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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1904
Page
7
A Normal Illinois stock dealer describes two years of kidney pain and sleepless nights. After three boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills he reports full relief, restored sleep, and renewed mobility. Trial offer and Buffalo New York mail order advertised.
A Roscommon Assizes ledger in Irish prompts the witness to translate for a judge. Vienna considers 20 cent monthly老人 pensions, but funding lags. Rhodesia Gazette bans sorcery including bones charms and ordeals. England fights ivy and elder near cathedrals as destructive weeds. Olmutz prisoners fear moustache shaving. a permit allows keeping them. S F Cody demos lifting kites at Crystal Palace when a lightning strike damages the top kite but harms no people.
A reflective collection of maxims on fame wealth and virtue. The passages critique the vanity of public success and the moral costs of wealth. It contrasts faith with suspicion and ponders time, courage, and charitable leanings.
A mother recounts a four year old boy with stomach liver and kidney distress who improved after a Denver doctor prescribed a diet centered on Grape-Nuts. The grains natural sweetness replaced cane sugar and led to rapid recovery, with Postum Co. promoting The Road to Wellville booklet in each package.
Des Moines reports rail lines retain cars for big fall grain traffic as oats price holds and corn prospects improve with Sage predicting near normal September yields. State health, education, and agricultural divisions announce studies, exhibits, and plans including a new bacteriological lab, tuberculosis reports, and enhanced state house decorations.
The New Sharon post office was robbed with an explosion that blew out front windows and damaged the interior. Thieves drilled the safe from above with nitroglycerin, taking an estimated 200 to 250 dollars. Clerks, including Ed Dungan, and Postmaster Vail alerted authorities after the blast.
Beef dropped two cents a pound in Des Moines last week due to a large import from Chicago packing houses. The meat strike boosted demand for old hens selling dressed at 18 cents a pound. Young chickens fetch 35 cents each for a little over a pound, and eggs rise to 20 cents a dozen as hens move east.
Great preparations mark the dedication of the Slimmer hospital in Waverly on August 28. Abraham Slimmer, the philanthropist, donated his mansion for hospital use about a year ago and now lives nearby. The hospital, expanded to match the former main house, will be one of the best in the middle west, with about $25,000 raised by locals to finish and prepare it for occupancy. Special statewide figures are expected to attend the dedication, on a site described as a beautiful western Waverly landscape surrounded by rolling wooded grounds.
C. W. Rose of Chariton recounts a dire ordeal from Alaska where a fall in a mine left him crippled and with internal injuries that nearly killed him. He traveled home with his wife after Missoula meeting, but theft occurred on the train near Fargo, stealing $12 in cash and $25 in gold. He now vows not to return to Alaska.
Louise Krutzemaner, 28, alleged to have taken 327 dollars in currency and specie from the Cha para Bros. candy and fruit house in Cedar Falls after 18 months work. The theft was found when the manager opened the drawer for change. warrants were sworn for her arrest.
Mack Fray and John Bartholomew of central Iowa were mistaken for strike breakers in Chicago. They were dragged from a car and beaten. Fray suffered a broken nose while Bartholomew endured a severe beating with no broken bones reported.
Crum, the so called trusty who escaped from Poweshiek county jail, told a farmer he was the hunted man after learning the bloodhounds were on his trail. He rode to town, surrendered, and was safely back in his cell before the searchers found him.
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