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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
7
An Ames reader reports Dr. Nott's Q ban Hair Restorer claiming to restore natural hair color with three bottles and offering refunds if unsuccessful. The ad notes purchase at Loughran & Bauer and promotes a free big bottle offer. A separate anecdote recounts a mistaken car-theft misunderstanding and humorous owner warning.
A historical note lists sample definitions from Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary 1721. It includes playful entries like Man a creature endowed with reason Thunder a noise to the deaf Lichtning a meteor A Stainbow a meteor of various colors and Balloon a football.
A Danish king intervened when four Flakkebjerk schoolboys reported daily beatings with a steel rope. He confronted the cruel teacher, closed the school, rewarded the boys with cakes, and dismissed the teacher without pension. The king warned teachers against corporal punishment.
A famed author and longtime car admirer recalls an amusing episode near a New York hotel. She notes a gleaming new model, and a friend offers to give her a spin since her chauffeur is ill, prompting an unexpected curbside adventure.
A French novelist Theophile Gautier kept a cat named Madame Theophile. A visiting friend left a parrot. The cat stalked the bird but the parrot spoke and the cat fled, realizing the intruder was a talking gentleman. The tale appears in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A London Chronicle reflection traces punitive methods from pillory and public shaming in Plantagenet times to harsher flogging and executions in later eras. It emphasizes how public ridicule and selective punishments shaped social order, contrasting with brutal reformist and maritime practices.
A Paris Figaro writer surveys Moroccan sayings noting their quirky proverbs resemble and differ from ours. Among lines cited are do not trust neighbors, a wise enemy beats a stupid friend, beware quiet dangers, and luck women horses as three untrustworthy things.
A comic moment as a man jokes about the stork delivering a hippopotamus after reading about a new baby hippo at the zoo. Johnnie remarks he was laughing at the idea, while Pop looks up from the paper.
A quip from Uncle Eben in the Washington Star notes that an automobile goes faster than a mule yet hits harder and balks longer, illustrating a jurist style joke on balance and consequence. The remark blends humor with caution about speed and impact.
A concise proverb note stating that everyone best knows where his own shoe pinches and that personal experience guides comfort and choice.
Mrs A C Williams of Backy credits Dr King's New Discovery with ending a graveyard cough and restoring health after other doctors failed. She says she gained 58 pounds and fully recovered. The medicine is described as a world healing record for coughs colds and lung throat diseases. Sold with guarantee at drug stores 50c and 1.00 Trial bottle free.
Drugists say Preventics tablets offer four distinct benefits over other cold remedies. The first advantage is relief from nasal congestion within minutes of use. The second feature allegedly reduces coughing episodes for several hours. The third claim concerns symptom-free sleep through the night. The fourth advantage emphasizes quick, lasting comfort with continued use.
The text promotes a product advertised by Joel B. Cagwin claiming no quinine, gentle taste, fast relief, and pleasant candy-like flavor. It mentions a large 48 box Preventives set priced at 25 cents and notes suitability for feverish children.
In the Magazine of American History account, the first Confederate flag with a blue field and stripes resembled the stars and stripes, prompting Beauregard to order red banners with a blue St. Andrew’s cross and white stars. Johnston and Beauregard designed the flag adopted in 1861, with southern women sewing many from red and blue silk. Constance Cary, future Mrs. Burton Harrison, helped make the first three.
The dark markings on the moon known as mare are vast low plains. They are likely ancient sea bottoms, some raised or altered since ancient waters retreated, others seeming unchanged since the waters dried up.
Advert says Dr. King’s New Life Pills prevent dangerous operations like appendix removal by a surgeon. The ad claims the pills work quietly, relieve constipation headaches biliousness and malaria, and sell for 25 cents at all drug stores.
The fragment hints at a promotion offering many large cups of Dr coffee at a lower price. Details such as exact brand name, quantity, or store are unclear in the OCR fragment.
A coinage of 25 cents buys Shoop’s Health Coffee with a coupon on a silvered No-Drip coffee strainer. The seller, J. J. Grove, indicates the coupon is included and the product promises high satisfaction.
A husband asks for filtered water and questions last night events while the wife jokes about a tumbler or a painful moment, reflecting a humorous London Opinion snippet about domestic mischief and miscommunication.
A brief cartoon-like exchange notes a borrowed item in a witty escalation. The speaker pressures the other to relieve their mind of the burden, contrasting sorrow yesterday with the greater burden tomorrow, attributed to Euripides.
Halliday Arkansas resident W C Kiestler testimonials a cure from malaria and stomach troubles with Electric Bitters. The ad claims the bottle purifies and enriches blood, strengthens nerves, and restores vigor. Money-back guarantee offered. 50 cents at drug stores.
A Kansas City Journal fragment shows a dialogue where a woman says she is receiving attention from an actor and hopes for a marriage proposal. She suggests rigging a spotlight in the parlor and arranging the pianola for slow music to set the scene.
A Brooklyn Life quip recalls the first awe of Niagara Falls as speakers marvel at the powerful display. The exchange contrasts wonder with speechlessness, highlighting the falls as a remarkable natural phenomenon.
A humorous vignette in which Ethel obeys her mother’s instruction to bid Marian’s mother good night despite a conflict over an unhappy supper. Ethel admits Marian took the largest apple piece and spilled lemonade on her dress, ajar to the goal of polite speech.
A deaf tourist stayed at a cottage after the village inn filled. He asked to be awakened at a set hour, but woke late. An amiable old lady slid a note under the door saying Sir it is half past 8.
A New York Press fragment recalls a gas man questioning a woman about her late husband. She explains she divorced him before his death and hints at suspicions about his affairs as he sought gas service. The exchange unfolds with sharp irony and social nuance.
A light quip from Wax Bead claims a necklace will fool observers as real pearls while Brass Ring retorts that they are merely stringing you in a witty Baltimore American item.
In a Boston Transcript line a cautious note praises the true American who helps the underdog in a fight while noting a sharp retort about the bold move of a camp figure to join the fray.
The remark notes how infancy shows levity as prettiness while adults view the same trait as a shameful defect, yet in old age it becomes a monstrous folly. A reflection on shifting perceptions of charm, maturity, and folly across life stages.
A famous actor remarks that women enjoy easier paths to success on stage, aided by looks or charm, while men endure long toil. He notes his envy at times, contrasting years of effort with a young actress’s quick rise to financial independence and idol status.
A brief sales note from W. A. Perry points out goods marked ten cents are sometimes sold for a quarter. He urges buyers to beware of inflated prices and urges shopkeepers to honor the set 10 cent prices.
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