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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
2
Market notes from Chicago show hog receipts at 48 000 with slow closing and prices mostly down. Cattle receipts 24 000 steady on good and slower elsewhere. Sheep receipts 25 000, prices easing. Obvious ad copy follows for Park Hotel hiring and various patent medicines and cures. A Notre Dame Lady offers free home treatment for rheumatism and related pains.
The Pi Phi Alpha fraternity plans a Christmas ball on Christmas night at the K C hall with music by the Northwestern orchestra. Preparations are underway to make it the best in the fraternity’s history and a grand time is anticipated.
The piece notes scarlet fever as a long-standing, widespread disease in need of cautious care. It contrasts with smallpox vaccination, cites Thucydides, and argues that modern medicine focuses on prevention and limited drug use. The tone reflects a period editorial viewpoint on public health and medical progress.
The timetable lists multiple trains with numbers and times for eastbound and southbound routes, including No 9 Local Passenger at 9:63 am and No 6 Colo. & Calif. Exp at 11:10 am, plus limiteds and mail express. Several trains do not run on Sundays and miscellaneous mixed trains operate on specific days.
Train timetable fragment lists SOUTH BOUND No 2 passenger and freight with stations Kimballton Hansen Heights Gates Smith Lake and Atlantic. Arrivals and times are partially legible, showing 900s and 930s and a 10:10 arrival reference, but many details are obscured by OCR errors.
No. 4 passenger and freight schedules at Kimballton and Hansen Heights with arrivals and flag stops at Harrigdale. A health testimonial touts Electric Bitters as a remedy for malaria stomach complaints and liver troubles, claiming blood purification, nerve tone, and vigor with a 50 cent price and money-back guarantee.
Leo F. Zelinski of 68 Gibson Ave Buffalo New York reports he cured the most annoying cold sore with Bucklen’s Amica Salve. He applied it once daily for two days and every trace of the sore disappeared. Heals all sores. Sold under license at all dealers for 26 cents.
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