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Newspaper

Ames Intelligencer

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 06, 1902

Page

8

Rocky Mountain Tea Ad for Spring Wellness

Spring time health boost ad promotes Rocky Mountain Tea by L. M. Bosworth. Claims it keeps the whole family well and notes a price of 85 cents.

L. M. Bosworth

Winter travel to California via Iowa Central route

Winter tourists in Iowa and Minnesota can take advantage of low round trip rates to California and Pacific coast points now offered by the Iowa Central route. A four day California trip from St Paul Mason City Marshalltown Oska loosa Hedrick Peoria and nearby towns via the Iowa Central and southern route is highlighted. The Pullman Tourist Car service is inaugurated again for the season, enabling comfortable travel. For pamphlets contact Iowa Central agents or Geo. Batty Marshalltown Iowa.

California Pacific Coast St Paul Mason City Marshalltown Oskaloosa Hedrick Peoria Iowa Central Pullman Geo Batty G. P T. A Iowa Batty G. P

Witch Hazel Salve touted to cure piles instantly

An 19th century advert claims DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures piles without surgery and treats burns cuts bruises and skin diseases. It warns against counterfeit products and is attributed to Loughran & Bauer.

DeWitt Loughran & Bauer

Dr W E Harriman Offers Surgical Eye Care Ames Iowa

Dr W E Harriman invites patients to his office in Ion Block over Thurs ton s hardware in Ames Iowa for special attention to surgical cases. He lists a residence near Story County Bank and provides office and residence telephone numbers.

Thurston’s Ames Iowa Story County Bank Millers Store

Auctioneer offers livestock sales and farms for sale

Ames Iowa ad lists BE Fr Posegate as a livestock auctioneer with first class service by day or small commission. Farms for sale available and satisfaction guaranteed. Box 532.

Posegate Ames Iowa

Lands for sale and tax payment plan for Story County owners

Owners of Story County abstract books are offered land sales and arrangements to pay non residents taxes. The notice outlines procedures, deadlines, and involved offices for completing transfers and settling arrears. Major entities include Story County authorities and property owners maintaining abstracts.

Farmers Cooperative Handles Real Estate and Farm Supplies

The Farmers' Cooperative Association runs a farmer's exchange and general real estate business. It negotiates farm loans and writes insurance, handles grain and farm produce, coal, farm supplies, Chautauquan literature, chemical fire extinguishers, and places electrical conductors on buildings.

Face Fortune on a Staten Island Ferry Encounter

A New York Herald tale recalls a girl who, after a chance remark on a ferry, enters a Fifth Avenue store as a saleswoman. She secures a job at $15 a week, praising easy hours and lucrative beauty products while her striking complexion helps sales.

Staten Island Fifth Avenue New York Herald

Poultry Breeding and Feeding Guidelines

The text outlines housing, nest layout, and feed choices for fowls. It notes unventilated houses are foul, recommends ground bone lime, bran over corn for nitrogen, cracked wheat for Chicks first week, and cane or sorghum seed to boost production. It advises selecting a crowing rooster with strong build as a good breeder and planning early matings to allow winter sitting.

Pig For Marriage Fee Tale From Lutheran Minister

A western Maryland minister recalls a humorous encounter with an old German who reminded him he once received a pig at his wedding. The same man offers two pigs if the minister would unmarry him, prompting a lighthearted exchange about marriage and favors.

Maryland Baltimore Sun

Looking Out For Papa

A four year old girl worries about her father’s late dinner. Her sister mocks him, but the child volunteers her saved pennies to trade for papa’s tea. She proudly offers all she has if tea is brought to papa. The scene ends with the tiny orphaned gesture and motherly audacity.

Papa Annie New York Times

Difference between honest and dishonest politician

Quote from Ohio State Journal contrasts an honest politician serving citizens with a dishonest one seeking to benefit himself. The remark names Phil Ossifer and Phil Brick in a newspaper style’s wry appraisal of public service ethics.

Phil Brick Phil Ossifer Ohio State Journal

Subliminal Beverage Claims Sparked by Sales Pitch

A salesman touts a product as an excellent substitute for coffee and wholesome for red blood while a young woman questions a blue blood alternative. The Chicago Tribune quote suggests a lively, era-tinged exchange.

