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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
6
A humorous verse and notes follow a boy’s meeting with Willyam Strawney as he climbs poles and chats with locals. The piece shifts to short quips about streetcars, wealth, marriages, fashion, and a joke about an angora cat delivery, ending with playful reflections on small-town life and pranks.
G I Statter of Sioux City asks if eggs can be treated as live stock when bought to hatch. He protested $25 duties on Black Orpington eggs imported from England, citing a Shaw ruling that frogs are poultry. The Treasury department denied free import for breeding, prompting a call for tariff revision.
Mrs Francina De Moss of St Louis sold furniture for 91 dollars to pay rent for a small mission at Ewing Avenue and Olive Street She will move to Chicago for mission work with the 91 dollars from the sale The family will ship a piano bedroom set and a few chairs to Des Moines Iowa She prays for a million dollars and believes divine aid will supply it
Severe spring storms pounded Lee Muscatine Dubuque Jones Lyon Sioux Plymouth Pottawattamie Humboldt Wright Page Fremont and others causing property loss. The Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association of Des Moines emphasizes affordable coverage, reporting large Iowa risk totals and recent payouts while urging contact with agents or Secretary J B Herriman for details.
A New York Telegraph retelling describes fashionably run apartment hotels with restaurant-linked leases forcing tenants to eat in the restaurant. Some residents ignored rules and cooked in rooms. managers crack down, turning back baskets and even ejecting a milk carrier. A notorious deception involved a complainant found cooking sausages on an oil stove on the fifth floor.
Federal and state authorities clash with railroad interests over a vast salt deposit along Utah’s western border. About 38,000 acres harbor a salt bed up to six feet deep, valued by claimants at $400 million, with plans to file placer mining claims. The salinity is so pure it requires no refining, sparking a push to control the land through congressional action and presidential support.
New York, Mrs. C. E. Calhoun says after 30 years of study she proved by demonstration that parents can have boys or girls at will and that breeders can produce cow or bull calves and gardeners male or female plants. She plans to publish a book soon.
Dublin postmaster Nicholas D. Smith faced mail disruption as Frisco and Texas Central rail lines halted by floods. He delivered letters on foot, by handcar, and with work trains to multiple towns for three to four days, keeping mail service alive.
The gray horse Sam owned by a local grocer, once a trusted companion, has become a lapsed horse. After a six month bout with colic and a repeated prescription from a nearby drug store, Sam now demands a second dose at noon and shows diminishing flesh and dignity, eliciting concern from neighbors.
Darby Pa reports an outbreak of measles among local schoolchildren prompting a three day closure of Ridge Avenue School. Doctors dismiss Dr W W Chalfante’s claim that measles are caused by picking buttercups. most affected children were six to eight years old in one class.
Victoria Peterson, once a parachute aeronaut who shattered bones and endured months in hospital, will walk again on artificial feet. She has learned typing with a loaned machine and received $500 from local citizens. A stenography course will lead to opening a small office as a public stenographer and typewriter.
A Berlin wine-dealer was convicted for selling 33,000 gallons of artificially produced Rhine wine made with chemicals and no real wine. The item notes other curious tidbits about ignorance of law, saloon privacy tricks, and quirky old-time facts.
Specializes in opinions on title realty estate and probate law. Office location over Iowa Trust and Savings Bank.
G R Miller located in Suite 2 of the Gillespie Building shares Musson Office contact numbers with Atlantia. Office 396 appears as a listed line for correspondence.
Dr C G Clark a homeopathic physician surgeon formerly interne at the University of Iowa hospital lists a house phone 461 and office 263 Black Street in Atlantic Iowa seeking patients and professional contact.
B Swan reports drawn and probated wills and guardianship appointments, with probate practice noted as a specialty. General law business transacted at the Atlantic office with emphasis on administration and guardianship matters.
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