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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1896
Page
3
A quirky apparent excerpt offers general advice to all and specific tips for cyclists about common failures. It notes a punctured tire as a flat, a lantern-jawed man as a curious phrase, and the broken chain as the missing link, illustrating practical riding mishaps.
Detectives McGinnty and Savage of the park police surveilled a woman burying under an elm along the west drive in Central Park. She marked the spot with a twig and a mound. McGinty opened a sod to reveal a long box tied with ribbons containing a dead canary. The handlers suspected jewel theft by an actress, but the canary was the deliverable find as Savage prepared to arrest the box owner.
A curious note on a man who never experiences indigestion, praised remedies like Hosetter’s Stomach Bitters for dyspepsia and other ailments. Testimonials from D. C. Albright of Mifflinburg and C. Stiner of Girard praise Dr. Kay’s Renovator for rheumatic pain, back troubles, sleep, appetite, and digestion. Sold by druggists or by mail from Dr. B. J. Kay Medical Co. Aliceton, Wis., noted for its lone female absence.
The notice touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a sales line about rest for stomachs and brains. It mentions Aegemen's Camphor Ice and the Clarke Co. at New Haven, claims a mint director says five dollars are lost by abrasion per million in gold, and lists a wanted exchange for real estate for shoes, chinaware or furniture with a box at Des Moines La.
A moral essay urges recognizing silent female suffering from womb trouble. It warns of danger in lifestyle and dress, describes painful symptoms, and advocates Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a longstanding remedy that strengthens the womb and eases backache and related pains.
A brief exchange frames a playful back and forth between a sportsman and a farmer about fish. The farmer emphasizes the freshness of the catch while the sportsman probes the type and quality of fish, highlighting a rural barter vibe.
A promotional 11 page pamphlet titled Silver Songs for the Bryan Campaign offers new songs to fit tunes like Dixie, Swing Low, Marching Through Georgia, plus poetry and argument. It claims music and rhetoric can sway voters and invites orders at ten cents per copy or a dollar per dozen from Silver Songs Publishing Co. in Des Moines Iowa with liberal dealer rates.
Lushly said he did not deny the charges and would rather be tight than to be president. The remarks came as details of his removal as presaeot on the cub were discussed.
The piece promotes South Dakota farming growth and land value prospects. It highlights grain profits livestock dairy diversification and western state success. It invites readers to contact immigration agents in Chicago for full information on homesteading land purchases. It notes a historical count jump in explosive compounds from twenty four to over a thousand.
Advertises a low fare for the G A R Thirtieth Annual Encampment in early September. Chicago Great Western offers one cent per mile round trip, return anytime within thirty days, with sleepers dining cars and European plan. includes contact for reservations and further details.
Talmage reflects on the Shunem child who fell ill and died on his mother’s lap, praising childhood’s beauty and influence. He urges parents to nurture faith, notes how strong parental effort saves earthly life yet emphasizes eternal life, and recalls stories of obedient youths who pursued God.
A Russian Odessa heir left four nieces 4,000,000 rubies with a demand they work fifteen months as chamber maids washers or farm servants to receive the money. A Sussex publican’s widow faced a perverse clause requiring barefooted market walks on each anniversary of his death to claim benefits or face £20 a year. Cruel matrimonial restraints on widows are noted, including a case of income cuts upon remarriage and birth of children.
Great Roman families show private charity pride alongside art and chapels. Prince Doria supports a hundred elderly residents through Istituto Doria run by Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul. Torlonia funds a home, training school for sixty orphans, girl and infant schools for 650 pupils, an eye and ear hospital, and an old woman's home. Duchesse Salviati maintains the Ospedale del Bambino Gesu, a leading children’s hospital.
Coffee plantations in Guadeloupe occupy mountain ranges with altitudes from 10 to 800 feet. The text notes plantations spread across high elevations, though numbers appear garbled.
The article notes that Japanese residents in Hawaii sent $10,000 to Japan to aid the Red Cross Society during the late war. It also mentions Professor Roentgen visiting Florence yearly for rest and Vincent Ray, a Chippewa Indian, who died in Superior, Wisconsin, leaving an estate of $75,000. The official Catholic directory tallies Catholics in the United States at 9,410,790.
Multiple brief notices offer low rate excursions to the South via Louisville and Nashville and Missouri Kansas & Texas railways with contact details for agents. The garbled text includes seed catalog offers, estate sales, tonic cures, baby teething syrup, and trivia facts about giraffes and pelican pouches.
Worth Knowing notes artesian wells named after their French origin. Most rivers within a thousand miles east and west Ashantee yield gold. Fuchsias begonias primulag and vies leta need little sun while roses cacti require more light. Campbell writes the station Like angel visits few and in between, found in Pleasur Life.
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