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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1903
Page
8
Bowser, hurried by a friend to substitute for a charity talk, addresses tramps in a room hired for the purpose. He extols temperance and ambition while the crowd heckles asking for beer, prompting Bowser to insist on continuing without alcohol as inspiration.
Boston gossip from Aug. 10 on writers and readers. James Whitcomb Riley fears audience strain yet returns to readings. Anya J. M. Dickey notes Riley’s stage fright, superstition, and travel aversion. Stories compare novelist habits and reading childhoods, with Bullock and Harben cited. Riis works on a Roosevelt biography.
A speaker recounts a western governor who rose from tramp to leader, but confronting a rowdy crowd. The event, at a marble shop, turns comic as patrons press for liquor and threaten to derail the talk. Bowser ends up rejected and mocked by the drunken audience and left outside.
Panama Colombia saw a dramatic recovery when a sixteen year old girl with severe dysentery improved after Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy was prescribed as a last resort. Dr Chas Butler of Panama states the patient was near death before treatment and recovered within three days. For sale by all druggists.
A local notice extols Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a cure for infantum with dramatic anecdotes from neighbors. It promotes Kodol for indigestion in children and adults, Foley's Kidney Cure for kidney and urinary issues, and Foley's remedies for asthma and diabetes. Adds an ad pitch for town-site information and a printery service in Nashville and Ft. Dodge.
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