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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
3
A Tuesday night Ames audience rioted after a leg show at the Armory Opera House. Spectators hurled cabbage at the performers of Mr Dooley, damaged the curtain, and blocked stage doors as the National Guard intervened. Manager Manning vows precautions to prevent a repeat.
If you suffer indigestion constipation and feel mean Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea makes the system strong and healthy. 35 cents Tea or Tablets. L M Bosworth.
A inventor outlines molds and couplings for cement grout water tanks with iron bands and ties, noting a patent aim. The plan includes a three foot outside mold and an eight inch smaller inner mold, with sections and reinforced wire. Separately, Marshalltown hosts Madame Butterfly at the Odeon on March 5, touted as the finest operatic event in its history by promoter Henry W Savage.
Neighborhood favorite Mrs. E. D. Charles of Harbor Maine praises Electric Bitters as a quick relief for dyspepsia liver complaint kidney derangement malnutrition and nervous debility. She claims its blood purifying action makes it ideal as a spring medicine and notes the 50 cent price at druggists.
Help wanted ad seeks a small cottage or a few rooms, furnished or unfurnished, for light housekeeping. Leave word at this office. 42-2.
Laurance Gossard spent last week at home while Madge Gossard hosted a friend from Ankeny. Grayce Hughes celebrated her fifteenth birthday with a party. Lew Stinsland departed for Chicago Sunday with hogs and cattle. Ladies Aid met Thursday. Mrs. Adamson hosted. Mrs. Morris of Ames visited the Rosenfelds. Mrs Amanda Thomas from Ames visited the Frank Sutter family. Mr. and Mrs. N. Williams returned from a Kansas trip. Mrs. Starr of Des Moines underwent an operation and is recovering well. Thirty friends surprised the Dockums Thursday evening for a post party. Lytle, Carruth, Gerbracht, Hutchinson and Stevens dined with the Rosenfelds. A day trip to the Gerbracht home with several families was enjoyed. R. W. Crane returned from Missouri with his horses. he and family will move to near Trenton next week. The school staged the Gypsy Queen under Miss Lulu Smith, raising funds for the library. Forty five attended a farewell gathering at the Liverly home for the Cranes with music, games and a supper before departures.
The upcoming event centers on the large sheep sale hosted by E. P. Gilbert at Gilbert Iowa scheduled for Saturday February 22. Proceeds or herd details not specified in readable text.
Trustee Lem Deal interrupted a poker game in Redmen hall last Sunday evening after noticing unusually high electric bills. Four men, Patterson Kingkade Slottenow and Hansen, admitted they had access via a key. They faced county attorney and will be summoned before the grand jury.
Careful mothers keep Foley's Honey and Tar in the house and give it at the first sign of danger. Foley's Honey and Tar has saved many little lives and it is the only safe preparation for children as it contains no harmful drugs. Cagwin, druggist.
Colonel Edmund Rice, commanding Twenty-sixth Infantry in the Philippines, organized a mounted scouts company. He requested eighty nosebags for eighty horses, explaining that the extra gear was for the horses, not the men, after a clerk questioned the need for more nosebags than soldiers.
The article traces early inoculation from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s 1718 Turkish experiments to trials on condemned criminals in 1721 and royal testing in 1722. It notes clergy opposition until 1760, Mead’s success until 1754, Dinsdale inoculating Catherine II in 1768, and Jenner introducing vaccination in 1799.
The Moors of today are the descendants of those who conquered Spain and were dominant in the south for two centuries. Remnants of their remarkable buildings still exist in the country, but their current condition shows they struggle to adapt to modern times.
An 19th or early 20th century advertisement touts Dr Shoop Cough Cure as safe for infants and adults. It claims the medicine uses green leaves from a mountain shrub to calm coughs and heal bronchial membranes without opium or harsh additives. Joel BE Cagwin urges demand for Shoop's and to take no other.
Lopez of Manila New York says as a carpenter he has saved suffering and dollars using Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It heals cuts burns sores ulcers fever sores eczema and piles. Price 25 cents.
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