Honest East Aurora farmer loses pine grove to fraud
An East Aurora farmer with ten thousand dollars in the bank sold his primeval pine grove to a portable saw mill operator for two hundred dollars. The mill burned the logs and the operator vanished, leaving the farmer unpaid and the pine forest destroyed. The tale, cited by Elbert Hubbard, laments the loss and the town’s reaction. A related note discusses TB in animals and the need to isolate sick birds and pets during epidemics. A Chicago Times-Herald reader extols the paper as a source of truthful, rapid news and sound editorials.
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East Aurora
New York States
Mil
Ali Baba
Baba
Pine Grove
Elbert Hubbard
The
Chicago Times-Herald
What’s Your Face Worth and Health Ad Claims
An advertisement extols Dr King’s New Life Pills for clear skin and rosy cheeks with a 25 cent price at a local drug store. It contrasts cosmetics with the promise of healthy blood and digestion via Karl’s Clover Root Tea, also 25 or 50 cents. It notes a girl sought for housework at 41-tf and mentions Mrs S L Mabie.
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Dr. King
Tilden & Loughran's
Karl
L. M. Bosworth
Local Notes From Nearby Towns And School News
Mrs Bert Wood is on the sick list from neighboring towns. Mr Converse builds a new house on his farm. A large crowd attended Watkin s sale and items sold well. Miss Gertrude Beckwith to teach Evergreen school this year. Miss Carrie Beckwith to begin spring term Monday. Mrs Beckwith s box social netted eleven dollars for the church seat fund.
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Bert Wood
Mr. Converse
Gertrude Beckwith
Evergreen School
Carrie Beckwith
Meteorological Notes for March 1900 at Ames
Observations taken at sunrise 2:00 pm and sunset southeast of Ames by Isaac Young for The Ames Times. Highlights include a high of 66 on the 12th and a low of 8 below zero on the 16th with a 74 degree monthly range. Five inches of snow, 3.0 inches of precipitation on 8 days, and a month mean temperature of 30.34 degrees.
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Ames
Isaac Young
Ames Times
Parhelion
Shilohs Consumption Cure Promises Strict Guarantee
A vintage testimonial-style ad claims no medicine equals Shilohs for coughs and colds. It urges trials after other remedies fail and offers a money back guarantee. Bottles priced 25 cents 50 cents and 1.00 with L M Bosworth as the druggist.
Shilohs Cough and Consumption Cure Advertised
A druggist promotes Shilohs Cough and Consumption Cure claiming it prevents deaths from disease when used early. Bottles priced at 25, 50 cents, and $1.00 with a money back guarantee if no cure is achieved.
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Shiloh
L. M. Bosworth
The Greatest Hair Grower Promises A New Antiseptic Remedy
A speaker from Sang claims a lifetime of pursuit yields a new antiseptic hair growth remedy after years of toil and wakeful study. The message asserts sun and rain as truths and presents the remedy as the culmination of persistent work.
Hair Growth Remedy Promises Full Head of Hair
A persuasive advertisement touts a vegetable hair growth treatment that claims to restore a full head of hair for long-term baldness with a money back guarantee. It emphasizes modern antiseptic qualities, references trust signals, and offers purchase by draft or money orders with a risk-free trial.
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Dunns Or
Bradstreet
Taxes taxes ad at local bank and brushes offered
A short ad notes Story County Bank hosting a complete tax payment list. It also promotes Tilden and Loughran's selling tooth brushes hair brushes clothes brushes and other items.
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Story County Bank
Tilden & Loughran’s
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Ness
Canaries
Man
Ladies’ Home Journal
Tf Mra
S. L. Mabie
Grant
Watkin
Meteorology
Geo. W. Schoenhut
Eldora, Iowa
Prince OF Hair Growers
J.B. Kooser
J. Watts
W.M. Greeley
Henry Wilson
Edham
Union National
Iowa
Correspondesncr Bankers’ National Bank
Chicago
National City Bank
New York
Valley National Bank
Des Moines
Hibbard, Ajax and
Laclede Bicycles
J. E Davis
Ables
N. Y. Baldwin
Raleton
N. Y
Hlosiery
Dept
E. E. Sowers
Westerman
McLain
O. K
Union Nat Bank
Ames, la
Frank E. Bellamy
LAP Homo
the Undertaker
J. B. Elliott & Son
L. R. Morris
Sale Stable
East Marin Streeet
W. Dudgeon
Cc’. KF. Lette
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