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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
8
A brief note states these painless purifiers are sold at druggists for 25 cents and are available as Chautauqua supplies at Perry's. The line suggests easy, quiet effectiveness without fuss.
Recollections of Ben Everett a former Story County resident depict his fall from prosperity to penniless ruin. He lost his farm near Polk City after legal fights over a 20 acre tract and a judge ordered sale at public auction next Saturday afternoon at the Polk County courthouse.
A witty exchange unfolds at a post office as a lady requests two cent stamps in two pieces and asks the clerk to send her home. The clerk, polite and amused, offers help and jokes about reporting the idea to Washington while the lady urges anonymity.
John C Virkle of Philippi West Virginia records his father’s long diarrhoea battle. After trying various cures he used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from the Philippi Republican advertisement. One bottle cured him and he has stayed well for eighteen months, though sixty years old. Sold by J E Cagwin.
The Cleveland Leader quotes a philosopher claiming women are consistent, noting a past remark about a twenty two year old girl who remains devoted to the same figures years later. The piece presents a witty defense of constancy.
A humorous exchange about staying out late and being out at home. The first player laments being late past curfew, while the second quips about his usual out at home status, reflecting a light baseball banter tone.
Farmers across the West embrace automobiles to speed trips and chores while saving horses for field work. At the National Corn Exposition in Omaha September 9 to 19 a Michigan farmer will award a gasoline engine dynamo and switchboard for the best half bushel of wheat in the milling test, with entries open worldwide. Brush Automobile Co of Detroit offers an automobile worth 600 dollars for the best bushel of corn on the car, also open to all entrants.
A brief reflective note quotes Voltaire saying two days remain, urging release from contempt for rascals and focusing on time over grievance. The line underscores a stoic, poignant stance on mortality and virtue.
A coral atoll in the Marshall group was obliterated in 1905 when a terrible hurricane struck its path. Waves up to forty feet overwhelmed the islet, killing all inhabitants and eroding the upper coral, leaving only open sea where the atoll once stood.
A satirical line from Smart Set jokes that a worker cannot function on an empty stomach or a full meal, playing on the idea that effort alternates with appetite. The quip highlights stubborn appetite as a humorous obstacle to labor.
A witty exchange where a nervous traveler asks how fast he should say he was traveling and his companion, flirting with a girl nearby, suggests answering with about a smile a minute. The dialogue captures light social banter and suggests humor in a travel setting.
A courtroom exchange ends with a grim joke as a judge faces a hopeful yet bleak medical prognosis. The comment suggests severity yet possible near recovery, highlighting the tension between life and fate in a high stake case.
H S and S Nichols of Oakland Indiana praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy calling it a faithful friend used since 1872. He is a commercial traveller who relies on it on every trip and recommends its speedy effects. For sale by J B Cagwin.
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