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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1908
Page
6
A quirky scrap of 19th century notes mentions Pat's 30000 barges killed yearly for food the void of electric carpets in Paris an electric heating mesh and a health note about sewer workers. A comical wedding mishap in Novery Savoy ends with a bride clinging to a cow’s horns after the floor collapses and the couple are bruised.
The article notes how criminals now use scientific methods such as photography to detect forgeries and analyze marks on documents. It cites Marseilles bank safes, chemical forgery tests, and blood stain analysis using a rabbit serum test to confirm human blood.
Pueblo reports the Colorado Republican state convention selected delegates-at-large for Chicago unopposed for Taft. The platform endorses Roosevelt and names Taft as the nominee. Harmony remains despite a bid to endorse Clarence lincoln Hamilton for U.S. senator. In New Jersey the Democratic state convention chose delegates-at-large with notable disorder and division among Hudson and Essex factions.
A clergyman recounts multiple bribe attempts from various figures including an ad man offering $100 for church praise of health food, a widow offering $50 to praise a drunken husband in a funeral sermon, and a man offering $1,500 to alter marriage certificates. The cleric refused, gave a tract, and expelled the briber.
Allentown Pa April 29 A report says a religious fanatic killed Councilman Henry Smiths daughter during a visit at the Bachman home in Alliance. The killer was Robert Bachman of Nazareth Pa who drove others from the house as the deadly frenzy unfolded.
In Brownville near Watertown the apparently most brutal northern New York murder since the Sackets Harbor case was found Monday night. Victim is Mrs. Sarah Brennan wife of Patrick Brennan a long time Brownville resident and paper maker. She lived in the village about 50 years.
John Lee Carroll of Maryland was re elected president general of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution at the triennial meeting in Washington on Tuesday April 29 during the business session.
The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that the dying declaration of an infidel is not competent testimony in a murder trial. The decision was issued Monday afternoon in Jackson.
Rattlesnake slaughter endangers Ben Lomond vineyards as kangaroo rats multiply. Mississippi Supreme Court rules a dying infidel declaration not competent in murder cases. Taft speaks on tuberculosis camps at Waldorf meeting. Roosevelt's message reads. Judge Gray declines $200,000 annual headship of insurance, says president deserves higher pay. Carnegie among Vagabonds urges youth, longs to live long on earth. Smithsonian offers 1500 prize for treatise on atmospheric air and tuberculosis ahead of Washington congress.
In La Porte Indiana on April 29 a country home north of the city burned. Mrs Belle Gunnerson and her three children aged five to eleven are believed to have perished in the fire. A hired man Joseph Maxson escaped with his life. A young man who had pursued Mrs Gunnerson is missing.
News from Victoria B C on April 29 describes a series of destructive fires in Peking amid dynastic rebel suspicion. Nine fires occurred in late March and early April with many deaths, and wholesale arrests have been made.
Helena Arkansas April 29 Fifteen persons died and several others were seriously injured when the river steamer Marion capsized near the mouth of the St Francis river. Members of a carnival company were aboard the vessel and many more were left exposed and missing.
The American Museum of Natural History prepares four western expeditions to collect paleontological specimens. The first party will depart in a few weeks, two groups in June, and the final party in August.
Chicago reports a firm flour market with Minnesota patent and export bag prices and assorted straight and jute varieties. Wheat trends show May around 97 to 98 and July 93 to 94c, corn steady to moderately active, oats dull with May and September bids, butter and eggs steady to firm, and live poultry and dairy prices listed. New York notes firmer yet unsettled wheat on easy Liverpool cues with May near 1.06 to 1.08 and July around 97c.
Chicago and Omaha market notes show cattle and hog prices for several classes. Chicago lists steers from good to prime at 5.75 to 7.25, cows and feeders 2.50 to 4.25, hogs with heavy sows 5.35 to 5.50 and pigs up to 6.25. Omaha reports cattle: native steers 5.00 to 6.70, cows 3.50 to 6.00, stockers 3.00 to 5.20, calves 3.00 to 6.00. hogs strong with buyers paying 5.25 to 5.70. sheep steady with yearlings 5.00 to 6.25 and lambs 7.00 to 7.50.
In a stormy Plain City scene at Terrapin Bend, two couples contend with wind and misfortune as losses of $80,000 in Union Pacific 4s and vanished securities shake relationships. Robert Ransom consoles his fiancée Barbara Lane while Ethel and the kimono-clad companion reassess loyalties amid the gale.
Melon growers in the southern Illinois watermelon belt halted killing non-poisonous snakes after a spring agreement. This year fields suffer fewer mouse outbreaks, as mice are kept in check by not killing awaken.
A historical note endorses borax as a dairy cleaner and preservative. It claims borax prevents taint in milk and butter utensils, kills bacteria, and reduces dairy labor. Practical use includes washing the cow’s udder with a borax solution to prevent cracking during milking. Mothers are offered a free Jingle Book with borax purchase.
From Paris comes a decorated card rack with artificial flowers that can be altered to match dinner colors. It holds a plain card for the guest’s name, offering a reusable option for many dinners and reducing the cost of new decorated dinner cards with each entertaining.
A Sunday school lesson devolves into stilted chatter until a bull terrier enters. A shy boy blurts out that his bull pup became a bloodhound, lightening the room with a accidental joke about growing up.
A joke about three nationalities arguing whose trains are fastest. The Englishman boasts hedge like telegraph poles, the Scot says milestones loom like tombstones, and Pat from Ireland claims his train speed makes him frightened by fields named carrots onions turnips parsley and a pond of water, thinking it was broth.
A dyspeptic patient describes a long decline to 90 pounds and bed confinement. After trying Grape-Nuts with milk and lime water the writer improves rapidly, regains strength, can eat a wider range of foods, and speaks clearly again. The account, signed by the Postum Co. of Battle Creek, promotes “There's Reason” and references The Road to Wellville.
Leesburg Virginia resident Maude E Forgie writes to Mrs Pinkham praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for her months of feminine illness and renewed health after following the prescribed treatment. The notice extols the remedy as a long standing standard for female ills and invites other sick women to write for advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
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