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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1896
Page
7
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a Maine town advertisement for a chair and a public school teachers board in Cal county Michigan faced with dancing and card playing. It also notes a Cuban town Holguin defending against an onslaught with miles of barbed wire.
An advertise text extols Hostetter's Stomach bitters as a remedy for bilious feelings including yellowing of skin and hair, nausea, and unease beneath the ribs. It claims the tonic also cures chills fever dyspepsia rheumatic and kidney complaints and nervousness under a misused phrase pro se caper.
The piece catalogs miniature Carlsbad teacups, rum bottle teapots used by society figures, and boat shaped bottles. It notes prices from 50 cents to $4, describes stand fitting teacups, Carlsbad bonbon boxes shaped like pansies, plain linen teacloths with Renaissance lace, and Carlsbad tea strainers priced 60 cents to 2.25 dollars.
A string of quips contrasts New Women dressing and living like men with a piano dealer joke about soft pedals. A brief introduced man asks for names and others seek the speakers' identities. A humorous exchange follows about a meeting and Miss Senior and Miss Trivet essays, including marriage proposals.
Free summer resort book offered by C. S. Crane, Wabash Railroad agent in St. Louis, detailing the lake region accessible by the line. Poetic lines invite readers to explore daisies and violets while wondering about appearances and realities.
Baseball gossip covers Philip Ehret's career moves from 1886 to 1895, his exchange with Cincinnati rivals, and his promising start after injury. It also notes Anson's luck, left handed pitchers, and various surrounding players such as Killen Foreman Lubs Wagner Briggs and Westervelt with tidbits on team performances and anecdotes from spring games.
An Illinois veteran, Edson A. Wood of Chicago, details a life of health decline due to sun strokes and war illness. After trying Dr Williams Pink Pills his locomotor ataxia symptoms eased, his strength returned, and he plans continued use to stay well.
Gen Longstreet attended the Middle Sex Club in Boston on Grant's birthday. Pere Hyacinthe, formerly Abbe Charles Layson, plans to wed Laura Bucknell. he is 68. The Prince of Naples, linked to the Italian royal controversy, was declined by a European princess over garlic. A. J. Balfour is praised as a musician in the house of commons. John W. Clark, a miner rescuer in Ashley, Pa., died after a 1879 collapse. he saved others and was later trapped for six days before rescue.
Obituary notes the death of the Austrian sculptor Victor Tilgner from apo plexy. The item also mentions home remedies for teething, notes on Mrs Wixslow’s tonics, and a stray line about Cuba’s debt prior to the revolution.
Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan and the Dakotas offer many lakeside summer resorts. Reached by the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railway they range from formal dinners to casual meals. A catalogue of principal resorts hotels and boarding houses with rates is available from Geo H Heafford Chicago.
In a playful exchange, Wylie imagines ordering mansions in the skies with the narrator suggesting a version without a bathroom. The dialogue hints at whimsical desire and practical quirks shaping urban fantasy ideas.
An elderly farmer named Silas jokes to his wife Mary about needing a doctor and being bled and then quips he may be due to buy another gold brick. The dialogue hints at humor and possible health scare in a rural setting.
Advertisement praises Dr. Marsh for twenty five years of specialized treatment for opium and morphine addiction. The doctor is described as well known and highly effective based on personal acquaintance spanning a quarter century. Also noted is a million dollar rail project to reach Mount Tacoma glaciers and a claim about Europe’s five nations owning 210 warships with 8 209 guns, plus Alta Iowa as the highest town in the state at 1 519 feet.
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