Chicago Tribune

Human Head Hunters Across Pacific Islands

Describes enduring head hunting among Papuan and Dayak tribes in New Guinea and Borneo. Notes methods, weapons, and customs, including kris arrows, sumpitan blowpipes, parangs, and territorial raids. Mentions Dutch and British areas, and remote Sa-Ki remnants near the Malay peninsula.

Pacific Sea New Guinea Borneo Ceram Gilolo Fly River Torres Strait Thursday Island Malay Peninsula Malacca Dindings Hegri Sembilan

Sabbath origins traced to Babylonian atonement rite

Professor Jastrow argues in Independent that the Sabbath predates Pentateuchal law, rooted in Babylonian rites as a day of atonement. Hebrews later grafted ideas to create a weekly respite from labor, transforming an inauspicious occasion into a delight.

Professor Jastrow Independent

Proved His Love Tested By Indigestion Claim

A practical suitor swears he tested love by faking two weeks of indigestion to verify its sincerity. A Chicago Post style line quotes the exchange as the woman questions whether the love is real and the man asserts his experiment proved it.

Chicago Post

New cook proves culinary catastrophe to Mrs Jones

Mrs Brown’s cooking is a total failure yet she offers compensation in savings as she admits she cannot endure her own dishes. The exchange hints at humorous household dynamics rather than a serious event.

Fraudulent Healer Tries Cloaked Cure Record

An irate patient accuses a medicine man of fraud after being promised a cure when all else failed. The con artist retorts that perhaps nothing has been tried yet, exposing a loophole in his guarantees.

Philadelphia Press

Prolific Burlesque Writer Shows Pile Of Paper

An admiring friend asks if the writer ever runs out of material. The prolific burlesque opera author replies that he never runs out, pointing to a stack of blank paper and writing tools as evidence of endless ideas.

Scott

Daytime Troubles Highlighted by Sleep-Weary Citizens

The Atchison Globe remark notes that public anxieties during the day are often harsher than fears raised while awake at night. Fear and confidence ebb as residents reassess daily challenges and rumors.

England Cash Use Split Mostly by Checks

The report states that 97 percent of money transactions in England are conducted by checks while notes and gold account for 3 percent.

England

A Look and a Smile. McKinleys Cribbage Duel

A fragment from a column recalls Mrs. McKinley challenging Scott to cribbage during the McKinley Westward trip. The President boasted he never beat his wife at the game, a light note amid travel and railway ads for California-bound routes via Iowa Central and the Santa Fe, with rates and contact details for Geo. S. Batty.

McKinley Mr. Scott Mr. McKkinley

Pills of People Have Plies

An ad offers Rectol claimed to cure piles with a money back guarantee. It promises no one else pays and a 50 cent sample option with four samples advertised by M. Bosworth.

Rectol M. Bosworth

Please order Rocky Mountain Tea from Bosworth

L. M. Bosworth writes to Charley asking to order Rocky Mountain Tea. The note shows personal conversation tone and a request for goods.

Charley Rocky Mountain L. M. Bosworth

De Witts Little Early Risers Promote Liver Health

The ad claims biliousness and constipation cause complexion issues and eruptions. It touts DeWitt's Little Early Risers as safe gentle pills that keep the liver and bowels working and remove the root of troubles. Customer testimonial from Ga. praises relief.

DeWitt C. EB de Witt Loughran & Baner

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W E Harriman Daniel McCarthy Co. G. Lee McCarthy & Lee, An College Park Stevens’ Block Story County Abstract Books Nevada D. M. Grater Jennie G. Gureist Drs. Ghrist Ghrist the Farmers’ Cooperative A. Fitchpatrick Ladstracts Lownet Rata Mevada E. C. de Wier & Co Chicago Canier, Bros. & Herman's Canier Bros. & Herman Gapy George Beall Capitol Pol Ice Des Mioines Beall Pearl McLean Goowse Captain Beall C. M. McLiaii George Atul C. Harris Harris, Minoeryry Goods Co Wirt J. John's Lusseran Church Des Moines Copeland Medical Institute de. C. M McLean Walnut St. Des Niegines Polynesia Jujige Kellogg St Bell Judisgh Bros Fellows & Fellows Lundreda DRS. Fellows & Fellows 4Th and Walnut Sts Iowa National Bank
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