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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
4
Chicago II reports cattle receipts at 3 000 with beeves 5.20 to 7.25 and cows 2.40 to 6.30. Hogs receipts 16 000 with prices 7.25 to 8.10. Sheep receipts 12 000 with ewes 2.75 to 6.00 and lambs 5.25 to 8.25. Estimated tomorrow totals shown.
HOGS receipts 9,500 slow to 5 lower with heavy and butcher prices around 7.50 to 7.77. CATTLE receipts 1,800 slow. steers 6.40 to 6.70, cows 3.00 to 5.85, feeders 5.30. SHEEP weak to 10 lower. wethers 5.00 to 7.00, ewes 4.00 to 6.00, lambs 6.00 to 8.00.
Local grain prices list Wheat at 1.10 dollars a bushel Corn 0.62 oats 0.45 barley 0.50 rye 0.06 Also notes of Dr Moon and family visiting Audubon relatives and T H Whitney family trip to Council Bluffs. An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a health and beauty tonic for women with claims of improving digestion kidneys skin and nerves priced 60 cents.
Mrs. Howard Conine returns to Atlantic after two weeks with relatives. Misses Bell sisters visit Atlantic for Normal Institute. Mrs Ed Shellmaker and children visit Eli Shellmaker home. Miss Marie Weigand of Axita in town. Mrs Fred Moore and Marion Brooks ride to Atlantic. Mrs Phil Trainer and son Wade visit her daughter Pairs. Katharyn Taylor last Saturday. George Gordinier and children of Cumberland in town en route to Atlantic. R R Bell returns from Chicago on business. Dean and Guy Taylor ride to Atlantic Thursday. Ira Trainer, Martin Ruane stop by Viota and town on business. Miss Joie Taylor and Floy Brooks depart for Des Moines and Cedar Falls summer school. Fred Moore travels to Panora to visit sister Mrs Burmeister. Mrs Jessie Nendick and children arrive from Blair for visit. Sam Stoller goes to Walnut on business. O A Roe and L A Engle buy new coal shelter and engine. Ball game Sunday Wiota vs Benton Bloomers. All invited to attend.
Advertises Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets as a busy person remedy for constipation indigestion kidney trouble pimples eczema impurity bad breath sluggish bowels headache and backache. Sold for 35 cents a box by Hollister Company Madison Wisconsin.
An old ad style item warns that even ideal soil and care cannot save a plant with a root canker and likens hair loss to a germ at the root. It promotes Newbrota Herpicida as a solution and notes samples and bottled products sold by Atlantic Drug Co in Atlantic Iowa and The Herpicide Co in Detroit Michigan.
A crowded old ad lists Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a top healer for cuts burns and sores with multiple diseases claimed. Bee's Laxatives and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea are sold as remedies. W. T. Palmer & Co drugstore promotes cough syrups and tonic products targeting general health and vigor.
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