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Atlantic Historical Notes May 1885 Highlights
Notes from Atlantic in May 1885 report 20 Odd Fellows from Atlantic traveling to Maine to aid J. K. Powers in lodge organization with new officers elected. Banquet at Brighton House. Also mentions women abandoning families, smallpox outbreaks in Shenandoah Clarinda Farragut and Essex, and local incidents including a grape nursery payroll, a quirky train incident with Jack Dennis and W. H. Applegate, fundraising for an asylum committee, chimney issues, and Audubon firemen injuries in Davenport.
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Atlantic
Maine
J. K. Powers
H F. Bills
N. G
James Madsen
Denmark
Shenandoah
Clarinda
Farragut
Essex
Silas Wilson
Jack Dennis
Audubon
W. H. Applegate
Bill
Jack
Lewis
Atlantic Southern
William
Des Moines