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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1901
Page
2
Edward Bok urges in Ladies Home Journal that a wife should have a personal purse, funded fairly from household income, free from her husband’s intrusion, as a dignity and right in married life. He argues even modest income earns a claim to financial independence for wives.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer cartoon mocks a farmer who sits on the fence while a self operating plow works the field. The dialogue features a caller asking for steering assistance and a response about starting and stopping the device.
A woman who fainted near the post office last Thursday may seek outdoor tour store operations. She suffers biliousness and is advertised Dr Caldwell's Pepsin Syrup as a cure sold by J M Bosworth.
For sale eighty acres of good level well improved land in Section 20 Grant Township. Price forty five dollars per acre. W P Fires PaTRicg, 28 8 Nevada Iowa.
Harriet Porter West wife of William West died at home in Ames Iowa after a lingering paralysis. Funeral held at home with Rev Carr and Beardsley officiating. Born 1828 in Brown County Ohio she raised nine children and helped seven others. a church member and activist for equal suffrage and anti liquor causes. She spent her later years in Rock Rapids Iowa and left seven children with one son and one daughter already in heaven. Her faith remained strong as she endured illness saying it is all right God knows I have always loved Him.
A healthy blacksmith A. T. Headley of Tilden Indiana suffered tortures ten years before Electric Bitters. After two bottles he was cured and has felt no pain for over a year. The medicine purifies blood, regulates kidneys, cures rheumatism neuralgia and improves digestion. Only 50 cents at L. M. Bosworth's drug store.
An aged advertisement note mentions Rumford baking powder on sale from T J Milcen and Sun. The fragment hints at a local retailer promotion featuring the product.
The article notes material for a new horticultural laboratory arriving, a meeting planned to form an Iowa park and forestry association, and discussions of a State Horticultural Society gathering in Des Moines. It highlights Prof L H Pammel promoting forestry, park planning, and urban ornamentation across Iowa.
Grahamsville New York five year old boy plagued by severe croup finally relieved by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after repeated dosing. The grateful father Mr H H Black praises the medicine for dissolving mucus and says it carries no opium or harmful drugs. Sold by Loughran & Bauer.
The Appian Way linked Rome to southern Italy with many miles of sepulchers on both sides. Sepulchers for notable persons made burial there as prestigious as Greenwood, Pere la Chaise, or similar famous cemeteries in major cities.
A word riddle traces how removing letters from habit yields new words. Remove H to get a bit, drop the second letter to still have bit, decapitate to another word, and finally remove I to reveal the old habit era. The sequence illustrates how a single word morphs while retaining meaningful remnants.
In a terse exchange Pat asks about the wife and Mike confirms a late night doctor visit. Mike says she was very sick but wouldn’t have needed him. Pat fears blame if she had died, and a judge remarks on the woman’s condition and guilt.
The Jordan River is described as the Descender, dropping over 1200 feet during its course. It is never navigable even by small craft for a notable distance, ending at a sea said to contain no living creatures.
A dialogue fragment shows a man declaring a perfect love to a woman and she asking if he has loved another. He replies that practice makes perfect, with the line attributed to Richmond Dispatch.
Advert says Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin relieves sick headache biliousness and stomach trouble. Sold by L M Bosworth.
Ames Lodge No. 300 mourns brother Char le H Glidden at Ames Iowa on November 18 1901. Members resolve to drape their charter in morning for 30 days and extend sympathy to his wife and relatives. Resolutions request publication in local papers.
In Mindanao tribes, a widow tax forces widowers to pay up to 100 stone china plates to the wife’s father for permission to remarry. If the husband dies, the widow becomes her parents in law’s property and divorce is unknown. Large families rely on plates for dowries and support.
A dwarf Japanese pine tree named the Chabo Uiba sold for 1200 dollars and claimed to be 850 years old. The article explains a simple method to dwarf a seedling by filling an orange with mold and an acorn, sprouting, shaving roots, and planting in a pot. It notes the long tradition of dwarfing trees in Japan and the high value of aged dwarfs.
A Philadelphia Record expert asserts that true swimming strength comes from endurance training and synchronized breathing. He advises one stroke per breath and notes salt water’s buoyancy aids flotation, allowing a swimmer to stay afloat until exhaustion forces surrender.
A worker for Augustin Daly repeatedly asked for cash advances through insulting letters. Daly replied with abusive, threatening letters and sent a check each time. The pattern continued in three month intervals until Daly's death.
Ladies' Home Journal notes a simple wart remedy using salicylic acid and iodine in a bottle with a small brush. Apply twice daily to warts. in a few days they dry and fall off.
In a rustic exchange the pastor questions Bradder Ephm about his walk in the straight and narrow path. Ephm replies with deep penitence admitting recent backsliding but expressing intention to return to right conduct.
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