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Newspaper

Ames Times

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 30, 1905

Page

4

Dr King New Life Pills Advert and County Audit

An old advertisement touts Dr King New Life Pills as a cure for bowel and stomach issues promising safety and a 25-cent price at L M Bosworth's drug store. The text also records a Story County Iowa audit by the Board of Supervisors confirming the treasurer EB Fawnett's balance sheet as of June 1, 1908.

Dr. King L. M. Bosworth Board of Supervisors of Story EB. A. Fawnett Story ‘County Iowa Ee University Issage Tosane TSO RS Penn & Ane Bar Eene Corporation Eam Lee Electric Light Sa Hee Osea Habu Sa Stern Arene Raina Bor Aria Lee Ees Duluth & Mon Ovisane i. RK A. Ee Scsi Cas Ieee Ates

Printer Errors Mentioned in Reader Letter

A reader cites a printers error recounted by T. P. in London Weekly and linked to C. Farquharson Findlay of Dover Chronicle. The note recalls misprints such as who strain at a quart and swallow a canal and a review that called Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman a mailed fish.

T. P London Weekly C. Farquharson Findlay Dover Chronicle Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Throwing the Handkerchief Origin Noted in Manuscript

A manuscript note from the Foundling Hospital describes boys bound as apprentices and women led in marriageable procession through streets. Any man who sees one head wishing for a wife may mark her by throwing his handkerchief. The later formalities before matrimony are not stated. This may explain the saying throwing the handkerchief.

Foundling Hospital

Islander Sends Message by Bottle to Mainland

When the wind blows from the south a south Iceland islander puts a corked bottle with letters into the sea and includes a plug of tobacco or a cigar to aid delivery. The bottle drifts to the mother island shore where people are usually watching for such signals.

South Iceland Mother Island

Prominent Cure Claim for Dr King’s New Discovery

Dying from consumption is described as a long torture in a reader letter. A Cearfoss Maryland man touts Dr King’s New Discovery as curing consumption in its early stage after other remedies failed. Advertisement states the medicine protects against pneumonia, priced 50 cents and 1.00, with a trial bottle offered. Also notes talk rights to Nevada via Boone County Telephone Co lines at ten cents.

Charles Robins W K Robin K J. C Rick Sheriff’s Rasmussen Otto Allen Board of Review Ames Ames City Board of Review Stephens T H Evada Asst. Co. Surveyor Sheldahl Palestine Ames Hies Soper Aikin Cora Armstrong Nellie Silliman Aplin Misa C Statler Bros H K Shaw Savim T O Ames City Board of Health Sime Boyd, . K Brotherton W. K See Silas N Smith Hysician Insane Ballard Bount Boone Seal Tess Benjamin Bros Scott John N Justice Fees Jamin Bros Suvereid J i Brooks Sheldahi Batman A. A Irs Tichenor Richland Bates McCalle E. C Joe J Burns Witness Thompson Fenry Brown Mra. Z Witness DC Trimble H M Mit Jay Witness J PC Templeton, M R Franklin Benjamin Ros Underwood County Cole Bounty Wolves Oden Clever Ween Collins di A. M R & OO Blanks N. H Williams A M Zearing Confare Waula Tase Warren Fitto Cassené& Williams, Walter Nevada N . R Neem Welty Crooks Ira Livery Waltz Albers Conner F H Corone Weston Couser T A Wells John Surveyor Road A P John M Surveyor-Direh Child Cure W J Marshall Arren Clements Adam Wit DC White Pat C Claussen Mra Carr Wertenberg Freeman A A Dunahugh J. Court Danahugh Agri Walker Ward Dana Wand Geo E Dyer G W Welch, W & Co Blanks and Davis Henry Sporcht Dunkelbar Or & King Fuel P’r White & Bamberger Elliott Leo Awe Bert, Diar & Co Wali Reeser Ersland Elmore English Peste Foster Fawcett Gilbert O . Ass Gearhart J. A Greenawalt Green Charle Witness DC Mra. J Grafton E L Graves Gilmore George Hill Oliver Oberland Howen Odin Holland Havneros Iver Eee Eeee Arpel Helvig Hammond Eath Witness J Huhn Eset Wewee Hurd Chas Son H P Hall William Henrick Oskins W H Houge Joseph Heggen Peter Anson Anton Harrison W T Hoskins Lowa Insane Hospital Bill Lowa Town School For Deaf Bill of Wa Shee Johnson J Oo Acobson T B Jacobson Mias E Keuffel Kirk John T Kempkes Ira R King Clarence Kalsem O J Lexvo Lough Ridin Harr Xvold Langland Ole Little Car L Assessor Ames Loudsbury Bounty Wolf Lang DL Transportation Poor N. Rk Justice Larson, JR Ewes Rd Towns’p Loving Larson Mason & Ulse Michaelson J O Ater Saelson Morgan Cole Maland & Viland Mackey C A Poor Farm Wu Michaelson May Montgomery M W Mason, Fonk E H Ewes Eekins Ontgomery Miller McCord C P McCarthy & Lee, Co McCall McKee J A Mayor's Nevada City Nevada Electric Co Evada Mutual Telephone Co Nevada Council Nevada Drug Co Nowlin H H Nevada Mutual Telephone Co Nicholson Alva Nelson Joe Nellis Nagle Olinger J M Maxwell Notald Oxsness Osmondson Christ Pearson Miles Pubs & Son I H Moise Poor Ayne & Son Eterson O B Peterson Powell Dr C Rrott & Sons Matt Pulls & Son Polk County Patrick & Co Patrick Ove Peterson Pike Farl Ellen Courtir Ricketts Sheriff's Fees CGB Rush Wm. Myers Cearfoss Dr. King Promet Retief L. M. Bosworth Boone County Telephone Co

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Parley Sheldon Pres F. H. Schleiter Ass’t Cash Story County Western National Bank New York Knautie Kachod & Kahne First National Bank Chicago Marshalltown Des Moines Savings Bank Surance Great Central South G. A. Park General Immigration and Industrial Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co Minnesota Dakota Nebraska Kansas Missouri Mutual Ames, Iowa Reliable Rug Co Loziers Flowers Caniel Bros. & Herman's Canier Brothers & Herman Sorenson & Gamrath Fish and Game The Cuy the Baker Jewelery Store Geo. E. Baker Bea Drs. Fawcett Tory County Miles Pearson, J. O, Michaelson E. Br, Silliman Iceland Mail Ames Plumbing and Heating Co O’briens Implement House C. Hamilton Foleys Burt Kooser L. A. Morris East Main Sreeer Ames, Lowa the Undertaker W. M. Greeley Daniel McCarthy Henry Wilson Cashier Union National Bankers' National Bank National City Bank Valley National Bank M’carthy Lef
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