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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
4
Local dealer promotes quick service and repair for wagons buggies and wheels. Announces limited stock sale with specials on hay racks and asks customers to trade old rigs for new ones. Emphasizes repair expertise rubber tires painting and fast turnaround with ready stock and skilled staff.
Fragmentary OCR note advertises laundry pickup service by City Steam Laundry with a call to select a line and visit the office for details. The text is unclear but references a reliable laundry wagon and stationery at an office.
The schedule lists multiple Lime tables and passenger trains for lines including Chicago to Omaha via Lime, with No. 13 Omaha Flyer at 6:26 am and No. 9 Local Pass’r at 9:53 am, plus a roster of Mail and Express, Local Pass’r, Limited, and Chicago Flyer services. It also notes Sundays non-operation for Nos. 63 and 64 on the Audubon and Griswold branches and shows Atlantic Northern Southern lines with No. 1 and No. 3 Passenger and Freight departures and No. 2 and No. 4 arrivals, with times around 7:00 am to 6:35 pm.
The markets report mixed cattle and hog values with receipts at 6,500 cattle, 14,000 sheep, and 24,000 hogs. Beeves range 4.70 to 8.25, cows and heifers 2.35 to 6.20, stockers 2.69 to 4.85, westerns 4.50 to 6.60, sheep 2.75 to 4.70, lambs 4.00 to 7.10. Estimated totals for tomorrow: cattle 2,500, hogs 24,000, sheep 8,000.
Market brief lists hogs at 5.26 to 5.70 per unit peeves 5.50 to 6.00 cows and heifers 3.25 to 5.00. Wheat 87c corn 60c oats 42c barley 60c rye 60c. Butter 18 to 20c eggs 12c potatoes 60c hay 7.00 to 10.00 straw 6.00.
The German Evangelical church will not hold a preaching service on Sunday. Sunday school starts at 10:00 AM and the young people meet at 2:00 PM. Contact Musson at phone 315 and arrange bundle pickup with Model Steam Laundry.
Reports on battlefield horrors and sudden panic during the Franco-Prussian War and the Peninsular War. Describes headless cuirassier sighting at Worth and severed arm during Forbach charge, plus veteran regiments fleeing en masse when rumor of the enemy spread, then rallying to fight. Notes war panic as a mysterious, universal phenomenon among even seasoned troops.
Y L Molloy recounts a comic Paris scene where a portly man, set to swim, endures rope restraints and slow coaching for a five year spell without ever entering the water. The masters praise perseverance while the man remains dry, provoking astonishment.
A veteran commentator notes a telltale habit in a three mile scratch race at the New York Athletic Club games. He observes the leading pair stride for stride until the final stretch when one man glances back to check the third rival and seeds his own defeat by yielding the second place. He warns that the habit signals a loss as the dash to finish reveals the true winner.
In early northwest days the Hudson Bay Company traded with natives, selling guns for beaver pelts. It was joked that gun barrels lengthened each year until a borrower needed a file to trim a foot of metal. A separate quip riffs on marriage, noting a wife called her husband a fool before their wedding and he recalls the remark.
A Moody's Magazine quip about a doctor claiming to diagnose all sickness from the eyes and a patient with a glass eye turning the joke on the doctor. The exchange plays on witty misdirection regarding eye health and kidney ailments.
A playwright and a lawyer debate the play’s structure on opening night. The lawyer questions extending the tale to five acts, while the author explains the setup with the hero entering a law scene in Act One.
A quoted exchange reveals journalists worried about being barred from the famous trial. “That’s good,” one editor said. “I hate to be hampered by facts in writing up a case of its kind.” The remark underscores debate over press access and factual constraints in reporting.
In a terse exchange from the New York Press, Hewitt complains no one answered when he phoned a contact, while Jewlitt reveals the caller was his wife, clarifying the mix up in a brief dialogue.
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