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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
12
The poem by idney Dyer printed in the Chicago Standard speaks of an iron ship and a nation’s pride facing storm and wreck. It asserts that nations fail when strained, while faith in Jehovah makes the weak strong, a mighty arm revealed.
Minard Hendricks returns from Boston to a mysterious unsigned letter directing him to Palace hotel apartments. He seeks the remains of Mr Weldon Caruthers reported missing two weeks. The note appears linked to a prior attempt on his life, and he teams with Dr. Lampkin to probe.
Hendricks and a clerk pursue Weldon Caruthers, who has not returned from Philadelphia. A wearer of evening dress notes Caruthers’ recent strange conduct and a night telegram. The detective forces access to Caruthers’ apartment, finding it undisturbed.
Detective Hendricks and Lampkin explore a luxury hotel suite once occupied by Weldon Caruthers. A Japanese urn conceals a cremated hand, with embalming marks and nail scars, suggesting a calculated, concealed disposal of the body.
A detective, Hendricks, suspects Caruthers removed a body in his own trunk after a fatal confrontation at a club. A clerk finds a severed hand in a vase and reports clues about a row with Arthur Gielow and a woman named Miss Dorothy Huntington. The scene ends with a tease of further developments.
An anecdote shares a host defending empathy toward a defaulter, arguing that understanding motivations matters. The tale recalls a wild youth in debt, a wealthy-appearing but poor father, a wife, and a deputy sheriff who tracks a bank robbery with a bloodhound, ending with the bank president’s deathbed fever.
A professor voices a quiet objection to women’s clubs noting that many club women he knows pronounce it as progr’m. The exchange appears in a Chicago Tribune quotation.
A brief exchange notes bicycles are common on streets worldwide with Venice singled out as the one great city where they are especially familiar.
The article notes that merely one thousandth of married pairs achieve a fifty year milestone, highlighting the rarity of golden weddings and the lasting duration of long marriages.
A Detroit Free Press column recalls a chaotic day spent dodging moths, mosquitoes, flies and bees during a neighborhood outing. The narrator claims renewed strength and flexibility after the exhausting experience, despite a chaotic barrage of insects and noisy millers.
Our Treatment of Spanish Captives presents a boastful historic note on generous conduct toward a defeated enemy. The excerpt also extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy for weak, nervous individuals and those with stomach and liver disorders. It quotes a Chicago Daily News observation about courtship and marriage.
Grain-O advertised as a delicious nourishing drink to replace coffee. It claims to aid digestion and strengthen nerves, non stimulant, suitable for children and adults, costing about the same as coffee, 15 and 25 cents. Also includes a brief note about a misprint and an employment solicitation from American Wooten Mitts Co. in Chicago.
An eclectic 19th century ad mix touts Kemp's Balsam for coughs with free samples and cheap bottles, followed by testimonials and jokes. Mentions Piso's Cure, St Jacobs Oil, and miscellaneous quips from papers like Washington Democrat and Yonkers Statesman.
George H. Daniels announces mileage books good for 500 or 1000 miles at $10 or $20. Valid on main line and Harlem Putnam Rome Watertownenburg Carthage Adirondack divisions, issued to a head of family or firm, usable by any member with name written. Exchanges allow travel beyond conductor run with proper mileage ticket.
A playful Chicago line recalls Parvenoo bargaining with a shopkeeper over everyday staples including pink tea and green goods, noting social expectations and Irish identity in a lighthearted exchange.
About 1,000,000 acres of government land and substantial railroad lands near the Louisville and Nashville line in Northwest Florida are for sale at low rates. Information available from R. J. Weym ys, General Land Commissioner, Pensacola, and excursions offered on the first and third Tuesdays via the L&N for 82 round trip. skrevet by Uncle Eben quote.
An advertisement offers a four cent stamp order for an illustrated booklet from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway detailing the direct continental route to new U S Trans Pacific possessions. It touts reliable information suitable for school use and lists Geo H Heafford Chicago Ill as contact. Also includes several patent medicine endorsements and quips.
Letters from Mrs. Slivern of Rochester and Mrs. Duncan of Reeder’s Mills report relief from disability nervousness miscarriages and pregnancy related pain after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Other readers from Medford Wyoming Iowa share renewed health after treatment and advise others to seek the remedy.
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