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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
4
Downstairs into the rooms formerly occupied by the Iowa Trust and Sav ings bank, where we shall be pleased to meet our old friends and make new ones.
Wise talk from an office boy highlights duties and duties include sweeping, cleaning showcases, delivering goods, writing letters, and stocking knowledge. He promotes Perfection Oil Cooking Stoves two and three burner and dandy ranges wood and coal with combination grates. The ad boasts gasoline goods in latest patterns at money saving prices with an invitation to visit without bringing money.
Chicago markets show hog receipts at 25 000 with top day 6 95 and varied cuts. Cattle receipts 4 000 with steadier to higher bids from 4 35 to 7 70 for beeves and 2 75 to 5 90 for stockers and feeders. Sheep receipts 12 000 with prices from 2 75 to 4 60 for sheep and 4 25 to 6 85 for lambs.
Live stock hogs ranged from 5.25 to 5.70 per unit beeves brought 5.50 to 6.00 cows and heifers priced 3.25 to 5.00 Wheat traded at 87 cents corn 60 oats 42 barley 50 rye 60 Produce butter 18 to 20 cents eggs 12 cents potatoes 60 cents hay 7 to 10 dollars straw 6 dollars
A reader notes the office offers a range of stationery choices with a hint of new arrivals. Employees are urged to select from the visible display to complete their ordering.
The American Analyst prescribes a test for sewer gas in apartments. Saturate unglazed paper with one ounce of pure acetate of lead in eight ounces of rainwater and let it dry slightly. Expose the paper in the room suspected of containing sewer gas. presence of gas in any considerable quantity soon blackens the test paper.
Coffee Bavarian Cream describes a dessert combining strong Mocha coffee with gelatin and whipped cream served chilled. The salt water remedy advises sniffing a saline solution through one nostril several times daily to treat catarrh.
Guidance on treating oily facial skin suggests wiping with diluted alcohol and using borax or ammonia to reduce oiliness, followed by light powdering. A Syracuse inventor introduces a washing machine using suction to draw dirt from clothes instead of pounding.
A lever operated inverted cone suction cup attaches to laundry tubs. Pulling the lever lowers the cup to contact water and clothes, drawing out dirt as the stroke reverses. The unit clamps to standard tubs and is portable between tubs.
A collection of brief home remedies and care tips including remedies for strawberry rash using limewater or soda, bath and talcum treatment. reheating rancid lard with water and potatoes to refresh it. iodine stain removal with milk and sun. and dry cleaning hairbrushes with a flour and salt rub.
A method to remove spots from white dresses by applying a paste of fuller's earth and eau de Cologne. Let it dry, brush off, and repeat if needed to lift stains.
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