Local Miscellany From Ames and Nearby Towns
Local items note Dr. John Craig confined to bed with pneumonia and a cold spell from Friday to Sunday. Northwestern engineers reopen headquarters above the Times office. many church and community activities planned, including Episcopal services, P E O meetings, a Dorcas Society gathering, and a concert. Married couple Court Evans and Maud McKinley, plus business and residence updates, plus remarks on smallpox quarantine, Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy endorsements, and Northwestern railway talks.
Personal notices from Ames and nearby towns
Judge Stevens of Boone and many residents are noted in Ames area visits and travels. The piece lists numerous individuals visiting, leaving, or meeting in Boone, Des Moines, Odebolt, Jefferson, Laurens, and Mexico City, with mentions of church events and a Knights of Kadosh lodge.
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W. R. Needham
Boone
Ames
Ben Haywool
Mexico City
Mexico
M. K. Smith
Callery
The
Knights of Kadosh
What’s Your Face Worth and Liver Trouble Remedy
Ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills for clear skin and rosy cheeks despite signs of liver trouble. Claims include a bright complexion and sallow appearance remedy. Sold for 25 cents a box at Tilden and Loughran’s drug store.
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Dr. King
Tilden & Loughran’s
Dr King’s New Discovery praised for lung trouble cure
A Bank of Thornville cashier credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing his severe lung illness and cold. The ad promotes 50¢ to $1.00 bottles with trial bottles free at a local drug store. Franklin Fyles reviews Ladies’ Home Journal theater notes recounting Laura Don’s burlesque Egypt scene and other stage anecdotes.
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J. R. Garrison
Bank of
Thornville
Ohio
Dr. King
Tilden & Loughran
Bug Store
Good Housework Position Offered by Mrs Mane
A notice seeks a capable woman for general housework under Mrs S L Mane. Good wages and steady employment offered.
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S. L. Mane
Treasurer's Report for Indepenions School District Ames Iowa
The report covers the year ending February 28 1900 and details the teachers fund. It lists accounts and balances held by the district treasurer for instructional staff and related expenses.
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Indepenions
Ames
Iowa
White House letter box myth debunked by clerk
A Washington Star note recalls visitors using the White House vestibule letter box to mail letters claiming a presidential postmark. An amused attaché explains the box is no different from street mail bins, and a visitor once mailed a letter hoping to impress neighbors, only to learn the stamp would not differ.
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White House
Washington
Executive Mansion
Washington Star
Icelandic dinner of dried fish and butter ritual
In Iceland the native meal centers on dried ling or cod kept by drying in wind and sun. To eat it, the fish is battered, cut into strips, and eaten with alternating bites of butter. The combination requires strong teeth and a well greased jaw.
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Iceland
Bladensburg Merchant Finds Only He Sells Molasses
In Bladensburg a merchant dozed in his store when a girl came in with a pitcher asking for a quart of molasses. He woke and sighed claiming, Ain't there nobody what sells molasses in Bladensburg but me.
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Bladensburg
Trust Hoax I Believe Everything My Wife Tells Me
A Philadelphia Record quip plays on trust and hoax dialogue. The exchange features a narrator who trusts his wife, with a counterclaim that men should believe about half what they hear and prefer the better half.
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Joax
Philadelphia Record
Loan offers and farming equipment for sale in Iowa notice
If you have a loan on your place that can be paid on any interest pay day see us let us take it up and reduce your rate and also get you a loan on which you can pay any amount on any day you choose We charge you no commission on such a loan Story County Bank We have a livery stable for sale in a small town in central Iowa dray line in connection Good opportunity for some young man Little Bros Farmers if you are interested in sowing clean grain free from mustard and other foul seeds call at the B A Lock wood Grain Company warehouse and examine the Little Wonder Separator See it take oats out of wheat wheat out of oats mustard from oats and in fact every seed cleaned ready for sowing 41-4 F N Fowler For Sale one year old Durham bull weight 700 pounds 42-3p Frank Stevens Section 33 Grant township
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Lowa
Little Bros
B. A. Lockwood Grain Company
Little Wonder
F. N. Fower
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Devvooe
John Craig
Tar Northwestern Engineers
Times Office
Duntine
Episcopal Church
Mina Taylor
Bigelow
Harriett Watts
Mabel Harris
Tae
A. A
J. L. Budd
G. A. Underwood
S.G. Hamiton
Sid
Rathbone Sisters
K. P. Hall
Frank Schieiter
Mrs. Decker
Mr. Decker
J.N. Fowler
Wm. Muir
Muir
Jim Baker
Wabash
J. F. VanMeter
Parsons
Kan
J. de Witt Miller
M. KE. Church
Mr. Miller
A. R. de Fiver
Doylestown
Chamberlain
Albany
N. Y
Otto Scholz
Mily
Arthur Sutton
Kennedy
State Board of Health
Philippines
Dorcas Society
J. R. Lincoln
Ariel Ladies
Moulton
Red Oak
Congregational
J. Featley
Mr. Court Evans
Miss Maud McKinley
T. C. Miller
the Times and Intelligencer
Ariel Ladies Quartette Co
M. E
L. E. Freeland
Elliott
Duff Street
Congregational Church
Gilbert
Baker
R. C. Moulton
H. P. Douglass
Geo. S. Foster
Mason City
Dan McCarthy
Ieo
Northwestern
Mearkle
Mattie
Bedford County
Arthur Wright
Cole
Motor Company
Senate Committee On Appropriations
State Agricultural College
Judge Stevens
Allie Needham
L. M. Siston
Des Moines
Jeanette Younie
Odebolt
Parley Sheldon
Bert Kooser
Jefferson
Abe Little
H. B. Hubbart
Laurens
Town
Etta Chevalier Junkin
Junkins
Jay Adams
J. D. Mather
Lillian Paxton
Cedar Rapids
Soper
Joshua Chapter
R. A.M
Charley
Chas. McMicheal
8Th Cavalry
Puerto Principe
Cuba
Baptist Church
Pericles
James Ford Rhodes
Shakespeare
Middle West
Corporation
Fat Man
Chicago Democrat
Franklin Fyles
Ladies’ Home Journal
Laura Don
John T. Raymond
Miss Don
Teachers Fund
Co Treas
Parley Sheldon, R
L. M. Bosworth
Tam
Fred Kauffman
Calland
Fowler
Dundee Rubber Corporation
Story County Bank
J.J. Grove
Frank Stevens
Grant Township
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