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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
10
Atlantic Drug Co advertises Hol lister's Rocky Mountain Tea for babies to stay strong and healthy and fat. The product offered as Tea or Tablets at 35 cents, aimed at tender sensitive bodies.
Charles Sharp sued L. W. Wheatley for 14 dollars for labor in digging a well. The case was to be heard by Justice Pressnall but settled out of court with Wheatley paying 9 dollars and no trial held.
Mr. Martin, the Kansas City expert hired for the water works project, arrived today and will begin setting up the new pump tomorrow after it is unloaded from the car at the depot.
A. H. Goodspeed shows improvement while Dr. Emmert returns from Chicago with son Max from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. J. Rohr and Miss Bessie Emmert travel from Waynesville Pa to visit after attending a Dunker meeting in Des Moines. Will Grulke’s young daughter injures her foot and requires anesthetic to remove a splinter by Dr Campbell.
Trade figures show France with colonies in 1906 totaling over $200,000,000. Of this, $129,947,800 consisted of reports on manufactured products from France.
The sole life oil portrait of Daniel Boone was painted by Boston artist Chester Flarding in Missouri, June 1820, at Sanders Callaway's home near Marthasville, Warren county. Reverend James E. Welch supported Boone during the sitting as the artist captured him fading, and the work now hangs in Frankfort Kentucky's state capitol.
The London Globe notes a legend about the slowworm breaking itself into bits. It states the slowworm is timid and tightens its muscles when captured, becoming rigid and likely to snap, with only the upper portions surviving the ordeal.
During a trial for assault in Melbourne a club rail ax handle knife and shotgun were shown as instruments. The assaulted man defended himself with a scythe revolver pitchfork chisel hand saw and a dog. The jury said they would have paid to see the fight.
In Carl Schurz memoirs a medium relays Lincoln’s spirit telling Schurz to travel and soon become a U S senator from Missouri. Schurz, living in Wisconsin, doubted the prophecy until a 1869 Missouri seat election fulfilled the forecast after a M Tiedemann Philadelphia gathering.
Two Indians in a canoe fish whitefish at the foot of raging rapids using a 4 foot dipnet on a 15 foot handle. The bowman steadies the boat with a pole while watching deep water. He suddenly nets, bringing up three to five pound whitefish, sometimes as many as eight hundred in a day. Mystery remains how they see fish in the deep churn.
Pentecost confession and communion services listed for Sunday June 7 at 10:00 a.m. preaching at 10:30 a.m. Christening at 10:20 a.m. Holy Communion at 11:30 a.m. No Sunday school. Ladies' Aid meets at 3 p.m. Pastor G. F. Braun invites all. Stationery and home goods advertised by local firms Aston & Co and Green Bay Lumber.
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