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Newspaper

Ames Intelligencer

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 18, 1903

Page

6

Special Excursion Rates on the North Western Line to Colorado

The North Western Line offers June 1 to Oct 31 excursion tickets to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake City Hot Springs Deadwood Lead and Custer S D via fine trains daily. Rates for many events are listed with dates and locations including Indianapolis Boston Saratoga and San Francisco. Call North Western ticket agents for details. The board adjourned and minutes note warrants for salaries and per diem.

North-Western Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake City Hot Springs Deadwood Lead and Custer S. D N.W. Ry Chicago & North-Western Railway Indianapolis Ind Travelers’ Protective Association Modern Woodmen of America Boston National Educational Association Saratoga Springs N. Y Nobles of the Mystic Shrine United Christian Endeavor Detroit Michigan Epworth League Baltimore San Francisco Sovereign Grand Lodge Oo. O. F North- Western Line Polk County Atwist Joan Twedt O. B. Peterson

Man-Er-Vine Nerve Tonic Promises Strong Nerves

Loughran and Bauer advertise Man-Er-Vine as a powerful nerve tonic and blood purifier that strengthens worn out men and women, claiming it builds up nerves like steel.

Loughran & Bauer

Farm Loans and Land Information Ad Read

An old advertisement offers farm loans at 5 percent with first mortgages, crediting F L Meredith as contact. It promotes a cigar brand Get Your Money's Worth and fruit value, plus a note about farmland near Winnipeg Manitoba and Alberta with W H Dayton in Ames Iowa as a local information contact.

Frank B. Spence F. L. Meredith Winnipeg Manitoba Alberta W. H. Dayton Ames

Will Power and the Thumb

Hypnotic palmistry claim links will power to thumb length and joint formation. A Roman festival image mattered little to a defeated gladiator, as fate hung on whether thumbs were bent forward or backward, a method of life or death under another’s control.

Chambers’ Journal

Two Sides to It Hatred Over a Bonnet Argument

A brief exchange from the Philadelphia Press presents a wife insisting she deserves a bonnet she wants while the husband retorts he has little to put up with, implying a comic domestic disagreement about fashion.

Philadelphia Press

Versifier and Scribbler Exchange in Philadelphia Record

A playful exchange framing a versifier as a poet who writes verse that pleases an editor. The dialogue contrasts self-identification as a poet or versifier with a witty remark about editor approval and "verse afire."

Philadelphia Record

A Hearty Eater Prowess of a Swiss Guard

A French Marechal, noting a Swiss guard’s appetite, asks how many beef sirloins he can eat. The guard replies five or six, seven or eight legs of mutton, a dozen pullets, forty or fifty pigeons, and larks always in abundance. The anecdote appears in a gastronomy book.

Marechal de Villars Monseigneur

Twins reveal the joke about three brothers in law

A Minneapolis Tribune quip has a speaker explain that a man is both his brother and his brother in law, revealing he has three brothers one in law one in medicine and one in the army in a playful exchange about kinship and duplication.

Minneapolis

Brimken’s Prosperity Seen As Mystery by Washington Star

The Washington Star quotes rivals praising Brimken for his wealth while doubting his intellect. Flo dismisses Brimken as not brainy, yet comments on his surprising success suggesting a hidden superiority.

Only Relic of Robert Burns Says Widow

An American tourist once asked Jean Armour for relics of Robert Burns. She replied with dignity that she herself is the only relic of the poet, asserting her unique link to Burns.

Robert Burns Jean Armour

Frain Talk In A Miserly Traveler Scene

A London scene features a traveler and a porter in a witty exchange about a trunk. The porter wagers a shilling saved could prevent loss, reflecting thrift and humor of the period.

Frain London Xpress

Shoulders Unevenness and Simple Desk Exercises

Observe shoulder height in a mirror and adjust sitting posture. The lower shoulder arm rises with a dumbbell while the higher shoulder lowers to reduce imbalance. Two straightforward exercises help correct the uneven stance.

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