Rumsey Rumsey's Home Bakery Builds Rocky Ford Trade
Rumsey Rumsey's Home Bakery at 415 North Main Street offers cakes breads and groceries with fresh stock, cash sales, and satisfaction guaranteed. Proprietors Mr and Mrs Rumsey, former Fort Madison bakers, invite inspection, plan a 30 foot extension, and pledge honest courteous service for all ages.
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Rumsey & Rumsey
North Main Street
Rumsey
Fort Madison
Iowa
Rocky Ford
Purse Opens New Dental Office In Rocky Ford
W D Purse D O S runs a modern dental office over Shelton Hardy Grocery in Rocky Ford. The veteran dentist emphasizes modern techniques and tooth preservation for younger generations. He came to Rocky Ford six years ago and is noted as a pioneer in the field with ties to Missouri Dental College.
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Rocky Ford
Purse
Pike County
Missouri
Missouri Dental College of
St. Louis
Nuckolls Builds Rocky Ford Stock and Trade Hub
Mr Nuckolls began a growing Rocky Ford business on March 1 1900. A longtime livestock professional and stockholder of the Nuckolls Hew Company Pueblo he shifted to stock handling for the packing house in the valley and Rocky Ford. Born in Denver 27 years ago he sits on school board No 4 and operates Main street east of the Santa Fe station with two delivery teams and Fairbanks Morse gasoline engines he represents in the valley and city.
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Rocky Ford
Nuckolls
Nuckolls Hew Company
Pueblo
Colorado
Rocky Mord
Denver
Santa Fe Station
Main Street
Fairbanks, Morse & Cos
Palace Livery and Stable Boosts Rocky Ford Enterprise
The Palace Livery, Feed and Sale Stables of Rocky Ford, led by Mr. Higgins on North Main, showcases a new two story brick stable with 50 horse stalls, 40 buggy storage, a washing area, double team capability, hay loft for 75 tons, a 1500 bushel oats granary, automatic feed, and amenities including office and toilet rooms as a community advancing venture.
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Rocky Ford
Higgins
North Main Street
Elegant Rocky Ford dry goods house led by Mr Hiltiker
The article praises Hiltiker’s store in Rocky Ford as a top dry goods retailer for men women and children. It notes a 25 by 100 foot space with a balcony, extensive carpet stock including Lowell carpets, and well curated departments offering wraps furs cloaks tailor made suits linen and underwear. It highlights Hiltiker as energetic refined and formerly in Colorado City.
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Hiltiker
Rocky Ford
Lowell
Hilfiker
Colorado City
Higgins Brings Modern Livery to Rocky Ford
Mr Higgins has been in Rocky Ford for over a year after coming from Russell County Kansas where he engaged in stock raising He is well supplied with good driving horses and his line of modern improved vehicles includes Newark spider double and single buggies and surreys His new enterprise aims to please with reasonable charges and turnouts equal to the finest liveries This well conducted business sits in a finely equipped stable the state affords.
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Higgins
Rocky Ford
Russell County
Kansas
Newark
New Jersey
Enterprising firm serves Rocky Ford with coal and services
The Jackson-Lawson Coal and Transfer Co. operates as Canon City coal dealers, Continental Oil agents, and ice suppliers. They maintain extensive coal reserves, handle over eighty cars since May, run five trucks, ten horses, and offer drayage, house-moving, and artesian water delivery. Founders A. M. Jackson and J. E. Lawson, with Lawson joining 18 months ago, are active city contributors.
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Jackson-Lawson Coal and Transfer Co
Canon City Coal
Continental Oil Co
Rocky Ford
Continental Oil Company
Canon City
A. M. Jackson
J. E. Lawson
Lawson
Santa Fe
Pueblo
Colorado & Southern
Jackson
Dr. H A MacMillian Dentists Fractures Crown Bridge Work
Dr H A MacMillian is presented as an experienced dentist expert in setting fractured jaws and articulating operations. He offers crown, bridge, and plate work with a fully equipped office and laboratory. The practice has over ten years of extended, successful service.
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MaccMillian
Dr MacMillan to Open Dental Parlors in Rocky Ford
A Colorado resident for 25 years and graduate of the College of Dental Surgery at Denver University, Dr. MacMillan is a respected Rocky Ford citizen. Once the post office front rooms are finished they will be fitted, furnished, and used as his dental parlors.
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Colorado
College of Dental Surgery
Denver University
Rocky Ford
MacMillan
Burnett and Richardson Shine in Rocky Ford Architecture
Architecture shapes history and daily life, with light, air, and proportion guiding good design. Burnett and Richardson, new partners since May 1 1901, have designed about fifty buildings in Rocky Ford and nearby, including the Liberty school addition and Hagen block, proving architecture adds lasting value beyond fees.
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George C. Burnett
Colorado
la Junta
Rocky Ford
Liberty School
Hagen
James H. Richardson
Burnett & Richardson
Rocky Ford Anc
Worthy Institutions Provide Practical Business Education
The La Junta and Rocky Ford schools led by D. D. Dodds offer commercial stenographic English music and elocution courses. The program emphasizes practical business training, with a night school and year round operation. About ninety pupils enrolled. facilities to expand in Kellogg building on South Main.
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la Junta
Rocky Ford
D. D. Dodds
Business
Professor Dodds
Steadman
Dodds
Kellogg
South Main Street
Valley workers expand impact across the valley
Dwellings and business blocks span the length of the valley as obstacles are overcome. Their practice now extends throughout the area. They believe their services are worth more to the owner than their cost and seek a chance to prove it.
Dr W E Fenton A Notable Rocky Ford Physician And Drug Proprietor
Dr W E Fenton M D is a long time Rocky Ford physician and Rocky Ford drugstore proprietor. He moved his shop north of the post office and carries a $6000 stock while specializing in chronic diseases and earning a strong local reputation. He built a fine residence and remains an active respected citizen in Otero County since 1889.
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W. E. Fenton
Otero County
Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery
Rocky Ford
Fenton
Judge Wallis of Otero County Set to Move to La Junta
A. B. Wallis, a prominent Otero county bar member and newly elected county judge, plans to move from Rocky Ford to La Junta in the spring. Born in Maryland in 1866, he spent time in Virginia and Philadelphia, taught in Kansas from 1877 and led Johnson City schools for three years, then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1895. He has four years of Rocky Ford residence and is highly respected.
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Otero County
Wallis
Rocky Ford
la Junta
Maryland
Virginia
Philadelphia
Montgomery County
Kansas
Johnson City
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W. D. Purse, D.O. S
Ezra Nuckolls
Ceater
Leeds
G. W. Higgins
Hilfiker'’S Cash Store
H. A. Macmillian
Over Farmers’ Department Store
Architects
E. Fenton, M. D
Fenton's Drug Store
Postoffice
A. B. Wallis
Jno
E. Goppina
Prest
J. Sarra
Gro. W. Swink
The
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W. I. Davenport
Enterprise Office
Frisco System
Kansas City
Jacksonville
Florida
Williams & Clark
Rocky Ford, Colorado
General Carpenter Shop
Parniture Repairing
Memphis
Birmingham
Montgomery
Mobile
Atlanta
Savannah
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Saint Louis
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