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A light verse notes how boys admire sporty calves shown in red and black outfits, sometimes in golden brown, delighting crowds in town with their athletic look.
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
5
A light verse notes how boys admire sporty calves shown in red and black outfits, sometimes in golden brown, delighting crowds in town with their athletic look.
A Creek near a mountain camp provokes juvenile mischief as peeping is observed. Girls shed stockings and wade the creek while two observers hide and react with shock and embarrassment at being discovered. The scene ends with retreat.
The writer urges strict licensing or removal of traveling peddlers and touring shows citing harms to local business. notes Ames is lax on licenses while imports undercut home dealers. Also recounts a Minnesota excursion report and a weed violator fined by a local squire.
Kennedy's coral and Long Branch wafers showcased at Miller and Kooser's store. For Rent Residence offers six economical rooms with inquiry through the Times office. Adams Bros promote GRAPE nut butter as a new spread for bread.
Geo D Williams of Manchester Michigan testifies his wife, once helpless for five years, is now able to perform her own work after two bottles of Electric Bitters. The remedy is claimed to cure female troubles, nervousness, sleeplessness, headaches, backaches, fainting and dizziness. Sold by H D Miller for 50 cents with a cure guaranteed.
Twenty nine officers and men report Bucklen’s Arnica Salve heals scratches bruises cuts wounds sore feet and stiff joints. It also helps burns skin eruptions and piles. 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by H. D. Miller druggist.
Advertisements announce daily excursion tickets at low rates from Chicago Great Western Ry stations in Colorado and Colorado Springs to Pueblo and Glenwood Springs. Also promotes Maple Leaf Route and lists F. H. Lord as general agent in Chicago. Nearby health ads tout Shilohs and Karl's Clover Root Tea with guarantees and prices. includes other product notes and vendor names.
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