May Festival Thrives Yet Attendance Falls Short
The May Festival in Atlantic featured diverse acts led by Prof. Moore with organists and tenors like Wm McConvill and Miss Porterfield. The program included violin pieces, piano duets, vocal solos, and a large choir, though overall attendance was below expectations, yet the event supported a noble cause.
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Atlantic
Missea
Pearl Hutton
Brewster
Osborne
Bruington
Baer
Hope Curtis
Egan
Gillespie
Edith
Wert
Kimball
Edna Harris
Mee Harris
Moendames Appleman
DeLano
Petite
Messrs
McCongill
Shuter
W. Frost
Hendee
Egbert
Carleon
McCormick
Cavenaugh
Whitney
Hoegland
Eldridge
Button
A. Brown
R. Asay
Moore
Prof. Meier
DeBerriot
Mr. Meier
Porterfield
Thos. Whitney
A. Goring Thomas
Miséea Gerberich
Reed
Edus Harris
WW. McConvill
McConvill
Lew Wallace
Faddis
Shumman
Mas Brewster
Kedron Commandery to Observe Ascension Day in City
Kedron Commandery No 42 K of P observes Ascension Day with a reception and a 2:30 p.m. church service in the Masonic lodge room. Rev KE Reed will preach while a male quartet provides music. Hundreds of Sir Knights and friends are expected from Harlan Audubon Stuart and Red Oak, with a procession to the homes of McWard and Downs and on to the opera house for a banquet at 4:30. Decorations urged citywide with national colors. route to be announced.
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Kedron Commandery
Atlantic Knights
Harlan, Audubon, Stuart
Red Oak
Masonic Lodge
E. Reed
Masonic Building
K. of P
J. A. MecWaid
Leys Downs
West Sixth Street
Opera House
McWard
Downs
Harlan Sir Knights
Truth about Wyoming and firemen tournament notes
An anonymous anti suffrage pamphlet claims Wyoming tolerates gambling and lenient liquor laws while Groesbeck of Wyoming replies with facts from Laramie and statewide reforms. Also covered is the Southwestern Iowa Firemen's Association tournament in Atlantic with Aug 3 and 4 events, program details, and local preparations.
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Alice Stone Blackwell
Boston
Anti-Suffrage Association
Wyoming
Groesbeck
Miss Blackwell
Commonwealth
Southwestern Iowa Association
Atlantic
Atlantic Fire Department
Southwestern
Iowa Firemen's Association
Blocked the Cuban Resolution in Congress Angers Critics
Washington May 22 1897 Special Correspondence reports the denial of relief funds for starving American citizens in Cuba by a key Democrat leader in the House. President McKinley urged immediate relief of 50000 dollars. Senate and House measures faced partisan delay tied to Cuban belligerency recognition. The piece condemns the obstruction as a political trick and notes public disdain for such actions. Also includes vaccine notes, personal thanks, and advertisements for medicines and travel to California.
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Washington
Cuba
McKinley
Congress
Senate
House
Hitt
Bailey
United States
Reed
House of Representatives
Washington News Fragments and Public Notices
A string of brief items reports court rulings, criminal sentences, medical ads, and local incidents. Highlights include James French's murder conviction in Rockford, a June 11 execution date, Foley's remedies ad pitches, Tongue's cable car injury in Washington, a Washington street sweeping bid note, a Mount Pleasant Indian School building contract for 40,000 dollars, and various telegraph briefs from Des Moines to Louisville on topics from wills to park commissions and labor strikes.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Mount Pleasant
Michigan
Meridian
Miss
Luzerne Bulkey
Hannibal
McKinley
Ohio
E. B. Moore
Arkansas
Fayetteville
Leonard
Richard Simpson
Coffeyville
Kan
Lula Rawleton
Louden County
Tennessee
Park Commissioners
Ndscape
Sesslon
Louisville
Progressive Convention
East Side Garments Workers of
New York
Tired Sales Interesting Statement by and Yat in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn the vast voteit establishment features many women in sales roles while men previously held those positions. The excerpt notes changing gender dynamics in urban sales work and hints at evolving labor patterns.
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Brooklyn
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Alace
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Bucklen
DeWitt
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Great Rock Island
Rockies
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G.P.A
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Edwards & Parker, Merchants of
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Thomas H. Tongue
Oregon
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J. H. Winspear
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Here
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Miles
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Dr. Miles
GRAS
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Chestnut St
Atlanten
Odak K
Easta Jan Kodak CO
Rochester, N.Y
Fred Alexander
Fifth Street
Postoffice Building
Iowa
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