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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
4
A mixed page notes local shops selling straw hats and spring wares. Thurston & Graham promote Baker wire and woven fence with rock bottom cash prices. Community items include school board actions, sermons, sugar beet farming prospects, and praise for local businesses and lunchroom. August events and personal updates follow.
Local notes report visitors and trips to Chicago Des Moines and Cedar Rapids plus arrivals from West Liberty Ida Grove and Boone. Quarantine news, court schedules, property rents and sales, theatre praise, and suffrage plans feature alongside weather, floods and a New York horse shipment outlook.
A report from the Co Leco department notes commencement of water tower construction. Visitors include Charley Tilden from Iowa City and relatives of Chicago. The campus shows growth with a new greenhouse and creamery improvements, while many winter students pursue creamery or cheese factory work.
Professor Curtiss and Dr. Weems traveled to Des Moines to meet with J S Emery regarding a proposed beet sugar factory in Ames. The discussions cover location, land use, soil suitability, and potential gains over corn, with Iowa county canvases showing Polk and Green counties pledging acres. A new Omaha factory plan promises modern improvements and 25 percent savings.
Tax notices urge April payment to gain half due with no penalty and detail a list at Story County Bank. Reports include Yard master Harlan returning from a four day vacation, ex conductor Ira Dayton seen at the station, Theo Stoyk moving to Clinton and running Boone Clinton freight, Al Rutherford handling the Des Moines way freight, and a fast mail derailment minor incident near town with a fifteen minute delay.
A 1896 Missouri Valley brief reports Juliaett Idaho travelers arriving safely at a railroad terminal near the Rockies with a 17 car train. It also lists social and meeting notices from Ames Iowa including G A R events, teacher meetings, piping and hardware ads, and local product recommendations.
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