02 Sep 1916
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1916
Page
1
Postal line reads Atlantic Lows Georgia with second class matter under act of Congress March 3 1879. Office and News Rooms listed as 13.
The piece warns that persistent railroad brotherhoods and a looming strike will alienate workers across the nation. It predicts idleness from material shortages, farmer sacrifice on crops, and mass quits by up to one million railroad employees, creating widespread antagonism and uncertain outcomes.
President Wilson’s push for an eight hour day faces farmers amid rising farm labor demands. Farmers, previously indifferent, fear a nationwide standard could force eight hour work on farm laborers, affecting owners already strained by exactions and farm sales or rentals.
The article notes J. P. Morgan's prominence in finance and the concern it provoked among reformers. It describes Morgan as exercising influence over large railroad networks and many banks upon which the public depended for credit. The discussion frames fears about concentrated control in finance and transportation.
The obituary notes that at his death he owned about six hundred thousand dollars in bank stock and around one and a half million in three railroads. His Morgan firm stake valued near thirty million, plus works of art, dominated by securities in lesser known companies such as a lumber firm, mining concerns, a canal, a bridge, an automobile, and a cigar company. The piece mocks public tables listing wealth, suggesting his true influence lay in diversified holdings beyond headline sums.
Henshaw and Martin offer a wide range of school goods at low prices. Stockings 10c to 25c a pair. ribbons by the yard. handkerchiefs 60 for a pair. dinner pails and tin containers. fibre lunch boxes with leather straps. paper towels and folding lunch boxes. drinking cups and collapsible aluminum cups. book bags. tablets and composition books. pencils, ink, erasers, rulers, crayons, and paints. Located at 1428.
Farmers raise many crops keeping harvest rolling through seasons. They reap oats hay winter wheat alfalfa and corn while cigars and precious stones brighten town. Weather shifts but crops endure yet the poem notes past famines and droughts. Copyright by George Matthaw Adama.
A persuasive advertisement touts Chamberlain's remedy as essential for families. It claims rapid relief for colic and diarrhoea, urging prompt treatment before a physician arrives, and notes the product's wide availability and strong reputation.
Washington reports last bulletin for Sept 2 predicts disturbance crossing the continent Sept 3 to 7 with warm and cool waves, frost risks in the middle northwest harming late wheat and corn. Three first-half frost dates are listed around Sept 3, 7, and 41. severe storms expected Sept 5, 9, 14 with a Gulf hurricane to follow. next warm wave to Vancouver by Sept 6 and Pacific slope temperatures to rise.
The report outlines September storm tracks from the plains to Newfoundland, with heavy rains in southern and eastern states and dry zones in northwest spring wheat. It predicts a sequence of warm spells and temperature rises across the central valleys and Pacific slope. It also accuses manipulators of depressing wheat prices before a bull move, urging producers to press Congress to investigate grain-price depreciation and seek fair markets.
$1500.00 buys 800 acres of land in Cass county about seven miles from Cumberland and seven miles from Lewis. Water reliable, no improvements but suitable for a home. Balance of $6,000.00 on long easy terms. Address Box 226 Atlantic Iowa (Iowa).
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