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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
2
A letter from Alex Peterson details life in Jolo in 1900, describing Moros and Filipinos, Sultan rule, punishments, and slave practices. It notes guard routines, market closures, and the presence of U.S. troops including Companies F and G, with local commerce in hemp, shells, hides, pearl products, and seafood, plus port markets and daily routines.
The Iowa Central Railway plans homeseekers excursions on the first and third Tuesdays in May June and August to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo with a single fare plus small return. Ticket agents will provide territory dates limits and other details. Separately a vivid account describes rats overrunning the Gothenburg City as it broke up off St Mary’s Island with crew forced into lifeboats.
Banner Salvi the great healer promises cure for cuts wounds sores piles and all skin diseases in a guaranteed formula. TitpEN LOUGHRAN.
A husband returns after a long night out with the boys and is greeted by his wife with reproach. The scene features a stubborn clock, a drunken but courteous husband, and a tender end as she bathes his forehead and forgives the scolding.
For Salecheap a good baby carriage used but little. Inquire at this office. 521f. Buy your Garden Seeds and Tools of Swank White. Hurd's Fine Stationery at Judisch Bros. Patronize home industry and buy an Iowa manufactured buggy or wagon of Spring Son. 1-tf.
An editor of Sylvan Valley News, Brevard NC, defends publicly endorsing Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The piece argues a preventive role and notes twenty years of use in the editor’s family, asserting early treatment can spare suffering while a physician may not be needed. The remedy is said to be for sale by all druggists.
A physician notes that outbreaks of humanity are always somewhat rash in character, suggesting irregular but common flare ups in human behavior across eras.
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