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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1896
Page
3
Rev Williams exhorts Christians to seek pure hearts and decisive faith, urging mass meetings and urgent choices for Jesus. He cites Moody and Storrs, warns against gambling and alcohol, and champions church unity while preserving doctrinal identity. He frames salvation as an inheritance secured by Christ's blood and urges readers to claim it.
An expert notes electric lighting improves but remains crude. Shifts include inverting arc lamps to reflect light off white roofs, lower candle power lamps with hoods, diffuse prismed shades, and lighting interiors by diffused colored light. Churches especially favor restful, indirect illumination.
The retailer announces low prices across all departments with garments priced from 25 cents to 1.50 dollars. Men’s hosiery ranges 50 to 50 cents, plus discounts on work shirts flannel shirts neck wear collars and cuffs.
A Jewell Nursery Co. of Lake City Minnesota offers steady work selling Minnesota grown trees. Reliable men with sales ability may apply by writing to the company for employment prospects and good wages.
Adams Bros. report a Health recovery tale of Gilman Brown after doctors gave up on his son. Dr King's New Discovery allegedly cured long lung troubles following Typhoid Malaria, enabling him to work again. Trial bottles available at Bosworth's Drug store.
A vintage advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a pure vegetable tonic that restores tired nerves, tones stomach nerve centers, stimulates the liver and kidneys, purifies blood, improves appetite, and aids digestion. Sold for 50 cents and 1.00 at Bosworth's Drug Store.
Tuesday and November 3rd 17th December 1st 15th via Chicago Great Western Maple Leaf rail fare one way round trip with two dollars added good twenty one days stopovers on going trip see agent Chicago Great Western Railway
Wanted notice from Adams Brothers seeking goods in exchange for services or payment. Likely a local classifieds item requesting buyers to contact Adams Brothers for barter arrangements.
The piece notes the will's simple language and hidden meanings. It cites a deist past, a last professed piety, and forgiving remarks toward France's enemies. It records bequests to many helpers and a codicil mentioning Castillon, linked to an alleged assassination attempt on Wellington.
In Harper’s Magazine Mr Howells recalls Longfellow handwriting as smooth regular and scrupulously perfect with vertical rounded letters and consistent spacing. He notes Longfellow favored a soft pencil on printing paper though often used a quill and that his manuscripts were likely not first drafts.
An editorial snippet from the Cincinnati Enquirer satirizes misunderstandings of signals in social exchange. It mentions Wayside Philosophy and Perry Patet with humorous wordplay on consent and refusals during a windy day.
The famed Norwegian novelist Bjornsen writes so illegibly that his wife deciphers his manuscripts. She copies his work, then he corrects it and she recopies it, sometimes rewriting the entire book three or four times.
Dr. L F Andrews outlines hog cholera as a contagious germ disease with long soil and water survival. Prevention is essential. disinfect boots and clothing, use lime or a carbolic acid sulfuric acid mix, and thoroughly treat fences pens and soil to curb spread.
The Century magazine previews its 1897 line up led by a major novel The Story of Hugh Wynne Free Quaker a Washington staff officer and social life in Revolutionary Philadelphia with figures like Washington Franklin and Lafayette. It also announces Howard Pyle illustrated articles General Porter diary life on campaign and a Rose of Yesterday tale plus new engravings by T Cole and forthcoming features.
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