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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1900
Page
4
On December 28 the fifty fourth anniversary of Iowa statehood the Daily Iowa Capital is offered by mail for 2.00 for 1901. Readers pay by December 28 and mail checks to Lafe Young Des Moines Iowa. The eight page daily features Associated Press reports and soon a two color Scott press.
Overindulgence in food supposedly causes insanity by autotoxemia and melancholia. The article urges eating properly, avoiding excess, exercising, modest clothing, and timing meals to digest, arguing sensible living yields health and table pleasure.
The Iowa Central Railway announces excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to western and southeastern points. Round trip fare is one fare plus two dollars. Contact any Iowa Central ticket agent or write Geo. 5 Batty G P T A Marshalltown Iowa for full details on destinations and ticket limits.
A brief notice invites customers to Wing’s Model Laundry for cleaning lace curtains. Details specify specialized care and possibly timing or location, urging patrons to use the service for delicate drapery cleaning.
Doctor explains mirrors in waiting rooms lure people to arrive early so they can look at themselves. Town Topics notes the idea and its social effect.
A brief clash between a boy and a professor is described with the professor telling the boy to stop making a fool of himself after the boy mimicked him. The Chicago Chronicle reports the exchange as a light domestic moment.
On Monday November 19, Joan HoGaatt announces readiness to buy all kinds of poultry and pledges to pay the highest market price at all times.
A short reflective note discusses how forecasts and visions often contradict each other, exploring how expectations shape interpretation. Environmental cues and personal anecdotes are woven together to question certainty in future events.
Dr OC J Bishop of Agnew Michigan cites Foley s Honey and Tar as effective in three severe pneumonia cases while DeWitt s Witch Hazel Salve is promoted as a universal cure for piles skin diseases and wounds by L M Bosworth and Tilden Longbrai The notices warn against counterfeit salves urge cough cures like One Minute Cough Cure and urge prompt relief to prevent serious illness with various health claims and ad copy from local merchants.
Dr W E Harriman physician and surgeon offers special surgical attention and eye glasses fitting. Office location in Hamilton Block over Thure ton’s hardware Ames Iowa with residence near Story County Bank and both office and residence telephone numbers listed.
Hunt appears as an inline fragment mentioning an unknown subject and a door on the right of P. The readable text is limited and provides no clear event, people, or place to form a meaningful summary.
A New York Sun excerpt describes aging readers noticing heavier need for light and difficulties with numbers over letters. The speaker recalls resisting glasses as a sign of weakness, then embracing them after realizing figures blur first and letters follow, ending with improved clarity.
A Washington Post piece recounts a humorous scene at Grunenwald station in Germany. American tourists clash with an English family as peaches fly and a sharp retort from an amused American girl ends the exchange.
The passage recalls Emerson debating stimulants with tea deemed a gentle exciter and tobacco criticized as a disruptive crow bar to the brain. He argues nature supplies her own aids and cautions against using tobacco as a marketable commodity.
A Cassell's Magazine writer recalls an enlisted man who argued the court cannot sentence him because officers were distracted. The prisoner cites Major Jones reading a paper, Captain Smith forcing a caricature on the blotting pad, and Lieutenant Brown lacking a commission.
A boy with a snub nose recalls his grandfather as a young man running ten miles nonstop and a prayer lasting 25 minutes at a prayer meeting, noting his fearlessness in a Chicago Tribune tone.
The notice advertises first class openings in growing towns across Illinois Iowa Minnesota and Missouri for all kinds of business and manufacturing. It lists prospects from blacksmiths doctors dressmakers furniture grain and live stock buyers general merchandise hardware harness tailors cold storage creameries and canning factories.
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