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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1898
Page
9
Saturday and Monday items cover residents visiting Omaha and Des Moines, travelers from Griswold and Harlan, school openings, examinations, fairs, and local business moves. Notables include Miss Anna Temple resuming teaching, Prof Widener starting music at the college, new depot paving plans, and several visits between Atlantic, Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Mason City, and Omaha.
Three Cumberland lads about fifteen imitate Buffalo Bill feats and break their right arms while reaching for a handkerchief from the ground during practice. The item mentions other ads for Dr King New Life Pills and a sheep sale listing many ewes at Atlantic Iowa with buyers Vic Emmert.
Des Moines reports the past week the warmest of the season with daily mean temperatures 8 to 10 degrees above normal. Showers on the 3rd and 4th brought relief to crops, corn largely mature and in good condition though late planted portions show some damage from heat. Fall plowing and seeding progress. pastures need rain to aid plowing.
The piece notes regimental musterings and discharges as war ends. It lauds state convention resolutions for a strong Republican platform ensuring November victory. It endorses Porto Rico customs, warns against war provocations, and hints Roosevelt’s 1904 bid while 1900 choice leans away from B.
It is September and the last month to pay taxes before a heavy penalty. Dr Stults has returned to Wiota to practice.
Queen Wilhelmina will keep the present cabinet. Emperor and empress travel to Rominton for a hunting trip. Camp Meade drills and parades halted due to heat. King Oscar to send delegates to a peace conference. Spanish lines at Porto Rico offered to General Brooke. Temper, owned by W M Dummer, set 2 18 for half mile track. Trans Mississippi exposition debt reduced by 122 628 17 in August. Balance on stranding for the association stands at 57 834 40 versus 180 407 27 last month.
Dispatches from Manila report Governor Rios arresting and shooting suspected persons including Manila natives. Rail obstructions on the Manila to Caloo line were cleared as the first train departed. Steamers Ohio and Valencia sailed for San Francisco. Memphis imposes a strict yellow fever quarantine, shutting the city to all arrivals. Norris Brown challenges Congressman Greene to a joint debate at the county fair. Transport Panama sails with 246 convalescent soldiers and staff aboard. Milwaukee notes no fusion between Democratic and Populist tickets, leaving the Populist ticket on the official ballot.
The marriage of Miss Annie Grace Adams to Mr. James Edward Knotts of New York was solemnized Tuesday morning August 30 at 9 o'clock at the Training School for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago. About a hundred guests witnessed the ceremony conducted by Rev. Dr. Phillips. A breakfast followed and the couple departed for a lake trip before settling in New York around September 18. Mrs Knotts formerly chaired Church History at the Training School and led the Deaconess Home in New York.
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