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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1909
Page
2
A compact advertisement touts a Something You Need Pocket Atlas of the World with 40 000 places and 105 maps offered postpaid for 75 cents. It promotes good second-hand typewriters from $28 and self filling fountain pens at $1 50 postpaid with a gold pen. An auxiliary deodorizer is priced at 25 cents per upper package, with ordering details provided.
Publication details for The News Publishing Company Atlan tic Iowa marking post office entry as second class matter. Subscription options listed: carrier rates yearly and six months, monthly, and mail rates for U S and foreign. CHAS E CHASE and l P CHASE named as editors. association and official county paper status noted.
A local voice argues Congress must be kept out of private business and industry. It condemns lawmakers who seek to regulate hours, prices, and profits, accusing them of self interest and inefficiency in postal service and public affairs. The piece urges government restraint and stresses letting people manage their own affairs within public service limits.
The piece argues against capping profits at six percent of actual investment, using examples from a peanut roaster to a printer to illustrate inequities. It questions applying such limits uniformly across industries, farms, and crafts, citing James J. Hill and stressing the need for consistent justice in economic policy.
A state protest accuses the Iowa State Fair grandstand plan of waste and seeks a full audit. The agriculture board faces criticism for spending 100000 dollars on a partial grandstand and plans to seek more funds to complete it. Strong charges claim fraud and graft within the board over many years.
A critic questions if reformers dominated statewide offices during the Cummins era and suggests a Mitchellville school superintendent accused of treating the school like a Yildiz Kiosk with inmates as his harem, implying hypocrisy in reformers.
The Des Moines papers note Rhinehart will move to Oklahoma. The piece critiques his past in Iowa, attacks Haskell’s ring, and urges a strong Commercial Club in Atlantic to press for city goals and resilience as Rhinehart departs.
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