Local and Personal notes from Atlantic week
The Weekly Telegraph reports a flurry of visitors and travelers in Atlantic with many residents and guests visiting Omaha Rockford and Cedar Falls. Residents like Mrs L Day Mr E Grant and Mrs M Hayward are mentioned along with others from Iowa and Illinois visiting relatives attending fairs and events. A string of departures and small events fill the column including canning factory notes and a notable elocutionist Miss Cora Patten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria Township
J. M. Schenk
Mr. Eckleen
Omaha
A. H. Gibson
Maine
W. Harris
Missouri Valley
Anna Burnea
Presbyterian Church
Cora Mel Patten
Iowa
Atlantic
Miss Patten
Avoca visit dense with locals and travel notes
A bustling Avoca day features Lester Tilden and Mr Eggers in town alongside Dr I Parson of Adair and many others from Chicago Maine Des Moines and Cedar Falls. The report lists numerous arrivals departures and errands plus a lightning strike that damaged church steeples and a burning church in the southwest last night.
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Lewis M. E
Local notices and social items fill city pages
A dense list covers weddings, deaths, arrests, and visits. The groom’s celebration, infant death at 407 Cedar Street, and various social events are noted alongside business and telegraph matters. Lightning damages and repairs, a mortgage payoff by W H Kerrick, and a Mining era ad copy conclude the column.
The Homliest Baby in Atlantic Jewelry Ad
Advertisement from a Rock Island official watch inspector and jewelry store listing novelties for weddings and birthdays. Mentions instrument supplies and fine repairing services with Geo. Marsh successor.
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Rock Island
Gold Reserve Going Offers of Gold to Treasury
Washington Sept 17 true gold reserve at close of business was 95,348,642. Following heavy shipments the government received many offers of gold in exchange for notes, especially from Northwest banks moving grain crops. Some gold offered as its face value due to suspected light weight. Treasury accepted offers where possible. Eckles criticizes Congress for financiers, noting balance settlements and costs.
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Washington
Northwest
Congress
Associated Press
Leuvon
James Eckles
United States Treasury
New York
Treasury Department
Treasury
Rochrster
Associated Banks of
Rochester
United States
National Treasury
Durrants Young Lady Friend Evades Identification
In San Francisco on September 14 court records reveal Theodore Durrant’s trial has heard 23 witnesses, with key testimonies ahead. A mysterious young woman attends daily, previously sending flowers to the prisoner and now watched by police as she evades identification while remaining in Oakland.
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Moonts
Hut
San Francisco
Theodore Durrant
Durrant
Oakland
Ex congressman McShane cleared in Chicago real estate deal
Judge Clifford ruled no evidence of a conspiracy to defraud in a Chicago Evanston Evergreen Park property deal involving ex congressman John A McShane B J Spannel Omaha and attorneys Culver and Atwood. All four defendants were discharged and exonerated. An explosion at Santa Cruz powder works killed 17 year old Maxie Grimm and badly burned James Howard during smokeless powder production for Hotchkiss guns on the cruiser Boston.
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Chicago
Cuicano
Clifford
John A. McShane
B. J. Spannel
Omaha
Atornay Culver
James Atwood
Charles Bartlett
Leonard H. Roach
Evanston
Evergreen Park
State Street
Atwood
Santa Cruy
Cal
Powder Works
Maxie Grimm
James Howard
Boston
Howard
The Markets and Tax Notice of 1894 Delinquency
The Chicago market report shows mixed grain and weak cattle prices with heavy receipts. Texans and Westerns in cattle are steady, sheep market slow with big receipts. A tax notice warns delinquencies after October 1, 1895 and urges submit of property lists to County Treasurer T. W. Brown.
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Chicaco
Ill
T. W. Brown
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