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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1896
Page
3
An article argues women suffer from various female ailments and seek Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It notes women write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance and many secretaries answer daily letters, aiming to help restore health.
The piece highlights cream-colored French kid gloves with slim black spots and deerskin gloves for cyclists. It notes white veils with web-like ground and black chenille borders, and royal fashion favors including brown and white spotted veils. It dismisses rumors about black stockings ending.
On the first and third Tuesdays of each month until October, about half rates for round trips to southern points are offered by the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Ask your ticket agent or write C. P. Atmore General Passenger Agent Louisville Ky or Geo B Horner D P Y A St Louis Mo.
Quotable line by Lord Bacon emphasizes restraint in discourse as a mark of wisdom and virtue. It highlights the value of measured words over sheer eloquence in public and private life.
In Richford Vermont Mrs H C Ayer reports fever and debility with dyspepsia and pain, noting complete relief after taking Pr Kay's Renovator. The ad lists 25 cents or 1.00, with mail order from Dr B J Kay Medical Co Omaha Nebraska. Laplanders are noted as skaters covering long distances in a day.
Walter Wilmot’s career with St Paul Washington Chicago and Tacoma highlighted by 12 inning and 20 inning thrillers. contrasts with modern hitters and fatigue. Reminiscences note Wilmot’s feats, legendary extra inning plays by Holliday and the Colts, and a nostalgia for the old rules and excitement in early baseball.
A reflective column recalling long extra innings games from the old era and the impact of new rules on extra innings. It notes famous 17 inning 0–0 Rochester? Syracuse Stars vs Maple Leafs, 18 inning Detroit vs Providence, and 22 inning Seattle vs Tacoma contests, with a look at players from 1889 and their fates in majors, minors, or retirement.
Short Stop Shorty Fuller has been released from New York. Frank Shannon of the Louisvilles shows malaria recovery and improved play. Anson runs games fast, keeps players moving from first to last. John Handiboe, once notable, pitches for Gallipolis C team seeking Western league chance. Manager Shannon of Rochester releases pitcher Gillon. staff now McFarlan Herman Lovett Weyhing. Connaughton over stage fright and now delivering a fast game. Manager McGunnigle and the Colonels visit Washington and meet President Cleveland at the White House.
John A. Bliley of Ottumwa recounts three years of stomach trouble ending after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He details weight loss from 135 to 117 pounds, gradual improvement after each box, and full recovery after nine boxes. Notary public sworn statement dated March 6, 1896.
An advertisement urges parents to consider the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Joseph Missouri for daughters education. It notes attractive grounds, thorough teaching, reasonable terms, and a five month session at 115 dollars payable in advance including tuition boarding wash uses of library and physician's fee. Next session opens Sept 1 1895 and inquiries go to Mother Superior.
An elderly Detroit Free Press reminiscence contrasts old time baseball with modern play. A veteran recalls live balls and long Hickory bats, narrating a New Castle Pennsylvania game where a ball landed in the river and a ten pound bass tale links to a rival, Judkin, and a lively evening by the river.
The article surveys historic and exotic beverages including the blood of live horses used as drink by Tartars and Mongols, lamb milk-paste wine in China, Laplanders’ smoked snow water, Tonquinese arrack with chickens’ blood, and ends with a sharp critique of absinthe as France’s national spirit.
A New York Journal description contrasts an immaculate man on Fifth Avenue and a dainty woman amid Italian Harlem life on Bleecker Street. The man, smoking from a Russian cigarette, shows condescension as he ignores an elderly passerby asking for Canal Street directions.
Hall's Catarrh Cre Tg a constitutional cure is advertised at 75c. Advertising copy notes fight-experienced divers aboard English ships and four on every cruiser. Begeman's Camphor Ice with Glycerine is promoted as the original genuine cure for chapped hands and cold fares. Pearls remain in demand for necklaces and jewelry, while tortoise-snell spectacle cases feature chased silver mounts. Enamels on gold and silver reflect greens and blues in dress fabrics. Fans, medallions, and ornate jewelry appear in fashion notices.
Mrs. L. A. McGrath of South Woodstock Vermont owns a 21 year old canary that has sung all its life. Though infirm and unable to reach its perch it sits on the cage floor and pours out clear sweet songs from morning until night.
In West Woodstock Vermont a horse dealer who has owned 425 horses and never lied about a horse earns a hatchet from a man impressed by the claim. The tale highlights a longtime reputation for truth in the trade.
A Hampden Geauga County Ohio note recalls a Maple sugar cake made in spring 1856. The artifact remains described as sweet and good after forty years.
A fragmented report captures a tense moment as a speaker repeats a claim about haste and fate, describing a sudden turn in a long and heated exchange. The passage hints at recurring themes of impulse and consequence within a troubled relationship.
An advertisement touts Hostetter's bitters as a valuable medical franchise for digestion relief and general health. It claims benefits for dyspepsia, biliousness, rheumatism, fevers, nervousness, and constipation, urging wide use. A separate line notes a London costermonger strangled in his sleep by his shirt collar.
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