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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1908
Page
4
British forces in India enlist hill tribesmen as valuable allies. A sniper threat within an Afridi campaign leads a recruit to drop a head, then reveal his method with a blunt joke that his enemy was his father. The anecdote highlights loyalty and irony in wartime tribes.
Mrs J B Renaud of Montreal recounts a twenty five year struggle with a severe leg eczema treated by doctors without success. After two Cuticura treatments swelling subsided and within two months new skin formed. She claims she was cured for over seven years and believes she would have lost her leg without the remedies.
The article notes women in the harem adorn their faces with elongated eyebrows reaching to the ears and tiny black paint points on the chin. Men remain fair-skinned due to confinement indoors away from the sun, unlike the women.
Important to Mothers. Fixamine carefully every bottle of Castoria a safe and sure remedy for infants and children and see that it bears the signature Laxted In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought.
A dialogue fragment notes a critic and editor debating a report about Signor Growlini as a base singer with an orchestra soloist described as a vile player. It then shifts to an advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder and a brief exchange about records and a wind gauge, Yonkers Statesman.
An assorted crop of early 20th century patent medicines proclaims Marine Eye Remedy for red weak and watery eyes and Dr J H Kline's Great Nerve Restorer for nervous disease. The ads urge readers to ask druggists for Marine and request a $2.00 trial bottle and treatise from Dr Kline at Philadelphia address.
The Well Informed seek a simple pleasant laxative with known value. California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted, ethical remedy. Sold by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
The case centers on Senor Don Antonio Ruiz Olivares as plaintiff and Senora Dona Agnes O'Brien de Reis as defendant. Mime N Ruiz, later named Mrs Agnes O'Brien, has moved between New York hotels and Lexington Ave apartment avoiding service. Records show Ruiz wed Mary Agnes O'Brien in August 1905, with hints of elopement and a Vanderbilt linked intrigue involving an $11000 automobile purchase for Ruiz by Harry Brenchley.
The article argues New York life is defined by high costs and limited wages. It contrasts poverty with perceived economy, cites charity and sociologist figures, and notes rent, coal, and food costs. It concludes that surviving requires withdrawal from temptations and pursuing an honorable older age.
A new Educational Theater for Children and Young People filed incorporation in Albany. Directors include Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain Rev P S Grant Otto H Koehn R J Collier Miss A M Herts and Charles E Miner. It will operate from 20 Gramercy Park to educate youth through classical and modern plays with youth participation.
A New York judge boosted a 17 year old’s allowance from six to ten thousand dollars a year to dress as befits her station. A Fifth Avenue modiste says twenty thousand dollars is a modest spring outlay for Miss Manhattan and that New York women spend lavishly on fashion. With warm weather, modistes report a flood of orders for costly summer finery.
Greenwich report details a man-eating lion loose during a large circus crowd. Police, trainers, and workers battled the animal amid panicked spectators, with gunfire, a rope tether, and a wagon cage finally trapping the beast. A $100 reward was posted for capture as tents reopened.
Asheville reports a remarkable case as N. H. Carpenter’s widow, a Christian Scientist, guards his body after his death. She claims color returning to his face and flesh filling out, and expects him to be restored. Doctors observe the phenomenon with unusual interest following five days of vigil and prayers.
The ad claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has relieved women's suffering more than any other treatment. It cites the Lynn Massachusetts laboratory files with over a million letters praising cures and asserts the remedy, made from roots and herbs, restores feminine health without drugs.
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