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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1906
Page
6
An old advertisement page touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and Kennedy Laxative Honey and Tar as health tonics. It hints at dubious claims about vitality, beauty, and cures, urging purchase from L. M. Bosworth and O. A. Gamble. The copy mixes quack humor with moralistic lines and Goethe quotes to lure readers.
An auctioneer advertises services for first class auctioneering with daily or small commission options. Farms are also offered for sale and satisfaction is guaranteed.
An advertisement claims Pineules relieve kidney pains backache bladder trouble and rheumatism when taken at night. It is sold by OC A Gamble. The notice also promotes North Western Line rail fares to Nashville for the Quadrennial Convention and Mission movement with travel options from Chicago. A marriage of other items includes a testimonial on White Wine of Tar for pulmonary consumption and local business ads for well boring and pump repairs in Ames Iowa.
To San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Tacoma Seattle Boise City Spokane Walla Walla Ogden Salt Lake City Butte and other Montana Colorado Utah Nevada and Pacific Coast. Via the Chicago Union Pacific North Western Line February 15 to April 7 1906 inclusive. Attractive side trips at very low rates. Daily and personally conducted exclusions in Pullman Tour ist sleeping cars only 7.00 dollars for double berth from Chicago through to the Pacific Coast. Dining cars meals a la carte. For tickets and full information apply to agents Chicago North Western Ry 43 Ot.
A mosaic of old advertisements touts Witch Hazel Salve for sores and piles from E. O. DeWitt & Co Chicago sold by C. A. Gamble, plus De Witt's Little Early Risers for digestive relief, Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar cough syrup, and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure recommended by Rev. W. E. Hocutt South Mills NC, all sold by O. A. Gamble.
A Topeka negro received a twenty five year sentence in the penitentiary for trying to rob a bank. He failed by not first becoming the cashier of the bank. An advertisement seeks men in each state to travel post signs advertise and leave samples with a salary of 75 dollars a month and 3 dollars per day for expenses.
A man was killed in Kentucky recently with $38,000 found on his person. The note hints at a gun being more valuable than money and contains a promotional line from Anchor Publishing Co offering land laws information for a stamp.
Advertisements note excursion tickets sold March 15 to 18 for American Bowling Congress travel to Louisville via the Chicago & North Western Railway with favorable return limits. Also mentions Campbell & Byers Studio dissolution and coupon recall by March 15. Other ads promote Kodol and Pineules medicines from O A Gamble and Bee’s Laxative Honey and Tar from C A Gamble, touting digestive relief and cough remedies.
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