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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1894
Page
2
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An extended advertisement extols the Singer Fashion sewing machine with a five year guarantee and rail freight paid. It praises innovations like automatic bobbin winders, tight and loose wheel, self setting needle, adjustable presser foot, and automatic tension release, plus accessories and a guarantee. pricing and subscription offers are listed alongside testimonials from LaFayette Spiiacs, Miss Sallie McClellan, and Harry Jorpax. The piece shifts to a Marlin Repeating Rifle offer, detailing side ejecting design, weather resistance, calibres 32 38 and 44, stock and barrel specs, and subscription plus cash options with a retail price cited.
An advertisement promises an imported double barreled shotgun with modern features free to readers who subscribe to 26 new yearly paid subscriptions, or for 10 yearly subs at 12 dollars cash. Gun offered in 10 or 12 bore, shipped prepaid.
A Pittsburg Dispatch note quotes a renowned chemist advising that good toilet soap, used as a balm after washing, prevents chapped hands. He argues it is neutral, gentler than common alkali soaps, and superior to vaseline or salves for skin protection in frequent hand washing.
A Cincinnati Enquirer Brazil Indiana cor respondent relays a tale about prevaricators and an Ananias club led by judge Silas D Coffey. He mockingly recounts a camping party morning fog incident where Vanes boiler works proprietor allegedly cut fog with a cornknife for breakfast, a claim Vanes denies as a misinterpretation of dawn shadows.
An old note recalls how an iron railing once fenced the capitol grounds in Washington. An appropriation funded a watchman to lock the gates at night and open them each morning. Over years the railing vanished yet gates remained. the waterman kept closing and opening per law, earning his salary.
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