Iowa
Old Press
Humboldt Independent
Humboldt, Humboldt co. Iowa
May 21, 1908
“THE LARGEST TOWN OF ITS SIZE IN AMERICA”
The town of Humboldt with its 2000 busy people is
located at the junction of the M. & St. L. and C. & N. W.
railroads and is afforded the best of transportation facilities
for its large annual output.
Headquarters for the Rural Union Telephone Co., the Humboldt
Bottling Works, a $10,000 Carnegie Library under course of
construction, Humboldt College and old and well established
institution, a $20,000 public school building thoroughly equipped
throughout, and six churches, has a complete system of water
works supplying the town with the purest of spring water, one of
the best volunteer fire departments in the State, an abundance of
water power for commercial purposes, and has easy access to an
unlimited amount of the finest kind of building stone.
Humboldt is the home of three prosperous banks with an aggregate
capital of $200,000, a poultry establishment employing as high as
one hundred and twenty-five men and doing a total $1,000,000
worth of business annually. The Humboldt Creamery Co. doing a
wholesale creamery business on a large scale, two flouring mills,
two cigar factories, the American Ditching Co., capitalized at
$25,000, a modern cement block and tile factory, a twenty-four
hour electric light service. Anyone desiring further information
address: SECRETARY OF COMMERICAL CLUB.
[transcribed by L.Z., October 2014]