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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
8
An older ad style notice warns that Bright's disease and diabetes can be cured if treated early with Kipney Cure. It urges timely use, cites high death rates, and features testimonials from B Conklin and Tilden & Loughran.
An OCR fragment promotes Foley's Loans Cure for kidney disorders and a skin medicine from Tilden & Loughran. It also includes miscellaneous lines about gender dynamics and a general boast of healing skin diseases, cuts, sores, and piles with no verifiable medical basis.
Mrs. O. E. of Danville Illinois says Foley's Honey and Tar cured her children of whooping cough and saved a doctor's bill after using a 50 cent bottle. The note cites Tilden and Loughran as sources.
A collection of brief endorsements extols One Minute Cough Cure for coughs colds and lung troubles. It cites Foley's Honey and Tar and DeWitt's Little Early Risers as remedies and includes quotes about philosophy child love and a reminder that quick cough relief reduces lung risk.
Major Crofoot schemes a sweeping Wells Fargo of trust, promoting the M. W. C. and a 20 million washboard business. He lures Thompson the attorney with a secretary post at 20000 a year and stock, while pressing bills and promising impossible profits. The lawyer resists as the major pushes toward incorporation and patenting the idea.
A Washington Post item explains a copper heat conductor trick using a linen cloth over a copper globe. A glowing coal placed on the cloth within the copper setup will not burn the fabric, as copper draws heat away quickly. practice with inexpensive cloth first to demonstrate the principle.
A New York Times report depicts a brutal pawn shop scene in a poverty stricken area. A poor mother and another woman seek small loans while a stranger confronts hardship and offers aid. The tale ends with a grieving mother crying for her dead child as she flees into the alleys.
Belgians stage crowing contests with a special cock as the benchmark. Cages are lined in rows to trigger crowing, a marker logs each bird's tally, and laps resemble a bicycle race. Matches last one hour with the top three scorers winning.
The text traces radishes from China with centuries of cultivation and large sizes to Germany where mothers used radish juice with sugar candy to treat hoarseness and cough. It laments modern radishes as lacking flavor and character, contrasting with their former sharp biting taste.
In a Missouri court, Judge William H. Wallace presents a lucid lunacy verdict. The jury, impaneled and sworn, affirms the insanguinity of Hezekiah Jones, concluding the subject is of unsound mind.
Diogenes replies to a question about the most dangerous beast. He says wild beasts bite as slanderers do and tame beasts bite as flatterers do.
Quote from the Chicago News notes that a man who cannot find satisfaction within himself looks for it elsewhere, implying disbelief at his life narrative if read. The line suggests inner struggle and the elusive search for meaning.
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