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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
7
An Atlantic Drug Co. advertisement promotes Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cents in tea or tablets. It asserts the product induces a novel feeling of leaping and vitality, making you feel, act, and be young, with a fair complexion as the outcome.
Miss Edith Gillespie edits the column as Miss Genevieve Hedges hosts a M C P club meeting with solos by Hazel Clank and Dean Newcomb and a piano duet by Trene Baker and Marie Niles. Guests include May Hobbs. The Shaw couple are feted by local families with dinners and card gatherings through midweek at homes on Chestnut Street. Also advertised are poultry eggs for hatching and canned corn sales, plus local piano and organ ads and a dentist and insurance notices.
Notice requests bids by April 27, 1908 for promoting selling stock securing right of way and prelim surveys of routes for the Atlantic Northern and Southern railroad extensions. Committee members James E. Bruce J H Simmons Grace Sorenson. Also an ad line about filling jewelry orders and canned corn prices at Stier's.
The statement highlights that true quality hinges on being free from poisonous and spurious ingredients and on delivering superior flavor. It emphasizes integrity of composition as the core standard for excellence.
Dozens of residents and guests are listed in city visits from Lewis Anita Avoca and other towns. Names include Mrs G Mills William Malone W K Carey George Consigny H Burr Earl Lyle Frank Wells Frank Lumsden Charles Findley Guy P Dorsey Bertha Titsworth L P P Dull Frank Augustus Don Pruitt James Whitney W H McConvill Rev Billingsley George Pennell and others with brief notes on travels employment moves illness and local business.
Dr W A Harrie dentist over Oransky s Office phone 417. Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy after death of wife F C Aldrich. Avoca ordinance bans running chickens within town. Mayor Schilling plans enforcement.
The Evening News directs drivers to display two front lights and a red rear light after dark, ring a bell or blow a whistle at every street intersection, and limit speed to ten miles an hour in closely settled parts. The message is signed by the mayor urging strict compliance.
Atlantic Drug Co preaches Vinol as a concentrated cod liver oil medicine. The aged physician J D Elwood says Vinol is not a patent medicine, lists label transparency, claims it boosts blood, lungs, stamina, and vitality, and offers a money back guarantee if it fails.
Her brother Dead, Mrs. Alex McGaffin of Benton township received word some time ago of the death of a brother, the last of her brothers, in Scotland. She was not prepared to make the trip there, and did not go in response to the news.
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