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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1893
Page
7
Our winter stock continues to arrive featuring Alfred Dolge’s felt goods in fresh pictures. The display highlights practical, sturdy fabrics and classic styling suitable for the cold season.
A long list of city social notes reports visits and illnesses. Rev Norris visits. Mrs Lyon and Mrs McElish ill. others travel to Des Moines Cumberland Anita and Chicago. The Salvation Army draws crowds. a wheel of event notes and a Windsor hotel trial. a child dies from lye ingestion.
The first annual southwestern irrigation convention met in Dearna New Mexico with delegates from New Mexico Arizona Texas and Kansas adjourning sine die and forming committees to push a future Albuquerque session of the international congress a long address urged reclaiming lands to be irrigated at state expense for settlers with lands not exceeding a tract of 40 acres per person.
The Woodmen met at Palmer and Findley’s drug store last evening with a good turnout and expressed pleasure with the gathering. Chase Hunt was summoned to Chicago due to his father’s illness and death before arrival. Charles accompanied the body to eastern Iowa for burial. Rock Island tourists Card began trip west on No 5 yesterday and will run each month in winter under Mr Phillips. CGT members rented rooms over Luas grocery for meetings and will be well furnished. R C Atherton of Atlantic rebuilds old organs at little or no pay, call at Occidental hotel. Mrs S J McHenry of Atlantic died in Gothenburg and will be laid to rest in Atlantic Catholic cemetery tonight.
An opinion piece rails at modern education and home discipline, arguing children are spoiled by lenient schooling and indulgent parents. It urges reviving strict discipline, citing truancy, cheating, and defiant behavior, and calls for addressing parents at home to restore order.
A crowded ad page extols Castoria and DeWitt's remedies for teething colds and headaches. It touts Niagara's cataract and a Columbian Exposition portfolio offer, plus testimonials and World’s Fair promotions. Also mentions Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, Dr Sawyer's Pastilles, and Bucklen health guides.
An old advertorial list touts Pitcher's Castorlia as helping liver issues and various ailments with De Witt's Little Early Risers and Witch Hazel Salve for piles burns ulcers and skin conditions. It promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for croup and cites prices and local sellers Palmer Findley Vic Emmert Co and G S Montgomery. It ends with a guarantee offer for salve with Palmer Findley.
A poem recounts post election hardship with a child asking for bread. It recalls job loss, bank failures, rising prices, and factory closures leading to soup kitchens. The narrator cites tariffs and political promises as delayed factors shaping suffering after last fall.
A compact satire ad claims No-to-bac tobacco cure with guaranteed results from The Sterling Remedy Co. Indiana Mineral Springs Ind. Also features short product pitches for DeWitt's remedies and Witch Hazel Salve with local merchants Palmer & Findley. Contains advertising tone and dated brand mentions.
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