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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1900
Page
3
The restaurant is praised for its cosmopolitan atmosphere and seasonal delicacies. Mr. Jones, in charge for a year and a half, is credited with maintaining a first class establishment and notable success with a large patronage.
H S Goble offers harnesses collars saddles bridles whips trunks and valises with repairs. An expert maker with a long track record he began business twenty five years ago and runs a durable hand made stock in a growing substantial enterprise praised as a progressive local citizen.
Store advert promotes quick courteous service and very low prices across goods. Highlights include emphasis on customer experience and value, with phrases suggesting ongoing sales and affordable options. No specific products, dates, or locations identified in readable text.
One of the best known lumber firms is H. L. Mann & Son on Onondaga Street with extensive trade across nearby counties. The business, begun in 1891, runs large yards and sheds full of dressed lumber, lath, shingles, and building materials. Partners H. L. Munn and F. H. Munn are seasoned buyers and merchants, whose growth reflects their responsible operations.
J W Adams operates a prominent Ames grocery at 420 Onondaga Street. The firm began as Adams Bros ten years ago and became J W Adams Pine Groceries last January. The store offers staple and fancy groceries, fruits, delicacies, with a reputation for low prices and reliable goods.
H D Miller, proprietor, runs Peoples Bakery and Restaurant on Onondaga street for seven years. The shop offers bread cakes and table items in demand for their appearance and wholesomeness along with fine candies cigars tobacco and upstairs lodging rooms. Miller's drag trade past and strict integrity are highlighted.
Geo W OBrien promotes farm implements wagons buggies threshers binders and mowers and lists Bettendorf Melbourne Patt ee Manufacturing Cos Deere Cos Standard Champion and Deering brands. Located on West Out of Onondaga Street the dealer highlights eleven years in business and invites customers to call for courteous service and savings.
Canier Bros. and Herman at 418 Onondaga street operate a prominent shoe business. The store offers a wide stock of leading makes and grades, guided by C. C. Tallman serving as expert shoeman for eight years.
The Judisch Brothers drugstore on Onondaga Street is presented as a long trusted local business. Proprieties Geo. Judisch and Al. Judisch are praised for dependable service, quality stock, prescription care, and community standing in Ames and vicinity.
PRANK ER MORRIS First Class Livery Stable offers carriages buggies and stock with wedding funeral and traveling services. Horses boarded daily or monthly with ample equipment. Known as a leading local stable for twelve years and current alderman from the second ward.
Geo G Miller and son J H Miller operate on Onondaga street offering plumbing pipe fitting steam and gas fitting sewerage ventilating pumps and wind mills with long experience and modern tools they promise economical high quality work and guaranteed satisfaction for all projects.
J J Grove Staple and Fancy Groceries serves Ames from the Onondaga and Kellogg Streets corner. The business started twelve years ago by Mr Grove and has grown with steady sales and a progressive approach to sourcing and pricing.
Mr. Grove has developed a strong customer base in central Iowa by steady perseverance and reliable service. A delivery wagon supports prompt attention to clerks filling orders, ensuring satisfaction among humorous customers and solidifying the house’s prominent status.
The Times notes the Emporium on Onondaga street run by D Hamilton and Miss J Hamilton as a leading Ames shop for bonnets hats and ladies furnishings. It highlights Chicago Omaha and St Louis imports and announces stove ranges tinwork roofing refrigerators and a complete shop for services with Hauser in charge and new stock arriving.
J B Kooser & Co a popular Ames grocer on North Onondaga Street keeps a neat well stocked store. The business offers groceries teas butter provisions vegetables fruits and standard flour brands. Kooser attracts a large trade by delivering best quality at living prices and reliable service.
Daniel Embree runs a premier lumber and building material business in the county. The venture began with J. H. Queal, Embree took over two years ago and expanded capacity. Known for expert lumber grading and reliable goods, he commands a large, valuable patronage and high regard in the commercial community.
One of the most enterprising flour and feed concerns is the Ames Flouring Mills run by J W Lanning. Established about eighteen years ago the mill grounds grain and pays the highest market price. Lanning is a prominent city council member and operates as a wholesale and retail dealer in flour feed and grain with guaranteed full weight and quality.
