Local and Personal Notes From The Weekly Telegraph
The item lists numerous city visitors and residents from Atlantic and surrounding areas, noting illnesses, travel plans, social visits, and local business activity. Names include Mrs Fes Lockett, J S Barnett, Jim Baxter, Si Parsons, Mrs E C Gage, W D McCool, Rev D O Franklin, Mrs M Meredith, Miss Mabel Marsh, Mrs Atkinson, P Pettinger, B O Bruington, Al Butten, Miss Mary Young, Geo Pugsley, Mr White, B Osborne, Elder S P Telford, and others with brief movements or events such as sales, auctions, and court adjournment.
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T, Koob
Anita
J.S. Barnett
Illinois
Jim Baxter
Si Parsons
Lewis
E. C. Gage
W. D. McCool
Maryville
D. O. Franklin
Atlantic High School Beats Elliott 20–0 In One-Sided Game
Atlantic High School defeated Elliott 20 to nothing as Kaiser, Harvey, and Kaiger led a strong Atlantic offense with multiple long runs and a decisive second half. Interference and end plays powered the victory while Dickerson struggled with goal attempts.
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Atlantic
High Sondon
Elliott G
Atlantic High
Elliott
Kaiser
Harvey
Conrad
Atlantic Eleven
Kaiger
Dickerson
Smash Up on Rock Island Yards Causes Major Wreck
In a dawn collision at Rock Island yards, westbound train No. 91 struck an extra train engine 820 on the scale track near the turning table. Six freight cars were badly damaged with cars overturned or torn open. Both engines survived with minor injuries to crews. The crash resulted from a faulty backup switch and a brake not closed properly. The wreck is nearly cleared, with lines reopening tomorrow.
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Oatey
Royal baking powder praised in World's Fair tests
The World's Fair Tests showed no baking powder so pure or so great in leavening power as the Royal.
Happy Old Age Orchard Offer by O. W. Rice Nursery
An advertorial note promoting a plan for farmers or businessmen to secure a pleasant occupation and annual income by planting a ten acre orchard of winter apples. It outlines cultivation in spring, conserving in summer, selling in late fall, and enjoying cider in winter, plus a bulk deal of one thousand trees for 74 dollars over three years.
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O. W. Rice Nursery
Diver Claims Huge Gold Haul Killed by Shark on Cuba Wreck
James T. Gaulin recalls an 80 year old diving voyage to Cuba where he found gold coins hidden in a sunken schooner hold. After a lone survivor fight with a shark, he tossed gold to distract the creature and it died. The story ends with Gaulin reflecting on those days.
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James T. Gaulin
Winchester
Mase
Cuba
Ime
New England
Mr. Gaulin
Buffalo Express
Lowell Family and James Russell Lowell Noted in History
The Lowells shaped New England history with cotton spinning and philanthropy. One Lowell helped found Boston’s Lowell Institute lectures. James Russell Lowell, born February 22, 1819 in Cambridge, Mass., was a celebrated figure among Americans, as Brander Matthews notes in St. Nicholas.
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Lowell
Lowells
New England
United States
Boston
Lowell Institute
James Russell Lowell
Cambridge
Mass
Brander Matthews
St. Nicholaw
Telegraph Wedding at Oshkosh and St Cloud Novel Plan
Oct 24 report outlines a unique telegraphic marriage between Lid die Kluth of Oshkosh and Duncan Edward of St. Cloud, to be officiated via wire due to no minister in St. Cloud. The bride will answer the minister by telegraph and then join her husband in Oshkosh, followed by no wedding tour. The piece also discusses Roman legionary imagery and a miner’s fatal shaft fall.
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St. Cloud
Oshkosh
Wis
Northwestern
Liddie Kluth
Duncan Edward
Cleveland Faces British Pressure and Public Wrath
In a stern assessment the writer warns President Cleveland to confront foreign policy decisively rather than yield to British pressure. The piece predicts growing public anger and a political cyclone if he avoids a firm stance on American rights, urging bold leadership despite opposition.
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Ous
Cleveland
Farmers warned as Mexican cattle flood U.S. markets
A political notice claims the Democratic administration favors Mexican beef imports, citing 85,000 cattle bought in Mexico and ready for shipment to the United States. It accuses the Democratic state central committee of wasting funds on J. P. St. John to promote free trade and prohibition at 860 per night, urging farmers to vote Republican.
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Mexico
Democratic State Central Committee
J. P. St. John
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al. Butten
Stuart
Mary Young
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Wtf Geo
Pugsley
Sagie
Woollvdine
L. E. Hollowell
Wm. McMillan
Sioux City
Mamie Schindhelm
Iowa City
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Red
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Michigan
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Omaha
G. W. Parham
Fourth Street
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Eagiero
F. Anderson
J. Schmidt
Holenschub
R. H. Zach
John Stetzer
Bear Grove Township
Presawall
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Franklin Township
BR. D. M. Turner
Wiota
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Ilinois
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Detlef Tiedge
Maine
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Lawls
Margaret Gould
Ylaiting
Lena Johnson
Noggle
Alice Aloward
Des Moines
Arthur Mickel
Walewt
Marie Bair
Hope
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Mrs. Coats
Avocs
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J. W. Lemmon
Family Relations
Ira Needles
Grove, Township
Chas, Kringle
Walnut
Dan Morman
Mitchell
Milwaukee Road
Fred
Saemisch
Noble Township
Boaimead
Mrs. Kinney
Shelby
J. A. Kinney
Ben Evans
Nela Anderson
Elkhorn
A. F. Anderson
L. Howard
F. W. Sells
W.L. Fleming
Rev. Northern
Crooks
Pleasant Lawn
Montgomery County
Red Oak
J. M. Junkin
Spencer Smith
Council Buffs
Griswold
John Tobin
McKinley
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Viola
G. C. Linder
J. K. Gillespie
W. Andrew Brough
Cass County
Drake
Jenkins
Rudy
Martin Rud
Lancaster
Iowa
KR. D. Wilkin
Eccers Bros
Geo. Marah
Rock Island
Daya
Block & Heyman
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Tin Roman Legionary
Wimes
Alanda
Vexetius
Tacitus
Germanicus
Caliga
Caligula
Claudius
Cochrane
Abu Tiny Widshipman
Macmillan’s Magazine
Dosugue
James Rogers
Peter A. Dey
Ree St. Jacobs
China Hall
Brown
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