Advice to stock coal ahead of rate hikes and shortages
The notice urges stocking coal early due to looming freight rate increases and a shortage of eastern coal, recommending buyers purchase now if they plan to burn this grade.
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1919
Page
7
True in Disguise What? Atlantic Businessman Fends Off Street Markers
An Atlantic businessman protests the city erected guide posts at street intersections labeling them a small town symbol. He cites a bent marker at Fifth and Walnut, criticizes prior marker purchases, and urges funds toward paving neglected streets. He notes few local accidents but worries about posting safety and waste. He suggests relocating the posts to a park to avoid loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
News-Telegraph
Fifth and Walnut Treets
Ford
Evreatt True
Telegraphers Strikes Won’t Affect Atlantic Office
Miss Williams of the Western Union city office says Atlantic operators are not union members and unaffected by the strike. Rock Island station telegraphers are federal employees and not subject to the strike order. Only relay offices in larger cities are likely affected, she says.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Union Telegraph Company
Atlantic
Miss Williams
The
Western Union
Rock Island
Alien Enemies Worry Canada War Times Election Act Repeal Opposed
Toronto article notes ongoing dispute over whether alien enemies may work and whether they should regain voting rights after wartime disenfranchisement. It outlines labor shortages driven by war, proposed educational tests to disfranchise many former citizens of Teuton origin, and the political fight in Parliament as franchises are debated. Several hundred thousand Austrian natives in Canada are highlighted as a key demographic concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Canada
Iabor
War Times
Eney
Child with brittle bones breaks again in Pittsfield
In Pittsfield Massachusetts Charles Farrer Jr aged four son of Charles and Mrs Farrer has fractured his left thigh for the 47th time mainly due to a chalky bone condition. He is described as otherwise healthy and good natured while his father works away from home. Police force quits and reorganization at North Wales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Mass
Charles Farrer Jr
Charles Farrer
Western Union |Telegraph Company
Red Cross Cleanups in Istanbul as Allied Force Modernizes
The American Red Cross commission to the Balkans urges rapid sanitation in Constantinople. Washington health workers call for American sanitary engineers to oversee sewage expansion, mosquito netting, and outbreak control as roads remain impassable from Saloniki to Belgrade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Turkey
American Red Cross Commission
Balkans
Near East
Red Cross
Serbia
Saloniki
Belgrade
Gormala
Americas
Toulon
New York
CARES FOR COMFORT OF MERCHANT CREWS
Merchant crews are promised improved welfare measures and rested crews as authorities review working conditions on board. Officials cite safety and efficiency goals while union reps push for standardized schedules and medical access aboard ships.
Narrow Escape When A Bullet Hits Deschutes Bank
Twelve year old Vernom Marion and Frank Marion of Tumalo Ore narrowly escaped death on the Deschutes riverbank when a bullet fired from across the river by C A Daniels struck the lad in the forehead. The boy was stunned but regained consciousness before Bend. The leaden pellet lodged under the scalp after deflection, and doctors judged he might have died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cad
Vernom Marion
Frank Marion
Tumalo
Ore
Deschutes
Fred
C. .A. Daniels
Mead
Boys Find Robbers Loot in Ontario Cave
Four followers of Yom Sawyer explored a cave in the Thorold mountainside and found treasure believed to be the loot of a railway thieves gang. The trove included costly trunks tapestries and velvets with police now active on the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sawyer
Thorold
Ontario
Cyass
Flag Day Program Announced by Atlantic Elks Lodge
Weather permitting a Flag Day program will be held Sunday at the Atlantic city park by the Elks lodge with fallback at the Elks hall at 3 p m Col Matt Tinley commander of the 168th will be the day orator The program lists music songs a flag tribute and a patriotic address by Tinley with officers and members in attendance
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Park
Elks Hall
Matt Tinley
Elks Lodge of Atlantic
168Th
Atlantic Band
Billy Williams
Wright Hedges
Amt
Elks
T. CG. Whitmore
F. K. Johnson
C. E. Thompson
America
Lodge
L. Moreland
Jas. G. Herring
W Peterson
J. B. Prall
Lutheran convention attendees from Elk Horn Iowa
A number of residents from Elk Horn Iowa have traveled to Cedar Falls for the Lutheran convention. Participants include Anton Petersen and wife, Mrs Anton Hansen and daughter Marie, Lars Petersen and wife and daughter Christina, J P Johnson and wife, S C Pedersen and wife and daughter Ede and Miss Agnes Nelson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Telegraph
Elk Horn
Cedar Falls
Anton Petersen
Anton Hansen
Marie
Lars Petersen
Christina
J. P. Johnson
C. Pedersen
Ede
Agnes
Nelson
Farmland near Adair sells for over 300 an acre
Oscar Fett pays more than 300 dollars per acre for a quarter section farm two and a half miles north of Adair In Indiana. Furstone Williams sold the property to Fett after owning it a few years. Fett’s profit on his half of the farm reaches about 2000 dollars amid the improvements on the place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Telegraph
Adair
Oscar Fett
Fetts
Furstone
Williams
Longevity Common in British Families
The piece notes multiple long lived families in England. Calvert siblings average eighty five years, Lady Mabella Knox's nine siblings totaled 760 years. Friends family members reached ages up to one hundred. Leicester sexton Henry Wye died at eighty seven with siblings aged eighty seven and eighty five. Blackburn Joshua Jackson reached eighty seven. Milverton five siblings include Mrs Shattocks at ninety two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvert
England
Mabella Knox
Society of Friends
Henry Wye
Sexton
St Mary's Church
Leicester
Eloety
Joshua Jackson
Blackburn
Milverton
West Somerset
Mrs. Shattocks
James King
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