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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
4
A resident advertises readiness to handle baggage to and from trains plus light drawing work and garden plowing. Requests orders at Bradley's Walnut street store or Steinke's Chestnut street store or by phone at residence No. 890 une ring.
An ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea claims it keeps the stomach in perfect order, preventing blood poison and making you well and happy. It offers Tea or Tablets at the Atlantic Drug Company and invites readers to read the Evening News.
Chicago market notes receipts and prices for hogs beef cows and lambs with estimates for tomorrow. Hogs 5.00 5.80 per cwt mixed and butchers and heavy types listed. Cattle 2.40 7.25 for beves cows and heifers stockers and feeders westerns. Sheep 4.00 7.50 for lambs. Grain wheat 87c corn 60c oats 42c barley 50c rye 60c. Produce butter 18 20c eggs 12c potatoes 60c hay 7.00 10.00 straw 6.00.
A collage of brief items including a geography exam boy declaring two zones male and female with temperate or intemperate and torrid or frigid, quirky quotes from papers like New York Sun and Liverpool Mercury, news of Mrs. Russell Sage donating 250000 for Princeton freshman dorms, and a Lincolnshire auntie remembered for sponge baths and a ninety three year old nurse.
Sir Dyce Duckworth told a medical faculty audience that many are constitutionally predisposed to rheumatism and gout yet resist tuberculosis. He noted that the more rheumatic a person, the less prone they are to consumption, as cited by the London Post.
A Louisville Courier-Journal note recalls a London Joke with a quip about a portrait and hair. The London Tatler line features a waiter remarking on soup and rain, humorously noting the dish tastes like rain. The pieces reflect period wit and social banter through brief exchanges.
Des Moines Stuart Atlantic Avoca Council Bluffs Omaha Lincoln and intermediate points direct to Denver Union Depot with dining car service. Leaves Atlantic 1 25 p m July standard time arrives Denver 8 45 a m July 6. Stopovers both ways including visit to Hon W J Bryan’s home in Lincoln. Copy of illustrated convention folder and reservations available from A B Taylor Atlantic Iowa Rock Island Lines agent.
Train schedule details list numerous Omaha Flyer local and express trains with times. Includes multiple numbered via Chicago routes and mentions branches Audubon Griswold with Sunday limited runs and mixed express services. Some lines repeat or appear garbled but convey station times and service notes.
Leave No L Passenger and Freight 7 00 a m. No Passenger and Freight 30 p m. South Arrive No 2 Passenger and Freight 11 15 a m No 4 Passenger and Freight 5 35 p m All trains daily except Sunday
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