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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1906
Page
6
A claim states that most heart trouble stems from indigestion and that stomach fermentation pressures the heart. Testimony from D Kauble of Nevada Ohio cites relief after using Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure, sold by A Gamble Druggist.
For thirty years Scott's Emulsion has sold well as a cod liver oil substitute. The ad urges customers to ask specifically for Scott's Emulsion and warns that many cod liver oil flavored products are offered, but not the real product.
Store offer invites customers to obtain a free sample from Scott & Bowne at 409-415 Pearl Street New York and an additional dollar price. The ad states all druggists carry the item.
A marine plant, nereocystis, forms 300 foot long stems with balloon tops reaching surface waters. Found near Alaska and across Pacific shores, it creates meadowlike flats that impede navigation. Aleutians natives use dried stems for ropes up to 250 feet, large vessels, and baskets from leaves.
In Lapland the Swedish Lapps live with their reindeer and tax on deer. When wolves threaten the herd, swift runners on snowshoes pursue, using spiked staffs to strike and kill the wolves. The hunt hinges on first strike and collective pursuit.
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes New Yorkers still tipping their hats as a greeting among male friends. It occurs after parties and introductions, with businessmen seen tipping as they part or say good night. The practice is contrasted with Pittsburg where it is less common.
In a New Orleans Times-Democrat vignette, a stenographer with yellow hair confronts Duke the bookkeeper about smoking. He ignores her warning, replying with a blunt rule that she should not smoke.
An Irish gentleman praises Mr X to an English officer saying he is a good friend who has been dead six years. The officer objects and is told he resembles the departed man, provoking the remark that he has been compared to many things but never to a six year old corpse.
Fragment from the Louisville Courier Journal features slang expressions about domestic life and household chores. The exchange includes Mrs Nu wedd asking playful questions about dusting and fanning furniture, reflecting humorous dialogue.
A brief aphorism notes that poverty drives crime and lack of sense fuels it. It presents a terse moral link between economic hardship and unlawful acts, attributed to Bruyere as a reflective observation.
A London Answers illustration imagines a railway to Centauri. Directors set first class fare at one penny per hundred miles. A man buys the national debt to pay £1.1 billion for a Centauri ticket. Travel at sixty miles per hour would take 48,663,000 years.
A note recalls Henry Bells Comet the first steam passage boat in Britain. An 1812 Glasgow Courier advertisement pledges steam powered passage between Glasgow Greenock and Helensburgh with set sail days and fares 4 and 8 shillings.
Timothy grass is named after Timothy Hanson, a Maryland farmer who introduced and cultivated it in the United States. It is Phleum pratense, widely grown in England and western Europe, known as cat's tail grass in the British Isles and herd grass in parts of the eastern states.
An old piece explains a safety trick for fleeing charging bulls. By pausing with eyes closed and remaining motionless until the bull is close, one can step aside and avoid being struck. The method, linked to bullfighters, is noted as risky and not used with cows.
A resident reports a neighbor must keep their dog from barking as it disturbs a baby and sleep. The other household responds they will file a complaint if the baby continues crying. The exchange highlights a dispute over nuisance noises between households.
A dialogue notes a claimed cure by suggestion, with Mrs Hewjams recounting curing Willie of a violent toothache by advising a dentist visit for extraction, cited from the Chicago Tribune.
A brief fragment shows Knicker claiming a man would rather fight than eat and Bocker challenging boldness, with a dyspeptic line about Wat son’s Magazine. The passage remains a snippet of dialogue.
Two poor boys in Italy named Peter and Michael Angelo travel to Rome after a confrontation. Peter finds work as a cook's boy for a cardinal, while Michael angers him by drawing on walls with charcoal. The cardinal supports Michael by sending him to a drawing master, boosting his rise as a famed painter.
Asparagus stimulates the kidneys water cress purifies blood parsnips resemble sarsaparilla carrots aid gout sufferers celery wards rheumatism and acts as a nerve tonic onions likewise soothe nerves tomatoes help torpid liver avoid gouty people beets and potatoes fattening end appetite lettuce soothes nerves insomnia spinach aids digestion and constipation better than medicine
Naturalists describe unusual egg laying in frogs. A female frog carries eggs in her mouth until hatchlings emerge as tiny tadpoles. An American tree frog shows a back pouch carrying eggs until hatching. Surinam toads involve male placing eggs into the female’s back skin hollows for development.
A small terrier vanished in a Charing Cross side street and returned nightly for six evenings to the same spot. The on duty constable befriended the dog with a silver collar, but she only allowed capture on the sixth night. She was taken to Battersea dogs home and later reclaimed by her owner.
A Lancashire choir pressed a deaf Betty to join the solo of the anthem. The vicar shouted in her ear, urging singing. Betty finally understood and replied that the praise was not hers but a gift.
The Washington Star quotes a lawyer asking why Justice is shown with a brow bandage. He explains a classical rationale but argues the image mainly signals how often Justice sustains a black eye.
The excerpt argues soups and broths made from meat pieces lack nutritive value and may hinder digestion. It states soups, being mostly water, delay gastric secretions, overfill the stomach, and contribute to stomach trouble. It warns against relying on soup with meals and notes potential intoxication from decomposed food products.
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