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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1909
Page
4
CATTLE receipts 19,000 steady to weak by tomorrow 30,000. Beeves 4.60 to 7.20 cows and heifers 1.90 to 5.75 stockers and feeders 3.50 to 5.50 westerns 4.15 to 5.60. Sheep receipts 17,000 weak to lower with lambs 5.75 to 7.70 and sheep 3.40 to 5.75. Estimated tomorrow cattle 5,000 and sheep 8,000.
Chicago market closes mixed with hog receipts at 35000 and South Omaha at 11200. Hogs steady to mixed with top bids near 6.90 and bulk 5.60 to 6.80 for different loads. Cattle slow with steers 4.00 to 6.50 and cows 3.00 to 5.40. Sheep steady with lambs 6.50 to 7.50 and wethers 4.00 to 6.85.
W. T. Palmer & Co. Drug Store advertises ManZan Pile Remedy in two tubes with nozzle attached for direct application to affected parts. Guaranteed. Price 50c.
Interesting items from the local social world note a well attended church program despite poor weather with Mrs Hamler's organ prelude and the ladies chorus, Effie Locke, M B K Quint, Parthenian quartet, Mrs Crawford and others in a varied program. Twenties Century Temple Pythian Sisters install officers at the K P hall with a social after. Laurel Lodge Knights of Pythias plans a Castle Hall gathering with a smoker and high five party Friday night. members urged to attend.
G G Jeck of Atlantic Produce Co owns a Plymouth Rock hen that laid a single egg after seven months, but this one egg had five yolks and measured four and a quarter inches. Jeck showcased the egg at the Iowa Car Lot Shippers association meeting in Des Moines. Attendees joked Iowa hens are selfish, hurting hen fruit prices, as the bird’s strike threatens the state’s famed fowl industry.
Urey Jones, awaiting a verdict in the murder case of Mr and Mrs Van Winkle, was found dead in his Muscatine jail cell. He hanged himself using a rope fashioned from bed ticking, with his trial nearing its end as prosecutors prepared to rest.
New spiral fire escapes for school buildings have arrived in the city and will be installed as soon as spring vacation ends. Company crews are expected to begin work shortly to fit the systems.
Grain Wheat 97c corn 53c oats 46c barley 80c rye 68c. Stock Hogs 5.50 6.00 beeges 5.75 6.50 cows and heifers 2.00 3.50 feeders 3.50 4.25. Produce Butter 26c eggs 15c potatoes 60c apples 1.00 1.25 hay 8.00 9.00 straw 5.60 6.00. Poultry Hens and pullets 90c young roosters 1c turkeys 15c ducks 8c geese 6c old roosters 4c old gobblers 18c.
Local ad urges quick action on affordable box paper priced at eight cents. Limited quantities remain at the News office as customers rush to take advantage of the deal.
The advertisement touts Wood's Liver Medicine as a liver regulator for quick relief from sick headache constipation and biliousness with other liver disorder symptoms. It also promotes cheap box paper and a News office offer, highlighting two sizes and a 50¢ price point.
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