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1912 Business Directory
Rudd

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Population, 296. An incorporated town on Flood Creek, and
on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., in Rudd township, Floyd county, 12
miles n. w. of Charles City, the county seat. Has Baptist, German Lutheran,
German Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal churches, a bank
an opera house and a weekly newspaper, The Review. Tel., W. U. Exp., W., F. & Co.
J W Cline, postmaster.

Briggs G C, broom mnfr.
Carragher C E, drugs.
Carragher & Sanders, lands and loans.
Cline J W, postmaster.
Corbett J J, r r, exp and tel agt.
Darr W M, publr Rudd Review.
Davis T R, feed mill.
Farmers' Exchange Co, grain and coal
Farmers' Mutual Telephone Co.
Frank & Woodworth, live stock.
French Paul, physician.
French S B, cream seperators.
Galt Elton, livery.
Henderson R K, jeweler.
Huntting Elevator Co, grain.
Jones Bros, meats.
Kennedy W H, ins, vet surgeon and mayor.
Millard Wm, grocer.
Mueller Otto & Son, genl store and hardware.
Opera House, Schraeder & Son, proprs.
Robinson Thomas, carp.
Robinson O W, drayage.
Rudd Cement, Tile, Brick and Block Mnfg Co.
Rudd Cornet Band
Rudd Review, W M Darr publr.
Rudd Savings Bank, R F Darrow cashier.
Russell & Hobbs, garage.
Schraeder & Son, proprs Opera House.
Standard Lumber Co, lumber and coal.
Stopher J H, hotel.
Talbot & Countryman, machinery, gas engines and autos.
Trembly J B, restr.
Whitney G, harnessmkr.
Wood, G H, hotel.

Source: Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1912-1913, Volume XVI,
R. L. Polk and Co., Des Moines, Davenport, Detroit

Transcribed by Lynn Diemer-Mathews and uploaded February 7, 2025.

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