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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1909
Page
4
Market notes show grain estimated Monday 40,000 bushels next week 160,000. Cattle receipts 300 with steady demand and Monday estimate 20,000. Sheep receipts 1,500 steady with Monday estimate 22,000. Hog receipts 7,000 opened 5 higher and closed dull prices noted. Cattle receipts 100 and sheep receipts 1,200 also listed.
Chicago hog market reports receipts around 10 000 with mixed demand and prices. Butchers show prices from 6.50 to 8.45 with varying weights and classes including heavy, rough heavy and light. Clearances noted as good despite tentative demand shifts.
Grain wheat 97 corn 66 oats 47 barley 52 rye 68. Livestock hogs 600 36.26 beeves 0.75 8.60 cows and heifers 2.00 3.50 feeders 93.50 54. 267. Produce bitter 2bc eggs 150 potatoes 60c apples 1.00 1.25 bay 8.00 89.00 straw 5.00 6.00. Poultry hens and pullets 0 young roosters 11c turkeys 164 ducks 8c geese 6c old roosters 4s old gobblers 186.
Imogene March 20 bank robbery at the First National Bank. Looters cracked the safe and escaped with 2000 to 3000 dollars as the vault and building suffered major damage. Discovery reported at 6 am by a section man. cashier notified. Bank capital 25000 dollars, deposits about 160000. C H Reade of Shenandoah is president. Fidelity and Casualty insured. Officials suspect a group using Shenandoah as winter headquarters.
A mixed advertisement fragment touts Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a pleasant laxative from California Fig Syrup Co, claiming no debility with use and physician approval. It also promotes Chamberlain's Liniment for rheumatic pains and a May beapplied Pile Remedy with a nozzle, sold by W. T. Palmer & Co Drug Store, noting guaranteed price and direct application.
A chunk of period advertising touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for eczema and skin maladies praised by a Watertown reader, plus Beea Larative Cough Syrup for bronchial ailments, King’s Little Liver Pills for headaches and digestion, Hollister’s Focky Mountain Tea for complexion and blood, Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets for gentle relief, and Wood’s Livery Medicine as a liver regulator. Sold by W T Palmer & Co and Atlantic Drug Store.
Lewis News item notes a new engine for the Lewis Brick and Electric Light Company arriving from Ohio and an expert in assembling it. Several local residents are listed visiting relatives, including Miss Vesta Perkins from Des Moines and Mrs. Will Weaver of Denton Nebraska. Community notices mention bank maintenance, school events, and a Missionary Tea raising $10.20. A near death report from Big Pond details Ida Soper’s life saving use of Dr King’s New Discovery for lung trouble and related bronchial illnesses.
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