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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1901
Page
2
The notice lists Loud the Undertaker offering picture frames and moulding services. It appears as a local business advertisement with product offerings and contact information. The item promotes frames trims and related woodwork, typical of a small shop classified listing.
A survey of local items includes school life and teacher duties, induction of new works in the museum and bridge project, plus community updates. Reports mention smallpox absence, Arbor day plans, party primaries schedule, gallery notices, and campus visits.
Crop bulletin from Des Moines Iowa dated April 15 1901 notes weather improved but statewide average temperature below normal with cloudiness and light rain. Farming is under way with progress in sowing small grain on well drained lands, wheat seeding nearly complete in western counties, frost remains in northern ground, grass excellent, pasturage early, wet spring aids new meadows and fall grain, fruit trees healthy with buds uninjured, season shows value of tile drainage.
Advertises Bucklen’s Arnica salve as a cure for piles and other ailments. Claims to have cured thousands and offers a guaranteed cure at 25 cents a box, sold by druggists.
One pound package of Tone Bros coffee sold by C. F. Letts is described as available for purchase. The note presents a simple catalog item with a single seller and product.
A terse classifieds note advertises green vegetables from J B Kooser & Co with poultry services and a call to buy fresh produce from the mist machine. It mentions B Read in connection with the listing.
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes the two small flags atop the capitol wear out quickly, each about three yards, costing about $100 yearly to replace. Flags are darned daily and rewashed in windy weather, with fine wool particles blown away and unrecoverable.
A macaroni appeared in Whitehaven assembly rooms wearing a mixed silk coat a pink satin waistcoat and breeches covered with silk net white silk stockings pink clocks pink satin shoes and pearl buttons a mushroom stock with lace and hair dressed high with pearl pins reflecting the era fashion taste.
An exchange tale notes Jones bought a £1000 life insurance policy six days before the company failed. The blinker remarks at the absurdity of luck as the policy owner dies just before the collapse.
Mr D N Sinks of Troy Ohio testifies to rapid relief from rheumatic arm and shoulder pain after using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He credits Geo F Parsons Co and Tilden Loughran for recommending and selling the liniment which he says is best for muscular rheumatism.
The piece argues blood is purified by lungs liver and kidneys and urges keeping organs healthy and bowels regular. It promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as superior to any blood purifier, priced 25 cents with free samples at Tildan & Loughran's drug store and mentions Kennedy's Salt Wafers at Letts'.
A stranger at the Chambers street ferry house observes most Erie riders remove their hats to show tickets. His friend explains the gesture as a trick of Erie commuters to display tickets in the crown of their hats rather than a salute to the agent.
Harlem Life reports the exchange about Thompson’s affairs following a noted failure. Roberts asks when he expects to resume activities, while Peters notes creditors must accept they won’t receive any payment.
Si Plunkard and his famous farmers perform at the opera house on April 19. He brings his farmer's band to parade about noon rain or shine, leading with whistled tunes as they wade mud knee deep.
Marion Rooke of T. M. Thompson imports fine millinery at 1658 Milwaukee Avenue Chicago says a severe cold kept her from work but Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy used by a milliner relieved her quickly and she recovered. Tilden & Loughran sell it. U P U of United Brethren church in Clarion Iowa hired Rev Byron J Clark of Webster City to lecture April 18 19 with Barnacles Ben Hur stereopticon views. Admission 25 and 15 cents. Free Thursday lecture. Ben Hur shown praised across towns Perry Chief Clarion Kingsley Times.
A new illustrated history from the Chicago and North Western Railway covers settlement of the Northwest. It includes 115 cloth bound pages with engravings of Black Hawk Sitting Bull Red Cloud and other chiefs plus ten colored map plates. Price 50 cents postpaid by W B Kiskern 22 Fifth Avenue Chicago IL.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a vegetal remedy curing constipation sick headache dizziness jaundice malaria fever and ague plus liver and stomach troubles. Gently acting and non gripe causing, offered for 25 cents at L M Bosworth’s drug store.
A miscellany of advertisements notes residences and two lots for sale at once, farm supplies and poultry products from Dr Hesses stock food and mites killer, canning fruit at 15 cents a can, Pekin duck eggs 75 cents a dozen, and various seed potatoes and fruit trees from regional sellers across Iowa and nearby towns.
Flossie Rich died after a week of illness, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Rich. She was twelve years and three months old. A funeral was held at the Christian church with comforting words from Psalm 119:71. Floral tributes came from the school, church, choir, and individuals, and the church, schools and city expressed sympathy to the family.
Chas C Elis of Lisbon Indiana braved waist deep floodwater to repair a telegraph line and caught a severe cold that doctors labeled consumption. After trying Dr King's New Discovery he was cured with six bottles, a claim offered as a guaranteed remedy by L M Bosworth with free trials.
J C Lewis presents a rewritten Si Plunkard with a large company of comedians for a new edition of the popular farce at the opera house on April 19.
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