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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1898
Page
10
A weekly slice of Atlantic life with visits from Prof Beedle Ida McCullock and others. Rev C W Potter travels for Hastings services. Socials by W R C and U P groups. A June wedding and Shaker Digestive Cordial ads punctuate the column.
An appeal to readers about sunspots as a curious topic and a promotion of Barnes Writing Fluid, patent ink bottles, and pens. The piece notes ink, mucilage, paper, and blank books offered at honest, low prices, with goods sold for their true worth.
James Jones of Jones and Son Cowden Illinois recounts his wife nearly died from La Grippe which progressed to Consumption. After using Dr Kings New Discovery she recovered from the first dose and a few bottles cured her. Free sample offered at Vic Emmert and Co Drug Store.
Numerous short notes from Atlantic record visits, travels, and social events. Names include Harry Marsh Edith Block Jos Haver E Mickel Levi Spangler Henry Heyman Kellogg and Hattie Wilson. Plans note weddings, ranch moves, millinery, and a Hereford cattle sale. The Black Beauty Glee Club performs Friday at the opera house.
Memorial services were held at the Methodist Episcopal Church for Frances Willard. Speakers praised her reform work and leadership in the temperance and women’s rights movements. The service praised her global influence and noted her death on February 17, 1898 in New York.
Editorial notes praise Iowa butter makers for winning top honors at the Topeka convention parade. Neatness in butter manufacture is emphasized as essential and Iowa is praised for leading in production and quality.
Miss Lydia L Painter wed Harry F Leonard in Lincoln township at the bride’s parents home with Elder Kneedy officiating. About two hundred guests attended a lavish reception and gifts listed from many friends and neighbors in Griswold and surrounding areas.
Free sample box of Dr King s New Life Pills advertised by H E Bucklen Co Chicago for consumption sick headache malaria liver complaints and weak stomach. Pills claim to be vegetable non toxic and gently invigorating with no weakening effect. Regular size 25 cents sold by Vie Emmert Co druggists.
The notice seeks old magazines including Harper's Magazine dates from 1880 to 1897 and Century Magazine September 1880 to June 97, plus Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly May 1883 and Sunday School Times issues from 1896. Also requests DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures Piles and Scalds. Burass.
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