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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
6
A Chicago art dealer described William T. Evans’s fury toward dealers who sold him bogus works. Evans, a noted New York collector, said many of his costly pictures turned out to be fakes and his anger rose at the duping. He compared his fury to a waiter muttering about a dead fly while serving a dish.
A Arkansas woman reports long eczema suffering with failed treatments before Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills gave rapid relief. She recovered fully after three uses and has had no relapse a year later. Also includes miscellaneous anecdotes and jokes from a 1907 issue.
A dialogue notes a failing relationship as Mr and Mrs Splasher clash. Miss Cayenne comments that it is a hopeless case where a man trusts his horse racing knowledge and a woman her bridge expertise.
A letter from a New York state woman claims ten years of stomach and liver trouble improved after switching from coffee to Postum and eating Grape-Nuts. She reports gaining twenty pounds, renewed energy, and the ability to resume daily tasks. The ad notes such testimonials recur and invites readers to believe the product’s health benefits.
An American rural tale unfolds as James Moor investigates a nightly black hoop rolling down a hill then uphill near a river. After observing repeated appearances a 12 foot black snake is found to be the creator, using its tail as a wheeled illusion and proving nature invented the wheel.
A fragmentary verse from the National Tribune recalls a fallen soldier at dawn battle, trees grieving beside a blood stained rill. The poem laments a missing answer and a comrade sleeping beneath moaning pines far from home, while others place flowers for the dead.
A pair of ivory-handled pistols with silver mounts once owned by Hinman Rhodes of the Twenty-eighth Illinois are recovered after a long search spanning Natchez and Pasadena. Letters from Maj H B Vaughn and Capt Foster help reunite one pistol with Rhodes’s widow, while hope remains for the second. A proposal for a national Chief of Cavalry position is also urged as part of Army Staff reforms.
A few days after target practice by the battle fleet in Magdalena Bay a 60 foot whale, wounded by big gunfire, stranded on the southern California coast. Two holes in its car cass indicate the cause of death. Earlier practice sightings showed a whale in the area before it vanished in distress.
Fragmentary ad style text features humorous banter about singing and air, a druggist promotion for Marine Eye Remedy at 50 cents, a nerve restorer offer by Kline, and a foot care product Allen's Foot-Base. Mentions Ruskin quote and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Back pay line appears as a closing aside.
The Well-Informed prefer Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a simple pleasant and efficient laxative. The California Fig Syrup Co. promotes its known wholesome components. Buy only genuine bottles via reading druggists at fifty cents each.
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