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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1900
Page
8
The catalog highlights latest publications, classics, children's books, Bibles, and Sevras novelties. It advertises toilet sets at low prices and dolls up to 3 dollars. The message touts the store's wide doll selection and Christmas novelties in toilet articles.
A jumbled 19th century ad text touts Honey and Tar for colds, warns against substitutes, and cites Tilden & Loughran. It rails at religious doubt, mocks dieting cures, and promotes Kodol Duspe Cure claiming it digests all foods while healing digestion. Ends with a paradox about anticipation and death.
An old advertisement page promotes One Minute Cough Cure as a rapid remedy for coughs and lung diseases and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a digestion aid and stomach trouble cure. It cites personal testimonials including L. M. Bosworth and Peter Sherman of North Stratford New Hampshire. The piece blends promotional quotes with moral maxims and slogans.
Tony Ingersoll of Hutton Indiana says he spoke only a whisper for months until Foley's Oneney and Tar restored his voice. The medicine is promoted for use by speakers and singers.
The first edition of Fitzgeralds translation of Omar Khayyam failed commercially anonymous issue. Bernard Quaritch sold 200 copies for a penny after price cuts, sparking a legend that Rossetti Swinburne and Burton found the hidden treasure. By 1898 Quaritch bought back a copy for £21, decades later.
The term bedlam derives from Bethlehem and described the chaotic treatment of the insane in early modern London. It links to a sisterhood run infirmary and to harsh, frightened methods like surprise floors baths and flogging during illness.
Mrs McElroy complains of Mr McElroy’s absence while Junior Partner mentions he left to buy ribbons for the typewriter. The blond girl at the side desk is questioned as Mrs McElroy accuses him of neglect. Denver News report notes his purchases for wife and daughters.
A Detroit Journal quip notes no strict rule for becoming a former bride. It suggests a wife steps back from a husband’s ward robe as she reduces the number of gowns from eight to two.
Several pairs of shoes and regular changes allow the wearer to avoid coins frequently even when signs of coin formation appear.
A Dooly county poet offers a 100 yard poem and seeks a reader to finish it quickly. He claims six months and two hours to write and proposes paying $1 a day until the reader completes the task. He asks for a capable reader who will not take too long.
A small private school boy, slow to engage in learning, asks what an anecdote is and then writes a tale about soup made from the anecdote of an ox. The class completes their essays while Rob’s slate stands first with a humorous misinterpretation.
A Detroit Journal excerpt shows a speaker arguing that a woman's conventional immunities clash with new responsibilities. The woman retorts that the burden is excessive calling it a mile too big and jokes about wearing two sizes smaller.
A melodramatic exchange where an elderly lover reveals a possible deathbed fortune and heart disease to a young beloved. The young heart agrees to marry, urged by the urgency and emotional tension of the moment.
An observant man claims physiognomy links lip features to character. Short curved upper lips suggest happiness. long straight lips warn of stubbornness and deceit. protruding lips imply shrewdness. Cupid bow mouths hint at a refined yet practical nature, per Chicago Record.
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