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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1903
Page
3
Jamaican merchant James Prendergast reports his daughter’s severe cold improved in two days after using Chamberlain’s cough remedy. He claims the chest pains indicated pneumonia but the remedy warded off the attack and notes seven years of use with consistent success. Sold by all druggists.
Iowa State College dedicates its new engineering hall built at a cost of 215000 with 30000 furniture and 60000 equipment. The building houses four engineering divisions with modern heating and a 600 foot tunnel to the power plant. Formal opening is planned for June with alumni and two societies holding meetings and receptions in Ames.
The description outlines the new four story engineering building 208 by 100 feet with an elliptical entrance hall and stairs, Venetian mosaic floors, oak lockers, and two large pink scagliola marble columns. It notes drafting rooms on the fourth floor, laboratories, and an arched front entablature listing leaders and speakers. It lists Proudfoot Bird as architects and H W Schlieuter as contractor with construction starting Sept 1 1900.
A Kansas City Star excerpt discusses how methodical development transforms art and nature. It notes improvements in animal breeding and training, flower cultivation, and the enduring charm of flowers like the American Beauty carnation chrysanthemum and wild roses.
An old newspaper item promotes the best price paid for produce at J. B. Kooser & Co and advertises Dr Caldwell Syrup Pepsin as a breath sweetener sold by L. M. Bosworth.
A Brookline Station Missouri resident reports rapid relief for pulmonary consumption after using three to four bottles of White Wine of Tar Syrup. The letter claims renewed health and recommends the remedy to others suffering lung ailments. It notes the medicine is sold by Coye Pharmacy and distributed via John Potter department store.
Passage describes Newfoundland coast folk hunting caribou by sea and foot using long muzzle loading guns to kill and salt meat for preservation while detailing a second vignette about a hospital patient named Jane and a joke about hypochondria from a physician dialogue.
A note asks a guest who left a donation party early to visit L. M. Bosworth's drug store for Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to ease indigestion. Available in 50c and 1 bottles.
A man plans to show his wife a newspaper clipping about a house being robbed during the couple's church visit. A friend asks for a duplicate copy, highlighting the clipping's value as a rare item.
Story County Bank advertises real estate loans with flexible payment days and any amount due at any time. It promises no commission on such loans and invites customers with existing loans to have rates reduced.
A new sleeper train runs daily between Des Moines and St Joseph with a Des Moines departure at 9:00 p.m. arriving in St Joseph at 10:00 a.m. The return from St Joseph leaves at 2:05 a.m. and arrives back in St Joseph depot by 8:00 p.m. Travelers can expect a full night’s rest in either direction with service coordinated at depots. Great Western agents and J P Himer, G P A, Chicago, are listed for more information.
Business opportunities advertised across Iowa Illinois Minnesota Missouri inviting tent men with capital in all branches of business. Prospects for creamery operators hotels and stock buyers plus general merchandise hardware and harness trades. Maps and Maple lets available from W J Reed Endicott Building St Paul Minnesota.
New Century Comfort Millions rely on Bucklen’s Arnica Salve to ease burns scalds bruises ulcers eruptions and sores. The ad claims fast relief for pains and skin troubles and lists L M Bosworth’s drug store as the outlet selling the 25 cent tube.
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