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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1897
Page
12
An elderly Humboldt Street resident describes lingering heart trouble after a fever. The patient reports sudden pains and fainting spells, difficulty lying on the left side, and a period of three minutes where the heart seemed to miss beats. Remedies including Nervine were tried without clear relief.
Fragmented notices describe movements of residents from Anite and Dexter, with names including Sackett, Misses Warner and Gertrude, and references to travel, dancing guests, and a college plan. The text mentions a store room owned by Mrs. Nelson and a person named Fred dupween.
At Tuesday's meeting the council ordered $600.00 paid on the citizen's note. The electric light plant still owes $1000, to be paid soon, after which the plant will carry only ongoing repair and running expenses.
A 40 acre Applegate farm one mile north of Atlantic will be sold with half cash and terms apply at the office. Also an advertisement notes constipation ailment and remedies with Vic Eammert and M. J. Davis & Son, Lewis, promoting Karl's Clover Root Tea as a cure.
Thursday notes list Benedict of Stuart and others arriving in the city for various duties and visits. Reported events include meetings, licenses issued, revival activities, funerals and births, plus local incidents such as a man attacked by sows and a theft case involving carpet rags.
The weekly prayer revival at the M E Church moved from the chapel to the main audience room due to crowding. Rev. John Neeley of Des Moines will assist Rev. Wickersham a week from today as services continue at 7 80 p m with all invited to attend.
A patient reports relief from long standing female complaints after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes prior agony including backache bearing down pains and painful menstruation, noting weight loss and later improvement with renewed flesh. Dudley Massachusetts 1561
A marriage license was issued yesterday to Hirata B Ewing aged 20 of this city. Due to the absence of one party the mothers appeared before the country clerk and attached records. Various local advertisements and names appear in the page, including figures for sale items and entertainment listings from A McGeehon and Davies & Son.
The issue announces The Martian by Du Maurier and new novels by Stoklin Howells and Twain era writers. It previews science essays by Henry Smith Williams and Andrew Iason, American features on Mexico by Lummis, and historical pieces by Wilson McMaster Barnes plus Forsyth Sheridan Ride continuation. It notes Africa and Rica illustrations by Bigelow and field work during an explorative trip.
In O'Brien the society met with Gail Hamilton as vice president, Harriet Joyce as secretary, Harriet doyce as treasurer, and Ellery Mills among the attendees. The brief report lists current officers and volunteers for upcoming events.
Advertises Sucklen's Arnica salve as cure all for cuts bruises sores ulcers rheum fever tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions with money back guarantee. Priced at 25e per box, available from all dealers.
Send your address to H E Bucklen Co Chicago and get a free simple box of Dr King’s New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits for constipation and sick headache. They are vegetable and harmless, do not weaken but invigorate the system. Regular size 25c per box, sold by all druggists.
Mr Gilman Brown of 84 Mille South Gardner Massachusetts was told by doctors that his boy would not live a month due to lung trouble following typhoid malaria. After trying Dr Kings New Discovery the boy recovered enough to return to work and credits the medicine. The ad touts Swayne’s ointment for skin eruptions and recommends trial bottles at drug stores.
An ad touts Cascarets Candy as a cathartic medical discovery that cleanses the system and aids kidneys liver and bowels. It promises relief from colds headaches fever constipation and biliousness and urges readers to buy a bottle of six to try, guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
An old advertisement promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething infants claiming to soothe the child ease gum pain and relieve wind colic and diarrhoea. A 25 cent bottle is noted. Another line advertises red Cascar candy cathartic with a guaranteed cure in 100 or 250 doses.
A claimed fast remedy titled Mystic Cure promises radical relief in 1 to 3 days for rheumatism and neuralgia. It asserts immediate system-wide action, removal of the cause, and quick disappearance of symptoms after the first dose. Sold by F. Parson Co. in Atlantic Iowa.
The ad promotes No-To-Bac as a cure to quit tobacco, claiming men gain ten pounds in ten days and noting 40,000 cured. It urges readers to send for a free set and sample through Sterling Remedy Co. Also mentions a Cardai Weather Chart calendar for 1997 from Chattanooga Medicine Co, praising its size and weather signals.
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