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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
4
Advertises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea with a claim of beauty enhancement, offering Tea or Tablets for 35 cents through Atlantic Drug Co. Emphasizes transformative color and attractiveness as the product's appeal.
Hogs receipts 81 000 with prices mostly lower. top day $5.90. Cattle receipts 15 000 with beeves 4.60 to 7.25, cows and heifers 3.5 to 6.2, westerns 4.5 to 5.5. Sheep receipts 15 000, lambs 6.0 to 7.75. Estimated tomorrow 13 000 hogs, 4 000 cattle, 15 000 sheep. Local social notes and events follow with community visits and a Liliputian baggar benefit planned for April 18.
A London school for poor boys receives a note from a father explaining his son John’s absence. The message says please excuse John for being away as he has been very bad with information on the inside. The phrasing suggests a miscommunication or odd wording typical of era notes.
Des Moines residents report Mrs LZ Plunket returning from Omaha hospital stay of three weeks while Charles Coe and wife left for Audubon due to his brother G M Coe illness. Clifton Findley and mother visited Mrs M J Davis from Atlantic. Mrs Askew and Miss Mary Tropley hosted a linen shower for Miss Rosy Phillips with a two course late supper. See stationery at this office and coal orders from Green Bay Lumber Co.
North bound trains from Audubon and Griswold branches run on Sundays with morning and afternoon departures. Mixed trains No 389 at 6 40 a m No 391 at 2 20 p m No 321 Sunday only at 11 40 a m. South bound trains include No 393 at 6 35 a m and No 393 at 10 p m and No 323 Sunday only at 5 a m.
Northbound trains run daily except Sunday with No. 1 Passenger and Freight at 7:00 a.m. No. 2 at 1:30 p.m. Southbound arrivals include No. 2 Passenger and Freight at 11:15 a.m. and No. 4 at 5:35 p.m. Watch repairing at Eggers Bros. dead tf.
Low prices on various buggy styles with hand made and factory options. All buggies carry a one year warranty and the shop promises to show stock before payment. Rubber tires, repainting, and horse shoeing offered. repairs department active greeting customers.
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