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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1903
Page
5
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as superior skin care products for cleaning, purifying, and beautifying skin and hair, with claimed uses from baby rashes to irritations. Mentions origins and distributors in London and U.S. depots.
A bald man notes ample room at the top as a singing teacher asserts two months of proper breathing can expand chest circumference by two or three inches. Patience asks about fighting stock while Patrice links parents to church choir roots.
A tramp leapt from a passing freight to shove an old man from a fast express track near Peru Indiana, escaping danger just as the train roared by. The incident followed a note on Herschel’s comet weight estimates of less than half a pound for even vast tails.
Topeka and Kansas City report 71 deaths as rivers fall. Removal crews clear wreckage and carcasses, 2500 hogs and 300 cattle drowned at stock yards. Electric streetcars return, water works pump black water, rail lines cleared, and depots put in order as ruin exposed in west bottoms. Fires likely to consume remaining rubbish.
Roosevelt arrives in Washington after a two month western journey with 265 speeches. He is greeted by crowds along the streets and at the White House, where he thanks citizens and praises Secretary Loeb for managing the trip. Lon Manley recovers from Bright’s Disease after using Dodd's Kidney Pills, reversing a dire prognosis.
The Topeka flood toll rose to seventy one known dead with thirty identified. Seven more bodies were found yesterday as many remain missing. The Union Pacific depot serves as a morgue while floodwaters recede and the river drops thirteen inches.
June 6 report from St. Petersburg says locust swarms devastate grain and fruit crops across the trans-Caspian territory. Famine already looms in Turkmenistan and surrounding regions as farmers struggle to protect harvests from the pests.
Chicago June 2 Democrats won fourteen of eight teen judiciary seats in Cook County as a light vote due to rain reduced straight-ticket voting. Republican Elbridge Maneey, ally of Congressman Lorimer, was among the defeated.
A truncated notice lists Towen Farms offering four dollars per acre cash. The rest of the text contains stray quotes, jokes, and unrelated trivia about marriage, crime rates, Victoria B C, and a crow clamming anecdote.
An advertisement touts Defiance Starch as superior and one third more effective for 10 cents. It claims its product is distinct from others and contrasts with political discourse noting patriotism and politics rarely align at the polls.
A breezy household ad states Russ Bleaching Blue keeps clothes clean and sweet like new. It targets the everyday cleaner, suggesting strong will power to doubt the product’s sincerity.
A collage of medicine ads and quotes promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as constitutional. Also touts Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, Suel's Thy-Oil, Harding's Headache Powders, Putnam Dyes, Katy publications, and a giraffe birth fact posed as a humorous aside.
A period advertisement warns of nervous prostration tied to uterine disorders and urges Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the remedy. It cites letters from women in Philadelphia and Millersville praising relief after doctors failed, urging others to try the medicine.
An old bachelor says that when a man hasn't enough worry of his own it's his cue to get married. A pretty good fellow around town is almost sure to appear, a jay to out siders. Kra Nd for Head aches 25c and 10c. Samples free. Des Moines Ia.
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