Atlantic reform club notes 1883 meeting and local updates
May 19 1883 Atlantic report covers the Atlantic Reform Club session with J H Wood as president and officers elected for the quarter. Resolutions to study the new pharmacy law, quilting party at Frank Snouffer’s, neighbors aged 75 62 and 72 present, concert by local musicians. Also mentions Wash Eller moving to town and Charley Sverelt Jim Bolton travel to Des Moines. Fifteen Years Ago highlights include Mrs G Anderson leaving for Grenfield and Chicago, typhoid recovery for Wil Curry, and farewells for James Wishart family moving to Summerville Penn plus visits from Mrs Burkley and other locals.
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Atlantic Reform Club
J. Lt. Wood
Atlantic
J. HM. Wood
J. J. McConnell
John Hudspeth
Grace Green
Mary Cotton
Jessie Hunt
Thersa Bryant
EL S$. HU
R. T. McCrea
Frank Snouffer
Matthew
Moreland
Doner
Frank
G. Anderson
Grenfield
Chicago
Wil Curry
James Wishart
Summerville
Penn
Mark Burkley
Carson
J. H. Laurenson
Ross Camblin
Audubon
Chase Block
M. M. Tyron
Massena
Anng Emig
Cardio’s Temp Bar and Tobacco Shop Ad
An old advertisement lists Cardio building at Atlantic and Towa offering temperance drinks lunch cigars tobacco and cut flowers and plants. It cites F R Haley dentist in Opera House Block with office phone Red 846 and residence Green 296.
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Cardio
Atlantic
Towa
Opera House
Joke at a saloon ends in burglar’s plan gone wrong
A New York Times Maritime item recounts a comic theft ruse at a Forty-second Street saloon. Two men used a wool bundle to hide a planned break in as the proprietor played along. The gag collapses when the bundle disappears and is found later to contain used blankets muffling a safe-crack.
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Indlividuala
Bundle
New York Times
Portland
Ore
National Lumber Manufacturers' Association
Food After the War Privations and Rising Prices
The New Republic argues peace will not instantly solve food shortages and high prices as demobilized soldiers compound demand. Civil populations endure semistarvation now and will demand more food once peace returns, criticizing governments for costly wartime energies.
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New Republic
Indian women surgeons praised by US doctor
Dr Mary Wiggs Noble of Colorado, recently back from India, lauds Indian women as finest surgeons. She lectured in Kansas City on Patriotien and the Women, stressing India’s great need for doctors As women physicians are scarce, many women died lacking care during past plagues. Noble argues for more women in medicine.
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India
Mary Wiggs Noble
Colorado
Woman's Medical College
Suite
Rhany
Germany vows revenge over U S spy war threat
An article in the Frankfurter Zeitung denounces American tolerance of espionage as a “feverish” phase and warns that the United States faces retaliation after the war. It accuses U S leaders and elites of organizing hostile agitation and says espionage will harm American morals and spirit.
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Germany
United States
Frankfurter Zeitung
England
New World
America
Soldiers of the Common Tasks Poem Tribute
A Daniel M Henderson verse from the Vigilantes praising humble workers as Soldiers of the Common Tasks. It salutes those who feed, clothe, and sustain, keeping faith and defending a republic with quiet courage in hardship and obscurity.
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Daniel M. Henderson
Vigilantes
Tenta
France
Thetrar
Under Ban Oregon Public Narrations Adopt Prolog No New Fiction
A fragment notes a ban by Oregon public narrators on new fiction until law. They agree to purchase sly books on war topics and begin with references to work on food conservation.
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Flesion
Oregon
Forty third anniversary of Mills in stock commission noted
Frank OQ Mills of Lewis recently returned from California and was seen in the city as a welcome guest at the office. He will visit Chicago for the forty third anniversary of his entry into the stock commission business, where he served thirty eight years before retiring five years ago.
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Frank OQ. Mills
Lewis
California
Mills
Chicago
Mr. Mills
National Live Stock Commission Company
Dentist Dr Williams in Ful ton building
A brief notice identifies Dr H K Williams as a dentist practicing in the Ful ton building at the corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets. The item notes his location for patient referrals and appointments.
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H. K. Williams
Fulton Building
Fifth and Chestnut Atreeta
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Reed
Aleana
Eggers Bros
Wash Eller
Crooked Creek
Weside
Albee
Charley Sverelt
Jim Bolton
Des Moines
Marshall Canning Company
Marshalltown, Lowa
Wet Goode
Stars and
Stripes
Irma Topper
Cravk
Women's
Moror Corps of America
U. S
Aman
Deluy
Michen Rouse
Wen
Joyce Lumber Company
Ty Glosn
Eggers Brothers
F. C
Woob& Savery
Iowa
TRE Wilken Hondment Works
Ship Cream Direct
Central Iowa Creamery Co
Evans
Han
Albert
Bojens Quality
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