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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1910
Page
9
A reflective turn through Davenport Iowa on a hot evening describes streets filled with neighbors on verandas, a lively riverfront, and bustling parks and factories. The narrator notes bridges, breweries, saloons, churches, schools, and a thriving river life as night settles over the Mississippi.
Harry Furniss recalls Mary Anderson's Lyceum debut as Perdita and a later Galatea role. A wig mishap with Jack Barnes and audience chaff are noted as part of her early fame. The piece ends with an advertisement for Dr Shoop's Restorative sold by Cagwin's Drug Store.
A veteran recalls a House moment when the journal could not be found during prayers. The journal clerk urged the chaplain to keep praying as members grew restless. After about fifteen minutes the clerk returned with the journal, and the speaker ordered the prior day’s business read. In another note from the New York Sun a woman finds Marys emerald hatpin and two of Georges handkerchiefs amid umbrellas.
Panama Canal life faced malaria and related illnesses until Electric Bitters described as eliminating germs. A testimonial from Wm. A. Fretwell of Lucama, North Carolina claims three bottles cured a severe malaria attack and restored health. The ad promises relief for stomach, liver, and kidney issues and typhoid prevention with a 50 cent price.
A humorous man placed a paper advertisement seeking a wife and asked each applicant to enclose a carte de visite. One candidate answered with a sharp retort saying there is authority for putting a cart before a horse but none for putting one before an ass, thus turning the joke on him.
A shopper recalls a humorous moment when a light rain started as she left a store. A woman ahead opened her umbrella and a jeweled hatpin slipped free, tumbling to the sidewalk before the scene moved on.
Advertising copy promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as fast relief for hay fever asthma and summer bronchitis. It claims to soothe inflamed air passages in the head throat and bronchial tubes, contains no opiates or harmful drugs, and urges refusing substitutes with sales from druggists.
A Chilean and a Japanese plant called the flower of the air grows without a visible root and clings to dry trees or rocks. Each shoot bears two to three lily white blossoms, transparent and odoriferous. It can be transported 800 to 700 miles and continues to vegetate while suspended on a twig.
Broncho Bob recalls Faro Joe as a leading citizen of Crimson Gulch who once led the vigilance committee a long distance to the next county. The remark appears in the Washington Star quotation.
Dialogue fragment shows Willie asking his mother if their father would go to heaven after death. The mother silences him, expressing concern about upsetting him with such thoughts.
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea touts thirty years as a preventative remedy. The product promises health maintenance and improvement, sold as tea or tablets for 35 cents, marketed by Joel B H Cagwin.
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