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Saturday reports show numerous residents in town and visiting nearby towns. Includes arrivals and departures, visits with relatives, a dance, school openings, a marriage license, and community notices.
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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1896
Page
10
Saturday reports show numerous residents in town and visiting nearby towns. Includes arrivals and departures, visits with relatives, a dance, school openings, a marriage license, and community notices.
Canton Ohio September 14 Major McKinley rests at home after a busy week while West delegations begin to arrive. Frank D. Higbie of Illinois coordinates western visitors including Chicago rail workers and 800 Italian residents with a marching band. Planned tours will send 1 800 bicyclists and 300 women from Chicago to Massillon for a parade toward McKinley’s home.
Worthington editor Morrison hails Electric Bitters as a cure for constipation and sick headache and a top general tonic. Annie Stehle of Chicago, once run down with backache and poor digestion, reports full recovery after six bottles. Price 50c to 81. Get a bottle at any drug store.
The German Evangelical St John’s congregation in Noble township thirteen miles south of Atlantic cemetery will hold a mission feast next Sunday September 20. Pastor E Hardt leads a program with four noted ministers Rev Chr Steck Atlantic Africa missionary twenty years Rev A Koehler West Side Ia Africa Gold Coast Rev D Behrens California Mo and Rev E Schutt Massena Ia. Three services are scheduled and all are invited.
We wish to buy at this office various magazines including Century April 1896 and April 1895 Munsey Oct Nov Dec 1894 Feb 1895 Harpers Aug Jan Dec 1888 Jan Feb 1892 March April Nov Dec 1893 Jan 1804 Feb March April May 1890 Scribners Feb 1896 and Sept 1806 McClures Dec 1894 Feb June Oct 1895.
The notice promotes sending 12 cents in stamps to John Sebastian Gen's Pass Agents R J P by Chicago for the slickest playing cards postpaid. Lincoln Center sale: 60 cents in stamps or postal note earns 5 packs by express. Local Lincoln township Republican meeting at Center schoolhouse drew a large crowd with speakers J H Bruce and T B Swan. The McKinley club organized with fifty members. officers elected.
An ad claims a “Mystic Cure” cures rheumatism and neuralgia in 1 to 3 days. It asserts the remedy removes the cause and delivers immediate relief, with the first dose offering great benefits. Sold by F Parson Co., druggists, Atlantic Iowa, for 76 cents.
Burlington plans the State Semi Centennial events October 1 to 8 set in a 90 acre natural park with a steep bluff overlooking the Mississippi. An adjacent Coliseum with 10,000 seating, 180 by 60 by 60 feet, costing about $18,000, will host assembly events and musicales. Mississippi River will host illuminated carnivals and fireworks.
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