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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1894
Page
2
Joe and Dennin uncover a macabre room clue in a remote mining town inn. A damp side door leads to a cot where a wax head poses as a murder victim, prompting a staged doctor plot by Ike and Pete Burroughs. The ruse collapses as miners burst in amid gunplay and laughter.
A medical graduate and his friend travel from Brooklyn to Lathrop in a rudimentary hotel. Ike the miner serves drinks and hints at a concealed plan as the two men are drawn toward a secret in their room while the hotel staff exit quickly. The mood shifts to tension as suspicions rise about a potential danger or trap.
An anatomist dissects a nearly four foot rattlesnake and reports its four jaws, including a half inch poison fang. The snake’s triple fangs retractable and connected to poison sacs, with hollow tubes like cow horns. The study notes a long stomach with three rabbits and a forked tongue misperception.
The John Jay under Captain Samuel Jackson faced a cargo fire two weeks out arcing a daring salvage. Carpenters bored holes near the waterline as the ship heeled, sailors slid along the hull to seal the openings, then the vessel was righted and pumped dry.
After many repaintings Alma Tadema finishes his magnum opus a large picture of ancient Rome titled Spring. The work features more than 100 figures in a flower and fertility festival procession toward the temple and has drawn interest from a Berlin dealer at 100000 marks.
A rail road damages dispute unfolds with a sufferer seeking about 3000 dollars while the lawyer pushes for at least 10000 dollars. The exchange highlights far higher claimed damages and the lawyer’s fee ambition in a grim negotiation.
Fragmentary exchange shows absence of letters and papers. A character asks for almanacs and supplies, replies indicate none available. The dialogue hints at rural life and improvised provisions with a mention of quinine.
Cold weather prompts ideas for free gifts by sending eighteen Lion coffee large heads to Woolson Spice Co in Toledo Ohio for a premium list. The offer promises pictures books a knife game and a meditation picture among other items in exchange for the labels and mailings.
One hundred dollar reward offered for any catarrh cure not achieved by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsed by J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and West Trvax Walpine Krxxnan Manvix wholesale druggists. Cure taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Price per bottle sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills 25c. Note ends with garbled sentence about gunpowder inventors.
The Wabash promotes home seekers excursions to Texas New Mexico Indian Territory and Oklahoma on November 6 and 20 and December 4 and 18. Tickets are valid for return within twenty days and cost one fare round trip minus two dollars. For details visit 220 Fourth Street Des Moines IA or contact Horace Seely Commercial Agent Banner Route.
An 19th century ad mix of health tips and product notices. It promotes Syrup of Figs as a family laxative, praises other remedies, and shares brief quips and promotional lines about various tonics, cures, and travel tickets, all in a brief, scattered advertisement tone.
A string of light anecdotes from old times includes a Clearfield Pa incident where a police door could not be opened with a prisoner, a New York landlady who burned sulphur to evict tenants, Froude’s 1872 Tremont Temple lectures ending with a charitable $1000 check, and an octogenarian recalling stagecoach travel from Maryland to Ohio with harsh post riders and lean provisions.
The text lists extreme measurements and stats including a 869 pound Siberian mammoth tusk, a conjectured 4000 year old California giant tree, a 25 pound Adirondack salmon trout, a nonsensical claim of women marrying at age 2344, Magdala and Lansell gold mines depths, a 70 beat per minute heart ejecting two ounces per beat, Zuyder Zee drainage costing 106 million dollars reclaiming 72782 acres, and per capita liquor costs over 16 dollars yearly according to a US abstract.
In W. R. Le Fanu's reminiscences of Irish life, a peasant girl visits the rectory selling hare and game. When questioned about the source, she replies with a boastful line claiming her father is the poacher to Lord Clare.
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