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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1896
Page
2
A letter from May 11 1804 from Parker appeals for aid to Mrs Pinkham. It describes severe pains and fever, urging relief and bed rest. A later letter dated Sept 21 184 confirms a cure using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Local druggists report high demand and support for the remedy.
A Rock Island freight yard wreck Tuesday at about three o’clock involved seven damaged cars after a mis-switched set of flats. Several railroad workers narrowly escaped injury as cars swerved across tracks. The notice then pivots to a domestic advice snippet about maintaining a cheerful home and endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a household staple.
Judge Macy orders the Russell estate to pay 12000 and Mrs Winslow 6000 in deposits from the Cass County Bank collapse. About thirty cents on the dollar will be paid to listed depositors including Park Disbrow, Mary J Walker, M B Thomas, Maggie Goss, and others. Also notes obituary of Margaret I Marshall born 1818 and died 1896 with details of her life and family.
In a park collection talk curator Mr Thompson urges protecting harmless snakes and shares two vivid tales. He recalls a black snake tracking a toad by scent in Virginia and a South Africa harbor capture of a python that seized a German brig, finally being wrestled into a sack after a dramatic chase.
A stooped hat buyer in a Chicago Tribune fragment insists on trying on hats without knowing his size. He recalls wearing a No 9 shoe and suggests a No 9 hat, arguing the sales process should be eased by listing sizes while the clerk objects. The exchange shows humor and a clash over fitting a hat.
A Detroit Free Press recounts a fable where a villager complains to a cadi about crows stealing corn. The crow admits to pilfering one fifth of the harvest but argues the farmer should be grateful, since the loss reduces his labor by the same proportion. The tale ends with the cadi advising the villager to shoot one crow per fifth. The moral questions fairness in cases of theft and proportion.
A quarrel over the value of publicity features in illustrated papers surfaces in a dialogue about authors, portraits, interviews, and what truly drives book purchases. The exchange highlights publishers, reviewers, and reader habits in a witty exchange involving a novelist named Geraint and a critic.
A rider and his groom were thrown when a horse bolted. The master escaped uninjured but lost his wig. The groom Pat, in fear, believed his head was severed when he found the wig in his hand, thinking it was his own scalp. The scene sparked alarm and humor.
A tutor at an Oxford college recalled a past encounter with a prominent politician who identified him by his limp. The exchange highlighted the idea that being known by one’s walk can surpass fame for preaching, a line quoted from the St. Louis Star.
The Pasteur Institute in Paris issued a report for 1895 showing 1,620 rabies inoculations with only 2 deaths. Among patients, 1,268 were French, 173 English, 85 Swiss, 20 Anglo Indian, 11 Spanish, 6 Belgian, 6 Dutch, 2 Egyptian, 2 Greek, and 2 Turkish.
A Madrid journal plans to boost circulation by printing news on cloth instead of paper. The cloth dissolves in water, leaving a clean scarf like handkerchief when the reader washes it in a public fountain.
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