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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1893
Page
12
We have consolidated our shoe business and now offer the largest lot of shoes under one roof in Western Iowa. Featuring A. Greens Old Reliable stock and C. E. Arn Cumberland stock alongside our new Fall and original stock. A gigantic assortment designed for wise winter choices with bargains worth talking about.
In Cass county a flood of brief notes records residents at work and traveling. Willie Laird enjoys four weeks vacation while W E Warr returns from Chicago. many build new barns, paint homes, or visit the World’s Fair. Several townsfolk attend Columbian Exposition, Elkhorn College students visit, and community figures travel to Des Moines and Omaha.
Fragments show residents and visitors in the city including H Crombie from Chicago, Miss Lizzie Swartz, J E Miller of Messena, and Jags Anderson of Audubon. The Keene play Richard II drew a large crowd at the Park hotel area, with detailed stage praise for Mr. Keene as Richard. Other items note shop and street repairs, a Republican meeting, coal shortages, and social calls, plus health ads and garden news.
Thursday updates list residents and visitors: Kerley in Stuart for work, Varnum with lame arm, G W Jordan from Wiota in Atlantic, Chase in Des Moines, Gould in Council Bluffs, Zoe Sheeley visiting, Rockafellow back from the East, Grace Aldrich and Pearl Hutton improving, Vern Sanders and Joe Dufford home from Chicago, Dr F W Porterfield in Omaha, T Dickerson back from Southern Kansas, Jones selling queensware, Mrs Sam Slater back from Ghana, E Willard and son Ed to Omaha, new comers daily, market active, several Atlantic boys in tomorrow’s field day, Salvation Army at prayer meeting, Byron McKinley and W C Bryant from Griswold in town for drama, Robi Carr visiting, Jas B Jones and wife from Columbian Exposition, Carr Head from Harlan attending city business, freight clerks noting September business likely to match peak months.
A pamphlet titled Don t Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away promotes No-to-Bac as a harmless, guaranteed tobacco habit remedy sold by druggists and by mail through The Sterling Remedy Co Indiana Mineral Springs Ind. The article notes the populistic House contingent has been reduced to a game of seven up.
An old advertisement section mentions Chamberlain's Cough Remedy described as effective for croup and safe for children, with a testimonial from J. J. LaGrange, Avoca Neb, and 50 cent bottles sold by Vic Emert & Co and G. S. Montgomery. A political aside notes Mrs. Lease strengthening with the Populists after recently lifting a farm mortgage, plus a brief line about a watering-place girl hoping Wall Street's squeeze ends in her favor.
An advertisement touts DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as a cure for piles burns sores and ulcers sold by Palmer and Findley. It also promotes Castoria for children and lists sales opportunities, product guarantees, trial bottles, and price points from Palmer and Findley drugstore with a mix of testimonial lines and promotional language.
Advertisements praise Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for stopping colds when taken early. It claims to loosen secretions, liquefy mucus, and restore health faster than any rival. Sold by Vic Emert & Co. and G. S. Montgomery, with other notes on DeWitt's products and Rock Island World's Fair tickets.
A fragment of a 19th century advertising column promoting remedies for diarrhea kidney and bladder issues arthritis piles and horse blemishes. The note includes testimonials from A E Bending and routine claims of rapid relief with Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy and New Great South American Kidney Cure. Also references Swayne's Ointment and English Spavin Liniment with local druggists Palmer Findley G B Montgomery and Wm M Nichols in Atlantic Iowa.
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