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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1897
Page
12
Local and personal items from Atlantic cover a week’s worth of social visits and city business. Monied residents and travelers stop in. weddings, travel plans, illness, and civic meetings mark the week, with updates on the YMCA, church services, and the upcoming annual ball.
The Modern Way extols Syrup of Figs as a cleansing liquid laxative from the California Fig Syrup Company, promising to treat colds headaches and fevers without unpleasant after effects and improving former crude methods.
Notice of appointment of B. Hall as executor of John Crawford’s last will and testament from Cass county Iowa. Creditors urged to pay debts and claimants to present authenticated claims for allowance. Dated February 16, 1897.
Regular March notices report Dr. Rose returning from Guthrie Center Mrs J H Wood back from Des Moines W Bagley from Avoca W M Reynolds bedridden on East Third Street J H Haver and wife visiting Anita Mrs J C McKinstry s daughter ill with pneumonia Chas Wolfinger visiting his sick father in Dexter Roads drying and improving Frank Mills and C L Hill returning from Chicago to Lewis Miss Mamie Griffin en route to Audubon and relatives Mrs Chas Barnard and Geo Russell leaving for Omaha Guy Swires back from Cheyenne with Appleman Vredenberg business plans
LL McClintock and family plan to move to Los Angeles. Mrs. Cowan and son return to Maine after visiting C. W. Potter. Mrs. Phelps and Temple attend Des Moines governor’s reception. Beaumont of Madrid Neb. visits Geo. Pennell, then returns home. Johnson of Steuben Co. Indiana seeks western relocation. Cass County Bar attends J. W. Brown funeral. Mrs. Burke and son arrive from Walnut. Miss Backus aids singing. Herron of Newton helps sister with typhoid symptoms. Taxpayers urged to file lists by March 15. G A R ladies host sewing bee with supper. Pennell called to Portland, Me. by ill father. Jury convicts Lorenzen and Sandberg. Hillman Wright case ongoing. Theft case unresolved. mystery about gold pen. Olga Carlson surprised by friends. games and refreshments follow.
A paragraph extols Swayne Ointment for curing eczema rashes and facial eruptions with claims of clear white skin. It urges readers to ask their druggist for the ointment. The rest notes a baby death, local election nominations, and a hospital update about J. Powers.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M E church hosted a well attended social at J A McWald residence with vocal and instrumental pieces, declamations, and recitations, followed by games and refreshments. Today marked the 60th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs A A Case of 808 Hickory Street, noting their long residence in Iowa and Lee County.
Last night marked the final legal moment to file nomination papers as nonpartisan city races heat up. Candidates across wards contend for mayor and council seats with figures like Prall Jones W.E. Martin and Lee Pratt in play while two Browns risk voter split in the city solicitor contest.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co to pay one hundred dollars for each catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public witness dated December 6, 1885. Cure claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered. product sold by Druggists nationwide.
E. E. Turner of Compton Missouri says he cured piles after seventeen years by using three boxes of DeWitt s Witch Hazel Salve. He also notes it helps eczema and severe skin diseases. Vic Emmert 0, s
A laudatory open letter by Mrs. J. E. Bress of Herculaneum, Missouri, recounts severe postbirth ailments including nervous distress, stomach inflammation, headaches, and memory loss. After using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for under a year, she reports rapid health gains, renewed youth, and urges other women to try the remedy, hailing the product as a boon from a woman’s hands.
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