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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1909
Page
8
A brisk collage of medical cure pitches touts epilepsy cures and free mail offers from Dr. May Laboratory and Garfield Tea Co. along with humorous quips and advertising lines about pain relief, teething syrup, mint fragrance, and WRIGLEY’S SPAR plus assorted slogans.
Readers in Gardiner Maine and elsewhere report relief from organic troubles and a severe female weakness after three months of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. The ad urges women to avoid surgery, test the tonic, and seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Congress will view aeroplane trials at Fort Myer as the signal corps aims to push aeronautical development into an aerial navy. Wright brothers, Herring Curtiss, and Orville Wright plan trials and new engines as European rivals race ahead.
A. B. E. McKee, East End Trust manager and former Kansas City journalist, reluctantly joins the Cleveland Cat Club after a lobby meeting. He becomes a trustee, custodian of prize cups, and must house the cups in his bank vault, while joking about acquiring cats to stay consistent.
Morgantown West Virginia district attorney Boyd charges local physicians and druggists with exploiting dry county rules. One Morgantown physician allegedly wrote 10000 liquor prescriptions in a year and averaged 27 daily, earning about 10000 dollars. Druggists likely earned a comparable share as prosecutions loom. Similar alarms echo across dry districts in West Virginia and Ohio.
Town Treasurer Walter J. Schuster delivered 32 000 ancient pieces to the Fire King Engine Company for annual salaries. Forty fire fighters receive a salary of three dollars each. The payment form was a joke by officials, though some men accepted both money and humor. One member called it the heaviest salary he ever got.
A Los Angeles article details T. H. Wright's quest to replace a stallion St. Gordon's hair with a horse tail switch crafted by Mrs. Ray Curenson from the horse's own hair. The finished switch appears fuller, slightly larger than natural, and is designed to stay attached during activity. Also covered are a cow right of way case in Wilkes-Barre and Japan's first quarter trade figures showing a drop from the prior year.
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