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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1905
Page
3
A famed tenor Tamagno was paid $1,000 a night to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House New York. He insisted on carriage service. After arriving he walked to the opera house and later billed $200 for carriages. The manager paid the bill.
A feature on starfish describes how lost rays regrow, sometimes doubling, and even two separate stars form if broken. It notes a starfish lacks sight smell and hearing yet hunts prey by extending its stomach. Deep sea ships and collectors seek starfish specimens from depths of miles for science.
The article describes Crocodilopolis in Fayum, a historic city known as the City of Crocodiles. It notes its location within a hills encircled oasis, Medinet as capital, and nearby ruins of the pharaohs’ crocodile shrine near Lake Moeris.
The term America for the new world was proposed in a 1507 St Die pamphlet by Waldseemüller. Editions are rare, with Lyons 1507 edition possibly the rarest. The first map to bear the name may be the 1520 Typus Orbis woodcut for Camerarius, depicting America as a long island with an inscription attributing discovery to Columbus in 1497.
A notice warns customers to beware of counterfeit imitations of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. It urges checking for the genuine Bucklen name on wrappers, citing 35 years of proven cures and listing H E Bucklen & Co with offices in Chicago and Windsor, Canada, and L M Bosworth, druggist.
In Grimsby a whist hand produced extreme suits: one player held twelve spades, another eleven hearts, a third twelve diamonds, and the fourth eleven clubs while spades were trumps.
A humorous Brooklyn Life snippet captures a woman and her husband arguing over finances. She asserts economy while he questions their debt level, joking that they have not run up bills as much as last month.
Mrs. John A. Young of Clay New York suffered neuralgia of the liver and stomach heart weakness and poor appetite. She credited Electric Bitters with rapid relief and cure. Sold by L M Bosworth at 50 cents a bottle under guarantee.
The text explains a French mutual aid scheme where a child pays 2 cents weekly to join, earning 10 cents daily if ill and contributing to a future pension. It notes common child spending on candy and calculates that an eighteen year old saving 34 cents monthly could receive 72 dollars yearly at age sixty.
A Washington Post commentary lampoons the obsession with extreme self discipline. It parodies the early riser and hardy office walker as examples of Spartan virtue, suggesting such boasts reveal vanity and need attention more than health.
A. R. Kane of Baxter Springs Kansas lauds Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets as the most superior constipation remedy. He says they are sure in action and do not cause nausea or griping and notes they are for sale by all druggists.
While serving as United States consul in Glasgow Bret Harte enjoyed a gun day that ended with his face badly cut by gun recoil. A surgeon saved him from a lifetime scar and a letter to T Edgar Pemberton recalls the amusing scene of the boy delivering the consoling line that Harte “killed the hare.”
C Rivenbark Jr of Norfolk Virginia reports a severe knee burn blistering yet Bucklen's Arnica Salve stopped the pain and healed without a scar. The preparation also heals all wounds and sores and is sold for 25 cents at L M Bosworth, druggist.
A compact collection of quotations on marriage slavery women and society from writers including Alfred Austin T P O Connor George Moore and Sarah Grand. The remarks lampoon social norms and gender roles with sharp humor and irony.
Late in the afternoon a Scotch minister arrived at a farmhouse and declined tea until after work. He told the housewife to leave the door ajar and hang the pan so he could end with prayer as the tea fizzed. A Scottish woman echoed the earlier sermon line with a humorous reply about presumption.
E F Posegate announces permanent Ames location and offers live stock or bankrupt sales by commission. Telephone available at expense. Inquiries on days and dates may be made at the office.
Poisons in food are blamed for sickness and a guarantee offers cure of dyspepsia from undigested poisons. The ad promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills for 25 cents at L M Bosworth’s drug store with a money back promise.
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