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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1894
Page
8
A sprawling ad page hawks Park's Sure Cure and DeWitt's pills, One Minute Cough Cure, Mystic Cure for rheumatism, and various teas and salves. It touts guaranteed plans, money back offers, and testimonials from druggists and soldiers, citing census figures and London property data to bolster claims.
The Rivista Scientifica Industriale describes a high sensitivity barometer. A vertical 20 meter tube with a curved bottom and a top peg feeds a 1 meter capillary, allowing small atmospheric changes to move mercury and indicate pressure shifts.
Three masked men with shotguns halted Mr. Vandoran and his son as they rode home. They forced the pair to exit the buggy, searched Mr. Vandoran, and took a pocketbook containing 236 dollars before fleeing into nearby woods.
A French investigator M Lortet reports finding numerous micro organisms in the Dead Sea and declares them highly dangerous. Animals inoculated die within days from blood poisoning caused by the minute organisms. The Jordan River is also said to be teeming with them, making bathing and drinking water risky.
London lawyer Sir George Lewis has not kept a diary for over twenty years and says his confidential work could hang half a dozen popular men in the city. He plans to die with London society’s confidence intact. Della Fox’s comic opera debut is a success in Paris and London and is being adapted for her use by J Cheever Goodwin. Gibsonville Michigan is described as a communistic village.
One hundred dollars reward offered for an incurable case of catarrh. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo endorses the firm as honest and capable. West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists join in praise. Cure taken internally, $0.75 per bottle, testimonials free, sold by all druggists.
An old advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills as cure alls for various ailments. It claims homes and rents in London and Philadelphia rise in value and promotes Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption with free trial bottles at L M Bosworth's drug store.
Philadelphia glassworkers donate ten percent of salaries to support strikers in the West. An old lady tells a cutter she trusts no blood purifier as Ayer's, while a dressmaker's apprentice is mentioned and Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer is promoted.
A discussion on New Mexico potential statehood highlights irrigation, climate, and population projections. The piece contrasts northern and Mexican demographics, cites Governor Thornton, and notes the enabling act delaying statehood to 1895. It also argues for continued support of the U S Department of Agriculture and agricultural experiment stations as key to farming progress.
A critique of cryptic scientific prose argues common sense prevails and great minds rise from ordinary people. The piece mocks lab jargon while praising writers like Huxley and Darwin. It notes volatile cable dispatches on Brazil and imperial politics, then comments on Talmage, plants like day lily and silky oak, and comments on American exceptionalism and Latin American politics.
A New York publication named School appears with Schoolmaster and School mistress in England. Ontario reports 62 public kindergartens with 27 in Toronto and 76 trained kindergartners. Baden and German teachers, poorly paid a century ago, sang at night to earn pennies.
The Chinese emperor wages his troops at a munificent rate of one unit per month. Soldiers must use the pay to buy their own food.
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