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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1909
Page
2
An advertisement touts a pocket atlas of the world with 40 000 places and 105 maps, plus cheap second hand Typewriters and Self-Filling Fountain Pens. It promotes an Auxiliary Deodorizer and offers items postpaid by H P Yard at 6 Washington Street Chicago Ill.
A reprinted editorial from the Omaha Bee argues that growing international trade links nations through exchange of goods and ideas. It notes no nation can exist in isolation amid global commerce, stressing transport improvements shrink distances and bind economies and cultures together.
The piece critiques Attorney-General Byers claim that Iowa favors tariff protection, noting local indifference in Cass County and suggesting Byers or Des Moines writers misstate public opinion. It ridicules the idea that political motives drive tariff discussion and accuses officials of self interest.
A Des Moines Capital reader pleads for Dingley era protection for tame chickens dressed or undressed, plans to write to Iowa senators over high poultry costs. He laments $1.25 for last year’s hen, recalls 20c past prices, mocks a chicken trust and tariff, and warns of a forthcoming senate speech on the alleged poultry robbery in Iowa.
The 1907 international commerce report shows a total exchange of about 30 billion dollars for the year with Europe accounting for two thirds. United States imports about 14 percent and exports a small fraction. Canada as a British colony sourced 58 percent of its imports from the United States. Mexico purchases are noted but specifics are truncated.
Local notes from Atlantic Walnut and Marne recount visits to Atlantic by G W Hohanshelt Gertrude Bosley and Grace Wynkoop and numerous social calls. People travel for funerals baseball games osteopathic treatments and family visits with many names and towns listed.
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