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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
8
The Iowa Mutual Tornado Association announces its seventh assessment in seventeen years. Members may pay dues or apply for a policy by contacting the undersigned. Story County reports 1,841,823 dollars in this association. Agent A. J. Graves.
The Des Moines Leader proclaims its status as a leading Iowa family newspaper with extensive news coverage, advanced editing, and strong political independence, claiming a larger circulation than any prior Iowa newspaper.
Physician and surgeon offers surgical case expertise and eye glasses fitting. Office location Ton Block over Thurston's hardware Ames Iowa. Residence 8rd block west of Story County Bank. Office and residence telephone numbers listed.
Des Moines DAILY NEWS offers postpaid home delivery in 1 year for $1 6 months for 75 cents and 3 months for 50 cents. Includes daily telegraphed markets and family reading material. Address The News Des Moines Iowa.
An advertising page extols DeWitts Little Early Risers for liver and bowel care and DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for piles sores eczema and skin diseases. It warns against counterfeit salves and promotes One Minute Cough Care and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as digestion aids. The text closes with a proverb on religious balance and prudent health choices.
This season sees high child deaths from croup and lung troubles. Prompt action can save the little ones, and One Minute Cough Cure is presented as instantly relief bringing aid for grippe and throat and lung troubles in adults. Pleasant to take. Tilden & Loughran.
The notice touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as the solution for indigestion. It claims the product digests what you eat and restores digestive organs to health, warning of consequences for untreated indigestion.
An advertisement for Weeks Break Up A Cold Tab promises to cure and offers a cheerful refund of the purchase price if it fails. The price is listed as 25 cents and the seller is L. M. Bosworth, with a note reading 29-27.
A notice states that from Monday November 19 Joun HoaGatt will buy all kinds of poultry and pay the highest market price at all times.
The Farmers' Cooperative Association runs a farmer's exchange and general real estate business, negotiates farm loans, writes insurance, handles grain and farm supplies, Chautauquan literature, extinguishers, and electrical work on buildings. Advertising claims urge One Minute Cough Cure as harmless and immediate relief for coughs and throat troubles.
Mrs. Gallup, certain of three days to live, instructs her husband Samuel on repairs and a future second wife while her comic deathbed monologue blends domestic woes with sales pitch for the Wiggins washing machine. The scene ends as the husband reads praise for the device and Mrs. Gallup departs to prepare for breakfast.
A London Chronicle retells a legend linking Cowdray in Sussex to a curse from a monk at Battle Abbey. It recounts the Browne family’s misfortunes after the Dissolution, noting drownings of George Samuel Browne and his successors, and the eventual extinction of the title and transfer of the estates after a chain of deaths.
Amy Leslie notes Edwin Booth’s handling of Richard II show a frank, incurable detestation. A chaotic curtain moment drew laughs as Booth quipped to the captain a wit about a pranked 25 cent extra.
The history traces slow adoption of steam propulsion from early ideas in the sixteenth century to a 1738 British patent. It notes Fulton’s 1807 Hudson River steamboat and the 1838 crossing of the Atlantic by steamships, illustrating gradual progress amid opposition.
A stranger asks if the boss is present. the clerk, absentminded, replies that they have something just as good. The quip reflects a light moment in Yonkers with a store scene and casual humor.
The finished sailor is a far pricier article than the finished soldier because a soldier can be trained in a year or two while a sailor is a technical craftsman with a long and elaborate education.
Atchison Globe quotation highlights a maxim about risk and progress, noting the value of errors in striving for achievement. The brief item frames failure as a stepping stone rather than a setback.
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