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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1893
Page
6
In a bold cash only clearance, the store touts unseasonable blankets at dramatically reduced prices with limited time and layaway option. Readers are urged to visit the window displays and claim big savings now before prices revert. Note also ongoing Champion Clearing Sale across all departments including groceries.
Misses Ola and Jorai Auffman visit the World's Fair while Thomas Rae of Denver visits friends here. Notes include ice cream supper given by Mr and Mrs W D Bell, a finger injury to one of McMillan’s boys, several people attending Salvation Army in Atlantic, and Frank Stoner’s return from a World’s Fair trip. Reports of measles, new hay barn completion, shoe repairs, and a timber picnic to Mt Etna accompany local visits, sick lists, and car coupling injuries.
Harvesting nears completion with oats light early and fair late, hay crops good. Lorah band team gaining note and to play Audubon and Wiota teams soon. Miss Anna Laartz visited Atlantic, a dance at Isaac Jansen’s reported good. Cattle shipped to Chicago by Frank and John Stoner. Dan Thomas painting his new house.
In Southeast Massena Mrs. C W Herstein spent Saturday in Cumberland L L Langworthy worked the roads A B Ramsey’s horse was killed after a severe wire injury Ed Newton the Massena correspondent to the Anita Tribune A H Willis visited Fontanelle Will Anthony works for Gus Greenwaldt School district No 7 repairs brighten the old building Smeaton and Jobs stock buyers canvassed the area Massena school board in Kansas Neb for teachers questioned Local gossip mentions a young man in Massena who left town after firing up alcohol prompting a US marshal to arrive and restore order
In Franklin Township Harvest nears completion and Gold Hill Christians near finishing their church with a dedication planned for Sunday August 6. Local farming notes report oats crops favorable, windmills lacking wind, and a recent Wiota fire causing damage to Frank Whitney Leverings Bros and John Stood properties. Ed Jones saved papers and money from his burned home. reports of misclaimed burned money were corrected.
A Buck Creek Epworth League ice cream social drew a large crowd Friday night and raised a neat sum. Also notes on birthday celebrations, local politics, travel sketches, and community updates from Lewis Indiana with glimpses of Eshelman’s Western trip and views on farming, fruit, and local figures.
The partnership between Miss Bradshaw and Mrs Hamilton is dissolved by mutual consent. Mrs Hamilton continues the business at her rooms one door east of the old place, over A Block's store. She advertises first class work, stylish makeups, and reasonable rates, inviting custom with guaranteed satisfaction. Died at Geneva Iowa Monday June 19 Mr L W Page aged 80. Funeral held at Yorkville Congregational church with Rev Wilbur Fisk officiating. He was an early Bristol township settler and longtime farmer who died suddenly from heart disease while preparing to visit the Chicago Fair. Surviving children include John Silas and Mrs Field. The notice notes D W Paine as an uncle.
Miss Belle Alexander in Boston last night and many neighbors in Atlantic report small-town news. Names of residents, sales, shops, politics, and World’s Fair references paint a busy civic snapshot with multiple individuals and local businesses active in daily life.
Advertises selling county maps and a comprehensive Farmer's Directory of Cass County with names post offices and addresses. Describes map plate size overall product, canvassing sales in counties or townships, and price terms. Includes contact Farmers Punisnine Co Creston Ia and a second advert for English Spavin Liniment sold by Wm M Nichols Atlantic Iowa.
Wheat opened firm then dropped as Oudhay’s failure spurred panic on the grain pit. Cables quiet. stocks rise on London gold flow. September pork opens at 9.18, trades down to 10.11 with failures of E. W. Bailey, A. C. Helmholz, and J. G. Steever reported. Ed Wright losses said to be large.
Live stock numbers show hogs at 11 000 receipts with market higher and leftovers none. Cattle receipts reach 4 500 with market steady, as daily city market report for Atlantic dated August 1 1868 notes corrections at 2 30 PM.
Distressing kidney and bladder diseases relieved in six hours by a new remedy. It targets the bladder kidneys and back, easing urinary pain and retention almost instantly. Sold by Wm. M. Nichols Atlantic Iowa. Dr Mosher is in the city and will remain until further notice.
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