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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1908
Page
6
In Washington Dr Wiley the government chemist campaigns against cracked mugs in lunchrooms warning patrons may be exposed to harmful bacteria. A report from lunchroom samples finds numerous organisms within mug cracks and seams, including bacteria linked to inflammatory conditions.
Colonel Bromwell, army engineer over the White House, estimates next fiscal year minimum upkeep at 1000 weekly. If converted to two apartments, cost rises. Current upkeep runs about 673 weekly. Damages and renovations cited include torn paper, broken stucco, worn upholstery, and repainting. He asks 15000 for extraordinary repairs, within a 35000 annual appropriation. Congress expected to grant funds.
Summary of Senate and House committee reports on appropriations for the last session, showing total allocations of $1,008,397,543,56 with $95,228,247 for the army, $122,665,885 for the navy, $163,053,000 for pensions, $222,970,892 for the post office, and $111,9 £8,088 for sundry civil expenses. Includes contracts, new offices, and net personnel increases across agencies, with a total salary rise to $9,146,575 and an overall increase of $87,599,399 from prior sessions.
Mrs. Minna Gibson, daughter of Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, marries Algernon Barnsbey of Leicestershire at the Page summer home in York Harbor Maine. The bride, once divorced from Preston Gibson, plans a Baggrave Hall residence in England. her income and social ties remain strong in Washington and Boston society.
A reclusive Hawaiian Chinese hermit Ah Chow lived alone for decades on a high mountain ledge above a seaboard plantation. He defended his refuge with boulders and a wooden spear, cleared two acres for crops, and survived on homegrown fruit vegetables and hunted game. His death and coffin found in his hut ended the solitary chapter.
At Elizadelphia Old St. Pauls church the Protestant Byphna pal city mission reports a ghost that answers the telephone. The shade, seen by Rev. A Cresson McHenry and assistants, seems familiar with staff movements yet leaves no physical trace after slipping up a stairway from the mission offices to the church auditorium.
A panther that escaped from a Rhinelander circus a year ago has reappeared in northern Wisconsin, leaving a woodsman dead with the animal’s hide torn from his hands in a struggle. The partly devoured body was found near Brantwood, suggesting a fierce fight. A missing child near Tripoli sparks fear of a second victim.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Seriber of West Colbrook, traveling to Norfolk to buy meat, learned the price was high and decided not to purchase. On returning home their hennery was struck by lightning, killing nine fowls and broilers. Six had been dressed by the bolt, feathers removed.
Mrs. Caroline Ferguson near Margaretta Furnace reported missing chicks for some time. She says a frog leaped from a pond, carried off a chick, and returned to the water. After draining the pond and killing about a dozen frogs, no more chicks have vanished.
Vast bush fires along the Crow's Nest line engulf Fernie and towns like Hosmer Elko Sparwood Olso n Cokato. About 12,000 homeless and losses near 10 million dollars. Doomed towns, destroyed rails, relief trains, and many feared dead as wind drives flames across a 100 mile area.
Paris reports anxiety over a looming city wide 24 hour general strike. Authorities, confident they can control the situation, deploy a large police force and a 25,000 strong garrison to maintain order.
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