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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1899
Page
10
The Casa County fair plans short handicap bicycle races with prizes and sponsor help. Secretary Straight enlists Lee Richardson for daily trick riding exhibitions, a leading fair attraction. Councilman William Lyman Shaves faces comic misidentification while collecting water rent, sparking local humor and tale.
Christina Hettinger asks the court for a divorce from William Hettinger citing cruelty and inhuman treatment, drunkenness, and threats. She seeks custody of their three year old son Harvey and temporary alimony of 100 dollars plus 300 dollars additional alimony.
Judge Green issued a writ of attachment against the defendant's property for four hundred dollars. The court's August term is expected to focus on divorce cases with three petitions already on file and more anticipated.
Saturday notices list George Riggs shipping two carloads of cattle to Chicago and Fred Alexander promoting Kodak Daylight Film. Various residents attend events, travel, or visit, including H Boysen in Harlan, Mrs Fudge in town, and Ed Wheeler’s Maine trip. A piano recital at the M E church and the Rebekahs installation are noted, plus city hall repaint and a land transfer. Rumors of a kissing bug are playfully contrasted with matrimonial gossip.
Washington reports that a sweeping US Japan pact goes into effect, ending extraterritoriality and opening interior Japan to foreign residents and trade. The July 17 1899 change redefines relations with western powers and honors Japan as an equal nation.
Chicago platform mass meeting set for July 20 at the Auditorium with William J. Bryan invited to speak. Mayor Carter Harrison expected to attend as Chicago’s mayor rather than as a Democrat amid rivalry rumors. Vincent H. Perkins in Cleveland predicts Harrison backing Bryan for president and a 1904 gubernatorial bid.
Tacoma notes bubonic plague aboard ships City of Pekin and American Maru as 8000 tons of tea arrive on Olympia from China and Japan. Deaths aboard American Mary and Elks head C M Foote, a Minneapolis leader, age 60. Ohio boy chokes on a screw and dies after swallowing a metallic object in Oakport, Iowa.
Sheriff Hill and others travel on official business while visitors from Griswold, Marne, Anita, Massena, Oakland, and Omaha populate Atlantic. Local staff changes occur at Fair Store. The Atlantic Canning Co ships peas. creamery resumes operations. weather, travel, and social updates accompany civic matters and entertainment events.
An advert from the International Drug & Chemical Co of Boston promotes a treatment called the Berlin Discovery for weak lungs lame backs bad blood and nervous issues. The ad vows to cure or forfeit a valuable item and offers a gold watch or diamond ring as a limited incentive, urging readers to order within a week. It claims the medicine is prescribed in major hospitals in New York Boston and foreign cities.
Editorial notes urge early establishment of the Alaska boundary with firmness and no concessions. It claims Bryan talks too much and that Nebraskan fusion politics look weak. Frentinee Joe Wheeler heads to Manila for duty, while Omaha Bee criticizes a so called expo as a fake and warns readers to avoid wasting money.
A citizen testimonial from William Burnett at the Trilby Hotel praises Doan's Kidney Pills for relief from back pain and kidney symptoms. Advertisement notes 50 cent price, Palmer & Finis drugstore, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents, and urges remembrance of the Dean's name. Also advertises Berlin Discovery savings on shipping hoge and cattle to Seath Omaha.
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