Post Office Notice From Anita Town
An Anita Town post office entry marks this item as second class mail matter and part of the local mailing system record.
16 Oct 1913
Page 1
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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1913
Page
1
An Anita Town post office entry marks this item as second class mail matter and part of the local mailing system record.
A newspaper sketches the archetype of the flip kid who pleads for work while entertaining and bluffing. It contrasts him with steady job seekers and notes employers value sobriety, reliability, and purposeful conduct over clever talk when hiring.
A Sidney Herald opinion notes that "flip kids" are not marketable in business. It argues behavior is hard to correct after it becomes a habit and suggests quitting before starting.
The writer corrects a claim in the October 9 issue about promoting good horses. He recalls Joseph Kaiser of Caron Canada bringing draft horses such as Lefton and Prince Rufus, with partner Barker, and notes blood from Prince Rufus in registered Clydesdales shown at a local show. He cites credit for breeding a mare shown by Geo Wood of Wiota and mentions the mislabeling of a horse as a Percheron grade.
Frank EF. Foster an Atlantic visitor spent Saturday in town. John Barber traveled from Atlantic to visit relatives. Will Kelley and John Grace went to Asoca on business Saturday.
An old advertisement offers a $100 reward for an uncured catarrh case by Haiti's Catarrh Cure. It cites Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and claims financial reliability. The pitch includes testimonials and internal treatment claims with sale via Hall's Catarrh Cure.
A sequence of property transfers dated October 4 to 11 1913 records deeds and mortgages in Anita Lewisburg and Atlantic areas. Names include H C Bangham Maggie Samson W E Keeley Lucinda Carey Frank B Mattison P Talty Clarence A Pellett George Schuler Anna E Sereeneiets E G Huckins Phillip Epblybesa and others with parcels in blocks 4 8 and Griswold additions and mortgage amounts ranging from 500 to 3000 dollars.
Notice to all persons owing me on book account call and settle soon as I am in need of money. Levi Huff. The Misses Vena Hardeson and Nora Sanny were Atlantic visitors on Monday. Miss Rose Tierney and Miss Zeta Vernon attended the teachers meeting in Adair on Saturday. Mrs. Ed Scanlon and children who had been visiting here with her husband’s mother and brother left Saturday for Lewis. After a short visit there they will return to their home at Brookfield Missouri.
Mrs Thornton Crozier visited Atlantic on Saturday while Platt Kelloway and others came for business. Ads note a rental: eight room house. Local residents traded farms, visited relatives, and traveled to nearby towns. A theft at the Cardio hotel yielded 16,277.60 in papers found nearby. police suspect the thief.
The Ladies Improvement League held a cafe teria lunch with little advertising and poor weather. Attendance grew as guests found the menu varied and satisfying. They cleared about $41, noting lower waste than a dinner service and prices ranging from one cent for doughnuts to fifteen cents for meat, potatoes and gravy.
Local notes list residents visiting family in Des Moines Atlantic Stuart and Chicago with Friday trips and weekend visits. A box social at Highland school October 24 funds cyclopedias. 1000 house plans offered by E W Holmes Co. Community events and multiple travel updates reported.
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