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1912-1913
Armstrong Businesses
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Population, 586. An incorporated town on the C. R. I. & P. Ry., and on the north fork of the Des Moines river. In Armstrong Grove townsip, Emmet county, 22 miles east of Estherville, the county seat. It was settled in 1892, and has Cathollic, Free Methodist, Methodist Episcopal, and Presbyterian churches, good schools, an excellent system of water works, fire department, 3 banks, an opera house and a newspaper, the Journal. Ships grain, hay and live stock. Exp., U. S. Tel. W. U. Telephone connection. Wm. Stuart, postmaster.


Armstrong Journal (weekly), Walter McBride publr
Armstrong Opera House, H R Gibbons mngr
Atwood P H, mngr New Cement Brick Co
Broderick L, mngr Farmers Elevator Co
Brooks, Thomas & Elsy, agrl implts
Burt Ethel, milliner
Burt F S, mngr Western Electric Telephone Co
Davies Fred W, harnessmkr
De Bates Louis G, hardware
Doughty Thomas W, insurance
Emmet County Bank, Graves, Breen & Co proprs,
T W Doughty cashr
Faltinson Kasper, lawyer
Farmers' Creamery Co, George Stewart secretary
Farmers' Elevator Co, L Broderick mngr
First National Bank (capital $50,000), John Dows pres,
B F Robinson cashr
Gaarde Hans A, insurance
Gabriel Robert, jeweler
Gibbons H R, mngr Armstrong Oopera House
Graves, Breen & Co (Howard Graves, E J Breen,
T W Doughty), proprs Emmet County Bank and real estate
Haden Carl, r r, exp and tel agt
Harlow Hotel, M H Maricle propr
Hays Sidney C, insurance
Hossels James C, drugs
Ideal Roller Mills, George Stewart propr
Jensen John, shoes
Kennedy Wm & Co, drugs
Kingston Herbert A, general store
Knipes James B, physician
Knowles Bros, general store
Larson E, photogr
Loomer Arthur, furn and jeweler
McBride Walter, publr Armstrong Journal
Mangold J J, general store
Maricle W H, propr Harlow House
Mitchell Bros Land Co, David Mitchell mngr
Moe A H, live stock
New Cement Brick Co, P H Atwood mngr
North Iowa Lumber Co, Ernest R Stoakes mngr, coal
Northern Lumber Co, bldg matls and coal
Ogilvie Charles, general store
Olson Haldor, tailor
Rice Wm J, dentist
Richardson R W, carpenter
Ridley Reuben H, carpenter
Ripple Henry, coal and grain
Spoor James A, livery and auctioneer
State Bank of Armstrong (capital $25,000),
E B Soper pres, S C Hays cashr
Stewart George, propr Ideal Roller Mills
Stuart, Robinson & Dows (Wm Stuart,
Benjamin F Robinson, John Dows), real estate
Stuart Wm, postmaster
Thomsen John, vet surg
Thorson Thorval L, hardware
Troesler Max, ice
U S Express Co, Carl Haden agt
Vandenberg George, well driller
Vandusen W H, drayage
Ward Harbert A, restaurant
Wenzel Wm, meats
Western Electric Telephone Co, F S Burt mngr
Western Union Telegraph Co, Carl Haden agt
Woods C M, livery

Transcribed by Lynn Diemer-Mathews and uploaded June 11, 2024.


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