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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1903
Page
2
The piece explains cigar terminology and packing from perfecto to panetela and londres to partegas. It notes that shape, not quality, defines perfecto and describes tuck, head, and lucha terms, with packing patterns and color designations from claro to maduro and oscuro.
A Detroit Free Press humor piece recounts a Virginia mountain visit where a family fixed a cook stove on a kitchen table due to missing stovepipe. The host explains the setup while the visitors admire the improvised, handy solution.
The piece surveys major rivers noting the Nile has no tributaries for over 1,200 miles, the Jordan winds 213 miles in 60, the Potomac’s lower course becomes an estuary, and the Tsangpo and Indus reach great lengths at high elevations. It compares river volumes and navigability, highlighting the Yukon’s summer steamship reach of 1,965 miles and other scale contrasts.
Dr J B Fly reports his wife with long pulmonary disease improved after using three bottles and a fourth of White Wine of Tar Syrup. The couple, from Brookline Station Missouri, credits relief to the medicine and notes John Potter as local supplier via Coye Pharmacy.
Iowa Agricultural College led the triumphs with steers winning open class and grand championships, the famed Shamrock Angus priced at five cents a pound and sold for 56 cents, and the college sweeping fat stock prizes. Students from Iowa College captured the Spoor trophy and all top prizes in stock judging, with Minnesota second and Wisconsin third, signaling premier college training in livestock.
Joel Dement of Inwood Iowa says Chamberlain's cough remedy saved his sick child. He bought it from A E Steere in Goodwin 8 D and used it as directed every ten minutes until the child vomited and spat out long phlegm strings. He warns without the medicine the boy might have died. Sold by all druggists.
A. RicaMono advertises thirty farms for sale north of James Town North Carolina. Prices range from 8 to 20 dollars per acre with some farms well improved and ready for a crop this year. Buyers can pay toward purchase money and own within three to four years. Neighborhood flax crops last year provided funds for many buyers.
Geo Benedict of Decatur Illinois praises Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin after a prior Bright's Disease scare. He credits one bottle with stopping stomach trouble and restoring appetite, insisting the diagnosis was a false rumor and recommending the remedy to others.
Dr Hausmann and Schumann debate Wagner with Schloss Wagner calling Schumann impossible to engage. Wagner recalls attempts to discuss operas and composers with Schumann who remained silent and aloof. The exchange highlights divergent temperaments between the two composers and their contemporary rival.
If you have a loan on your place that can be paid on any interest pay day see us let us take it up and reduce your rate and also get you a loan on which you can pay any amount on any day you choose We charge you no commission on such a loan Story County Bank.
Atchison Globe quotes a maxim urging that everyone keep conduct high so even adversaries cannot imitate better. The piece emphasizes personal integrity as a public standard.
Notice is given that the last will of R. Jane Van Scoy, deceased, is on file in the district court clerk's office. A hearing for probate is set for Tuesday January 20 1903, during the January term, 1908, in Nevada Iowa. Interested parties must appear to contest the instrument.
The advertisement claims Electric Bitters maintain all main organs healthy with regular action and quickly destroy disease germs. It tolls relief for Kidney troubles female complaints nervous disease constipation dyspepsia and malaria. 50 cents and guaranteed by K M Bosworth, druggist.
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