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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
7
A few doses of this remedy will cure ordinary diarrhoea and severe cramps. It also treats summer diarrhoea and cholera infantum in children, saving many lives yearly. When diluted with water and sweetened it is pleasant to take. Every family should keep it at home. Price 25¢, large size 50¢.
Backed by a 20 days trial for $1.00 Pineules claim to act on kidneys purify blood and invigorate the system. The sellers C. A. Gamble promote the remedy for backache lame back kidneys and bladder with a guaranteed promise.
The article highlights premier fishing in the Wisconsin Minnesota and Northern Michigan resort region. It notes daily Northwestern Line trains to the lake area and mentions good hotels boarding houses and camps as accommodations. Descriptive booklets and details are available from local ticket agents.
An advertisement promotes Man Zan Pile Remedy as a ready to use treatment for piles. It claims no operation will be necessary and offers the product at 50 cents through seller C. A. Gamble.
Daily through trains to Colorado with two fast through trips and the Colorado Special. Tickets on sale June 1 to September 20 with return by October 31. Apply to any North West ticket agent for full information and bookings.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers are pleasant easy to take pills sold by C. A. Gamble.
A poem praising Bill the switchman who saved a girl from a train near the Northwestern tracks. The community remembers his brave act and honors his inner hero over his coal dust stained hands. Written by Mr Meiers after Mr Downey saved Mabel Rogers.
Advertising notice for low round trip rates to Pacific Coast destinations via Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line. Mentions travel from June 1 to September 15 with liberal return limits and flexible routes. Includes contact through ticket agents for full particulars. Also contains a historical anecdote from Helena Montana in 1874 mentioning Cap Smith and Zeb White and a gambling house.
Frederick Hovendon of London asserts that electricity heat and ether form one fluid and that people exhale electricity from their fingertips. He demonstrates by placing a finger through a glass box filled with cigarette smoke and air as a powerful arc lamp is lit to photograph the ether issuing from the fingertips.
The article traces New Hampshire’s naming as La Conia or Lacedaemon by New England scholars recalling Peloponnesus. It notes John Mason with a patent named it New Hampshire after England, while Laconia was assigned to the area around Lake Champlain per the Boston Post.
Two men discuss Claymore's Portrait of Miss Lawrence in a picture gallery. One admits he has never seen her but claims knowledge of the artist, revealing a humorous, self aware remark about recognition.
A stenographer explains to a chum in an office elevator how she saves money when invited to dine out by placing the saved amount in an iron bank. She notes the plan only helps if the other person is invited as well.
A pithy quote suggesting marriage thrives on diplomacy rather than blunt home truths, framing partnership as a negotiation and balance rather than direct confrontation.
City council adopts a resolution of necessity formalizing as required by law the steps for eminent domain or public works. The measure initiates the statutory process and outlines the intended project and justifications.
The city of Ames Iowa proposes concrete curbing on both sides of Onondaga from Duff to Burnett Douglass from Onondaga to Story and Kellogg from the railroad right of way to Story. It funds curb construction by special assessments and sets material specs and dimensions. Public hearings and council meeting dates are listed for 1908 with owners able to object.
A famed dramatic critic visits Stratford on Shakespeare’s birth day and, hearing town bells, asks a street sweeper about the man behind the today’s Shakespeare mania. The sweeper, after a wry exchange, guesses the author “writ” something, possibly the Bible, words attributed to Shakespeare.
The article traces false hair use from Elizabeth I’s fifty wigs to the French fashion of periwigs. It notes Louis XIV's court popularizing wigs for both sexes, origin of the term periwig from perruque, and the shift from cleanliness to fashion in ancient Egypt and Rome.
J J Heater of Ames Iowa writes in the Journal praising the Bible and the promise of eternal life. He describes illness and suffering yet asserts belief in Christ and Heaven as a present gift. He stresses scripture as God inspired and quotes II Timothy 3 16 17, ending with a hopeful benediction.
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