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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1901
Page
8
Mrs P L Cordier of Mannington Kentucky reports a severe croup illness in her three year old daughter. After doctors said the child could not live she used Foley's Honey and Tar and the dose provided quick relief, saving the child's life.
A Great Family Newspaper proclaims its Des Moines Leader as far in advance of rivals in accuracy and independence. It highlights extensive news coverage, strong editing, and record circulation across Iowa.
Dr W E Harriman physician and surgeon offers eye services and eyeglass fittings in Ames Iowa. Office located in Hamilton Block near Thurs ton s hardware store with telephone access. Residence noted near Story County Bank district.
Local auctioneer Posegate of Ames Iowa advertises fast selling by day or small commission farms available for sale. Satisfaction guaranteed. Box 532.
The Des Moines Daily News offers postpaid home delivery for $1 a year 75 cents for six months and 50 cents for three months. It promises concise news daily telegraph market reports and literary content for the family with address in Des Moines Iowa.
Spring coughs are dangerous and must be treated at once. One Minute acts like magic as a high grade remedy from Tilden and Loughran.
A terse adage notes that keeping a tight rein on romantic entanglements may prevent trouble. The statement implies a caution about too many suitors or complications in relationships. It reflects social norms of discretion in flirtations and courtship.
Advertisement quotes E. Boice of Somers Point New York praising DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for curing piles after one use. Warns buyers to avoid imitations and to request De Witt's from Tilden & Loughran.
Iowa Central Railway offers Tuesday excursions to California through April 1901 at unusually low single trip rates. Tickets also sold to Washington Idaho Montana Crewe and British Columbia. For details contact Iowa Central ticket agents or Geo. Batty G P T A Marshalltown IA.
Anderson Riggs of Sunny Lane Texas reports ten years of indigestion relief after using two bottles of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. He says it gives more relief than previous medicines and restores feeling like a boy. Thousands have testified similarly.
A Manatawney resident credits One Minute Cough Cure with a speedy cure after a severe lung cold kept him bedridden last winter. He thanks the remedy and its makers Tilden & Loughran for relief.
A concise aphorism notes that personal or financial strain increases the urge to borrow. It implies risk and temptation in borrowing behavior during hardship. The saying reflects a common belief about how people respond to difficulty with access to credit.
Ad copy extols Banner Salve as healing for sores ulcers boils and pimples with grandiose claims. It asserts nature erred in making self serving humans and promotes the salve as the world’s cure.
Geo L Heard of High Tower Georgia reports severe eczema on his baby eased by Banner Salve after several days of itching and sleeplessness. The family doctor approved the treatment saying it did more good than anything he had done. The quote ends with a folk proverb about tasting many broths.
The Farmers' Cooperative Association runs a Farmer's Exchange and conducts general real estate business. It negotiates farm loans and writes insurance, handles grain, farm produce, coal, farm supplies, Chautauquan literature, chemical fire extinguishers, and installs electrical conductors on buildings.
Travel offer lists a $29 25 fare from Ames to California with Portland Seattle Tacoma and Puget Sound on the North Western Line. Tickets on sale Tuesdays through April 80th inclusive. Notes shortest travel time and scenic tours with daily conducted tourist cars. Inquires to Chicago & North Western Railway agents. Also an unrelated ad promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure by Tilden & Loughran with digestive claims.
Mrs. Gilbert recalls the governor who preferred a pair of blue majolica vases and a fainting scene. Confiscation in Morocco strips governors of wealth, returning fortunes to the people. The Mayor Who Couldn't Spell If features Tim Campbell and John Adams debating the mayor’s education and a joke about spelling if with one if.
In Spain barbers clip donkeys as well as people to provide a smoother resting place for panniers. The animal is restrained while vast clippers remove belly hair to a fixed line and a neck star pattern is sometimes shaved. Customers endure upright seating and a brass suds basin held under the chin for the shave, a far from pampered experience.
The text surveys competing explanations for Charles Maurice de Talleyrand’s lifelong lameness. It mentions congenital origin, infancy accident, and a sensational tale blamed on a nurse’s negligence. A Vienna colleague supposedly cited by Wessenberg links pigs eating the infant’s legs to the injury, claimed as established fact by the informant and possibly by Talleyrand himself.
Browne asks Nigster to stand a loan of 10 shilliigs and receives a blunt reply from Nigster in the London Fun quip. Jones answers with disbelief and prompts the joke’s punch line.
A curio is described as a piece of china kept by the mother through many generations of cooks and upheavals, a small cherished artifact passed down within a family. The quote frames curio as a treasured keepsake surviving through turmoil.
A breakfast cynic quips that persuading a woman the earth is not round is easier than proving a druggist makes 50 percent profit on postage stamps. The remark appears in the Philadelphia Record in a breezy, editorial tone.
The Dartmoor region hosts strong superstitions among anglers on the river Dart. A sharpshooter hauled 56 trout on Easter Sunday, the largest 14% pounds, but the farm cook refused to cook them, calling them devil’s fish. Other beliefs include broom causing drowning, spitting on worms for luck, not looking into water before casting, and kneeling to bite bracken fern to appease ill wishes when catches are poor.
A farmer demands a bottle of whisky from the landlord who is busy mending harness and chatting with the blacksmith. The farmer insists it is not a horse he wants but a bottle of whisky, while the landlord notes the horses are away and may be late. The blacksmith jests that the farmer is getting deaf as a doorpost.
A widower marries a widow and they each bring children. The couple later adds to the brood. The father, returning breathless, reports the children from both sides were quarrelling in the yard, creating a comic family mix up.
Dear said by Mrs Jellus to a man, revealing a violent love from him. He asks who it is. she answers You, and he demands the earrings in exchange for truth, in a Philadelphia Press style snippet.
The text notes that modern warriors wear hair on their frontispieces, but Alexander the Great required his invincible soldiers to shave their faces to prevent enemies from grabbing their beards in Asia.
A courtroom exchange questions the shooter of a dog with the defendant claiming self defense and the judge noting even a dog has rights, awarding twenty five dollars.
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