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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1896
Page
8
Ten styles of Fine Thibets Grey Clays Fancy Worsted and German Worsted suits offered at a sale price reduced from 15.00 to 10.00. Local shop showcases plain and fancy cuts with a focus on value in men’s formalwear.
A local shop advertises a range of shirts in the city with prices starting at 50 cents. The notice emphasizes a tidy selection and no trash kept in the store.
A carload of trunks and valises arrived offering zinc trunks with iron bottoms for 2.50 dollars and valises starting at two dollars and up, advertised in a compact sale note.
Atlantic section runs a busy update with Palace Railway Photo car promotions offering 99 cent cabinet photos and 16 cent prints, details on along with sightings of patrons and staff. Mentions H G Curtis in Des Moines and various local residents traveling, court cases, marriages, revivals, and social events from the same period.
A paneled notes page lists wall paper cleaner ads and shop details, then details a P E O sisterhood meeting at Mrs Shrock's with officers elected including Mrs F W Porterfield president and Mrs W F Graham vice president. It also covers a county bridge accident affecting Angus cattle, and an Atlantic independent school district election resulting in Porterfield and Graham as directors amid a three cornered contest with 744 votes cast and Gardner as a candidate.
A long list of real estate transfers dated March 3 to March 6 involve Brackett Bartles Rosy Shey Maas Boggs and others. Transactions include west half and northwest quarters in multiple townships, payments ranging from 1 to 6200 dollars, and deeds between individuals and couples with properties in Cumberland Atlantic Massena and surrounding areas. Further entries show transfers to Cambridge White Engle Perkins and multiple other heirs and grantees with varied lot and tract descriptions and prices.
Local shop reports four complete lines of spring goods arriving recently. Purchases were made early to secure best assortments with top patterns and styles. Men’s all wool suits start at 4.50, children’s suits from 0.90, large boys’ suits at varied prices. Negligee shirts and neckwear feature current fashions with popular prices. Latest hat styles and spring Dunlap and Knox stiff hats are available.
A collage of notices and ads reports real estate transfers in the first week of March 1896. It lists property values, a public sale near Atlantic Iowa, and a call for a well driller with guaranteed work. It also covers Archbishop Kenrick’s funeral details in St Louis, a Des Moines political note on county conventions, a jail sentence for Joseph W Cannon in Nebraska, and stock market snippets with cattle and hog figures.
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