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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1902
Page
2
In Washington near Acme a forest of hemlocks grows atop an ancient buried forest of cedars. The cedar trunks, though lying in moist soil, remain almost perfectly preserved for at least 150 years, as shown by the growth rings indicating the time the hemlocks have towered above their fallen predecessors.
The article explains catarrh as nasal or bronchial. Nasal catarrh may be aided by saline snuffing and mouthfuls of salt water. a climate change can help persistent cases. Bronchitis requires medical attention.
A witty exchange about originality features an irritable man asking for something new and a reply noting that good thoughts are already said by others long ago. The Washington Star quote highlights the limits of originality in ideas.
Willie Boerum asks if everyone in heaven must have a harp while Mr Boerum questions the idea and suggests children might use tin horns. An insistent tone reflects a humorous city newspaper cartoon exchange from Brooklyn.
The Iowa Experiment Station begins a vast cattle feeding test at Odebolt near Odetolt using 320 cattle across eight rations to compare corn based diets with various meals and roughage. Prof Kennedy directs with monthly weighings. hogs follow for parallel data while James Atkinson plans next summer corn breeding projects with Galloway and Shorthorn crosses.
A customer told our shop she will use Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for her cold saying it kept them free from every kind of cold last winter. She called it a great remedy and a perfect laxative. Sold by L. M. Bosworth.
Tickets to nearly all points in the United States go on sale at CGW ticket offices on the first and third Tuesdays of January and February at one fare plus 2.00 for the round trip. Return is good within 21 days from sale. For details contact CGW agents or J. P. Elmer G P A Chicago Ill. February 18 1902.
Consists in keeping all the main organs of the body in healthy action and destroying deadly disease germs. Electric Bitters regulate stomach liver and kidneys purify the blood and improve appetite. They cure kidney troubles female complaints nervous disorders constipation dyspepsia and malaria. Only 50c guaranteed by L M Bosworth druggist.
Advertisement lists a North Kansas farm trade for Ames or Nevada residence. J. F. Baker of Ames Iowa hosts Old Maids Convention at Woodman Hall Gilbert Station Friday January 31 at 8 pm. See toothless old maids transformed into blooming maidens. Admission 15 and 25 cents.
The I C O F Ames celebrates its coming of age with a reception and banquet in a new three story temple costing 19000 dollars. The event features Rev F Baker, toastmaster Cupps and speakers from Ames including C G Lee and T Sisson. The building houses lodge halls, a banquet hall, and commercial spaces with plans by Parsons & Sons Des Moines.
In Arhenius memoir the sun’s gravity and light pressure create a comet tail. Small hydrocarbon particles vaporize, with the smallest repelled away to form tails while larger particles fall inward. A homogeneous head yields one tail, a heterogeneous head yields multiple tails.
New Century Comfort Millions find daily relief from burns scalds cuts and ulcers with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. It cures eruptions boils and felons removes corns and warts and serves as a top pile remedy. Only 25c at L. M. Bosworth’s drug store.
Changes in dining car service across the Iowa Division begin Thursday Jan 23. No. 1 Carroll to U P Transfer serves breakfast, No. 6 U P Transfer to Carroll serves supper, No. 8 U P Transfer to Cedar Rapids serves luncheon and supper, No. 3 Cedar Rapids to U P Transfer serves breakfast and luncheon. No. 16 service is discontinued. No. 3 will now run from Cedar Rapids and start breakfast earlier. No changes to Nos. 4 and 5 or the Galena Division.
Wanted twenty to thirty tons of straw. Address 392 Conner Farm Dept.
An old head of a Great Northern line is remembered in a railway anecdote. While resting in the country, he encounters a fired-up idle engine on a side track. The fireman and engineer smoke as the safety valve vents. He orders the fires banked P D Q, and the crew comply.
A London journal notes Columbus brought horses on his second voyage in 1493. Florida saw 42 horses land but perish soon after. De Soto left Spanish horses in 1540 41, forming the southwestern wild horse stock. In 1604 French settlers brought animals to Acadia, ancestor of the Canadian pony. Flanders horses arrived in New York in 1625.
A Dallas County teacher reports a pupil sent home a math riddle about filling bottles from gallins of beer. The boy and family struggled to solve it and the pupil cried, forcing the parent to buy a nine gallin keg to demonstrate. The note requests future work be in water.
A quotation discusses gender dynamics noting that a man who calls himself a mere man often seeks to overawe women. The speaker, Sarah Grand, shares a private opinion about masculine tone used to dominate sovereign women and invites readers to question motivations behind such behavior.
A dialogue reveals Charlie's desire to be rich to earn affection and be petted, while an elderly uncle is teased as an old fool. The secret remains unspoken as Charlie insists it must not be told.
Miss Benchus flirts with Mr. Gallent who, quick to retort, proclaims himself a divinity student while flashing bold black eyes. The Philadelphia Press vignette highlights clever conversation and social play.
Old Farmer bids his son to buy electric light plants in the city while joking about raising them at home. A lighthearted note from the Woman’s Journal reflecting rural thrift and urban tech.
Nell Polly discuss fiancé’s conceit in a Philadelphia Record item. Nell says he never declares himself unworthy, tracing pride to masculine modesty in their banter. The column conveys social humor and dating manners.
A historical market overview lists giraffes at about 7000 dollars and rhinos hippos 4000 to 5000 each. Chimpanzees command 5000, elephants range 1000 to 5000 with price tied to disposition and potential breeding.
A set of concise natural history notes covers animals and behaviors. Pelican pouches hold seven quarts, camels prove inefficient for mountain climbing in Abyssinia, sparrows nest within one day, red grouse vary dress by surroundings and are confined to the British Isles, mallards fly with no known reason, birds form a V in flight, ostrich lineage traces back to ancient giants, Madagascar once hosted ostriches 14 to 15 feet tall.
In a 1898 missive quoted in a new edition of his Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson writes to George Meredith about fourteen years of poor health. He describes waking ill, writing through pain, and a lifelong struggle with illness, preferring battle abroad to his bed and medicine at home.
The palm has three major lines the life line the head line and the heart line. The life line starts near the inner palm between the thumb and forefinger and curves southeast then south and sometimes to the southwest. A deep broad life line with good color and a long reach to the wrist suggests long life and a cheerful disposition.
In Lake Minnetonka Minnesota Crane Island remains uninhabited and known as a summer retreat for cranes. Generations ago the birds chose the spot for a resort and, as nearby islands grew crowded, no one disturbed the area until now, when passing boats call it a curiosity of the northwest.
It is not generally known among men that close shaving is apt to bring on a cold. Barbers know this and avoid close shaves unless ordered, to prevent patron discomfort and illness.
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