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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
4
Saturday afternoon residents were startled by a freight engine whistle that shrieked for about an hour. The crew explained the whistle stuck as the train pulled out of Crocker and could not be repaired until reaching the city.
A testimonial style notice touts Dr Shoop's Cough Remedy as a safe, opium free cure for tight and distressing coughs. It attributes curative leaves from a mountainous shrub and claims suitability for even infants, with Joel E. Cagwin as the seller.
The Bm Lockwood Grain Co will give a fine souvenir china plate to every customer who pays their account in full. The offer runs while plates last, so customers should settle now or open an account to receive a plate.
A sales pitch notes that nothing pleases a wife like hand painted china or cut glass and directs readers to Perry's for the line.
The Fiddler and the Girl stars Alan Villair with Lillian West. Act 1 features witty lines and the peanut scene with Jack and Della. Act 2 offers rustic comedy, horse theft charges, and a moving Jack Della parting. Act 3 delivers a lighted cigar plan and Della’s escape ending in curtain calls. Act 4 sustains momentum to a strong climax Saturday Dec. 5 at the Armory.
Leo F Zelinski of 68 Gibson St Buffalo reports curing a severe cold sore with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He says one daily application for two days removed all traces of the sore. Sold under guarantee at drug stores, price 25 cents.
A German book questions the traditional tale that Dr Joseph Guillotin invented the guillotine. It states Guillotin proposed legal equality and execution methods, while surgeons and craftsmen such as Antoine Louis Guidon Tobias Schmidt were involved in creating the mechanism, with Schmidt’s model built in 1792.
The text notes a man who profited from provincial industries then squandered his fortune in Paris. It states Dr Guillotin, uninvolved with the guillotine’s creation, practiced medicine quietly in Paris and died there on March 26 1814.
In Middleboro Massachusetts Colonel Ebenezer Sproat known for his humor serves soldiers during a furlough. He asks his mother how much the meal is worth and when told a shilling he pockets eight shillings from the till and gives it to the three weary men. Both he and Mrs. Sproat enjoy the joke as she approves the playful mischief.
Reputable drug advertisement proclaims New Life Pills work quietly without sensation. Claims cure constipation headache biliousness and malaria. Priced at 25 cents and sold at all drug stores.
The novel adapted play Miss Petticoats arrives for one night only in New Bedford. Agatha Renier stars as Countess Fornay with a first class company and scenic New England seaport settings. The breezy homespun drama blends merriment wit and romance based on the popular book.
Tom fcofore recalled earlier meetings with James known tile while a reading in town drew a committee to escort him by carriage. He humorously declined new civic buildings they already knew, preferring not to see the courthouse town hall bridge school and jail again before the show. Also promote Dr Shoops Health Coffee with a 25 cent package coupon for a No Drip strainer. Sold by J J Grove.
A fragment notes the removal of the appendix by a surgeon named Dr. King. The text implies caution about the practitioner’s methods or qualifications, but details are incomplete.
Preventics are advertised with four advantages over other remedies for a cold. They contain no quinine or harsh ingredients, provide almost instant relief, taste pleasant like candy, and come in a large box of 48 at 25 cents. Also suitable for feverish children. Sold by Joel E. Cagwin.
The mountains in Wales provide strength and simplicity, fostering older virtues and discouraging newer vices. In Wales hill folk display rare independence and self reliance, earning the label nature's gentlemen by the London Standard.
Mary is found standing on a chair before a mirror, admiring her own reflection. Her mother asks why, and Mary replies she likes the look of me, a simple moment captured in a Chicago News report.
A brief quotation depicts a tense street scene as a man pleads for protection while an officer asks about an escaped lunatic. The exchange reflects urban danger and press tone in the Kansas City Times report.
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