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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
3
The National Council of Horticulture offers tips for amateur gardeners. Start in spring by sowing showy annual seeds in indoor boxes or pots with drainage. Use mixed soil, water carefully, keep light but avoid direct hot sun, and transplant outdoors when plants are ready.
San Francisco architect Delbert Building promoter Norman R Coulter endorses Electric Bitters as a universal tonic. He claims it corrects stomach liver and kidney disorders and builds up the system. Sold 50 cents at druggists.
The thirty-fifth semi annual meeting of the Upper Des Moines Editorial Association of Iowa will be held at Webster City on March 26 and 27 1908. The program covers talks on editorial responsibility advertising and newspaper costs plus committee reports and officer elections. Also an advertising offer from Dr Shoop promotes Preventics cold tablets at 25 cents per box with a $100 wager.
Poem reflects on life’s daily grind compared with seasonal joy. The narrator, S E Kiser, finds the world pleasant when days are warm and breezes brisk, noting toil, sorrow, and small rewards yet expressing gratitude. Published in the Record Herald.
The library board approves plans for a sixteen foot extension to the west wall with basement expansion and furnace relocation. The existing basement becomes two large club and assembly rooms. the south side becomes a children’s reading room. a new basement stair in the northwest corner is added.
An old advertisement touts Rocky Mountain Tea as a winter germ fighter and spring tonic. It claims to strengthen the stomach kidneys and liver and promises surprising health results. Available as tea or tabiets for 35c by L. M. Bosworth.
Armena King of Allegany County New York born September 18 1818 died March 16 1908 at daughter Mrs George White's home. She lived in Beloit Wisconsin after moving from New York with her first husband and eight children later marrying John M King in Byron Illinois. Survived by few children and united with the Methodist church at seventeen. Funeral and burial planned in Kings Illinois after a prayer service led by Rev William J Minchin.
Fresh eggs 11 cents per dozen. Hens 7 1/2 cents per pound. Springers 7 cents per pound. Ames Produce Co.
It was the dead of night when the fire bell rang for minutes. Jones asks where the fire is and learns Gottstall’s store in the retail district is involved. The neighbor fears the whole block is doomed, but another resents any chance to save adjoining buildings.
A suburbanite recalls an incident where a friend sat up with a corpse. As dawn arrived the friend, exhausted, is thanked by the grief-stricken wife who, in thanks, hears his clumsy reply I can assure you that it has indeed been a great pleasure.
A terse saying reflects enduring labor while debt collectors pursue overdue bills, highlighting the tension between steady work and financial obligation.
A city meat market customer buys a small item and receives a Confederate twenty five cent piece as change. The customer questions its validity while the butcher asserts it will pass. The man plans to use it in Nevada next week claiming locals there do not know the war is over.
The sheriff questioned the saloon keeper about Greaser Pete's clash with the prohibition preacher. Pete demanded drink or fight. the preacher responded by taking water, ending the exchange with no reported violence.
A man searches the oatskin and the loft for Easter eggs his brother hid. He wanders sleepless through the night and across various places but cannot locate the hidden eggs.
A quotation notes that a man’s voting direction can be glimpsed by his path to the polling place, attributed to H. C. K.
The New York to Paris auto race signals potential for a transpolar railway via the Behring Strait route. The feat may shift opposition from impracticability to practicality, with early pictures in Popular Mechanics illustrating racing cars en route and Indiana contest participants sensing tougher climbs ahead farther north.
Dr Shoop's Cough Cure is claimed to ease tickling or dry coughs and calm bronchial membranes without opium or chloroform. The advertisement urges mothers to use it for very young babies and to demand Dr Shoop's, warning against alternatives.
Rooms for light housekeeping available at 312 Boone Street in Iowa City. A family of three seeks a girl for general housework. Contact Mrs C C Morrison at phone 118M. Furnished or unfurnished options offered.
J. W. Lyon, longtime resident of the Turner McClean farm south of the college, moved early this week to Boone to take a job with the Stanley Dray line after living on the farm for three to four years.
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