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Audubon County Journal
Exira, Audubon Co. Iowa
8/1/1907

Page 6.
Long report on construction progress of the Atlantic Northern & Southern Railroad -reprinted from the Atlantic paper. This article stated that 140 teams of horses were working on the roadbed dirt grading from five different base camps along the seventeen mile route.

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8/8/1907
Another Atlantic Northern & Southern Railroad construction progress report, which concludes that things are moving along on schedule.
(Submitters note: The building of this railroad was very newsworthy. It was probably the most newsworthy thing to come along in a long time, and it was not until approximately twenty-five years later when hard surfaced highway construction was going on in the area that any one construction project received so much press coverage in the Audubon County Journal. That was also the beginning of the end for the railroad, because the growth of the trucking industry was the major contributing factor to the demise of the Atlantic Northern & Southern Railroad.)

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8/15/1907

--Page 2 contained a short article reporting that the difficulty the Atlantic Canning Factory was having in getting enough help to pick the green bean crop at wages of two dollars a day was so severe that management was labeling their attempts to can the unpicked harvest a failure and was predicting that they would not attempt to have a bean canning season the next year. They figured they needed 100 pickers to do a profitable job, and had only forty pickers. .
--Page 4 printed the schedule of the special train which would be running from Brayton during the Atlantic Chautauqua season.

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8/29/1907

Oakfield-Brayton.
A box car was converted into a passenger coach for use on this branch last Thursday to carry the extra number of passengers to Atlantic to hear the noted speaker, William Jennings BRYAN.
(Submitter's note: Bryan was one of the Atlantic Chautauqua speakers.)

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