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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1913
Page
4
The Weekly Current Events showcases the best motion pictures each Monday night. Four reels totaling about four thousand feet present The Spell a two reel drama. Also on offer are Professional Jealousy a big Western comedy. Coming Saturday features Mexican Conspiracy Out-Generated in three reels with Martha Russell.
Advertisement notes vacancies in the Railway Mail Clerks Post Office Clerks and Letter Carriers for ages 18 to 48 with salaries 70 to 150. F H Gwynn to meet applicants at the Park Hotel in Atlantic on Wednesday July 2 1913 until 9 pm to discuss qualification for these appointments.
Eggers Bros. invite the public to a Philathes social tonight on the lawn of the M E church. The event is advertised as a community gathering with plans for neighbors to meet and enjoy the evening.
A man arrested in an intoxicated state was ordered to sober up in jail and posted a $7.60 bond to appear for trial. He failed to appear and the bond was forfeited. Nearby notes mention Ford repairing UC WIUFF Walnut Street and a Peabody church social, plus Vienna skating bans and a Magellan monument on Mata Island needing repairs after the Philippines conflict.
Chicago grain quotes show July wheat at 89 3 4, Sept 90, Dec 93 4 with mixed shifts. Chicago stock market reports cattle and hog receipts around 19 000 and 39 000 respectively, with prices from hogs at 8 55 to 8 80 and cattle beeves 7 20 to 9 00, plus sheep and cattle activity across South Omaha with similar ranges.
Ask J. A. Gerén reports all grocery and meat markets closed July 4. A rugs sale event is planned for Thursday July 8 with Mr. McVeigh from Whittall company presenting new lines. Also listed are farm machinery lines including McCormick binders and mowers and Sterling delivery rakes. Different names appear for related services and cash for cream is offered.
A public protest from the Cedar Rapids WCTU replies to a mayoral welcome extended to the Iowa Retail Liquor Dealers Association. The letter denounces saloons for youth harm, crime, and public cost, warns that much of the city’s leadership now doubts the value of such a welcome, and predicts dwindling municipal support for the trade. It cites delinquency, insanity, pauperism, and private charity as costly outcomes linked to saloons. The piece ends with an assertion that warm welcomes will cease as the temperance movement grows.
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