Local Ames Notes Include Shoppers Tips And Weather
The Ames Times edition from November 30 1893 highlights local life with shopping tips at Talbotts and Baker s jeweler, notices on Miss Sadie Freeland illness and E B Stewart visit, and upcoming events including a Dorcas society meeting and K P lodge elections. It also covers death of C G Leverne near Ontario, county politics, and missionary services led by Dr W E Wirrer in Ames.
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J. A. Kerr
Chicago
Rev. B. Clark
Webster City
Baker's the Jeweler
J. P. Watson’s
Dorcas Society
Dell Maxwell
Tax Ladies Missionary Society
Gilbert Station
Gilbert's
Gilbert
W. E. Wirrer
Des Moines
Baptist Church
Witter
Home and Foreign Missions
Ames
C. G. Leverne
Ontario
Everly
Brown
Boone
Leecing
Lights in Ames Sought as Franchise Talks Move Forward
The Ames community presses for electric lights with talks of private ownership vs city control. Ft Wayne Electric, represented by E Pardee and T Stanfield, seeks a twenty year franchise with exclusive first five years, awaiting council discussion. Pittsburg firm ojo Fort Wayne operates in Madrid, promising incandescent and arc lighting.
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Ames
Iowa
E. ¥. Pardee
Ft. Wayne Electric Company
Taylor Stanfield
Boone
Pardee
Madrid
Ft. Wayne Company
Fresh daily breads and groceries in Ames town ads
Local notices promote Hazel Cream for skin, White Rose flour, buckwheat and corn meal, and shoe bargains from Caniel Bros. Adams Bros. sells flour products while T. F. McLain offers a 40 cent per dollar discount. Arcade lunch counter advertises oysters and menu options. News items mention Mina Tarnerr’s Carroll visit and bakery plans by TrHesk in Keokuk, plus rail time-card changes and Times office door update.
Free For All World’s Fair Photograph Offer
A fine 8x10 photograph by the U S government photographer is offered with a graphic description. The Inter Ocean will send it free to readers who mail a two cent stamp for postage to Librarian Inter Ocean Chicago.
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United States
Chicago
Inter Ocean
House to Rent Seven-Room Home Listed by Agent
A seven room house is for rent with F. N. Fower acting as the agent. The listing emphasizes a roomy interior and practical layout suitable for families seeking space. The notice highlights rental availability and agent contact.
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F. N. Fower, Agt
Northwestern Fence Co announces sawing up to sixteen feet
Special Notice: Northwestern Fence Co. now prepared to saw logs up to sixteen feet in length. Customers should bring logs early as custom sawing will cease once fence manufacturing for spring trade begins. Also note Thurston, Swan & Co. expanding store presence and offering axes, cross-cut saws, and buck saws with prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwestern Fence Co
ThurRsTon, Swan & Co
Tilottson Farm for Sale Near Ames Iowa
Improved farm for sale Tilottson farm 80 acres two miles south of Ames two miles from Iowa Agricultural College all good cultivated land new house and buildings in good repair call or address Clara Tillotson 21 pd Ames Iowa Terribly Mangled Prices on goods at F T McLain signee for C M Soper oranges and cranberries plentiful Adams Byos
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Loffer
Tilottson
Ames
Iowa Agricultural College
Clara Tillotson
Iowa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Talbott’s
Baker's
Columbian Cigar Factory
Tartpoth
Speckled Trout
Philipe Cigar
Johnny CouLtt
Grype Turner
Osceola
Ames Drug Co
Sadie Freeland
E. B. Stewart
Tur K. P. Lodge
Tur
L. M. Bosworth
Nebraska
Gene Waterbury
Nevada
Miz
Times
J. P. Alderman
Ways and Means
Congress
Grippe
Ogden
Wm. McKinley
Ohio
McKinley
Willis Keeltner
the Times
Mr. Keltner
Attorney Baker
Oklahoma
Tatnart
Caniel Bros & Herman’s
Adams Bros
T. F. McLain
C. M. Soper
Mina Tarnerr
W. W. Talbott
Carroll
TrHesk
China
Hamilton & Co
Congregational Church
Daniel Bros. & Herman
Boston Rubber Shoe Co
Century Magazine
The
Century
J. J. Coin
Johnny
T. W. Suetpon
Keokuk
Perkins
Mr. S
Times Office
50 Cent
Thurston, Swan & Co
F. T. McLain
Adams Byos
Sale Stable
John McCall
West Main St
H. Kelso, D. D.S
G. A. Underwood
U. S
District of Iowa
Ogige
Union National Bank
City Drug Store
Wes
Searn
Bigelow & Smith
G. G. Tilden
Newmarket
Price Es
Candee
Fetete
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