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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1893
Page
8
Wednesday to Friday notes from Atlantic include W M Davis and Geo W Parham visiting, many locals, vendors, and visitors, various illness and health items, fair crowds, transport, marriages, police actions, and the ongoing Columbian Exposition coverage with a flood of names and places.
Invitation notes a tournament ball at Hibernian hall on Sept 21 under Atlantic Tennis Club auspices with Northwestern Orchestra providing music. A farmer named Wise, visiting the city, drank bad whiskey, was jailed, fined 35 dollars plus costs in Mayor Whitney's court, and remained in custody after unable to pay.
Des Moines Register notes Justice Wallace trials for insult at the fair ground and offers the Blake 120 acre farm in Brighton township and the Thos N Rice farm in Franklin township for sale. Sugar famine worsens with grocers out of sugar while refiners race to catch up as fruit stores rise. Homes burglarized on Parker Lewis lot. $5 stolen. Tennis tournament planned at the fair grounds with 15 cent admission. entries from Audubon Harlan Avoca Walnut. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve advertised by Palmer & Findley.
The item extols Syrup of Fig as a permanently beneficial laxative from California Fig Syrup Co, warns against cheap extracts and minerals, and notes Gold crossing the Atlantic as often as other passengers, while praising DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve by Palmer & Findley as a cure for sores burns and skin diseases including piles.
The best salve in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheumatism tetter and all skin eruptions. It guarantees perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Palmer & Findley. 8 31 ly
S. H. Clifford of New Cassel Wisconsin suffered neuralgia rheumatism stomach liver trouble and loss of flesh strength. One bottle of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepard of Harrisburg Illinois had an eight year leg sore. Three bottles of Electric Bitters and Bucklin’s Amnia Salve healed the leg. John Speaker of Catawba Ohio had five fever sores and was told incurable. One bottle of Electric Bitters and Bucklin’s Amnia Salve cured him. Sold by Palmer Findley druggists.
Try this remedy offered with a money back guarantee for consumption coughs and colds. La Grippe sufferers report speedy recovery under its use. Sample bottles provided at Palmer Findley’s drug store with large sizes priced 50 cents and 1.00.
The Great Rock Island Route offers reduced fare five cents with electric service from the Rock Island depot to Englewood near the World's Fair. Baggage can be checked through to Englewood, saving time and trouble as the suburb houses a large hotel district. Jo an Sebastian, Gen’s Ticket and Passenger Agent, promotes the service. A new Reichstag member is a master chimney sweep, noted as a sootable occupation.
If you can afford to be annoyed by sick headache and constipation, don't use DeWitts Little Early Risers for these little pills will cure them. Sold by Palmer Findley.
Advertising copy touts De Witt's Little Early Risers as a cure for sick headache biliousness and constipation. The pills are sold by Palmer and Findley and claimed to regulate the liver cure headaches dyspepsia bad breath and biliousness.
Low fares advertised for three Rock Island Route excursions this fall with Aug 22 first date and details on second and third trips in September and October. Includes endorsements for eye care by H Hirschberg and medical testimonials, plus ads for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and Dr Sawyer’s Family Cure.
A Troy Kansas reader recalls severe cholera morbus in past years and endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the remedy to keep on hand. The writer notes it has reliably relieved stomach sickness and diarrhea and mentions local sellers Vic Emmert and G S Montgomery.
An advertisement touts a mystic cure for rheumatism and neuralgia claimed to work in 1 to 3 days. It states the cause is removed and symptoms disappear, with early benefits to the first user. Priced at 75 cents, offered by Solr. W.M. Nichols, Atlantic City.
A historical ad extols SWAYNE OINTMENT as a universal remedy for skin diseases including tetter eczema and itch. It claims to heal all eruptions on face hands and nose leaving skin clear white and healthy and urges readers to ask their druggist for the product.
A nostalgic recalled ad style noting Castoria as a trusted remedy from infancy to parenthood. The verse traces a child’s illness and growth with Castoria as a constant remedy across stages from baby to grandparenting.
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