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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
5
A satirical collection of maxims and witticisms on dress, manners, and society. It humorously critiques temper, liver health, and etiquette while noting fashion, footwear, awnings, and the vanity of high society. The Philadelphia Times attribution hints at playful social commentary.
Story County Bank in Compton promotes real estate loans with payment on any interest pay day and any amount on any chosen day, promising no commission. The Ames plano man is noted in relation to the offer.
A collection of brief humor items and quips including spoiled children, field sketching, farm talk, love proposals, curious villagers, a wounded soldier, a strange injury report, a harness lesson, a ventriloquy on English punctuation by a printer’s devil, a pun on nation making songs and laws, and a play on gaol and folk who make its laws.
An old supermarket style notice promotes Our Flag canned goods with a sales push. Sold by C F Letts. The brief ad emphasizes quality and availability through a local supplier.
Grasshoppers devastate Mississippi delta cotton. Italy’s population rises from 28 million in 1878 to over 82 million in 1900. Japan’s cultivable land remains under 12 percent of its area. England and Wales hold about 12 million people in 33 large towns. Coffee reportedly boosts waste, not intellect. Tuition in American colleges averages 75 dollars. colleges pay 115 dollars. Paris opens a pet cemetery with separate sections for dogs cats and birds. Ireland may see record Scotch and English tourist numbers this summer. Algeria and Oran promise rich petroleum prospects. Pearls from regular oysters are rare yet frequently reported. U.S. forests cover a quarter of the land with over 1 million dollars of timber cut annually. Pneumonia mortality remains high in the German army with four weeks furlough for convalescents. Rural Sweden faces fodder shortages after poor hay and oats crops. Transvaal mining machinery is valued near 47 million dollars, about 40 million of which is on the Witwatersrand.
A jumble of wry Maxims and social observations on love, marriage, and gender roles drawn from the New York Press. The piece mocks male bravado and female scrutiny, noting clubs, conscience, and the absurdities of courtship and domestic life with sharp humor.
A collage of short notices mentions Adelina Patti planning an informal visit next winter, Senator Depew's rapid early success as a lawyer, Plancon singing an entire opera in German, and J Pierpont Morgan’s math study in Boston. It also notes Greenwood County farmer Durham Bull, German forts named after royalty, General Chaffee’s rise from private, Senator Morgan’s gardening, Lord Pauncefote about Harvard, and John Davies Mullins’s Birmingham library legacy.
The Chicago Tribune promotes itself as a bold independent yet fair newspaper with strong national coverage and superior local and foreign news gathering. It emphasizes comprehensive reporting, a daily summary, robust financial columns, and top rated sports sections.
Trains depart Des Moines daily at 7 00 a m with services to Afton Junction St Joseph Leavenworth and Kansas City Westbound trains run to St Paul Minneapolis and Chicago from Marshalltown depart daily at 4 16 a m for Waterloo Cedar Falls plus connections to Dubuque and Chicago with 10 45 a m and 10 40 p m daily times.
Train schedule data for Chicago and Northwestern shows multiple express and freight routes with numbers and times, including Westbound and Northbound services. G W Rogers, Agent, notes baggage rules and Sunday exceptions for Jewell to Ames service and connections to Boone Carroll Missouri Valley and Omaha.
A speaker declares discovery of a new modern antiseptic remedy after years of toil and wakeful study. He asserts successful elimination results from persistent experiments and promises to share the truthfully claimed breakthrough.
Go to the O. K. Barber Shop for clean and up-to-date work. Six chairs long waits. Three bathrooms and shining stand. Close at 9 p.m. except Saturday at 12 p.m. promptly. No baths or barber work on Sunday. Satisfaction guaranteed, PRANK & BELLAMY, Prop.
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