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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1914
Page
2
The Campfire Girls organize eight crafts for honors, led by health craft focusing on athletic and health routines. Members may earn red beads as health badges, with home craft nature lore camp craft band craft business patriotism national honor and first aid offering various domestic and practical honors.
The writer describes a 100 mile car trip through Adair and Greenfield Iowa praising local thrift and progress. He extols modern amenities, the school, new homes, and thriving Greenfield papers. Editor Sidey of the Adair County Free Press joins the visit praising the town’s revival and spirit.
The News Telegraph notes John Blake, Meredith Manager in the Ninth district, earned clear credit from the Meredith Connolly contest results for the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate. The district was the sole Meredith win, reflecting Blake’s effective campaign spending of $500 and suggesting other districts might have fared better under similar management.
The writer with E. Bradley L. H. Pine and Bert L. But led visited Greenfield yesterday for the Tri-County Highway association meeting. He found a thriving city with notable paving and a lengthy visit for the News-Telegraph man.
In a regional quarrel over roads and street dirt, local commentary blames Eastern towns for neglect while praising Atlantic for road funding. Editor Ed Meredith hints at returning to business hard work after defeat. A fashion note touts English Finish blue serge suits at twenty dollars from Nelson & Grulke.
By United Press Jefferson City Mo June 6 This is the last day for candidates to file their declarations to secure a place on the state primary ballots for August 4 Nominations are to be made for United States senator one judge of the supreme court state superintendent of public schools sixteen congressmen seventeen state senators circuit judges in a few districts and all county officers save sheriff treasurer and coroner
Listing shows prices for various furniture items and supplies from J. L. Winne. Deseras wearables pedestals cabinets rockers shirt waist boxes and library tables priced from $2.50 to $32.00 with several items like desks and kitchen cabinets listed.
A patent describes folding screen panels to shield beds and cribs from flies and mosquitoes. The device features two screened panels above the bed and a cover panel, with a ringed lever to fold the cover aside. It notes babies' cribs as the intended focus but scales up for larger beds.
Quick home hacks on moisture in baked goods juice from lemons crust chilling and baking fish handling fruit prep mold control stove polishing and nail care tips. Practical tips for cooks and cleaners with no strong narrative or dates.
Instructions for raised milk bread doughnuts with sugar eggs butter and frying tips. Includes cheese tart mixture and custard like fillings. Guides polishing brass nickel and zinc metals with pastes whiting turpentine and cleaning methods. Provides clogged sink pipe remedy with washing soda and plumber note.
When glass water pitchers and other glassware get cloudy from mineral sediment, fill the vessels with old coffee grounds and leave them for several days. The grounds remove the clouding and restore a bright, new-like finish.
Renewing shoe polish often becomes hard and crumbly. heat from a range melts the contents into a paste. After cooling it returns to the original consistency. For hairbrushes avoid soap. use baking powder to clean, rinse, and dry in the sun.
The article notes that bison and buffalo have vanished from most lands with small preserves remaining in Yellowstone and Canada. The dodo is described as real though once doubted, resembling a large pigeon and extinct since around 1691 after heavy hunting. The great auk’s extinction is debated, with no specimen seen for over fifty years on Scotland’s rocky islets.
A collection of light verse and puzzles with wordplay about ringing bells and distant stamps. It describes a simple homemade toy using a round box a lead weight and an elastic band to roll and return the box, promising simple amusement and no cost.
A card table illusion explains floating a dry needle on water using tissue paper, and notes a magnetized needle points north and south. The term feather in the cap is traced to a custom of adding a feather for each enemy feat, surviving in Scotland as sportsman honor for killing the first woodcock.
A playful verse mocks the game blind man's buff with repeated catch me lines. It notes that fathers and mothers, grandparents, and even Mother Eve's chicks engaged in the same ritual, echoing a timeless family game across generations.
City of Atlantic Iowa invites sealed proposals by June 22 1914 for a sanitary sewer extension across Laurel Ninth Tenth Olive Hazel Oak Linn Maple Elm Elm Ninth streets with 8 and 10 inch vitrified pipe manholes bricks and cement joints. Plans on file. Bond required four hundred dollars with bid. Council may reject bids and relet.
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