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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1896
Page
3
The ad claims backache and organic derangement show in the back and related symptoms, urging Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the sole effective remedy for twenty years. It features a testimonial from Ma ttig Glenn of Cincinnati praising relief from years of pain and weight loss after using the product.
Mrs Wallace taunts a bred dealer about an educated parrot. The dealer confirms the parrot’s education. Mrs Wallace quips the bird must have studied at an institute for the deaf and dumb.
Gov Colman Ex Sec'y Agri and Hort Ed Judge Miller toured Stark Nurseries noting its vast scale. The plant shows a 40,000 acre commercial test orchard system and 6,000 outfits ready, with millions of Stark trees to sell. Stark Nurseries praised as a leading Missouri Illinois institution with highly organized labor force.
A building owner peers from the first floor and finds a friend waiting. The friend asks how long he is in for and replies, for life, in a wry exchange.
Advert says Syrup of Figs cleanses the system gently to relieve constipation and purify the blood while awakening kidneys and liver without irritation. Mentions headaches and fevers and then shifts to a news note that mosquitoes have appeared in England, believed to have crossed the Atlantic with cargo.
An old Salzer seed catalogue offers fall sowing grains and grasses with a four cent stamp for the catalogue and free samples. John A. Salzer Seed Co. LaCrosse Wisconsin urges purchase through local agents.
A collage of vintage medical and literary ads notes Hall's Catarrh Cure, Coe's Cough Medicine, Dr Kline's Neuralgia remedy with a free trial bottle, a note on Briseis by William Black, and a teething remedy attributed to Mrs Winslow. It includes a mayoral quote and Diogenes attribution.
A Talmage sermon uses the Emmaus journey remark “Abide with us for it is toward evening” to urge faith as life wanes. It appeals to aging listeners, recalling temptations, bereavement, financial storms, and the need for Jesus to sustain through twilight toward eternity.
The Christian Guardian reports a bank official remarking that lacking a happy home explains clerical defalcation. He says he would not have kept a clerk in such a responsible role if he had known of the clerks unhappy home, asserting the home as the basis of life and safety.
In a world of evil Christians are urged to remain unspotted from the world. Christ can keep you and transform the heart by grace so that no sin stains its purity. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.
A reflective passage likens people to young shoots and plants of God, urging patience in growth and faith that divine work will unfold into beauty and nobility, either in this life or the next. It emphasizes ongoing self-improvement and trust in divine completion.
A quotation from Rev. W. R. Taylor praises The Art of Life and Science for their detached work improving life and argues they will soon build toward a supreme science of life and a supreme art of life.
Reverend Henry Blanchard of Universalist in Portland, Maine argues that science increasingly accepts evolution and that life after death is a natural extension of our current existence. He contends immortality is now a popularly accepted doctrine guiding human preparation for another life.
A historical excerpt urges daily duty as discipline. It emphasizes that being obliged to work builds temperance, self control, diligence, willpower, cheerfulness, and contentment, cultivating virtues that idleness never yields.
The article explains how Roquefort cheese is produced in caves on Mount Larve near Roquefort. Milk from 300000 sheep is aged in a labyrinth of caverns where a controlled fungus develops, creating the cheese’s distinctive flavor before final wrapping and sale.
A St. Louis drummer invites a parlor car crew to play four handed euchre. A quiet native joins, claims a stronger hand, draws guns, and tries to lift their bets. The drummer ends the session as the train resumes speed and the men darkly eye the window.
A proof style puzzle explains a method: if a person holds an even count in one hand and an odd in the other, multiply the right hand by an odd number and the left by an even number, add the products, and note parity. If the sum is even, the even count is in the right hand. if odd, the even count is in the left.
A quarrel between two boarders about rumors of an elopement surfaces. The landlady fears her daughter may have run off, while the second boarder dismisses the claim as a distraction from meals, per a Puck citation.
A terse exchange reveals a contemptuous challenge as one person accuses the other of hurling insult and asserts the other would never refuse an apology. The dialogue hints at a strained relationship and a test of trust.
An old promotional passage touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a complete cure for malarial disease and its liver bowels stomach and nerve disturbances. It claims the tonic builds strength, conquers constipation and kidney complaints, and notes a claim about Lincoln era hat finds with no real basis.
Individuals helped by Dr Williams Pink Pills may write to Pink Pills P O box 1592 Philadelphia Pa to receive valuable information. Two thousand Latter Day Saints missionaries are reported to be in England at present.
A brief notice notes that when answering advertisements one should polly mention the Ubie paper, referencing the ongoing listing W N U D M 1256 No 32.
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