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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1895
Page
10
Reynolds leaves for Audubon on business. Visitors and locals travel between Audubon and Anita, with many errands, social calls, and small incidents noted. The telegraph line, train changes, and upcoming events including a concert, a bank prospect, and a wedding mention color the period's community snapshot.
A mixed trove of local items includes visitors from Atlantic and Chicago, social licenses, and a forthcoming football game between Y.M.C.A. and Villisca. News mentions a fatal illness from lung fever after a Nebraska prairie ride, a pony theft near the M E church, and a state case involving Nina Spear. Also noted are school staff, survivors, weddings, and a Shaker Digestive Cordial ad.
A World reporter tours a New York crematory showing niches for urns costing 25 dollars, with ashes kept in jars or taken home. The piece notes affordability, various urn designs, and the practice of families keeping ashes, sometimes abroad, while one narrator mentions a woman who always carries her husband’s ashes.
In Iowa neighborhood a gray government clerk, tired of insomnia, hires a near-perfect cook. Sleep deprivation and a nighttime gas mishap trigger a frightened escape by a frightened maid, revealing a haunted house scare that ends with a job ad in the Washington Star.
Six carloads of machinery have arrived for the Bronx Farms pork packing plant, with remaining equipment due in time for a December 10 start date. The facility aims to begin operations as scheduled despite recent deliveries.
The December Harpers will publish a six monthly part novel titled Jriseis by William Black. The tale centers on a Greek maiden in Aberdeenshire with a British background and American illustrator. W T Smedley provides drawings from Scotland and London for the serial. Briasis, a Greek heroine, will accompany the debut in the issue.
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