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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1894
Page
10
A South Side citizen survives a near death blood poisoning after doctors failed to help. The Dispatch reports a thorough investigation, noting Mr Mueniig sought European and American experts, then returned home and was drawn to an alleged remedy firm run by a cook.
The Cook Remedy company at suite 507 Masonic Temple Chicago professes a miracle cure Magic Cyphilene for blood poisoning and syphilis. It recounts the Roehrig case a German American man whose crippling illness long resisted European and Chicago doctors before treatment at Cook Remedy led to rapid recovery and weight gain. The Dispatch and a notary public affidavit back the story.
A compilation notes varied curiosities from four decades ago including divorce costs, long distance signaling by electric wires, world travel averages, Greenland burial customs, swan down supply from France, a washing machine’s all in one operation, telegraphing rates to London and Paris, windmills in India, drainage plans around Bombay, glacial shifts on a railway in the United States, Captain Brewster of Eastport defying his wife over lobsters, and a lobster shipment case ending at the offal dock.
Historic notes report the Passy great artesian well delivering 5 690 009 gallons daily. A plan to drain the Danube delta to restore forest and fields is mentioned. Microphone tech reveals internal sounds once hidden by standard instruments. A Providence quarry blast displaces 10 000 tons of rock. A Welshman credits a plan for a 60 mph ship with 550 by 50 feet, 15 000 ton displacement, eight paddle wheels each side.
Harper's Marine notes how Dutch contributions shaped New England homes and cuisine. Dutch tiles and furniture influenced fireplaces and interiors. Dutch ovens popularized in kitchens alongside Yankee staples like pumpkin pie and baked beans. Dutch origin of buckwheat cakes and doughnuts noted with historical detail on culinary exchange.
A Colorado stockman recounts a cow that killed a grizzly after a bear forced entry through a thatched shed roof. The cow, newly calved, pinned the intruder with its horns while the calf slept nearby, and the bear died from wounds.
A plucky Louisville woman silences a crusty bachelor on Fourth Street with a swift retort about Eve and domestic labor. She ridicules the notion that Eve needed a hired girl, detailing how Adam performed chores and social misdeeds, and exposing male hypocrisy in a sharp, humorous exchange. The bachelor exits amid amused friends.
Sellar Hie Epauleta, a reserve lieutenant from Genoa, was discharged for socialistic leanings and offers his epaulets to Era Nuova for propaganda funds. The epaulets will be sold at public auction with a starting bid of 5 lira or 3, and a jeweler has offered to buy at that price.
A rainmaker in India uses a rocket device with a mile high ascent, a parachute descent, and ether spray to cool surrounding air. The process is claimed to condense vapor and trigger a limited rainfall.
At Glasgow University Thomas Campbell submits verses to his elder brother, a stern critic. The brother reads them at breakfast and quips that they lack fire. Campbell rescues the poem, then later tosses it again into the fire, conceding the jest's truth.
Dr. Crachley Clapham measured 4,000 asylum inmates and found overall that insane heads are larger than sane ones while brains are smaller. The study notes the head shape as cuneiform or arrow shaped with the greatest diameter away from the center.
A St Louis Republic note recounts coal tar once a nuisance to gas workers now a rich source of colors. Chemists extract 16 blues 16 yellows 12 oranges and 9 violets among many shades. A pound can color extensive fabrics including magenta vermillion and alizarine across long yards of cloth.
A wealthy lady visits a new neighbor and brags about her fortune. Mrs. Cool gently but pointedly retorts that the neighbor once entered her aunt's kitchen. The exchange ends the visit abruptly, leaving a sharp social sting in Indianapolis.
Advertisement notes southern United States heat comparisons and promotes L&N railroad excursion tickets to all points south for trains on Aug 7 at one fare round trip. Encourages consulting ticket agents and references Co. P. Atmore, general passenger agent in Louisville, Kentucky. Ends with a Bacon quote about books.
Advert appears to tout a new monster rye and winter wheat with claims of enormous, reliable yields like the World's Fair winter wheat. It notes the John A Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wis will mail a catalogue and samples for four cents postage. It also includes an unrelated health proverb about a syrup and figs.
H and H advertise cleaning for silks woolen goods ribbons curtains and carpets with moth and grease stain removal. Private legeskes for 2K? Wor sale everywhere. Address Li and H Des Moines Iowa. Gray hair in one kind of time lock that will never become popular.
An OCR fragment advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75e and touts Camphorlee with Glycerine as the original genuine remedy. It briefly notes electricity used in Swedish iron smelting and mentions Astor skin as material for grips, with scattered fragmentary observations.
A short comic exchange shows a peddler offering a product to a housekeeper. The housekeeper resists with polite but pointed humor about a hanging device that magnifies sounds, turning a good night kiss into a comic scene.
A playful exchange at a Texas social scene describes a young couple and their flirtatious banter about a kiss, with a damsel and a gentleman named De Smith resisting. The crowd remains amused as the dialogue hints at romance and social humor.
A proverb-like line notes that a person guided by God will not travel long in darkness. It frames faith as a steadying beacon for life’s path.
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