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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1898
Page
11
The speaker urges careful saving and hints at using credit to cover essentials for the coming year. They emphasize sacrifices to secure money and advise readers to consider prudent spending and future needs. The fragment reflects a thriftier mindset and a general call to prioritize financial stability.
Reports from a small town newspaper include illnesses and travel notes for Grandma Hughart and Prof Beedle, visits to Rockford and Omaha, and marriages and licenses. Community letters mention a band ball, holiday closures, and local ads for E. H. Gate’s Kay West 5c sale. Also notes Dr. Agnew’s Catarrhal Powder claims and pharmacy listings.
Ole Noon of Butler county Missouri travels via flyer then visits John Miller near Cumberland and returns to work at Bureau Junction with Rock Island road. Alonzo Helms arrested on suspicion in recent burglaries including Windsor Hotel. Miss Mamie Findley hosts a large New Year party with music and a ritual timeline. Cass County Fair officers elected for 1898. Numerous city notices and social updates, including calls, travels, and funerals, interwoven with local business promotions and new year reflections.
Atlantic Greenhouses announces ready supply of fine cut flowers for weddings, parties, and funerals at low prices. Funeral designs can be prepared on short notice in first class style. A large collection of greenhouse plants is always on hand. Visitors welcome at Ninth and Chestnut. Telephone 70.
A local Atlantic viewpoint argues the college quarters are too small for current enrollment and predicts attendance will soar once a new building is provided. It notes many students come from outside Cass and Atlantic counties, urging community funding and planning for a combined college hall and YMCA facility.
A corporation led by the New York Stock Exchange secretary plans to buy arable land and farm buildings in Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire and Vermont and resell on terms to attract urban buyers. The venture aims to reclaim over 200000 idle acres, populate with city migrants, and undertake missionary work in large cities led by A Willis Lightbourn.
Forty five Klondikers arrived on the Corona from Skagway and Taiya reporting no famine this winter though provisions are scarce. They left Dawson before November 25 and expect spring supplies as Yukon opens, stock on hand to be exhausted by navigation.
The Herald reports eminent physician Dr Joseph O Dwyer seriously ill at his home in New York City. Stricken with tubercular meningitis, doctors hold little hope for recovery. He gained prominence for his tubes and anti toxin croup treatment. A crime scene anecdote shows Mabry marking his hand in blood with a date and skull drawing, linking to a robbery tale from 1897.
In a Marysville California football match Clyde Manwell of Wheatland broke his backbone and is paralyzed with no chance of recovery. A second item reports a London financial note urging the Indian currency to be pegged to gold, with 48 000 as a possible mint reopening trigger.
An old advertisement extols Penates as household gods and promotes Dr King's New Discovery for consumption coughs colds and throat chest lung ailments. The product is claimed proven for a quarter century and guaranteed to cure or money back. Free trial samples offered at Vic Emert & Co drug store. Regular sizes 50c and 1.00.
Silas Wilson, nurseryman of this city, declares there is no San Jose scale in Iowa. He cites Prof. Herbert Osborn, state entomologist, as authority and notes a committee will aid legislation to prevent shipments from infested states. Wilson serves as chairman of the committee.
A Rochelle Illinois town audience enjoys a Shakesperean performance with comic misreadings and stagehand mischief. The notice extols Shaker Digestive Cordial as a natural stomach aid, claiming cures for indigestion and gland weakness, sold by druggists with a 1c to 1.50 price, and Cascar ret candy cathartic at 10c, 26c.
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