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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1879
Page
5
The text blends poetry and prose excerpts reflecting seasonal imagery of summer and autumn. It alternates with conversation fragments, diary-like notes, and unrelated musings on social scenes, burying a narrative about love, death, and comic mishaps within a collage of passages.
A man awakens bound and barely conscious to hear his fiancé Priscilla and her former lover scheming over his fate. The dialogue reveals a planned marriage for Priscilla with a will in her favor, while estimates of mourning and coffins unfold, exposing cold calculation and comic cruelty.
Visit New York City and save on baggage expressage and carriage hire at the Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot. The hotel offers 350 elegant rooms reduced to $1 and upwards with an elevator and a restaurant. Horse cars run by elevated railroad to all areas and the sign emphasizes safe and neat services.
The State Insurance Co of Des Moines Iowa is described as one of the most successful and liberal companies with rapidly increasing business. It is noted for its liberal policy careful management and prompt settlement of losses and is praised as a leading insurer by the Exchange.
Fragmented ad text from Baltimore area earlier notice promotes Grave Rew Mitts and Kexwnery Co offerings. Says The Carboline makes hair grow on bald heads and mentions certificates and a Pittsburgh reference with unclear sales details.
A Maryland era advertisement touts Laycock's Worm Killer and Kidney-Wort as cures for a range of ailments from constipation to piles. It claims hundreds of certified cures and promotes H. B. Bryant's Chicago Business College, plus a free medical treatise by Dr. C. E. Livingston of Toledo, urging readers to send a stamp for the book.
D G Owens of Altoona Pennsylvania reports Dr Bull s Baby Syrup has a wonderful reputation and strong demand. He says mothers prefer it and it is destined to supersede all other soothing syrups.
In youth John Randolph was betrothed to Maria Ward, daughter of his mother's close friend. The engagement ended in a fierce quarrel. He rode away in anger, cutting his horse's reins with a knife. Maria became Mrs Peytondolph. Randolph never married and mourned her deeply, a tale said to haunt his life. He was a frail, nervy descendant of Pocahontas.
Dr Pierce's Extract of Smart-Weed is a compound fluid extract of smart weed water pepper Jamaica ginger and other ingredients known to be efficacious in curing colic diarrhea dysentery blood flux and indred affections. It also breaks up colds fevers and inflammatory attacks. Sold by druggists.
Farmers warned against using cheap colorings like carrots or annatto for butter and urged to choose Wells Richardson Co.'s Perfected Butter Color praised as harmless and tasteless. The ad also promotes Kidney-Wort for maintaining healthy action after mental labor.
An advertisement laden page touts various tonics and cures for consumption bronchitis and nervous debility. It mentions free mail offers for remedies in German French or English and lists multiple products from different sellers including Uncle Sam's remedies and a teething syrup. The piece highlights marketing claims aimed at broad audiences across cities like Rochester and Chicago and promotes the Windsor Hotel in Chicago as a lodging tip.
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