Mr. T. W. Hauser is a hardware dealer with a large stock of light and heavy hardware, builders' and blacksmiths' tools, cutlery, and related items. The public understands that his shop carries almost any item customers seek.
Four weeks ago the Soper building on Onondaga Street opened a new lunch room owned by J. P. Alderman F. E. Alderman H. B. Alderman and P. 8S. Alderman. It is popular stylish and well kept offering meals from local and foreign markets a soda fountain and fruit flavors. B H Alderman manages the restaurant and is credited for its success due to customer care.
The Leader, owned by E. B. Sowers & Co., sits on the south side of Onondaga Street. It offers groceries, notions, and novelties, from simple to valuable items, in a well arranged shop that has become essential to Ames since its October start.
The firm Swank and White runs a hardware business offering refrigerators tools paints oils varnishes and complete husbandry and tin copper and sheet iron work. Established over twenty years and owned by the firm three years sales show growing demand and recognition for their enterprising methods and superior facilities in this region.
Frank N. Fowler, agent for B A Lockwood Grain Co., leads a 14 year old Ames business at 413 Duff Street. The Des Moines home office backs a branch famed for grain and seed sales, wholesale and retail feed, coal, and a high cash price for grain. Fowler, a longtime school board member and Commercial Club secretary, earns broad community respect for city advancement.
James M. Gilbert operates a Blacksmith shop on Kellogg Street offering horse shoeing buggy building and repair and general blacksmithing. Established twelve years with large patronage in Story County and a reputation for thorough workmanship and reasonable charges.
The Loughran Machine Company at 211 213 Onondaga Street is a major Iowa dealer in farm machinery buggies carriages wagons and coal. Owners L Loughran and E Loughran build a trusted 16 year record with a large stock from Rock Island McCormick and more. Sons S L Loughran and E Loughran are noted for driving the business and its strong local standing.
The well appointed pharmacy of F C Tilden and T J Loughran on Onondaga Street holds a first class reputation. It offers drugs chemicals fancy articles and a seasonally operated soda fountain with a modern up-to-date store and a motto purity and accuracy guiding every prescription.
L M Bosworth advertises purity in drugs and compounds as a specialty. The store offers a full stock of medicines, chemicals, patent medicines, sundries, and more with compounding and prescriptions handled by Mr Bosworth, a registered pharmacist.
An advertisement for Swank and White highlights a large store room dedicated to shelf and heavy hardware. The text promises a broad range including tinware stoves and ranges, signaling a comprehensive hardware operation by W. H. Swank and A. L. White.
S L Mabie Lunch Room on the south side of Onondaga Street draws a steady flow of patrons with carefully prepared meals. The establishment is described as very popular among local diners.
Open day and night for serving patrons with excellent meals and lunches. Short orders and lunches feature select meats and vegetables with top coffee. Mabie is seen as a highly competent restaurant man, running one of the neatest and best managed eating houses in central Iowa and building broad patronage.
B A Knudson operates a well known groceries and provisions shop on Onondaga street. The former Kaudson and Barber successor offers a wide line of staples and fancy goods, built on long experience and good prices. He came from Nevada Iowa about a year ago and has won broad local favor.
In Story county Ames shows solid banking health with Union National Bank highlighted for sound methods. Capital stock stands at 55 000 and surplus 10 000, reflecting strong stockholders and leadership. Directors include W. M. Grealey president KE. W. Stanton vice-president Henry Wilson cashier A. S. Needham assistant cashier.
Ames Steam Laundry operated by J H Dixon and son George T Dixon on Duff street features modern labor saving machinery, skilled staff, and prompt service. The delivery wagon serves a busy plant with capacity for 300 shirts collars and cuffs daily, using only high quality supplies.
The Pair store of J Jacobs in Ames is cited as a growing, reliable retail house. Begun in 1895, the business aimed to offer first class goods in a first class manner, reflecting Ames progressive shopping facilities and local commerce expansion.
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