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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1894
Page
2
A playful dialogue features a busy editor, an out office boy, and a new secretary as co workers trade jests. Characters include Mrs Nexdoor, Nell, Belle, Lena, Maud, Martha, and John with quips about cakes, a museum, and social life. A visiting interviewer asks for the editor, pay to enter, and a comic line about a head man in a museum.
The article warns against frequent drastic purgatives and promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as the safest laxative. It claims the tonic neither grips nor overreacts, but strengthens the stomach intestines and liver, improving sleep appetite and vigor while preventing rheumatism kidney issues and malaria. It ends with a note on common sense from some preachers.
Ao Feho from the World's Fair highlights a handsome litho watercolor of the Exposition Flyer, the twenty hour train running between New York and Chicago during the fair. The piece, among the era’s notable feats, is offered for ten cents in stamps or silver via C. K. Wilber, West Pass Agt, Chicago. A reflective adage follows: the prodigal’s first wrong step was thinking only of himself and that good opportunities are seldom found on beaten tracks.
Knowledge Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly. The many who live better than others and enjoy life more with less expenditure attest the value of the pure liquid laxative remedy Syrup of Figs. Its excellence comes from a pleasant taste and beneficial properties, cleansing the system by acting on the kidneys liver and bowels. Syrup of Figs is sold by all druggists in 50c and 1 bottles and manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co. package name printed on every bottle. Never accept substitutes.
The Jules Davoust, a dismantlable aluminum hull boat built for the Niger hydrographic mission, sails from Bordeaux with Lieut Hourst and Ensign Baudry. The craft weighs 4,840 pounds, displaces 11 tons, and uses a steel keel with aluminum sections, alongside optional oars and lateen sails.
A Welsh engineer outlines a flat bottomed vessel 550 feet long and 50 feet wide with wedge ends over 100 feet of length and a 14,600 ton displacement. He claims sixteen paddle wheels at 170 rpm could push the craft to 60 miles per hour, beating the Lucania's record of about 22 mph. The wheels, eight per side, would be arranged in a water channel just above the hull, maintaining perpendicular immersion and entry at a fixed point.
English movement seeks four volunteer medical corps for women to serve as nurses and assistants to the regular army in war. Speakers discuss uniforms, firearms training, and the legality of skirts, and propose women’s roles in ambulances and hospital relief. A committee will study the plan.
Mr Taitlock of Glasgow reports favorable figures for a smoke consumption method using steam jets and a fine water spray. Dust and soot are largely removed from exhaust, and sulphuric acid emissions are halved, improving air quality in a city burning soft cog.
Observers note many electrical wires run to appliances and lamps in tight corkscrew coils. These coils, though not essential, mainly dispose of slack and reflect conservative habit. In England a large lighting plant even spirals copper feeder rods, matching old device aesthetics.
A new testing device measures fiber strength while raw. It uses a gauge to regulate fiber length, vises, and a pneumatic cylinder linked to a worm gear. Turning the handle auto adjusts pressure to reach the breaking point, with the breaking strength displayed on a dial for spinners merchants planters and wool growers.
A compilation shows Portugal, Germany, France, Britain, Denmark, Spain, Russia and Dutch colonies with populations, areas and revenues. British colonies total commerce and debt figures. Algeria, New Caledonia, and Krupp are referenced with forces, convicts, taxes, and industrial wealth.
A fragmentary note covers political banter from a Kentucky visitor, Idaho fruit claims, and travel savings by stopping in Idaho. It cites the Idaho Exhibit at the World's Fair and urges investment. Other items advertise Beecham's Pills, Shiloh's Cure, Hanson’s salve, Parks' Tea, and local shop news. It notes the U S treasury hiring about 3000.
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