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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
5
Story county prohibitionists call a mass convention in Nevada Iowa at 1 pm Saturday June 9 to name delegates to the state convention in Des Moines June 12 and to nominate a county ticket. All opposed to the weekly five new saloons and to illegal open saloons are invited to attend and express views. W G Whent chairman.
A faded report notes that a Tuk prize fight between Jeffries and Corbett drew little current attention despite its brutal twenty three rounds. A Missouri editor quotes his plan to run the paper as Jesse James would have, citing delinquent subscribers and a sheriff’s approach. A lighthearted tale of a graduate and a parishioner humorously contrasts psychology and roastology.
An old advertisement from L. M. Bosworth, druggist, promotes Karl's Clover Root Tea as a universal healer. It claims the same herbs found in ancestral apothecary remedies, promising blood purification and requesting payment of 25 or 50 cents.
Excur sion tickets will be sold May 15 16 17 and 22 limited to June 2 on account of General Assembly United Presbyterian Church Apply to agents Chicago Northwestern Ry
A medicine advertises Shilohs Consumption Cure as unique among remedies for coughs and colds, offering a money back guarantee if it fails to help. Sold in 25 cent, 50 cent, and one dollar bottles by L. M. Bosworth, druggist.
Tickets will be sold May 19 to 21 inclusive and limited to May 29 on account of the Annual Convention of the Travelers Protective Association of America. Apply to agents Chicago and Northwestern Railway.
An old newspaper ad extols Shilohs Cough and Consumption Care as a sure early remedy for tuberculosis and related diseases. It claims hundreds of thousands die from consumption but not if the remedy is taken early, pricing bottles at 25, 50, and 1.00 with a refund promise if no cure. Druggist L. M. Bostworth promotes it.
An advertisement notes women discard cosmetics while real beauty comes from healthy blood and digestion, claiming Karl's Clover Root Tea guarantees a better complexion for 25 or 50 cents per package with druggist L. M. Bosworth endorsing the product.
An old ad offers Shilohs Consumption Cure with a money back guarantee. It advises cough sufferers to take two thirds of a bottle, return if not benefited, and receive a refund. Bottles priced at 25, 50 cents, and 1 dollar, sold by L M Bosworth, druggist.
Local laundry advertises curtain cleaning service promising brighter drapes. Customers are urged to send curtains to Wing's Mode Laundry for professional care and improved appearance.
A collage of notes includes gold output down to one-eighth of prior levels in the Transvaal, barbed wire flagged as potential war material, army contract orders for large quantities of spoons, advances in scientific crop disease methods, Detroit potato yields and costs, Washington state immigration figures, Afghan weapon customs, Alaska’s civil code notes, a humorous dialect exchange, wolves invading valleys from cold mountain regions, a St. Louis judge on door-chopping rights, a Russian coal famine affecting railroads, and New York's plan for a Living History Museum and a Court of Nations with global artworks and industry displays.
A collection of aphorisms on power doubt civility hypocrisy and human folly. The speaker notes that knowledge starts in doubt and ends there while warning that many moral claims wobble between wisdom and folly.
A speaker describes decades of relentless work to perfect a new antiseptic remedy. He asserts the compound’s success follows years of toil and wakeful study, claiming the product’s efficacy with confident assurance.
A collection of quips about marriage and men and women from the New York Press. It jokes about jealousy, home life, aging, and social behavior with pointed lines on bachelors and wives.
A Chicago Dispatch quotation reflects on human foibles and vice. It humorously notes that a usurer, a hold-up man, a convict, and a drinker are all defined by familiar habits. It ends with the claim that rascals persist while fools enable them.
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