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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1900
Page
8
An old advertisement fragment touts Banner Salve as a universal healer for ulcers and sores and promotes digestive products like Rete Dyepeptis Os Onre and Tee as universal digestants. Claims include quick cures, strength, and digestion of all foods, with testimonials or endorsements by L. M. Bosworth and references to Tilden & Loughran.
Allen Halverson of West Prairie Wisconsin reports driving ten miles to a product called Kidney Cure while J A Helmer of Indiana calls it the wonder of the age in a testimonial style note from Tilden and Loughran.
The passage warns of poisonous toadstools and counterfeit products while promoting De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve as the original safe cure. It touts Banner Salve effectiveness for leg sores and promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Care for digestion, linking health to proper remedies.
A collection of quotes references Foley's as a cure for consumptives and piles, mentions Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve, Chicle by Mexicans, and a jeweler's price question. The tone blends social commentary and advertised remedies with brief notes on charity bags to Kansas soldiers.
The advertisement claims Foley's Kidney Cure is a pure medicine with concentrated remedies recognized by top physicians as effective for kidney and bladder disease cures.
A brief Town Topics snippet notes mixed reactions to speech and silence sayings and humor about a cough remedy. It mentions De Ruyter sending his daughter abroad to be polished and a sharp remark about outcomes, reflecting local gossip and wit.
An old advertisement text touts Foley's Kidney Cure as a remedy to relieve tiredness, backache, headaches and rheumatic pains. The snippet mentions Tilden & Loughran as the source.
A London youth mocks American jokes while a tale from a home paper unfolds about a countess and a duke. The humor hinges on an apparent admission that the duke has nothing in his head, a wry quip noted by Brooklyn Life as adroit and odd.
A farmer eager to see Senator William M. Evarts traveled 18 miles to Windsor to glimpse his idol. Evarts, then well hosted, faced the visitor and joked about his austere appearance. At his country place he quipped a riddle about a goose and himself, noting the sage would fill both.
Dr Thompson a Scotch clergyman preached against drunkenness from Look not upon the wine and spoke on its harms to heart head and purse. After service two cronies mocked the sermon as the minister followed them and one said he suspect the pastor had once drank well in his youth.
At a holiday fete in a country town a balloon ascent was the main attraction. A bystander puzzled by the gas-filled craft asks about the anchor, only to be told it holds the balloon to the clouds.
A St Louis Post Dispatch note reports climbers finding frozen butterflies on snow. when warmed, they recover and fly. Six species have been found within a few hundred miles of the north pole, illustrating resilience of Arctic lepidoptera.
A four year old girl wrote a letter with wav ing lines and asked her father to post it. When asked what she wrote she replied I do not know but I wrote it. The exchange captures the child’s innocence.
In a Chicago Record quip, a speaker praises early rising yet laments wasting time admiring himself. The exchange frames waking early as commendable but unaffordable due to vanity and self-obsession.
A short Harpers Bazaar remark calls Pthel the kind of girl who never stirs envy in other women while noting she is brilliant yet homely. The line highlights social impressions and contrasts appearance with intellect in a light magazine aside.
The article details a cruel Venezuelan method of capturing a vampire bat and forcing it to smoke a cigarette. The bat is bound, cigaretted, then killed once the cigarette nears completion. Some claim the bat enjoys the tobacco, but fear and pain likely drive the behavior.
Scottish Lord of session Lord Polkemmet invites John Hagart to a dinner for the family table. The meal features veal dishes arranged as if the carcass is being cooked along one side then back the other, revealing a blunt tale of ritual dining.
Queen Margherita of Italy schemes to change King Humbert’s hair by placing Paris hair dye in his dressing room. The king says nothing as a white poodle returns with jet black fur, revealing the ruse and ending the subject.
The Wag and Mr Fresh discuss favorite writings about mules at Ems and in other places. They quote lines from Owen Meredith and Socrates, noting sharp wits and misdirections in a humorous exchange.
The Atchison Globe observes that ordinary people laugh at others missteps and awkward blunders. It notes women often hold larger stores of funny stories and that embarrassing remarks become popular mishap anecdotes for merriment.
A maid complains to a dealer that a parrot she bought swears badly. The dealer notes the bird is very young and will swear better when older. Rubens is paid $20,000 for the grand ceiling painting at Whitehall Banqueting House, covering about 400 yards at roughly $50 per yard.
A fragment notes Benares in India as an ancient capital predating Babylon and Nineveh. The line suggests a historical claim about the city’s antiquity.
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