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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1908
Page
7
Halliday Ark man credits Electric Bitters for malaria and stomach relief. He says the remedy purifies blood, tones nerves, and restores energy. If it fails to help, money refunded. 50e at dealers.
A Bohemian Magazine essay by Henry B. Warner mocks theatrical absurdities from a desert set to a sandstorm wind machine and a Japanese costume Martian opera scene. A New Yorker laments how a mother-in-law steals attention, grabs the baby, and narrates parenting to strangers, killing the joke for the bachelor observer.
A Louisville Courier Journal piece compares street car chases to athletic feats. It distinguishes sprinters from busier men, noting college runners with knee high movements and others who overtake a moving car by swinging on, all framed as a whimsy on urban speed and fitness.
A brief note urging customers to place orders with the Wilken Monument Works. The message emphasizes choosing the Wilken shop for headstones and related memorials, presenting no other context or details.
A fragment from life advice warns against barefoot danger in Africa and urges careful clothing storage to avoid bites. It then shifts to a Boston symphony anecdote about two girls returning from a music hall, one scornful, one dejected, after Mary allegedly disgraced herself by sneezing during the performance.
A reflective note on nature sparing the rose from grief and new scientific findings about hair loss caused by a germ in hair follicles. Advertisements promote Newbro's Herpicide from Detroit, crepe paper bargains, Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea as a sick tonic, and Bees Laxative Cough Syrup from Atlantic Drug Store with various ailments addressed.
How Needles Are Made explains machine processes from rough steel wire to finished needles including cutting, filing, eye piercing, head flattening, sharpening and polishing. It notes counting and packing needles, with additional oddities about a jesting pension tale at a depot and a sharp onion bite to evoke tears.
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