Burnea Store: Atlantic's Oldest Wholesale and Retail House
This feature chronicles Burnea's wholesale and retail department store at 14 16 West Sixth Street, founded in 1889 by J Burnea Sr. It notes its growth as a major local business, the extensive wholesale dealings to nearby dealers, and the prominent role of J Burnea Jr in city leadership and commerce. It highlights the store's departments, personnel, and the Burnea family's long city involvement from farming to mayoral duties.
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Burnea’s
West Sixth Street
Atlantic
Burnea
J. Burnea
Atalntic
Detroit
Mich
Walnut Street
Former Lincoln resident visits Atlantic today
J. F. Hayden and wife with friends toured Atlantic en route from Lincoln Nebraska to Cedar Rapids Iowa. Hayden once ran a local photographic business here thirty years ago and later ran a Lincoln studio. He expressed favorable impressions of Atlantic as he traveled to his Cedar Rapids childhood home. Lorenzens advertise spring lamb chops for sale at 243.
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J. 4
Hayden
Linco
Neb
Cedar Rapids
Bailey
Lincon
Atlantic
Large class for A O U W to initiate twenty five
The Ancient Order of United Workmen local lodge plans an initiation for twenty five members this evening at the hall above the Majestic Theater Lecturer Frank Copley of Van Wert Iowa will preside After initiation a banquet will be served at the Park Hotel to about a hundred attendees Also an ad notes Cuban pineapples selling for 3 50 per crate at Schiappacasse s local store
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Lodge of Workmen
The
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Majestic Theater
Frank Copley
van Werts
Iowa
Park Hotel
Miss Celia O'Dea Weds Clyde Kilgore in Madison Wis
Miss Celia O'Dea daughter of Mrs Andrew O'Dea of this city married Clyde E Kilgore of Madison at Madison Wisconsin on May 27 They will reside in Madison Kilgore works for the State Journal and O'Dea was long employed as a linotype operator here The News Telegraph joins many friends in sending best wishes to the couple and their families
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Madison
Wis
Cecelia O'Dea
Andrew O'Dea
Clyde E. Kilgore
State Journal
E. Kilgore
East Mifflin Street
News-Telegraph
Light voting seen at primaries in this vicinity
Polls closed approaches with a light turnout across country districts and town wards. Up to 2:30 pm the total ballots were small, Democrats especially scarce in the second ward, while local residents in Poplar Street area push for a twenty four foot paving width. Residents in surrounding townships dragged roads yesterday, including farmers from Grove township, a commendable local effort.
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Atlantic
Grove Township
Normal training schools expand in Iowa in 1910s era
Belle Plaine public schools receive notice that the town will host a state aided normal training department. It marks Benton county’s first such program and one of seventy six statewide, signaling broader teacher education expansion. In Knoxville a Boone man, A F Brown, dies suddenly after meeting a cousin he hadn’t seen in fifty years. Heart trouble cited. Ottumwa reports discovery of seventeen year locusts near the woods, just breaking through chrysalids and entering their destructive phase.
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Belle Plaine
A. W. Crane
Iowa
Knoxville
A. F. Brown
Boone
Ottumwa
J. H. Mitchell
Mitchell
Sunflower Special Leads Largest Carnival Carriage
A vivid carnival item touts the Sunflower Special as the road’s largest and best carnival aggregation. Prof Eslick’s Military Band of 35 pieces headlines the show with Miss Corinne Wilson, the noted singer, promised to beat the band.
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Eslick
Corinne Wilson
Joy Laden Pike Circus Lineup Appears at The Wild Animal Arena
A bustling program along the Joy Laden Pike features The Wild Animal Arena with acts titled Every Animal an Actor Dragon's Gorge and Despondency dispeller of the irresistible kind. Arabian spectacle and Alps pageantry accompany Carnival favorites including Crazy House and Pollit's Wonderland. Hippodrome promises ten circus acts while Merry Widow Girls perform a musical extravaganza and The Outlaws join Titanic Disaster show. Family thrills continue with Girl In The Moon and Dixieland minstrels alongside Parker's famous jumping horse Carry-us-all and the largest portable Ferris Wheel. Death trap loop chefalo free acts every day. Bertini ascends a spiral tower on a unicycle with non stop feats.
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Wild Animal Arena
Dragon’s Gorge
Arabia
America
Alps
Pollit’s Wonderland
Hippodrome
the Outlaws
Dixieland
Georgia Minstrels
Parkers
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Doeg
City
Omest Business
Fast Side
Joe Burnea
Commercial Club
Fire Department
Old Hook and Ladder Company
United Commercial Travelers of the World
Aardius
Ifty
Lorenzen
U. W
Schiappacasse’s
Eggers Bros
Celia O'Dea
Madison, Wis
Poplar
Parker
Tion
Atlantic, Iowa
Atlantic Commercial Club
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