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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1899
Page
5
A fragmentary dialogue notes hospital crowding after Christmas shopping and compares Nicaragua Canal cost estimates from 115 to 150 million dollars. It praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for indigestion and related ailments and ends with a quirky remark about a door bell ringing when alone in a house.
A former Idaho resident now in Lacombe Alberta writes about moving west in 1894. He states he brought livestock cash and equipment, homesteaded land, and finds crops cheaper here with high yields in 1897 and 1898. He notes free homesteads, cheap land from the Canadian Pacific Railway, and superior school laws.
Old health notes claim nine tenths of diseases begin with digestion and stomach weakness. A small book promises simple cures by fixing digestion, avoiding indigestion related headaches, insomnia, and nervous debility, with diet tips and a digest time table. Also mentions assorted ads and odd facts about medicines, soaps, and transit fares.
Cuban army chiefs condemn Gen Gomez for agreeing to a $3 million U S payment to troops, claiming no authority to disarm or pay soldiers. Assembly asserts Gomez lacks power. Portuondo explains no official knowledge of the pact. Porter says funds now with Maj Gen Brooke for disbursement.
In Springfield the Illinois House introduced five bills including railroads running two through trains daily with no county-seat stops, farmers erecting telephone lines, and extending the school year to six months. The Senate met with five members present and transacted no business. A Constantinople dispatch reports a French protest to the Porte over a Haidar Pasha port concession for an Anatolian Railroad terminus. Also notes the US Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Co being formed with 36 million dollars capital, and a Manila telegram stating Spanish prisoners at Mayariz were freed and wages paid.
In Lincoln on February 6 the Nebraska house passed a resolution directing Senators Alien and Thurston to vote for ratification of the peace treaty in the Senate.
A collage of patent medicine pitches and satirical dialogues appears alongside miscellaneous notes. Hall's Catarrh Cure and Piso's Cure are pitched with testimonials while other lines promise cold remedies and a joke about a minister sermon.
A historical note on menstrual pain describes it as common and severe for some women and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure. It cites a testimonial from Miss Jennie R. Mines of Leon Wisconsin and invites other women to write for free advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
The February Ledger Monthly features reproductions from the Portrait Show at the Academy of Design New York. The cover portrait by Carle J. Bilenner appears in five colors and aims to be frame worthy. Subscriptions offered: send fifty cents for a year and receive January free plus issues through March 1900 via the postmaster for inscription.
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