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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1902
Page
8
A patient testifies that De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve ends pile pain and bleeding fast. The ad claims the product heals skin diseases and wounds and warns against counterfeit imitations.
Iowa Central routes advertise low round trip fares to California and Pacific coast points. Four day trips from St Paul and nearby Iowa towns via the southern route highlight the season. The Pullman Tourist Car service is reintroduced to improve traveler comfort. agents or Geo G. Batty G P T A in Marshalltown offer details.
Dr W E Harriman advertises specialized attention to surgical cases and eye fittings. Office located in ton Block over Thure ton's hardware store in Ames Iowa with residence near Story County Bank and telephones for office and home.
Ownership owners of lands must settle outstanding taxes and settle liens to clear title. Local records note buyers may acquire parcels after tax payments and proper filings. Authorities urge timely payment to avoid further action.
The Farmers' Cooperative Association operates a farmer's exchange and general real estate business. It negotiates farm loans and writes insurance, handles grain and farm produce, coal and farm supplies, Chautauquan literature, chemical fire extinguishers, and places electrical conductors on buildings.
Professor Simon Newcomb in Harper's Magazine explains how beings in a two dimensional world would react to lines and shapes on a plane, and how a fourth dimension would allow steps beyond walls or circles. The piece uses a Flatland analogy to illustrate how higher dimensions could solve impossible tasks and reappear elsewhere.
A collection of case notes covers contract formation under firm names and individual signatories. It discusses liability for breach of express warranties, partnership liability to third parties, firm name usage, chartered mortgages by partners, secured transactions against insolvent debtors, protection against fraudulent intent, damages for nonacceptance of goods, and binding effect of written contracts directed by a party for his benefit.
In Scotland during lean fishing seasons, fishermen serve as caddies wearing woolen jerseys and braces. One asked his name answered I am Breeks by local nickname, while adding that his maiden name is Broon.
Harlem Life notes May wonders why Reggie never married. Jack recalls a youthful love that lingered, and May asks who the beloved was. Jack answers it was himself.
A Missouri governor pardons a hardened steamboat hand after a dramatic confession. The man had abused a sick boy on a Mississippi voyage years earlier, a memory the governor keeps as a moral lesson and warns against cruelty. The tale ends with the man receiving a life lesson rather than vengeance.
A Bohemian peasant girl improvised a joyful dance on a Sunday in Elbeleinitz. Josef Neruda noted her performance, and locals adopted the dance calling it the pulka half step. It spread to Prague and Vienna by 1840 and later across Europe, praised for blending waltz intimacy with Irish jig vitality.
On the first and third Tuesdays monthly the Central Railway offers home-seeker excursion tickets to Iowa Minnesota North Dakota Montana Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Texas at one fare plus two dollars round trip. Tickets have a twenty one day final return limit. Printed information and details are available from agents or by writing Geo. Batty GP TA Town IA 30-if.
A New York Herald tale recounts a leading man guiding a fiery horse on stage. The horse destroys flats and wings while the manager claims the animal shows discernment and is elevating the stage. The moral praises humble effort in a good cause.
A humorous quarrel in a New York Weekly item shows a customer asking for two carpet remnants to cover a parlor and a sitting room. The salesman explains a carpet this large cannot be a remnant, while the customer insists a flat dwelling changes the math.
A fragment recalls a promised afternoon meeting that never happened and the accompanying feelings of confusion and longing. The voice laments the absence and the lingering ache of unkept plans.
J W Bryan of Lowder Illinois reports his child recovered from a severe pneumonia after Foley's Honey and Tar, noting the cough stopped quickly. Editor Lynch of Phillipsburg New Jersey also endorses the product, calling it the best cough remedy he has used and highly praising Loughran & Bauer.
January and February 1928 the Iowa Central Railway will sell tickets at one fare plus two dollars for round trips to many points in the north northwest west south southeast and southwest. Best line to Dakota Minnesota Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Texas. Elegant equipment through chair cars sleeping cars and fast time. For full information call ticket agents or address Geo. Batty G P T A Marshalstown Iowa. Feb 18.
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