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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1905
Page
6
In Tiffanys a head man shows four eighteen carat gold service pieces priced at 3000 dollars. The article notes that many American millionaires own solid gold or silver gilt tableware and china sets costing 3000 to 5000 dollars per dozen, making breakage costly.
The article describes Lapland infants living in wicker baskets hung from tree limbs. Mothers place the baby in a basket with a light airy frame and string toys across the top. Children spend the day outdoors yet protected from usual outdoor dangers, with mobility preserved.
A New York fish dealer recalls a lean customer who misnames fish and foods from New England dialects. The buyer asks for items like tautang quabuags and blackfish while the seller and bystanders compare language quirks to an Englishman's request for savory duck.
In Korea a hot mineral spring and a sequence of marvels perplex scientists. A perpetual wind cavern, regrowing pine grove, a floating stone, and a heat giving rock atop a weatherproof inn baffled the researchers. They suspected a volcano but found no furnace below. the rock’s heat remained inexplicable.
An English surgeon argues that the Japanese cannot translate nerves, prompting a brief history of nerve and nervous. The word nerve derives from Greek and Latin for sinew, as in nervy and nervous styles. In Johnson’s era nervous meant medical cant, while modern nerve denotes new kinds of courage and resilience.
The St Louis Post Dispatch notes beauty as an adjective used by editors and writers across novels and poems, citing Rhoda Broughton and Swinburne as exceptions. It mocks society's demand for prettiness and the sharp edge of descriptive language in literature.
A method from Chicago News explains sealing letters to resist opening. Close with a moist wafer then pierce the wafer before applying sealing wax. The combined wafer and wax thwart attempts to open the letter by heat or moisture.
The Garden Magazine notes that a good lawn needs time and steady effort. It lists four essentials: time, soil, climate, and intelligent labor, and warns Americans that a presentable lawn may take five to ten years to reach its best form.
Excursion tickets to Denver, Colorado offered August 12 and 18 with favorable return limits on the North-Western Line. Tickets available through Chicago & North-Western agents for meetings and travel plans. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve advertised as a skin cure and pile remedy by KB. O. DeWitt & Co. and sold by O. A. Gavuble.
Promotional note promoting low round trip rates to Portland on the North Western Line through direct routes or via San Francisco and Los Angeles. Includes offer of a 2 cent stamp for an illustrated folder and details on routes plus a low rate side trip to Yellowstone National Park and Alaska.
A cough syrup introduces a laxative principle to aid colds by gently moving the bowels. Marketed as best for coughs, colds, and croup with red clover blossom on each package. Sold by C A Gam.
An old newspaper line claims a remedy cures all coughs and expels colds by gently moving the bowels. It presents a health tonic marketed with sweeping claims and no medical support.
Listings show several properties including a ten room modern house on a large lot with barn, an eight room house with barn, a sixteen room house, a four room house, and a six room two lot property on the north side. The south side adds a six room two lots and a ten room with five acres of fruit. Also a new seven room house with large lot and a fine eight room furnace heated college property with three lots. Vacant lots available. List your property with us.
Dr J W Hamilton of San Francisco endorses Warner's White Wine of Tar Byrup as the best cough remedy and unsurpassed for asthma. The product is offered by Love Haan Bauer for sale locally.
A testimonial from Bunnell Indiana cites a son once plagued by brain fever and daily fits. After years of illness and a failed hospital stay he improved after using Dr Miles Nervine and is now employed and healthy. The ad invites readers to consult physicians and promises money back if it fails.
An early era advertisement touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a superior stomach remedy. It claims to cleanse, purify, and balance digestion, with references to use in milk and a price around 50 cents to a dollar. The copy mentions Ravenswood and Chicago as places associated with the product.
An illustrated folder titled Short Jaunts for Busy People offers an excellent map and many facts about hundreds of nearby resorts reachable by the Northwestern Line. Sent postpaid on receipt of 2 cents by W. B. Koniakern, P. T. M., Chicago, Me.
Advertising copy for a patent medicine claiming to cure constipation headaches biliousness and similar ailments. It promises no griping or sickness and claims to impart early rising energy for children and adults sold by O A Gamble.
Tickets to Detroit, Michigan offered August 13 and 14 with favorable return limits. Fares available for Imperial Palace Dramatic Order Knights of Khorasson event. Apply to agent Chicago and North-Western Ry.
A fragmented timetable shows trains such as the Overland Limited and Colorado Special with departure and arrival times. It also mentions connections like Omaha and Sioux City routes and notes about deliveries at room energy before train arrival.
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