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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1899
Page
7
A vivid appreciation of shirt waists fills the Cleveland Plain Dealer with lines praising stripes checks curls and a rainbow of colors. The piece celebrates the varied fabrics and patterns as treasures that enfold wearers.
A jumbled column blends risqué anecdotes about garter requests with satirical hometown gossip. The page shifts to medical ads touting Dr. Pierce’s pellets, Grape Nut Butter, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, Karl’s Clover Root Tea, Shiloh’s cough cure, and local real estate notes describing desirable residence lots and a country house listing.
An advertisement touts Karl’s Clover Red Tea as a universal cure for complexions and chronic constipation with a fifty year guarantee. It lists prices of 25 and 50 cents and notes sales by H. D. Miller. A Shiloh’s Consumption Cure carries a two thirds usage guarantee and refund option with prices 25, 50 cents and $1.00, also sold by H. D. Miller.
Proprietors of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds have given away over ten million trial bottles. The medicine is claimed to cure asthma bronchitis hoarseness and all throat chest and lung diseases. Call L M Bosworth druggist for a free trial bottle. Regular sizes 50c and 1.0 guaranteed or refunded.
Chicago Great Western Ry offers round trip tickets to Des Moines for the convention at one fare. Sale dates May 22 and 23 with return limit May 25. Apply to any agent Maple Leaf Route for full information.
Iowa’s only daily at $1 a year is the Des Moines Daily News. Subscriptions priced at $1 yearly, 75 cents six months, 50 cents three months, and 25 cents monthly in advance. The paper is an Associated Press member and aims to print all the news boiled down for busy readers.
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a cure all preventing rheumatism and other kidney liver bowel troubles when properly taken. Trial size ten cents with larger bottles at fifty cents and one dollar from L M Bosworth's.
After March 14 the through tourist car to Los Angeles via the Chicago Great Western and A T S F will run every second week instead of weekly. Prospective travelers can obtain rates times departure dates from any agent or the Maple Leaf Route or F H Lord, Chicago. May 23.
A 1898 letter from Mrs. W. D. Crandall asks for another 40 oz bottle of Syrup Pepsin praising it as the best laxative. The note accompanies an advertisement blitz urging readers to visit The Emporium for new millinery styles and summer hats, with lines from D. and L. Hamilton inviting customers to browse before buying.
Railway agent G. W. Rogers lists daily timetable details for trains going east and west including numbers, routes, and arrival times. The notice notes exceptions on Sundays for Colleen Jewell and Ames and states No. 15 will not carry baggage while passengers may ride to Boone Carroll Missouri and Omaha for coast connections. Baggage to be checked must be delivered 15 minutes before arrival at baggage rooms.
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