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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
2
A longtime commercial traveler and H Nichols of Oakland report rapid cures from Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy since 1872. The ad notes free admission for children on Saturday August 22 with a special program, college scholarship judging, stock pavilion pony ribbons, and the race program beginning that day.
The Iowa State Fair and Exposition begins a day earlier, opening Thursday August 20, making Saturday the first day admission will be required.
Roland Record warns of a housing shortage as families face rejection without new residences. It argues that building now yields good rents and steady income for owners, urging immediate construction to meet demand. Continuous housing supply is portrayed as essential for the town’s growth.
A reflective poem contrasts summer ease with the fisherman’s duty to deliver provisions to an unseen hunger. The speaker longs for river fishing, cherishes his reel, and contemplates how others might perceive him as the tide of anticipation grows.
The Alden Times notes a farmer thriving as butter veal pork and beef prices rise. Egg production from his Poland chickens yields valuable returns while corn prices soar and hay demand grows. The piece mocks others who should bow out as the farmer dominates the market.
John H. Zirkle of Philippi West Virginia reports his father suffered years with diarrhoea and tried many cures. After seeing Cham berlain's Colic Colera and Diarrhoea Remedy advertised in the Philippi Republican one bottle cured him, and eighteen months later he remains well and able to work. Sold by all druggists.
At a recent meeting the Chanutau qua association grounds committee ordered use of manufactured ice in all drinking water at the public and for stalls selling ice drinks. Natural ice may still be used for freezing and cooling where ice is not in drinks.
A Jefferson Bee editorial argues farmers cannot accept trading current product prices for what they previously earned under democratic rule, expressing concern over subtle reasoning guiding this stance.
Thomas Evans and family members including his daughter Mrs David Brown and her daughter Maud return from Greeley Colorado along with daughter Mrs Orren Crouser and her three children arriving Tuesday per Colins Gazette.
An advertisement urges readers with minor stomach troubles to take Kodol to prevent chronic dyspepsia. It claims early use avoids severe attacks and reduces recovery time, and promotes buying from C. A. Gamble.
A subscriber defends skipping local papers claiming he already gets all news. He cites family ties to the community including a wife in a women’s club, a daughter in a millinery shop, another in the post office, and himself running a village grocery.
A new White City at Chautauqua Park in Ames features sixty tents with an auditorium rising and business tents lining Wall Street. Residents from Story City Nevada and Des Moines join families along Lincoln and Center streets, with names such as the MecElyea, Glidden, Tallman, Prouty, and Dean families listed among campers. The camp hosts the BE. T. C. group and various Nevadans, Des Moines guests, and local officials occupying tents through the ten day chautauqua circuit.
Judge Clifford P. Smith of Sioux City has resigned from the district bench at Mason City Iowa to become first reader in the First Church of Christ in Boston. He moved his family there saying Christian Science will overcome evil and its effects and is more important than his bench work.
Mothers endorse Bees Laxative Cough Syrup for coughs colds croup hoarseness and whooping cough. It is advertised as gently laxative pleasant to take and guaranteed. Sold by C A Gamble and urged for every household to keep on hand.
A sequence of property transactions lists Estella J. Jones and spouse selling to Ben Edwards widow for 800 dollars, with description of parcels in Parker's addition Ames. Multiple transfers involve Malinda L. Noble, Francis M. Noble, Catherine J. Poorbaugh, F. M. Cupps, and others to beneficiaries or spouses, with prices ranging from 1 to 9,000 dollars for lots in Beard Shears, Armstrong, Ives, Fairview, and other additions in Ames and Nevada. The record names buyers, sellers, and parcel details including lot numbers and block IDs across several subdivisions.
An advertisement proclaims De Witt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve as the sole original and best option among imitators. It promises cleansing cooling and soothing effects.
A revised timetable effective May 17 1908 lists service components. Daily trains excluding Sunday include Nos 42 43 65 and 66 as accommodation trains while fast mails cover Nos 9 15. Corridor routes span Chicago and the Coast Des Moines Ames Cedar Rapids Colorado and Des Moines Garretts routes. Ames and Dakota.
Edward E B Henry of United States Express Co in Chicago reports that Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured chronic diarrhoea on many trains. He says he served with Rutherford B Hayes and William McKinley in the 23rd Ohio Regiment and has no ailment but chronic diarrhoea. For sale by all druggists.
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