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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
6
A Chicago era piece explains myths about anesthesia with chloroform and ether disproving instant unconsciousness and room poisoning. It notes that true unconsciousness requires surgical methods and careful delivery taking minutes. It also advertises rail fares to Colorado Utah and California with seasonal and special excursion options from Chicago, detailing dates prices limits and stopovers.
A stout lady walking in Edinburgh asked two messenger boys at a gateway if she could enter a private road. One boy eyed her and winked, suggesting permission since he had seen a horse and cart pass through recently.
A line from Harper's Bazar depicts Teddie sleeping with his mother in a large bed. When told to roll to his side at bedtime he rebels saying it is cold everywhere and he wont move.
G W Shakespere has sold out his business and will start voicing the last of this week. Rebekahs served ice cream and cake Tuesday evening with good attendance. Carrie Ersland spent Sunday with H O Totten. Decoration Day exercises will occur as usual and preparations are underway. Mr and Mrs Roscoe Miller are back home above T L Olsons harness store. Construction has begun on the new bank building.
A London Mail feature surveys churches housed in pubs and unusual venues. Twyford’s Phoenix Inn hosts Sunday services open to customers, while canalboat churches travel to reach distant worshippers. Other oddities include a Tunbridge Wells chapel straddling counties, a Milton Bryant pond church, a windmill church near Reigate, and an underground Brighton church built down due to legal limits.
Historians divide time into ancient medieval and modern eras. The ancient ends in A D 476 with Rome’s fall, the medieval ends around Columbus’s 1492 discovery or Constantinople’s fall earlier. The modern runs from then to the present, while some place the medieval end at Constantinople’s capture.
Advertisement for land lands in Iowa Minnesota South Dakota and other regions with excursion tickets at One Fare plus $2 valid on Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway on the first and third Tuesdays each month. Details via Messrs hton Brooks Cedar Rapids Industrial and Immigration Agent. Contact John G. Farmer A G P T A Cedar Rapids Iowa.
48 F. L. Mereprin is listed as an agent for The Banker's Accident Insurance Co the most reliable firm.
Thomas Maple of Birkbeck Illinois reports a severe trouble and back pain that resisted medical treatment until he used Foley's Kidney Cure. He states one bottle cured him and he has not been affected since and recommends the remedy highly.
The Des Moines Daily News increases to eight pages while keeping a yearly price of $1.00. Subscriptions are 75 cents for six months and 50 cents for three months. The paper offers AP telegraphic service, broad world news, and a circulation over 29,000. Address is The News, Des Moines, Iowa.
The advertisement promotes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers pills as a remedy to cleanse the bowels, remove impurities, and promote regularity, credited to Lougbran & Bauer.
Anna N. Benjamin notes in Ainslee's that Japanese homes feel colder than open sunshine, with thin walls and open panels. She observes wives and shopkeepers braving damp air, while rich houses remain frigid behind closed partitions as the Japanese cling to traditional warmth habits.
A Philadelphia Times writer outlines odd cures for diseases including freezing, baking, burial in clay, and ammonia vapor chambers. He cites rheumatism treated by melting uric acid crystals, damp warm clay burial trials in Menominee, and ice baths or ice sheets for fever, noting mixed success and eventual abandonment of extreme practices.
The top of a moving coach wheel travels forward faster than the carriage, while the bottom appears stationary. The explanation shows the top moves at the sum of the wheel’s rotation and carriage speed, whereas the bottom moves backward relative to ground due to rotation.
The sea forms flower gardens not from plants but from corals and other animals. Tropical coral gardens show blooms rivaling land flowers in color and grace, with fishes of curious forms and flashing colors darting among them. Dr Blackford notes the likeness of sea corals to terrestrial floral displays.
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