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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1904
Page
8
Relief in one minute claims One Minute Cough Cure kills the irritant causing coughing and clears inflammation. The remedy allegedly strengthens the system, wards off pneumonia, and soothes the affected parts with a pleasant, harmless formula sold by Jadisch Bros.
The Overland Limited, electric lighted throughout, leaves Chicago at 8:00 p.m. daily and reaches California in under three days. Another fast train departs Chicago at 11:35 p.m. daily. Apply to Agents Chicago and Northwestern Ry. 42-7.
Frank Farmer of Bluff City Kentucky reports his infant recovered from severe eczema with DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve. He warns buyers to avoid counterfeits and confirms the product is the original with pure Witch Hazel and the DeWitt company name on every box sold by Judisch Bros.
The Traffic Department of the Chicago North Western Railway offers a handsome illustrated booklet about the Overland Limited and the Chicago Union Pacific North Western Line to the Pacific Coast. Copies mailed for 2 cents or four stamps. requests to WB Kniskern, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicago.
A detailed tour through every step from raw mocha skins to finished gloves. It covers sourcing in Arabia, curing, heading to American tanners, soaking to remove poison, lime treatment, drying, crust aging, and the laborious processes of assorting, coloring, and preparing skins for cutting. It highlights the critical role of selectors in ensuring quality and the precision needed in bowling and patterning.
The article details glove production from hand binding to final packaging. Workers handle stay pieces sewing back ornamentation and finger joins. After drying the gloves are color and size sorted, fasteners added, bundled in six packs, and boxed for trade. It notes the skill required and American makers' innovations in competing with foreign rivals.
An American writer portrays Peking as the dirtiest city, detailing crowded streets filled with humans and animals. He notes caravans of camels, the Pekingese cart, sedan chairs, mules with ornate harness, governors and mandarins, and a diverse throng of Chinese men women and children in rich dress, all in a scene of dense urban life.
A colorful depiction contrasts beauty and squalor in a single urban setting. The narrator salutes a country and city for a unique blend of splendor and grime unmatched elsewhere.
Victorian description of cock throwing at fairs in England explains cockshy as a sport where a cock fixed by legs to a peg was hit for money. A variant involved suspending the cock in an earthen pot across a street. four throws cost twopence and breaking the pot earned the bird as a prize.
A Kansas City preacher says many overestimate the time to read the New Testament. He notes it takes about sixty hours for an average reader, or an hour daily for two months. He recalls a businessman who read it fully in forty hours after trying the plan.
A Siamese prince once at Oxford reflects on duties and autocracy. He refuses a rowing request from a captain, declaring that in Bangkok river outings he commands eighty slaves to row him, highlighting clash between ruler’s ego and undergraduate norms.
An ex governor of Massachusetts demonstrates his knack for remembering everyone at a cattle show. A farmer recalls Jack, the farmer’s son, and asks about the old white horse. The governor admits he only guessed from white hair on the horse’s coat.
Advertisement claims Kodol Dyspepsia Care cures indigestion by digesting and rebuilding the digestive system. It asserts thousands cured and ongoing daily use, urging readers to try it and buy from Jadiseh Bros.
A Daily for $150 Per Year. The Des Moines Daily and Sanda News offers postage paid delivery to any address for 1.50 per year eight months 100 80 cents or three months 50 cents. It claims to be the most complete Iowa newspaper and notes it is the only daily that stops when time is out. Address The News Des Moines Iowa.
An advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for complexion improvement. It claims inner health as the real beauty factor and promotes tea or tablets at 85 cents under L. M. Bosworth.
Homeseekers excursion offers greatly reduced rates to the Northwest West and Southwest regions via the Northwestern line. Excursion tickets include standard and tourist sleeping cars free reclining chair cars and best of everything. For sale dates and full details see Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
An advertisement extols DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as liver cleaners that strengthen the organ and rebuild tissue. The pills are claimed to be easy on the stomach, never gripe, and produce satisfactory results in all cases, sold by Judisch Bros.
Illinois man Mr. John T. Teal of Tabor says the medicine proves itself after use. He reports excellent results in his own family and calls it his best selling cough remedy at 5c 50c and 1.00 bottles sold by A. Gamble, druggist.
Mardi Gras excursion fares available to New Orleans Mobile and Pensacola February 9 to 14 with return by February 16 noon. Additional New Orleans trip February 15. Returns with favorable limits and stopovers. Also reduced-rate tickets to major winter resorts in the United States and Mexico. Apply to Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
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