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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
8
An old advertisement touts Rocky Mountain Tea with a warm, uplifting claim about its mood lifting and future brightening effects, priced at 35 cents and attributed to L. M. Bosworth H.
Excursion tickets at greatly reduced rates are on sale to the indicated territory via the Northwestern line. Standard and Tourist Sleeping Cars Free Reclining Chair Cars The Best of Everything. For dates of sale and full particulars apply to Agents Chicago and North Western Ry.
Raymond Illinois druggist W L Seymour reports strong sales and high merit for Harts Honey and Horehound and Re Go Tonic Laxative Syrup after taking agency. Stockton Illinois druggist H Niemeyer confirms good satisfaction. Product marketed in 25 50 and 100 size bottles by Gamble druggist.
An old advertisement promotes Rocky Mountain Tea by L M Bosworth as a cure for assimilation, healthy blood, firm muscles, strong nerves, and a quick brain. It touts overall well being with grand claims in a period style.
Notice directs readers to contact H H Dayton of Ames Iowa for information on farm lands near Winnipeg Manitoba and in Alberta.
From New York to Alaska then around to Manila Hongkong Singapore Canton Tokyo Vladivostok St Petersburg Vienna London and beyond, a mail advance could loop world multiple times. A Washington post office envelope logged 150000 miles and another 125000 miles on remarkable journeys.
A man in black roams a wealthy New York block where a nurse is absent and a sleeping baby in a perambulator attracts a thief. He uses a black box to flash the child and walks away, hoping the father will pay for photographs of the incident.
The article reports that Newbury Priory claims to shelter Oliver Cromwell s remains. It notes Cromwell died September 3 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, later exhumed and decapitated at Tyburn, with conflicting tales of burial or substitution. A narrow room at the priory allegedly guards his remains.
The so-called leads of a pencil are a mix of graphite and clay. Graphite, from Greek meaning to write, is a native carbon mineral with a black metallic luster. It leaves a mark on paper and has names plumbago and black lead, with famous deposits at Altai Siberia and Ticonderoga in the United States.
A remote Oxfordshire subpostmaster with a wooden leg used a donkey cart and a tin jacket full of stones to strike neighbors’ doors, delivering letters by throwing stones as a distinctive, humorous method of knocking.
A worried visitor to Sir Conan Doyle during his medical practice described a severe side pain. He pointed to an area above the waist and claimed a sharp ache when touching his head. Doyle asked why the visitor touched his head, replying with a soft, dry remark.
In the Kansas City Independent exchange, Murphy warns against a pleasant pose for a photograph. He jokes that his wife will mail a picture to her mother and if he appears agreeable she might visit, prompting a tense exchange about expressions.
A concise maxim on success: true talent lies in doing what you can do well and excelling in any task without seeking fame. The statement emphasizes skill, effort, and intrinsic quality over recognition.
Dexter Mahoney of Quigley Illinois endorses Re Go Tonic Laxative Seven as an unfailing cure for constipation headaches biliousness and dyspepsia and asks to be sent by express two dozen bottles for stock. The medicine is sold in 25 50 cent and 1.00 dollar sizes by O A Gamble.
An advertisement promotes the Des Moines Daily and Sunday News offering yearly rates of $1.50 per year and eight month options at $100 or three months for 50 cents. It claims the paper is the most complete in Iowa and delivers daily year round, with a note on stoppage when time runs out.
In Yoakum Texas a dry goods firm led by J M Haller promotes De Witt's Little Early Risers pills. An Eastbound palace car remark claims the pills will wake one early and improve mood, described as dark brown taste and headache relief. Judisch Bros. sell the pills.
The advertisement touts a child friendly cough remedy that acts at the source of the cough and claims to cure croup La Grippe and other coughs. Dr Armstrong of Delta Texas endorses the product and says it is the best cough cure available.
A Summerton man offers one hundred dollars for the box claiming DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cured his 20 year piles after other doctors failed. The advertised salve combines witch hazel with antiseptics and emollients to relieve and heal piles and skin diseases. sold by Judisch Bros.
Digestive aid claims to tone strengthen and heal stomach organs curing dyspepsia indigestion and related troubles. Governor G W Atkinson of West Virginia states he used many bottles and finds it a powerful remedy and recommends it to friends. Sold by Judisch Bros.
The Iowa Central Railway announces a new sleeping car service from St Paul and Minneapolis to Kansas City St Louis and Peoria. The Limited departs Marshalltown at 8 15 p m daily for Peoria and points east and arrives at Peoria at 1 30 a m.
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt contrasts quick profitable action with humility and warns against overreliance on office bravado. It argues millionaires drive progress and modern sanitation, railroads, and science, while poverty follows absence of exceptional entrepreneurial capacity and public service through superior production and business methods.
A Bret Harte story recounts a famed desperado entering a saloon where others fled. An English tenderfoot stays, declines a drink, prompting the gunman to mutter a weary line about never drinking without killing a man.
A legend recounts King Edward I being moved by torturers who shaved him and washed him with cold ditch water to conceal his face. He yearned for warm water for his beard and shed many tears in response.
A youth asks for the daughter’s hand, but the father refuses, arguing the motive is settled after the daughter’s own action. The Philadelphia Press reports the exchange as a sharp family confrontation.
Mildred recalls feeling anxious as Fred proposed and nearly supplied the words he sought, but chose not to. The exchange hints at an intimate moment where guidance and restraint shape the outcome.
A charming young woman at a dinner party tries to engage a deaf old man by shouting questions about bananas. After repeated attempts, she asks again and he replies that he prefers the old fashioned nightshirt, ending the exchange with a humorous twist.
A witty exchange features Ferdy praising a friend while Algy asks about his finances. Ferdy reports the reply from a woman who inquires whether the man has any money, delivering a humorous contrast.
A Syracuse Herald report notes a hostess defending Mr Noodles as he gathers his thoughts while colleagues joke about his habit of collecting rarities during a tense moment.
Mock dialogue between Algernon and Tommy about marriage prospects, reflecting social satire. Tommy notes his sister would marry almost anyone, illustrating comic commentary on courtship and propriety in the period.
She says it is a couple of hours too late for that. The scene conveys hesitation and timing in a terse exchange between two speakers labeled He and She in a Smart Set style note.
Advice notes that storing flannel in a drawer stops further shrinking caused by nervous habit and avoiding repeated checks.
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