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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1896
Page
22
A man endures a string of accidents from a pin mishap to a broken smile and a mangled head as a horse runs loose and a local paper reports a representative requesting a free insertion. In another item a frightened widow recalls a runaway team that kills Mrs. Horace Bennett in Jefferson.
The Odebolt Chronicle endorses McKinley in the 1896 campaign noting a feminine editorial stance and contrasting with the Iowa Rapids Enterprise which supports the opposite. Ames Urges Republican unity amid editorial dispute.
Extract from a Dimondale Michigan letter by Rev J Gun notes a pastor's praise for Dr King in Rives Junction, claiming a cough relief with the medicine from L M Bosworth's Drug Store. It advertises trial sizes at 50 cents and 1 dollar.
Bitters described as a spring medicine for sluggish digestion and general malaise. It is promoted as a tonic and alterative to counter malarial poison and aid digestion, with a sales pitch for Electric Bitters at L. M. Bos Drug Store.
An 19th century patent style claim advertises a salve for cuts sores ulcers salt rheum tetter chapped hands and other skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded and cites M. Bosworth as endorser.
An old advertisement asserts that Clover Root Tea cures step blood constipation and bowel troubles. The copy promotes quick relief and general health benefits through the herbal product.
Scattered items from Story City report a fire gutting Rback's Furniture in Des Moines area with losses around sixty five thousand dollars. Other notes include postmaster appointment, church remarks on decency, and a discussion on school director elections and mothers' roles.
Local papers discuss Dr. Stalker of Ames as a possible congressman and praise Captain J. A. T. Hall as the consensus choice. The Seventh district GOP contest in Des Moines centers on Hull and Berryhill with Hull poised to run on merit and with strong support.
James Wilson of Tama head of the agricultural college experimental station known as Tama Jim spoke of the rush to code passage. He compared the code to the Iowa dog law that caused a public outcry and an extra session to repeal it. He warned the legislature against haste and noted discrepancies found by committees.
Dr J Jackson Crider touts his ozone based remedies and suppositories as a cure for catarrh and tuberculosis. He claims his treatment cures by sterilizing germs, absorbing into blood, and improving nutrition, with a thirty year focus on bacteriology and germ theory.
A collection of testimonials from patients in 1891 to 1896 praising Dr J J Crider of Ottumwa infirmary for curing asthma catarrh deafness goitre stomach disease epilepsy and other chronic ailments after cash payments. Names and locations include Ep Signal Douds Iowa D C Wilkey Norwich Iowa James C King Beloit Kansas J Sellers Ottumwa Indiana Tac Johns LeMarvas Iowa and others.
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