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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1901
Page
3
A York Journal piece argues brain development exceeds muscles, with no age limit. It cites memory feats by a hotel porter, a New York bookseller, and Houdini like quick recall to urge exercise of the mind while keeping the stomach and body in balance for sustained mental energy.
Ada C. argues in Woman's Home Companion that practical jokes echo barbarism and war era methods. She says their aim is to inflict pain or shame, often causing tragic outcomes, and urges an end to such cruelty among civilized people.
The article notes Persia is renowned for turquoise stones and mentions their distribution worldwide. It recalls a social exchange in which one party cannot attend due to a prior engagement, reflecting casual 19th century dialogue and publishing context.
Two new through sleeping cars depart Des Moines weekly for California with routes via Kansas City and Santa Fe or via the Missouri Kansas Texas San Antonio and Arkansas Pass and Southern Pacific. The cars run from St Paul and Minneapolis to Kansas City.
A Chicago Great Western car departs Saturday to reach Los Angeles the following Wednesday morning and San Francisco Thursday morning, stopping at Waco San Antonio and El Paso. For full information contact the Traveling Passenger Agent, Cor Fifth and Walnut Des Moines IA.
An old ad advertises De Witts Little Early Risers as liver cleansing pills. It also promotes a mandolin and other instruments as Christmas gifts and notes medical remedies offered by B. Cowdrey for rheumatism and blood diseases with a 200 day treatment bottle and refund if no cure.
A dense summary mixes county finances with public works and court records, noting fund issuances for roads bridges and ditches, superintendent appointments and a formal adjournment. It shifts to Washington reporting on subsidy debates for commerce and an Isthmian canal, southern economic unity, and the push for merchant marine and infrastructure funding.
O K Barbershop invites patrons to take baths Sunday forenoon. Wing's Model Laundry asks customers to bring lace curtains for cleaning service.
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