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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1903
Page
7
A New York City woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with strengthening her back easing fatigue and improving health after kidney and womb trouble. She urges others to write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance and assurance of authenticity.
A fragment from the Detroit Free Press notes a lighthearted exchange where two men, referred to as One Mind and Mr. Simpson erngenies, chat about themselves while inviting the other to discuss their own traits.
A humorous exchange features Winkers noting collars return from the washerwoman, and the reply about their worn style reflecting a practical gag in Stray Stories.
George H. Daniels announced multiple fast services from New York to Chicago. The Twenty Hour, Twentieth Century Limited, Lake Shore Limited, The Fast Mail, Noonday Chicago Limited, and Detroit and Chicago Limited run daily, all reaching Chicago within about 24 hours. The carrier also operates extensive schedules to Buffalo Niagara Falls, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Montreal, and Boston via its divisions.
Notices quote several figures and announce three daily through trains from Chicago to California Oregon and Washington on the Union Pacific and North Western Line. The comments include aphorisms attributed to Coa ucius and Buxton.
Senator Depew is quoted in a humorous Baltimore Herald piece as recounting a home visit from an Irishman and his wife Bridget. The tale riffs on cloture and Senate talk, portraying a light, conspiratorial mood about political life and a joking plan to win Bridget a senate seat.
Arthur, a five year old from Fifth Avenue, visits an uncle's country seat on Long Island. He encounters a wheeled creature with wings and a habit of pecking gravel, insisting the bird has feathers and is a real chicken.
Wm O B Sullivan of Velpen Indiana recounts his health battle with rheumatism, kidney and heart trouble and credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with his recovery. He emphasizes the pills as a genuine honest remedy that cured him and restored his health.
A playful exchange in the Humane Society Bulletin depicts Willie insisting he is merely holding the cat’s tail, not pulling it, while Mama warns him. The scene captures a light domestic moment highlighting animal handling.
An item advertising entertainment books and a free copy of Farming in the Southwest. Mentions low rate excursions on the first and third Tuesdays monthly with inquiries about rates. Provides address 305 Wainwright Building, St. Louis. Includes Epictetus quote on resilience.
Cures painful swollen smarting and sweating feet makes new shoes easy Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores Sample FREE Address A. B. Olmsted Le Roy N Y Upton Parke Is your wife's new girl a fixture Cyril Downe Seems to be I don't see her moving around Town and Country
Pateros Washington seeks readers for a notice listing new homes in the West. The ad emphasizes community clarity and orderly development amid local housing listings.
An 1900 advertisement quotes Piso's Cure for Consumption as infallible for coughs and colds from N W Samuel of Ocean Grove New Jersey. It also cites a saying from Willis about betting on luck and finding a fish in the Nile.
Advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets priced at 25 cents. Claims the product stops coughing and helps recover from a cold.S:
An advertisement by B M Woolley M D of Atlanta offers care for opium and liquor habits with free services. The brief note appears alongside marketing lines for Putnam Fadeless Dyes and a Swift quotation about generosity and longevity.
An elderly couple reports severe back pain eased by Doan's Kidney Pills. The Cure cites relief from swelling, brick dust sediment in urine, and nocturnal bed wetting. The ad claims pills remove calculi and alleviate heart palpitations, sleeplessness, headaches, and dizziness.
West Haven resident Sanan E Brapiey reports eight months of severe back pain eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He bought two boxes and is on a second, noting his heart no longer troubles him and he feels well.
Mr. C. H. Boerees of 2319 McKenny Ave Houston writes that after taking Dean's Kidney Pills he saw rapid improvement in urinary flow. He bought a box at the druggist and used over half the supply before stopping once symptoms cleared.
The board of trustees awarded a contract to C. E. Atkinson of Webster City for 53 752 dollars to build additions to the agricultural hall a stock judging pavilion and a greenhouse at Iowa State College Ames. The project includes a 60 by 100 foot hall and a 24 story high pressed brick structure with a slate roof and dedicated spaces for farm mechanics drafting shop classrooms and machine rooms. The greenhouse measures 36 by 82 feet with three compartments for agronomy soil work and horticulture. The judging pavilion sits east of the experiment station barn connected by a second floor bridge and houses animal industry on the first floor and agronomy on the second. The dedication for the new engineering hall is set for May 22 with Acting President E W Stanton arranging details and a national speaker hoped for.
A movement may push for a state superintendent of farmers institutes in Iowa. Wisconsin and others have such an officer, and a modification to the state department of agriculture could create an assistant in charge of institutes with a 1000 to 1200 dollar salary plus travel. State Dairy Commissioner Wright supports the plan, noting institutes exist in just over 60 counties and urging organization of institutes in all counties.
Special correspondence reports a May election for department commander at the Grand Army encampment in Cedar Rapids. Candidates include P. A. Smith of the Scranton Journal and Col. L B Raymond of the Hampton Chronicle. Smith, a former Eighth Iowa private, backed by veterans, served at Shiloh and in a Confederate prison with an neck injury.
Mercy hospital completed in Webster City is the property of the Northwest Iowa conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. Built by Jacob M. Funk at a cost of 25000 dollars, it is donated on condition it remain nonsectarian and admit patients regardless of race color religion or financial means.
Miss Clara Tillton of Buffalo New York is elected physical director of the woman’s department at the Iowa state normal school Cedar Falls to replace Miss Stella Satterthwait who retires June first. Tillton starts at the fall session. Miss Amy Arey of Tipton is named critic teacher in the primary department succeeding Ruth Adsit who resigns to study in the East.
Grand jury indicts eight druggists including R. McGee Hibner and F. P. Downs of Iowa Falls L. C. Ladage Owasa and F. P. Keeneman Whitten. The two later paid over 300 dollars each to settle. The remaining pleaded not guilty and face trial in August district court term.
A historical advertisement extols Peruna as a spring tonic for nerves and catarrh. It quotes Mrs Helen Whitman and Mrs Lulu Larmer praising nerve relief, energy restoration, and overall health gains after four bottles. Claims physicians’ guidance and free medical advice from Dr Hartman.
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