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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1908
Page
1
Rev G M Gray of Whitesboro Texas reports kidney trouble four years ago with pain in every movement. Dean's Kidney Pills relieved the illness after a short time. He reluctantly allows his name to be used so others may profit. Sold by dealers 40 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A New York lawyer, aiding a coal firm, gets lost near a Berks county hamlet. He asks a broad German woman for directions to the next village. Her playful reply, though unclear, leaves him wiser as he drives on slowly.
A Cleveland Leader quote mocks a tiresome preacher Dr Ninthly and notes the vestrymen advertised for namublists to act as ushers, reflecting local church humor and gadgetry in a brief society item.
Mrs. Frank K. Sturgisdonates a collection of rare birds of paradise to the American Museum of Natural History to highlight millinery morals. The 70 specimens cover 60 of 85 known varieties gathered by Frank M. Chapman after two years of research, with many skins valued at $100 each.
A 15 year old youth from Barnstaple recounts two days and nights adrift in an open boat after losing his vessel near Barry. He describes a capsized voyage, seasickness, hunger, and a final rescue by the steam barge Ludovico near Barry Haven. He is now recovering from the ordeal with grateful thanks to rescuers.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw shows no sign of hardship as she hunts a country home on Madison Avenue and spends her $12,000 annual allowance plus $60,000 settled by Harry Thaw. She flaunts lavish gowns and gifts while friends note large gifts to her mother in Pittsburg and hundreds in checks and money orders. The Thaw trial and family disputes over support continue to surface, though she asserts her income remains secure.
The West Thirty first Street north side row from Broadway to Sixth Avenue, once core to the Tenderloin district, will be removed to make way for an 11 story commercial building for William R. Martin at $350000. The former Tenderloin police station precinct moved nearby and the block has been closed for seven years. The row included Sans Souci Bohemia Star and Garter Empire Garden and Milligan's wineroom, notable reform raids and police actions in decades past.
A historical overview notes New York City’s diverse demographics with a foreign born majority. It highlights large Jewish, Italian, and German populations, plus significant Irish, Bohemian, Hungarian, English and Scottish, and other groups from England, Scotland, Bohemia, Scandinavia, and beyond, totaling millions of foreign descendants and foreign-born residents.
A new New York police officer, John M. Murray, encountered a somnambulist marching in bright red drawers down Second Avenue and Sixty-seventh Street. The man, Joseph Sehlanka of East Seventieth Street, wandered with outstretched arms and a crucifix, waking only after an ambulance arrived. Sehlanka, a long-time somnambulist with a nervous disorder, was later restrained by Murray and treated at Presbyterian Hospital, where he briefly overwhelmed orderlies.
George Faulkner 62 and Mrs. Sarah Be Seymour 61 both of Schuyler Nebraska married in Kingston after a romance begun in Ulster County over four decades ago. They met on the Hendrik Hudson steamer, secured a license from City Clerk Cummins, and were wed by Rev. Wilbur F. Stowe following a Kingston Point park meeting.
A National Lead Company notice urges buyers to choose genuine white lead and avoid adulterated pigments. It promotes the Dutch Boy Painter trademark as proof of purity and offers a free test kit and literature from the Woodbridge, New Jersey area.
A Philadelphia Press wry quote discusses quitting alcohol, noting Muggsy tried the gold cure but failed and the nickel cure was the only thing that might work. The piece frames the nickel cure as a practical quickest fix while avoiding pricey remedies.
A reader recalls eczema cured by Cuticura remedies after three summers of eruptions on the back. Another anecdote credits a Indiana mother’s child with relief from severe eczema through Cuticura. Also: a joke about a captain near bullfrogs who asks the sentry to drag the cow from the marsh.
A humorous health sermon recalls chewing a camel forty seven times to fit through the eye of a needle and enter Meaven. a second item reports a man charged with forcefully kissing a young woman as a justice of the peace humorously excuses him, saying the judge clutched the chair arms to resist kissing the complainant.
A mother shares how Grape-Nuts, made from whole wheat and barley, strengthened her and nourished her nursing baby. She reports recovery of health after a doctor advised a diet change and notes both mother and baby thrived four months on the cereal. The ad promotes Read The Road to Wellville and credits Postum Co.
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