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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1901
Page
8
Mr I I Arnold of Arnold In writes of kidney disease for three years, awakening often at night. Three bottles of Fe s Kidney Cure effected a complete cure, leaving him feeling better and recommending it to Tilden Loughran and others.
The Des Moines Leader presents itself as a pioneering family newspaper for Iowa readers. It boasts indepen dent politics, superior editing, and expansive service, claiming its circulation exceeds any Iowa newspaper previously achieved.
Dr W Harriman is listed as a physician and surgeon in Ames Iowa offering surgical case care and eye glasses. The office is ten blocks over Thurs tom's hardware store with a telephone both there and at his residence in Ames.
A local live stock specialty announces first class auctioneering services by FE Br Posegate in Ames Iowa. He offers sales by day or small commission and also lists available farms for sale with satisfaction guaranteed.
An important change announces the California Tourist Car on the Iowa Central Railway from March 5 1901. The regular Pullman gas lighted tourist car from Minneapolis to Los Angeles will run on Tuesdays instead of Wednesdays with low one way rates in effect until April 80 1801. For details contact Iowa Central ticket agents or Geo Batty G P T A Marshalltown IA.
A Chester Michigan mother recounts a frightening croup episode in her child. She used Three doses of One Minute Cough Cure and the child rapidly improved, the family credits the remedy for the recovery.
A concise prompt urging helpful cooperation. The line frames a polite stance and hints at offering assistance despite limitations.
A vintage advertisement extols Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure for early stage illness and relief in severe cases, urging no substitutes. It also touts Dyspepsia Cure and a product named Ko in A prepara as aids to digestion, implying broad household use for indigestion and related symptoms.
Miss Mamie Smith of Middlesboro Kentucky reports her sister’s severe illness relieved by Foley's Honey and Tar. A reader laments dull talk as a bore. A dyspepsia sufferer credits Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for long relief after twenty years of trouble. Tilden Loughran.
The Farmers' Cooperative Association operates a farmer's exchange and general real estate business, negotiating farm loans and writing insurance. It handles grain, farm produce, coal, farm supplies, literature on Chautauqua topics, chemical extinguishers, and electrical conductors for buildings.
Advertisement for a $29 25 excursion from Ames to California via the North Western Line by Portland Seattle Tacoma and Puget Sound. Tickets on sale each Tuesday until April 30. Daily scenic passenger cars and shortest travel time. For tickets and details, apply to nearest ticket agent of the Chicago and North Western Railway. 45-8 Brey Pree.
The Annual Encampment of the Department of Iowa Grand Army of the Republic will be held in Dubuque with plans for royal treatment of old soldiers. Illinois Central offers a one fare round trip from all Iowa points with tickets on sale June 3 4 5 and return by June 8 for trains reaching Dubuque before noon June 6.
The article surveys various birds from penguins that walk and swim but do not fly to the California condor and road runner. It notes long feathers for mats, nests in odd places like scarecrows and church organs, and curious habits including tailors sewing leaves and birds nesting in unlikely sites.
In Mechanic's Magazine 1823 account the Great Harry built by Henry VII cost £14 000 and burned at Woolwich in 1553. The ship, about 1000 tons, carried 19 brass and 103 iron ordnance and employed 349 soldiers, 301 marines, and 50 gunners.
A Washington Star blurb quotes a newly married man praising his wife for always buying him neckties and colored shirts. He says he is considerate in return and would not hurt her feelings for the world, noting he wears them.
The manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are often almost illegible due to ink fading. Lamp black inks fell out of use and chemical inks became popular, leaving archival texts difficult to read.
A Washington Star report describes two piece cues with maple shafts and rosewood or other dark wood handles. It details bolts turned into handle blocks, ivory or horn ferrules, and inlaid decorations, noting prices from 30 cents to $25 and up.
Booker T. Washington recounts Uncle Jake, an enslaved man, who asks to learn guitar. The teacher offers a staged payment plan, but Uncle Jake insists on receiving the final lesson first, highlighting wit and resilience in the face of bondage.
A London Telegraph item reports a man with poor hearing, owner of a fearsome dog, who reacts to a friend's remark about his wife visiting neighbors by saying he will chain her up in future. The tale notes the bizarre reaction and the man’s disposition.
Exchange shows a widow covering her face with a heavy veil to conceal smiles rather than ostentatious mourning. The young widow replies she wears it to hide her lighthearted expression in public.
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