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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1900
Page
8
An advertisement asserts that a tonic by L. M. Bosworth digests all foods and cures stomach troubles. It claims the bottle provides complete digestion without needing other preparations and markets itself as the best known reconstructive.
An assortment of testimonials and snippets touts cures and remedies. Allen Halverson hails a foley medicine while J K Spero praises a medical wonder. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is promoted as original and safe against piles and skin diseases amid counterfeit warnings.
An OCR fragment touts a pure medicine for kidney and bladder diseases and a cough remedy claiming swift cure. It includes ad style lines and a quoted item about De Ruyter sending his daughter abroad for polishing.
An old advertisement cites Foley's Kidney Cure as a remedy for ill health. It asserts the medicine heals kidney trouble and relieves weariness, backache, headaches, and rheumatic pains. The copy attributes improvements to the remedy promoted by Tilden & Loughran.
Story county officers authorize a three percent tax on Nevada township and city assessable property to fund a Duluth and New Orleans Railway line. Installments due as the line is completed, first by July 1, 1901, with a second the following year. failure to finish cancels the tax rights. Adjourned to continue Sept 7. 1900.
An old railroad man recalls Thomas A. Scott’s decisive action during a freight wreck that blocked a line, describing rapid clearance with coal oil and the involvement of 2,000 workers on a fragile bridge. The piece also notes the 1889 Johnstown flood response led by Frank Thomson with swift line reopening and a later humorous Lowell butcher moonlight quip and a note on dissolving celluloid for durable varnish.
Ancestors of presidents Tyler Lincoln Hayes and Cleveland were among Major John Mason's band of 35 pioneers who founded Norwich Connecticut.
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