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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1908
Page
1
A promotional note touts Syrup of Figs as a natural laxative that cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or dosage increases. It claims physicians approve its ingredients and urges buying the genuine California Fig Syrup Gp. product from leading druggists.
Public notice style ad claiming deafness from Eustachian tube inflammation can be cured by constitutional remedies. Offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness case cured by Vail's Catarrh Cure and invites readers to request free circulars. Also mentions FJ Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and Val’s Catarrh Cure. Includes a joke about a persistent bill collector.
Advertises OUR-PIE two pies kit from D Zerta Food Co Rochester featuring cocoanut custard pie. Stresses proper ingredients prevent soggy results and promotes a ready mix for home bakers.
A Hungarian count. Oh, I thought you said hungry. A humorous exchange captures a mishearing about marriage and a count in a brief dialogue.
Etta Sauters, branded the death by own action queen, attempts suicide 26 times over three years in Cincinnati. Physicians deem suicidal acts a disease and infectious, noting hospital stays, arrests, and repeated poisonings from multiple pharmacies amid police intervention and public concern.
New York boy Nicholas Buckstein, age 1, saved by his own quick thinking in a 40 foot high gravel pocket cave. When a four ton boulder began to shift, Buckstein directed rescuers to move the rock left, allowing him to escape with feet and arm trapped but unharmed. Firefighters faced a steep cliff and used steel bars and ropes to assist.
Miss Amy Parker of Wellington is found unconscious in a locked garden at dawn in night attire with slippers and a shilling in her hand. She recalls nothing of how she left home or reached the spot, having supposedly walked three miles while asleep despite poor eyesight and a high wall.
Nathan Wood bought a revolver in Barahoo Wisconsin and tried to kill himself. The weapon failed to work, he wounded himself slightly, returned the gun to the store, and demanded a refund under an agreement that it would work. He received his money back.
Four Swarthmore College players are dropped from the roll after unapproved dormitory pranks. Left guard Smith aided in bolting two cow into the girls dormitory stair flights, according to campus authorities.
Algernon Pinckney Schuyler Brown endures humiliation for writing love notes in school. His mother and father dispute handling the shame as the boy joins a street gang to prove himself. A late-night confession reveals the father once known as Slugger Bill supports his son.
A Paradise Hills commuter and a young man share a morning ride where curiosity leads to confession about throat trouble. The younger man reveals his marriage is brief and he wears a polka-dotted tie given by his wife as a sign of support after an attack. Both exchange sympathetic remarks.
In a terse salon exchange, the First Girl asks what he did after she forbade contact. The Second Girl responds that he simply turned the lights out, signaling withdrawal from the scene. The fragment hints at a dramatic, possibly social or romantic conflict with implied consequences.
A Virginia parent recalls a six month battle with severe infant eczema. The child had no skin, blood oozed, wrapped in silk, and doctors gave up. After using Cuticura Soap and Cutiea Ointment, now nearly three, no sign of the condition remains.
Mrs. Louis McKey of 913 Seventh Street Oakland recalls a sudden rheumatic paralysis six to seven weeks earlier that left her bedridden. After trying Sloan’s Liniment she improved after two applications and by three days could walk, claiming she used no other medicine.
A man recalls a social moment aboard a car where he offered a seat to an older woman, saying she should take it because she is older. The other person questions why this was not seen as snippy. The exchange highlights manners and perceptions.
A notice indicating that the item is manufactured by Perunia Drug Manufacturing Company in Columbus Ohio detailing origin and production by the firm.
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