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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
8
Mr. F. D. Arnold of Arnold Iowa states he suffered kidney disease for three years and woke many times nightly. After using Foley's Kidney Cure twice nightly, he recovered completely and feels better than ever. He recommends it to friends. Tilden & Loughran.
A Great Family Newspaper extols The Des Moines Leader for its advance quality coverage, extensive news service, and absolute political independence. It claims the paper has achieved larger circulation than any Iowa newspaper.
Dr W E Harriman promotes special attention to surgical cases and vision care. Office location is in Ames Iowa over Thurs ton's hardware store with a ton block address and a residence near Story County Bank. Telephone numbers are listed for office and home.
Local auctioneer Posegate promotes first class auctioneering for livestock and farm sales. Offers daily or small commission options with farm listings available and guarantees satisfaction. Contact information provided for bookings.
Collections loans and real estate items announce sales for College Park parcels. Rooms 3nd4 Stevens' Block feature in property listings with prompt attention to all matters.
This advertisement promotes the Des Moines Daily News offering postpaid home delivery for $1 a year, 75 cents for six months, or 50 cents for three months. It promises condensed daily news, telegraphic market reports, and literary content for the family.
A.L. Safford of Chester Michigan reports a case of sudden croup with the child briefly unconscious. Three doses of Cough Cure were administered and the croup mastered, leaving the child recovered.
TM remains a flexible mark of copyright and branding. The phrase signals trademark status without detailing any specific case or jurisdiction. It functions as a general identifier used in various legal and commercial contexts.
The advertisement extols Foley’s Honey and Tar as a universal cure and comfort for consumption with claims of genuine relief in worst cases. It urges readers to avoid substitutes and cites Tilden & Loughran and Jiden & Loughran as endorsers for Kodol and related dyspepsia remedies.
Miss Mamie Smith of Middlesboro Kentucky praises Foley's Honey and Tar for instantly relieving her sister from a severe group or throat condition claiming it saved her life. Tilden and Loughran report the notice of the upcoming royal visit and the medical testimonial.
A reader from North Creek Arkansas praises Kodol Cure for dyspepsia relief after twenty years of suffering. The testimonial claims one bottle restored health and endorses the product strongly to readers.
The Farmers' Cooperative Association runs a farmer's exchange and general real estate business. It negotiates farm loans writes insurance and handles grain farm produce coal and farm supplies Chautauquan literature chemical fire extinguishers and placing electrical conductors on buildings.
Travel notice for $29.25 from Ames to California via Portland Seattle Tacoma and Puget Sound on the North Western Line. Tickets on sale each Tuesday until April 30 inclusive. Shortest travel time and finest scenery. Daily personally conducted tourist car excursions. Inquire at nearest ticket agent, Chicago and North Western Railway.
The Annual Encampment, Department of Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic, will be a record breaker with a grand reception en route. Illinois Central offers round trip excursion tickets from all points in Iowa at one fare, sale June 3 4 5 for trains reaching Dubuque before noon June 6 with return limited to June 8.
A Sherman Union Pacific monument to Ames prompts a squatter dispute over land, costing the railroad five thousand dollars to secure title. Nearby, a perilous pyramid lures travelers for a two minute dash, then a poetic New York tale recounts a lone white hearse galloping through a busy city evening, stirring pathos among spectators.
A Turkish tale told as a General Lew Wallace joke features Ismail Ismail Hassam in Stamboul. A neighbor seeks a donkey, is told the boy left an hour earlier for Scutari, and the donkey brays, testing trust in truth versus lies.
The article explains spiders are not insects though commonly misclassified. It notes arachnids with eight legs, simple eyes, no antennae, no metamorphosis, and breathing via combined lungs and gills, distinguishing them from insects and tracing the name to the myth of Arachne.
A contributor recalls a school for colored children where a boy stubbornly says have went. The teacher forces a nightly exercise to correct usage by writing have gone fifty times, revealing the boy’s mixed phrase have went and the correct have gone while I have went home appears on the opposite side of his paper.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recalls Judge Howland’s Maine farmer Cyrus who married four times. After his fourth wife dies a neighbor asks about the wife, and Cyrus dryly replies that he is “kinder out of wives just now.”
A youth asks if he can act a part. The manager replies I do and says the farther apart they are when he acts the better it will suit him. The exchange appears in the Chicago News.
The article notes America as the world leader in artificial leg manufacture and export to Europe. It traces growth from Civil War demand to rail accidents and antiseptics lowering mortality. It highlights simplification, better fit, models around $100, annual care costs $5 to $25, few women use them, and early fitting for children to aid development.
In a London Tit-Bits inspired vignette, Lionel Bertram Jones confronts his wife Ethel four weeks into marriage. He recalls proposing, recalls her doughy doorbell moment, and accuses her of deceiving him in a personal swindle.
An old Scottish farmer visits a dentist who offers a painless gas extraction for a shilling extra. The patient initially resists paying and jokes that if he sleeps he would like to count his dollars first, illustrating his cautious humor.
A Philadelphia Press column quotes a couple exchanging jabs about inconsistency. The man scolds the woman for choosing only costly items while she retorts with a demand for consistency and brevity in talk.
A major recalls a man who received a life pass before a railway existed and never had the railroad built. The pass misled him, leaving him feeling swindled for years, in a remark attributed to the Indianapolis Press.
Hannibal’s forces suffer a severe mosquito infestation as they descend into Lomardy, driving soldiers and animals to near panic and jeopardizing the march.
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