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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1887
Page
2
A sensational account describes a delirious patient in a hospital misbehaving violently, restrained after a chloroform like dose, and then recovering. A physician explains mania potu caused by excessive alcohol, its hallucinatory visions, and the shift from dangerous delirium tremens to calmer states with chloral or potassium bromide.
The New York Mail and Express reports that about 1000 horse hides and at least ten times as many sheep skins are used yearly to cover baseballs. One horse hide yields twelve dozen balls, a sheep skin three dozen, with two leather strips per ball seven by two inches. Leather is alum tanned from Philadelphia, with old blue Shaker yarn and a one ounce rubber core. The improved League ball has double horsehide coverings.
The text describes tiny watches with white silver cases featuring open scrollwork studded with rubies, and other designs in high relief such as a frog singer with a banjo, horsemen leaping a fence, foliage, flowers, shells on water leaves in black enamel, and oxidized enameled scenes. Four inch long chains showcase hammered, filigree, chased, chain mail, and fish-scale styles with curios.
Wallace L. DeWolf reports rapid relief from a neck carbuncle after using Papillon (Clark's extract of flax) Skim Cure. The company promotes the remedy at $1 per bottle, with prepaid shipping, and L. M. Bosworth markets it locally in Chicago and elsewhere.
List enumerates names and amounts for claims approved by Story county Board of Supervisors. Items include Alderman Parrott Sons blank books 67 10, assessor fees for Lavda 200 82 06, W Well witness state vs Barber 310 310, constable fees for state vs Stranger 22 35, Dickey Maxwell assessor 34 90, Watkins sheep killed by dogs 21 00, King assessor 66 00, King aid to poor 60 60, fee bills for Wakeman and Scott cases, Fatland assessor 670 00, Pittwalters janitor hire 20 00, Carrell deputy clerk 56 00, Mills deputy treasurer 50 00, McCarthy deputy auditor 59 09, Evans assessor 80 0 0 0, McCarthy hunting horse thieves 45 00, A Hurst assessor 18 00, etc. Alderman Son lumber and blank books, County jail and farm lumber, and related expenditures.
The University School of Short Hand and the Iowa Institute of Correspondence announce four full courses in Stenographic, Business, Academic and Normal study with instruction in English grammar rhetoric literature political economy geography physiology geometry algebra bookkeeping shorthand penmanship and typewriting. Over 1,000 students enrolled in stenographic department.
A testimonial from Edward Silvey of Chicago credits Papillon Catarrh Cure with恢复بي rapid relief after twenty five years of catarrh and six years of severe symptoms. The ad notes price at one dollar and shipment prepaid. Also mentions a New York exhibition of a live calf with three mouths and other triple features drawing scientific interest.
A 73 year old Mrs Phoebe Paterson of Clay County Iowa credits Electric Bitters with reversing kidney pain and lameness allowing her to resume all housework. Also named this week are elected Masonic Grand Lodge officers including E C Blackman Burlington senior grand warden J Francis Martin Nevada junior grand warden George W Ball Iowa City grand treasurer and Kt E Graves Dubuque grand secretary T S Parvin Cedar Rapids custodian and C T Granger Waukon for six years. Also advertised is Dr Haines Golden Specific claimed to cure drunkenness and liquor habit with no taste or knowledge by the patient in coffee or tea and no harmful effects. circulars offered.
Two Leith police officers investigated a large port wine leak when a vat burst at a warehouse. About 120 gallons spilled into the floor and sewer, 200 gallons were recovered, and 1000 gallons escaped into the street drawing a crowd to drink and carry off wine before it subsided.
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