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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
8
An advertisement touts Hellister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as essential for women of society. It promises brighter dispositions, improved complexions, and claims to be a premier blood and skin remedy. Priced at 25 cents in tea or tablet form from Atlantic Drug Company.
Epworth League entertainment course hires Miss Mary Kringel to canvas the city for season tickets. Tickets are $1 each admitting to five entertainments, with a limited number available and subscriptions being collected. Read the Evening News.
A compact timetable lists multiple routes and departures including No 13 Omaha Flyer No 9 Local Passr No 5 Colo and Calif Exp and No 16 Local Passr with times from early morning to late evening. It notes several Chicago services and Local Passrs plus mixed services on Sundays and the Griswold Branch, with some trains not running.
A.H. Heiser received a letter from his daughter in California saying she likes the country there and is busy seeing its beauties. She and her husband are located at Frisco.
The case of the state against James Aston, set for trial this morning before Justice Straight, was continued to 1:00 pm this afternoon and is now in progress before a jury.
Charles Block & Son’s clothing store announces new racks just received, described as convenient and handsome for displaying garments. The update highlights refreshed fixtures and enhanced display options for customers.
C. M. Cole and wife pack their household goods as they prepare to move to Sioux City on July 1.
Fair tonight and Thursday with moderate temperatures. Light winds and no precipitation expected. Highs near average for the season and overnight lows comfortable.
Lady Catherine Hyde famed as the Mad Duchess. A daughter of Rochester and Clarendon, she courted oddity in fashion. She wore red flannel gowns and aprons at court, tore off aprons in defense, and aged into stubbornly old-fashioned garb, earning mockery from Walpole and Cornbury.
A Windsor Magazine discussion on how modern steamships with steel hulls and onboard dynamos disrupt the compass. The article explains magnetic deviations, opposing currents, and the challenge of keeping the needle true amid electric forces and complex machinery.
Professor Lowell notes that Mars is drying up and life there will soon die. The planet’s surface will no longer support life as time slowly extinguishes every ember, leaving Mars a dead world in space.
An observant note mocks the precision of medical charges by detailing a humorous itemized bill. It lists charges for counting a pulse viewing a tongue asking questions giving directions and dispensing medicine with small items and a total in pence, reflecting on professional services.
A brief cartoon joke from Newark Evening Star about siblings joking that a sister would swap a troublesome beau for a better one, citing a charge account at the store as the imagined lever to change him. The humor hinges on consumer credit as a quick fix.
Quotations from the Philadelphia Ledger and Sporting Times critique faith healing and animal cruelty while Bulwer suggests that heaven finds a witness when a man commits a crime, reflecting contemporary moral commentary in these snippets.
Miss Mary Anderson of Council Bluffs travels through the city en route to Elkhorn to visit her aunt Mrs. Jens Hansen after returning from Davenport where she saw her son Albert Anderson and his wife. Effie Scholtz of Riverside Cal returns to continue visiting her parents L. B. Dack and wife. Margaret Cornell and Roy Strong travel to Linden Indiana for a house party at Miss Atta Godown’s home and return Saturday. Mae Gibbs to host first and second graders at the library for a Fourth of July themed talk. Marie and Hannah Paulsen of Cordova Neb headed to Elkhorn for the wedding of their cousin Nanne Nielson to Mr. Harry H. Nymand tomorrow. Out-of-town shoppers include Albert Henich and daughter of Anita, Aice Keffer and Mrs. C. Warner of Lewis, Ellen Sampson and Katherine Moore of Wiota, and Lois Blakeslee of Marne.
The board of directors of the Atlantic Northern and Southern meets Friday evening at the company office to transact business. Marriage licenses listed include Roslyn Steinke and Charles Ball, Grinnell Ira Rowe and Bessie Temple in Atlantic and nearby venues. Notices urge tournament visitors to contact George W. Towne on East Fourth Street.
The Des Moines Register and Leader announces a generous subscription deal for the balance of this year through January 1, 1909. Rates include daily and Sunday options, touting impartial political coverage, a reliable Iowa news service, editorials, full markets, and baseball box scores, aiming to expand readership across Iowa homes.
Des Moines reports show families along the river evacuating from low lands as high water spreads. Omaha and Bluita signal the Missouri at danger point with rising flood levels. Sioux City also contends with a high Big Muddy as apprehension grows.
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