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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1923
Page
3
Local notice announces Atlantic Building Supply offering a large stock of building brick and blocks with No 1 Common Brick at 19.00 per M delivered in city limits and 17.50 per M at plant. Also lists Sunnyside Park regulations urging orderly conduct and strict enforcement with police to arrest violators.
The notice lists Park Commissioners Ross Camblin D. Fe. Shranger James Herring and mentions Golf and Country Club events. It states a regular dinner for June 14 with reservations by June 12 and notes the move to a new office at Second and Maple with contact details for the B. R. Wesson Co.
Des Moines Iowa June 11 AP reports warning from R M Herrick secretary of the Iowa State Horticultural Society about garden and orchard pests seen in parts of the state. Apple blotch potato leafhoppers canker worms striped cucumber beetles and plant lice may trouble growers this season. Apple scab could be destructive if wet weather continues and extra spray is advised two weeks after the petal drop spray around June 18.
Cankey Worms defoliate unsprayed orchards while arsenate of lead sprays are advised before and after bloom. Herrick urges dorado 50 spray plus six to eight pounds of commercial Bordeaux with 60 gallons water for beetles and potato leafhopper. Potato bugs, dusting with calcium arsenate to gypsum, and nicotine dusts recommended. Plant lice reported in large numbers in parts of the state.
An old classified notice offers phone lines for Jpir Young Undertaking Company. The ad mentions private home visits for hair dressing, marceling, and curling as a speciality, with office and residence phone numbers listed.
Farm Bureau Picnic at Sunnyside Park on Wednesday June 20 includes a 10:30 A M parade led by county officers and speakers, followed by band music, games, and a community dinner. The day features a baseball game, races, and villagewide picnicking with parking help from park staff and Boy Scouts. Limestone tours reported strong demand for liming to improve alfalfa and sweet clover growth, with notable inoculation benefits observed.
Work on the new 740,000 viaduct at the south end of Adair is progressing despite rain. Forms for the south abutment were completed Saturday and are ready for concrete. North abutment forms began today. The old bridge will be moved east and lowered ten feet to serve as scaffold for constructing three arches supporting the new viaduct.
Oil containing about twenty percent benzine is reported struck at Olberg near here. Wells reportedly spouted as high as the towering boring rigs when first struck. The designated area under exploitation covers roughly 9,000 acres.
Miss Amelia Greenwald will head a new nursing school in Warsaw funded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which has provided £50,090 for the project. A North Carolina graduate with Johns Hopkins postgrad work, she served at Base Hospital No. 8 in Savenay, France. The effort aims to train Polish girls as nurses, establish baby health stations, and spread public health and sanitation knowledge.
June reports show Iowa corn at 36 percent of normal, six points below ten year average and last year, with planting finished but replanting and delays slowing progress. Winter wheat at 85 percent of normal, oats at 90 percent, barley 90 percent, rye 89 percent. hay 83 percent, clover 84, alfalfa 92. Apple crop stands at 83 percent for June 1, seven percent below last year.
Production reaches 2 917 000 bushels with varied crop conditions. Onions 93 percent peaches 60 percent pears 70 percent blackberries 85 percent strawberries 90 percent watermelons 86 percent muskmelons 87 percent sugar beets 94 percent cabbages 92 percent potatoes 91 percent. The bureau notes 28 percent of Iowa fattening pigs died from various causes this spring. Despite pig losses, overall meat and crop output expected higher this year. Try Gibson's service gag oil groceries East Seventh St.
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