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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1909
Page
9
A Times reader urges the editor to enforce laws against shooting birds within town limits. He cites ongoing flats shooting after high water, noting snipe and robins are targeted by youths including high school girls, calling for a public crusade to protect feathered wildlife.
Mrs A L Alley of Beals Maine credits Dr King s New Discovery with quick relief for coughs colds and lung trouble after ten bottles in her family. The ad claims it helps bronchitis asthma hemorrhage croup la grippe sore throat and chest pain with a trial bottle offered free and a guarantee by all druggists.
Ames freshmen defeated West High by a 66 to 52 margin in a state field dual meet. Event winners include Hough, Howard, Harris, Manning, Crawford, Emerson and others across sprints, distance, hurdles, jumps, throws, and relays.
James Wright of Spurlock Ky shows how to stay youthful and claims after six bottles of Electric Bitters he feels like a 16 year old. He says kidney trouble plagued him for thirty years until the medicine proved a great cure and urges others to try them at 50 cents at druggists.
A humorous fragment from Walt Mason appears in the Chicago News noting poles in the east and west as a joke. The ad promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for sluggish livers and bowels with a 35 cent price for tea or tablets by J. E. Cagwin.
An honored town citizen suffered a bad dysentery attack and was sure of a cure after taking Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which he had used in the west. The Wolcott Vermont druggist M. J. Leach says he stocked it and the patient was promptly cured, with J. EB. Cagwin selling it.
The Chicago Record Herald marks Walter Wellman’s twenty five years as Washington correspondent dating from 1884. He documented polar expeditions and Arctic flights while earning national renown as a magnetic writer and keen political observer.
A ten pound baby boy was born this morning at the Archie Bowman home. Mother and child are reported as getting along fine.
In Gladwin Michigan John Deye paid doctors over 400 dollars for a long running ulcer with no relief. Bucklens Arnica Salve cured the ulcer and noted fever sores boils felons eczema salt rheum and other skin ailments. 25 cents at all druggists.
The Mutual Telephone Company reports 1200 telephones connected to its Ames and college exchanges. Are you among the subscribers in these two service areas.
A narrator mocks pole hunting expeditions by writers who seek sensational Arctic stories. One man travels south to publish scrolls and gain pork and beans, while another endures a brutal northern quest, returning with frostbitten feet and snowbound whiskers to cash in with a large check.
An advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a spring tonic for the whole family. The product promises a healthy look and increased vitality with no equal, offered as tea or tablets for 35 cents by J. E. Cagwin.
Wilbur E DeFore born in Epworth Iowa December 13 1888 died April 28 1909 at 10 00 p m a crippled energetic youth with steadfast faith in the life to come He was a Congregational church member in Dubuque survived by a father two sisters and five brothers Funeral services were in the Christian church Friday morning at 10 30 conducted by Rev J T Houser and interment followed in Epworth Iowa
An advertisement touts Dr King's New Life Pills as a superior laxative tonic. It claims to tone regulate stomach liver and kidneys purify the blood strengthen the nerves cure constipation dyspepsia biliousness jaundice headache chills and malaria. Sold for 25 cents at druggists.
The ad promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a family tonic used for spring wellness. It guarantees satisfaction with a money back offer and lists a price of 35 cents from J. E. Cagwin.
A weather bulletin reports March conditions with showers and high winds followed by sleet and snow, temperatures 20 to 31 degrees, and below normal average temperatures. Property damage from hail and wind is common, early sown grain likely injured, oats rotting in the northeast, and farm work progressing slowly. Farmers expect smaller small grain and oats acreage but possible rise in corn and slight wheat gains. fruit largely spared except possibly in the far south where blossoms are present.
In February our daughter had the whooping cough. Mr. Lane of Hartland recommended Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and said it gave customers the best of satisfaction. We found it as he said and commend it to anyone with children troubled by whooping cough. For sale by J. E. Cagwin.
McClure's Magazine describes a Japanese military school with intense cadet drills using pikes rifles and swords. Cadets fight fiercely then reset to a woodenly composed stance after signals. Public schools stress military drills, swift attacks, and patriotic history praising Japan's wars and invincibility.
In Fry's London Magazine Dr Dobbs argues the carrier pigeon's sight guides its homeward path and that raptors use an eye like a self adjusting telescope. He notes the bird of prey reveals creative eye design through careful examination.
A young advocate asks Dean Swift which side would win if parsons and the devil litigated a case. The dean replies the devil would win, since he would have all the lawyers on his side.
An exchange from the Louisville Courier-Journal notes class distinctions among servants. One asks about degrees of rank in the servants hall, and the reply cites differences between maids in charge of dogs versus those who care for children.
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