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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1912
Page
4
A farm telephone linked with the Bell System enables farmers to deal directly with distant buyers. The feature highlights real time personal contact through telephone lines, showcasing how agricultural sales reach wider markets via this new communications approach.
Harry George of Wellington Kansas was arrested on embezzlement charges after allegedly taking notes from farmers for policy premiums and selling them. He confessed when confronted by police after dining at a restaurant. Requisition papers await while authorities assess the total loss.
Miss Lydia Schmidt, born near Grundy county, sails from New York bound for Germany to wed Rev. William Harberts, who will study in Leipsic for a year preparing to enter the Presbyterian ministry in this country. Four counterfeiters plead guilty after federal indictments. Miller and wife sentenced, others to prison. Three men die on a high tension line in Elisabeth New Jersey as bodies sway for over an hour before removal.
Emma Heathcote twenty two shoots John Kimes fifty two at the Kimes home in Des Moines. Heathcote wife of a miner near Valley Junction says she acted in self defense after a quarrel with Kimes, a sign painter. Kimes dies in Methodist hospital with police unable to question him. Lena German and Al Madigan are held for examination. All were drinking.
Robbers entered Henry Hemmie’s rural home and stole 120 dollars in cash and 80 dollars in checks. In Ottumwa Iowa the body of 12 year old Robert Hale was found. authorities will probe possible elder boy roughhousing or ducking as a suspected cause of death.
A burglary at the Bank of Huntsville in Huntsville Arkansas resulted in a $14000 theft. Separate item notes that Misg Ethel V. Kynaston of Moberly Missouri, the sole young woman law student at Missouri University school of law, won the Karnes prize in legal ethics at the university’s commencement.
The Parker shows wrap a pleasant spring carnival in Atlantic with a full midway tonight. Attendance remains strong as Chefalo rides early to allow packing for the move to Iowa City, while acts remain high quality and the program is adjusted for tonight’s final performance.
A group including C. P. Meredith, J. H. Marshall, W. C. Williams, E. P. Bennett and M. P. Conway will travel to Chicago for the convention starting Tuesday. Owen Meredith could not go due to illness. Postmaster W. B. Davis of Lewis’ joins the party this evening.
There is one medicine every family should be provided with especially during summer months. It is Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It costs a quarter and is almost certain to be needed. For sale by all dealers.
A poetic portrait of a young woman’s beauty and gentleness, contrasting with a domestic aspiration to clean and beautify a home. The piece shifts to a vaudeville scene where a manager refuses profanity while an act clarification follows, hinting at performance bounds and stage expectations.
Wes spoke to Lord Topnoodle about an armless man who choked a friend to death. The lord mused that the man was harmless but not armless, and would reconsider in two years. A club lecture discussion followed on women’s progress with a flared skirts quip from a young attendee.
John Daley, long known as a mine host at the Pullman Hotel, is reported able to be about again and nearly fully recovered after illness. Friends are glad to hear of his improved health and steady return to daily routines.
Suspicious exchange erupts during a morning confrontation with Provocation noted by locals. Hannigan remarks on restraint while a figure references sending a picter tuk to the taycher. The scene centers on a heated exchange and its social response.
Chicago market reports cattle hogs sheep with receipts and price ranges for June 15. Prices show hogs and cattle varying across departments at Chicago and South Omaha with top and range figures, plus city market beef, stockers, cows, hog prices, and brief classified notices.
D A Dungan learned from Griswold that N P Pool, his father in law and former Atlantic resident now running a small store there, is very ill and expected to die soon. Bertie Dungan and R P Dungan wife went to Griswold to be with him. Also note Mary Lockhoff and Blanche of Los Angeles, former Atlantic residents, will spend the summer here. A Cartercar agency is opened in Atlantic by A A Petit and Will Baxter.
When this contrast is applied to a suit that has passed through our hands the difference is immediate. The mussed wrinkled garment gains a stylish shape and every spot and stain disappears as if by magic. The magic lies in our superior cleaning and pressing in the Modern way.
At the Atlantic Theatre a Friday and Saturday program offers Ten Days With A Fleet Of U S Battleships. The film shows time lapse of a sailor life aboard ship with a scene of the first setting sun and a grand effect. The Greater Love depicts a desperado transformed into a gentler man. Also shown are Mistaken Identity a light comedy, School Days a rapid farce, A Child Of The Purple Sage a western drama with G M Anderson, and Pathes Weekly Current Events every Monday.
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