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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1900
Page
8
Quotations from Erie newsdealer Chas Ben der praising Fotzry Henry and Turcough medicine. Various ad lines promote DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve and DeWitt's Little Early Risers with generic claims of cures and health benefits.
An 1900s style advertisement page touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a guaranteed cold cure when taken promptly. It also promotes One Minute Dough for croup relief and contrasts laborer and employer roles with a bread winner metaphor, reflecting period ad rhetoric.
The manufacturers authorize the undersigned to guarantee Banner SaLve for burns cuts sores ulcers tetter eczema and all skin diseases. No money back if it fails to do all it claims. Tilden and Loughran.
Promotional blurb credits L M Bosworth praising De Witt’s Little Early Risers for promptness and efficiency. The quote emphasizes traditional gentility and rapid relief as a selling point.
An assortment of health and patent remedies is advertised including Fairy's Kidney Cure and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve praised for burns eczema and skin conditions. The ad warns against counterfeits and notes the siting of Tilden & Loughran and IL M Bosworth with quotes on success.
An old newspaper fragment touts Fotex Honey and Tar for cough relief and healing and Kodol Dys Cure to digest all foods for stomach ease. It mentions Tilden & Lomemina and L. M Worth and includes quips about heart trouble and woman’s sense.
A poetic portrait celebrates beauty as a force of desire and mystery. The poem casts beauty as a living flame, wind and rain fused into a single figure, named Nora Hopper, whose allure rises to heaven and sinks to hell.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat note explains eyeglasses stay in place once balanced on the nose. The clerk says practice makes the wearer expert, with a loose spring and light contact after mastery. Nearby observers discuss the oddness of the method.
A ragged urchin steals a love and adventure book from a used bookshop on Main Street. The boy is allowed to read undisturbed until closing time when he asks the shopkeeper, What time d yer open termorrer. The anecdote appears in the Hartford Telegram.
A young man tells a married man how he became engaged to Miss Blankie after following her for a day on a railroad train. He explains she traveled with her mother and impressed him with her kindness to her mother, confirming the engagement.
A humorous dialogue from Harper's Bazar where Hatterson jokes he buys his wife money even when she does not want it, and Catterson counters that his wife always wants money, humorously highlighting marital money squabbles.
A brief comic exchange notes the promised payment for a watch delayed by a slow clock. The collector accuses the man of not paying since Saturday while the young man replies it is only Friday by his watch.
The Detroit Journal quotes a playful exchange about heredity and nature comparing a baby’s resemblance to a Turner sunset. It reflects lighthearted commentary on genetics and artful perception rather than a news event.
Li Hung Chang visited an Edinburgh exhibition and expressed great interest in sewing machines. He tested a machine by hemming a seam, asked its price, and refused a gift, insisting on two machines to keep one for himself and one for the empress.
A Philadelphia Record humor piece quotes a barber on shaving men at home for a quarter and dead men for twenty five cents. He notes about a tenth of his private customers are women and claims women shave six to seven times daily at home. He disparages women’s beards as distressing and mocks electric depilitation, joking that beards only grow on old women and comparing facial hair to elderly men’s nostril and ear hair.
Netta, a foundling girl living in an asylum for children without relatives, befriends Muriel on Muriel’s birthday. Netta, feeling superior as a foundling, remarks that being born is common while claiming she was founded. The exchange ends with Muriel’s smile and a quiet moment at tea.
Dr Lefevre describes a Laos village in Cochin China as populated by fools. A common mania, a buffalo in the stomach, leads victims to jump into water to prove they are possessed. If they survive they are deemed free from the delusion.
An order to remove strangers from the English House of Commons does not apply to the ladies' gallery which is not considered part of the chamber. Women may learn of debated topics and choose to withdraw at their own discretion.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows Pslugger in a high state of indignation offering $5,000 to cause a fall in the upcoming round. Mrs Pslugger responds, questioning his claim to gentlemanly conduct.
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