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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1901
Page
8
Des Moines Daily News offers postpaid home delivery for $1 a year or 75 cents for six months and 50 cents for three months. The paper promises condensed news and daily markets by telegraph plus literary content for the family, to Des Moines Iowa.
An advertorial block touts DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as effective liver pills and DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles sores eczema and skin disease. L M Bosworth endorses warnings about counterfeits and urges use of genuine products. The copy also promotes One Minute Cough Cure for cold and pneumonia risk and notes a proverb on wealth.
L. M. Bosworth promotes a pepsin preparation that digests all classes of food and relieves indigestion by digesting what you eat, unlike other preparations which fail to aid albuminous meals.
A cryptic note links a religious practice to moral peril as balancing on one foot near sin. The fragment hints at discipline and restraint within faith rituals without broader context or named groups.
L. M. Bosworth touts One Minute Cough Cure as instant relief for croup and lung troubles in children and usable for grippe and throat and lung issues in adults. The ad emphasizes prompt action and pleasant taste.
The advertisement warns of indigestion dangers and claims Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests foods and restores digestive organs to health, endorsed by L. M. Bosworth. It urges prompt treatment to prevent blood poisoning from undigested food.
An ad offers Weeks Break Up A Cold Tabs with a guarantee to cure a cold if they fail a full refund of 25 cents. The seller is L. M. Bosworth and the text is dated 29-27.
On and after Monday November 19 I will buy all kinds of poultry and pay the highest market price. Jounx Hoaoatt.
The Farmers' Cooperative Association operates a farmer's exchange and general real estate business, negotiates farm loans, writes insurance, handles grain and farm supplies, and sells Chautauquan literature and fire extinguishers. It also places electrical conductors in buildings. L M Bosworth endorses One Minute Cough Cure as a safe, immediate remedy for coughs and throat and lung troubles.
Vignettes of old time humor and quick wit unfold in road life and city scenes. A traveling drummer recalls a mine era brawl and a failed joke that left him scarred while a careful cab tale ends with an honest misread bill and a hurried escape.
The article recalls Benjamin West's Death of Nelson linked to an anecdote at a dinner where Nelson praised West for Wolfe and foresaw another heroic scene. Nelson wished to die in the next battle, and soon afterward he sailed to his final voyage, his image living on in art.
A north Ireland estate owner notices a poorly dressed laborer and offers an old suit. Later, visitors tour the gardens and the man remains in ragged clothing, revealing he kept the suit at home to mend it, saving the salt left for him.
Henry S. Watson, the illustrator, lands in Naples with little grasp of Eur ope travel. He sketches village scenes and recounts a comical inn miscommunication about an early wake up, finally waking by a chambermaid at six after drawing himself in bed.
A Berlin professor argues green does not soothe eyes and offers a theory that color lights fatigue different nerves. He says greens, papers, shades, and decorations provoke nervous disturbance and that dimming all rays with smoked gray glasses is best to rest the optic nerves.
A colonel and narrator avoid a street dogfight as guns discharge. They witness two men shot, one killed and another wounded, then leave with the crowd. The colonel quips that watching dogfights safely means waiting until the combat ends and the dead are removed.
The New York Journal urges immediate saving by depositing every 10 cents to a savings account. Start today and continue until you reach a dollar, skipping delays tied to salary raises or near errands. If you have spare change for car fare, walk and save rather than postpone.
Uncle Si from Upcreek visits a dentist then sits at a lunch counter asking for coffee. The girl behind the counter calls for a draw and Si jokes about the action, delivering a cheerful line with a grin.
A Boston Journal note recalls a bright Mount Holyoke College girl who ate hash for supper and meat balls for breakfast the next day. The quotation "Review of Reviews this morning" appears as a casual aside in the account.
A whimsical line from the Omaha World Herald notes that a baby avoids coal scuttle play until dressed for company, highlighting a social observation about child behavior and propriety.
A reflective line from the Atchison Globe notes the fatigue of habitual guidance after decades in the newspaper business, implying long tenure brings practical wisdom and perspective.
In Glasgow at a railway cutting a clerical observer notes a bricklayer named Pat entering a drinking place. The priest calls him but Pat replies he heard only the price of one, implying he could not pay for both.
In Detroit a vendor refuses to claim a hair restorer can reverse evolution. A citizen rejects the product, and an amused bystander smiles as the exchange ends.
A visitor to a South Vernon New Hampshire cemetery finds a gravestone epitaph that reads a jumbled verse lamenting a departed woman. The verse personifies fate and loss, noting the speaker’s loneliness and the inevitability of everyone’s departure.
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