WHAT ATLANTIC HAS

5,000 Population. Five Miles of Brick and Asphalt Paving. A Complete Sewer System. Splendid Water System, Municipally Owned. More Typewriters Than Any Town of 5,000 Population in the Country. The Best Volunteer Fire Department in the State, and a Modern Hose Wagon Drawn by a Splendid Team. Over a Quarter of a Million Dollars Invested In Automobiles in Its Territory The Largest Corn Cannery in the World Municipal Light and Power Plant Four Lines of Railroad An Electrolier Lighting System Two Million Dollars of Bank Deposits Room to Grow and a Determination to Do It

WHAT SHE IS DOING

Successfully and Profitably Operating Her Own Water and Electric Utilities. Encouraging Home Enterprises in Every Possible Manner. Giving Encouragement to Every Worthy En- terprise Seeking a New Location.

From: Industrial Edition, published by Atlantic News Telegraph, Atlantic, Iowa, 1913, pg. 6. Transcribed by Brenda Magee, August, 2012.

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