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
Mar 15, 1906
Page
2
The Northwestern railroad faces a major damage action filed by J. T. White and family over the Feb. 15 accident that killed Miss Sadie White and seriously injured her mother. The suit, brought in four counts, seeks damages totaling $44,000 for deaths and injuries, alleging excessive train speed and crossing negligence.
The city committee caucus chose Henry Wilson as chair and filled posts from mayor to assessor by acclamation. Five candidates contested the assessor spot with Carl Little winning on the first ballot. Ward results followed with Maxwell Graham Lanning Hullibarger and Wilson among others winning council seats and committeemen chosen in each ward.
In Story County Iowa District Court a written instrument claims to be the last will of Jennie E Crane, deceased. The court sets Tuesday April 10 1906 as the probate date and all interested parties must appear to show cause why the instrument should not be admitted as the decedent's will. Dated March 12 1906 at Nevada Iowa. C P McCorpp Clerk District Court.
An exhibition of work from all city school grades will be held at the Central Building on March 29 and 30. Admission to the artwork display by A W Elsory Co of Boston is ten cents with proceeds funding school room pictures. evening music by grade pupils led by Miss Ethel Grace Pike runs 7:30 to 8:30 with an extra ten cent charge.
Miss Florence Coffeen and Fred Mansen a former Intelligencer printer were married in Boone Monday afternoon and returned to Ames on the evening train. The notice also promotes Hawk eye Incubators and includes Mrs. D C Johnson Maxwell Iowa as the contact for prices and instructional books with each machine.
Manager Lincoln has secured a return engagement for the Flora De Voss Co. at the Armory starting Thursday night March 22. The company remains a premier popular priced attraction on tour and this season aims to surpass prior efforts under Rotpour. Prices are 10 20 30 cents with seats on sale at Bosworth's Tuesday March 20.
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.