27 Dec 1906
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
1
The Roland Record's Christmas edition is noted as near yellow journalism amid local notes on Slater city well contracts high school yell prize winners and Alleman elevator talks. Story City chandelier gift to St Petri church and a McWherter restaurant fire are reported along with local debates and county shifts.
W L Hill of Bowie Texas says he grew from 90 to over 180 pounds after taking Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. He claims doctors gave him up to die but after 12 bottles he is fully cured. Cough and cold remedy guaranteed by druggists 50 cents to 1.00 trial bottle free.
Laura Elizabeth Woodruff born Gettysburg Michigan December 29 1873 died at home near Crookston Minnesota December 16 1907 aged 32 years 11 months 17 days. She married John Perry near Ames Iowa March 22 1899 and their five children survive along with husband father a sister brother and many relatives. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church in 1887 and lived a devoted Christian life. A faithful wife and mother has gone to her reward.
J B Waterman of Waterman Ohio reports his daughter, long afflicted with epilepsy, has not had an attack in over two years after using Dr King's New Life Pills. He calls it the best body cleanser and life giving tonic on earth and urges purchase at druggists.
The Ames Gun Club held a Christmas afternoon trap shoot at 2:00 on club grounds east of the city. About fifteen shooters competed with Clark posting the high average. A New Year’s cup shoot is planned at 2:30, drawing around fifteen entrants for what promises to be the season’s largest tournament.
On Sunday December 28 at the home of Alma Anfinson's parents Mr and Mrs Nels Anfinson in Kelley the marriage to Oliver Brown of Des Moines was performed. A three course wedding luncheon followed and many friends offered costly, useful presents. The bride is well known and respected. Brown is a Des Moines mechanical engineer. The couple will reside in Des Moines and friends extend best wishes.
A Bluffton Indiana notice urges readers to go home in various moods and add a remedy tip. It promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a quick cure for a bad cold and notes Judisch Bros. as the seller.
Essie Samuels aged sixteen and Harold Wilkins twenty one from Slater eloped to Des Moines before Christmas but were intercepted by telegraph and brought home. After a sharp lecture they returned, and at the start of 1907 the couple wed the old fashioned way with family approval.
Twenty years of nasal catarrh plagued W. L. Rawls of Bells Tennessee. He reports swelling and soreness in his nose disappeared after applying Bucklen's Arnica Salve to the sore surface and never returned. The seller calls it the best salve in existence and it is 25 cents at all druggists.
A local crowd discussing Christmas church programs was interrupted by a remark that Baptist congregations were accepting cash gifts that evening. The dialogue touched on philanthropy and a review of Sir Richard Francis Burton as the group gathered in a business house by the regular stove.
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