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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1887
Page
2
Rachel Bond reaches a rough army camp and the whitewashed hospital on a hot parade ground. She endures stifling heat, disinfectant odors, and a grim ward as she prepares to take on demanding nursing duties under Dr. Denslow. Her resolve hardens despite despair.
D A Bradford of Chattanooga Tennessee reports a serious lung cold cured by Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption after a few bottles. He endorses it for coughs and colds and notes many lives saved by the remedy. Free trials at L M Bosworth s Drug Store.
The article alleges Cleveland vetoes shifted pensions to Confederate loyalists, cites Grosvenor, and notes Mexican Pension law aiding Rebel veterans. It criticizes Congress for granting many single-issue pensions to the disloyal, branding the era as corrupt and “Solid South” influence. It also promotes Dr. Jones Red Clover Tonic and Dr Haines Golden Specific with promotional claims and sales details.
The Indiana Chemical Co of Crawfordsville Indiana announces a compound that allegedly cures acute inflammatory rheumatism and neuralgia in two days with immediate relief in chronic cases. The company offers the prescription for 50 cents in stamps, promising a speedy cure and refund if not satisfied.
The piece notes many millionaires in Congress and cites Senator Stanford of California as wealthier than all other senators and representatives combined. It states his capital at 50 million dollars and his wife funded a university costing over 20 million in memory of their deceased son, deeming it one of the world’s richest schools.
A prominent town figure declares a twenty year chronic cough from army service cured by Sprague's Throat and Lung Cure. He urges readers to call on Westerman for a trial bottle, with larger size and $1 offerings advertised.
A man in gallery livery stands at the door of Mr Cleveland's box at the swell theater in Washington. The sight is described as the latest freak of Jeffersonian simplicity reflecting current social oddities.
Buckien Arnica Salve marketed as the best world salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee and two cent price per box. Advertisements for Pickett & Co Palace Drug Store IT Westerman and a political commentary note after a local growth of spring poetry and a weekly growl in The INTELLIGENCER.
Edward Shepherd of Harrisburg reports a long running leg sore healed after using Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He credits three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Arnica Salve with restoring his leg to sound health. Sold by L. M. Bosworth at fifty cents a bottle and twenty five cents per box.
Herbert Sperry of Tremont Illinois recounts six weeks confined at home with erysipelas in both legs. He says itching drove him to scratch raw, endured two years of torment, then used Papillon Skin Cure from Clarke's extract of flax. He claims a full cure at one dollar a bottle, sent prepaid by Perna Company Chicago and sold by L. M. Bosworth.
A Savannah corresp on visits a rice plantation in South Carolina where enslaved people work. A drowning boy triggers a peculiar burial ritual as the community throws money into the river to appease it. The writer notes beliefs that the river owns the body and the money placates its anger. An odd Friday belief about killing blue jay to appease the devil is also mentioned.
Fannie B. Ward’s Mexico Letter details four baptismal portraits of Cortez era allies Vincente Xocotencatl Lorenzo Kat Gonzalo Tianzeolotzin and Bartholome Zitlalopoca, the native chieftain's title of freedom, and a war worn banner Courte z carried into the Aztec subjugation now kept in Tlascala with a mournful iron pike.
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