Local notes from Anita and surrounding towns
Births, visits, and community notices list a newborn daughter Abs. WAL ElH born to C. W. Major and wife. Citizens travel to Atlantic, Red Oak, Boone, Charter Oak, Massena, and Omaha. Church services, charity sales, and aid society gatherings announced along with local illnesses and housing projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Major
Abs. Wal Elh
Dr. Fish
Green River
Abs
A. H. Cate
Red Oak
Myrtle Steinmetz
Atlantic
Bosley
Anita
Lew Pine
T. B.larabee
Caroline Haist
Ladies of Columbia Chapter
Masonic Temple
Masonic
Boone
Herbert
Gilhaugh
Omaha
Kiehl
Hamiton Campbell
Maple and
Third Street
W. E. Fish
Aberdeen
John Budd
Cushman
Congregational Church
F. H. Sears
Massena
Walter Faulkner
Fred
Congregational Aid Society
K. P
Henry
Jerry Karns
Charter Oak
Ella Griffith
Charles Ragan
Della Windre
Wiota News highlights and local travels
Wiota News contains a flurry of community notes from Wiota and nearby Atlantic. Mr and Mrs Ames Forsythe visited Atlantic on business while Mrs C P Brooks spent time with sister Mrs E Black. Numerous residents travel, visit relatives, or report illnesses as Len Engle and Edith Bourne aid spring tasks and Miss Annie Eden and Miss Frankie Glass appear in Atlantic. The opening ball game between the Woodmen and MWA ended with a Woodmen win and the remains of Mr and Mrs Sam Martin’s daughter were sent from Des Moines for Wiota burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiota News
Ames Forsythe
Atlantic
C. P. Brooks
E. Black
Len Engle
Lester Baron
W. C. Terbush
Tom Malone
Charles Sherrett
Jones
Messrs. Kessler
Williamson
Colorado
Joe Robinson
Turkey Valley
James
Martin AlcMahan
Benton Center
Wiota
Willis Fogle
Nick Kessler
Bessie Bell
Wood's
Rebeka Lodge
Fudge
Grobee
Elmer Campbell
Griswold
S. Sampson
Our Town
Ellen
Maymie
Andrew
Peter
Olsen
Adair
J. B. Bohling
Leng Richter
Ellen Sampson
Buelak Nordman
Meo
John Stoudt
Mars
Tom Milone
Wallace Rice
Des Moines
Ona Malone
Sam Martin
J. P. Kelley
Walter Jones
Cumberland
Grover Darling
Leu Engle
Sam Woot Galihers
Anita
Corse Peirce
Henry Shakey
Lucasville
Ohio
Lawrence
Jesse Miller
Anita News Notes and Local Social Details
Anita News reports J. Green and family have left Reynolds hotel to return to Avoca. Columbia Chapter C E S held a social Monday with refreshments and games. Anita public schools displayed art works Friday and Saturday showing dolls houses cakes and pies. Mrs Bertha Johnson visited from Atlantic to view school handiwork and discuss politics. Cecil and Ruby Roe from Atlantic visited Miss Hattie Swarts over Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita News
Cecil and
Ruby Roe
Atlantic
Hattie Swarts
Insurance terms and location in Atlantic notice
Fire Tornado Lite and Accident Insurance listing for A. M. Petite at 516 Chestnut Street Atlantic. Indicates coverage or policy reference in a compact local notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Petite
Chestnut Street
Atlantic
Time Table No. 18 Omaha Flyer Schedule
The listing details rail timetables for the Omaha system with trains 6 7 9 10 14 16 17 63 64 and the A M Limited including local and express services. It notes that Nos 63 and 64 do not run Sundays and lists Audubon and Griswold branch services with mixed and Sunday only trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha Flyer
Rene
Mail and Express
Express
Oraacy
Chicago Flyer
Atlantic Northern and North Train Schedule
Leave No. 1 Passenger and Freight 7 00 a.m No. 3 Passenger and Freight 1 30 p.m South Arrive No. 2 Passenger and Freight 11 15 a.m No. 4 Passenger and Freight 5 35 p.m All trains daily except Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasenger
Persian laughter and social restraint in early media
A fragmentary note from the Chicago Record-Herald contrasts Persian ideas of laughter with social norms. It remarks that a man who forgets friends may be ungrateful, while forgetting enemies is foolish. The text hints at gendered humor and permissiveness toward female merriment in Persia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Needles
Chicago
Record-Herald
Persia
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Story & Clark
Elizabeth Daly
Hollister
Cardus
J. L. Broadhead
Clanton, Ala
Hattanooga Kcine
Rock Island & Pacific
Griswold Branch
NORTH
Florsheim
The
Nebe Shoe Co
Brown Grocery
Bradley’s
Walnut Street
Steinke’s
L. D. Thomas
the Nichol’s Bank
Nichols’ Bank
D. S
Disbrow
Atlantic, Iowa
C. W. Needles
Green Bay Lumber Co
B. R. Wasson
Iowa
Merrick
N. W. Deering & Son
Henry Ward Beecher
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