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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
4
Grain and livestock prices listed for wheat corn oats hogs cattle and sheep from Chicago and Omaha markets. Includes receipts, price ranges, and top figures for hogs cattle lambs and sows with notes on market direction and quality. Also promotes a local bakery sale and church picnic at Julius Nelson grove.
A newspaper note describes horse spectacles as a curious invention. Claimed aims are to improve sight while making the ground seem closer, encouraging higher stepping. Details unclear, with no firm endorsement or broad adoption noted.
Sunday church services are listed for Methodiat, United Presbyterian, Christian, and Christian Endeavor groups. Activities include Bible school at 9:30, sermons by Pastor Simpson and Rev. Hawthorne, Ev and YW activities, and a first summer union service at the Christian church with Rev. Mack as speaker. Congregations invite all to attend.
A consolidation of church notices lists Zion Lutheran Presbyterian St Paul Danish Lutheran Evangelical and Lake Congregational churches with details on July 1 services Sunday school times and special events. Several churches report canceled or altered services due to pastor absence or church decorations and a first union service at a Christian church is noted.
A 2 year old child of Mr and Mrs Tom Hill living south of Exira suffers from severe rat bites after a rat attacked while corn was being shucked. The right heel was lacerated and infection spread, with body temperature at 104 and doctors treating the wound as the poison circulates through the boy's system.
A stray mad dog ran amuck in Lewis Indiana last night causing alarm in the residential area. Mayor Hickman and Wm Willoughby cornered the animal in the Maggie DelLean yard and killed it with an axe after it foamed at the mouth. No injuries were reported.
Audubon dispatch reports the state supreme court reduced the penalty in Town v. Owens from larceny to poultry to a fine. Details are limited but indicate a sentence change. The notice also mentions a Light Fresh Bread Roll sale on Saturday and praises local teachers and workers.
Cumberland June 20 Spec to News Telegraph The Cumberland Chautauqua assembly opens tomorrow evening with a parade. Grace Bennett of White and Meyers will supervise ticket sales. Parade starts at eight with business houses selling tickets. Rev. Elmer T. Hunt of Creston to preach Sunday. Programs at Sherwin property on Main Street. G A Archer secretary for tickets. Program schedule lists concerts, lectures, and entertainment through July 6 with Chicago Radio Orchestra, Freeman Hammond Company, Susie Attiyeh, H Leon Taylor, and others. Card of thanks from the children of Mrs A Swelley for sympathy during illness and death.
Kyle Diven nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Boyd Diven living north of Lewis is in critical condition with rheumatism and a nervous disorder His parents express much anxiety over his condition
In Ia near Metcher chapel locals gathered for an ice cream social despite cool June weather. The event did not dampen spirits as attendees looked forward to the SS Peter and Pauls Catholic church Parish Picnic at Julius Nelson Grove on Sunday.
An old Italian proverb notes that a man in a great position faces one enemy as too many while nine hundred friends are too few, reflecting on balance between foes and allies.
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