks friends for sympathy and aid in the illness and death of their mother Mrs W L Sutton Houser and Jot for sale by W L Sutton
Local merchants advertise spring stock including ladies shoes, new spring overcoats, and general furnishing goods. Also underlined are sale offers and upcoming religious meetings with schedules and committee notes.
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