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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
12
In Washington the health officer proposes registering all laundries for pay to reform conditions in poorer homes. Dr. W. C. Woodward cites unclean premises, reused dirty water, and odors from wet laundry as hazards. He urges licensing eventually, with registration enabling regular inspections.
Foreign ambassadors draw large salaries and lavish support from their governments yet live frugally in Washington. Secretary Root seeks to leverage this by arguing that American hosts should scrutinize diplomatic spending while noting top earners like James Bryce, M Jusserand, and Baron Des Planches.
The preliminary report of the commissioner of internal revenue shows reduced whisky and ardent spirits use, with beer consumption rising. For the year ended June 30, revenue from whisky and other spirits fell to 131,789,242 dollars while beer revenue rose to 58,747,680 dollars. Total internal revenue reached 251,665,950 dollars, down from the prior year, with tobacco and oleomargarine also yielding notable figures and changes in taxed goods.
The United States invites Britain Germany and Belgium to send leading mine experts to assist the Geological Survey in testing explosives at a Pittsburg station. Congress allocated 150000 for the project as mining fatalities rise with 1906 and 1907 death rates climbing. Experts Desborough Meirener and Watteyne will join the U S delegation to study safer practices and report findings for operators and lawmakers.
William E. McMillan, president of the McMillan Lumber Co., traveling from Baltimore to Pittsburgh on a Baltimore & Ohio train, awoke to find all his clothes gone. The 200 pound lumber baron slept in only a small athletic undershirt, leaving behind a flashy vest as his sole remaining garment. The theft is described as perhaps the meanest Sneak Thief incident yet.
On a long railway run a passenger named McMillan found his clothes his money and jewelry gone after several stops. A Pullman conductor provided spare trousers and, aided by a sheet, McMillan reached the police station to arrange help and telephone home. He declared he would kill the thief if he met him.
Ansonia man William Wilhelmy visiting Woodbury was soaked by a thunderstorm. He collapsed with laughter when a $200 bill roll hung on a clothesline at his brother’s home. The hired girl washed his trousers and clipped the bills to the line with clothespins, leaving them unguarded.
William Meyers attempted to elope with Lillian Waid a 15 year old girl, daughter of Mrs Theresa Waid. He left railroad tickets behind and was arrested when he returned for them as detectives waited. Mrs Waid, a rooming house keeper, had briefly locked her daughter to prevent contact and Meyers aided the girl through a ransom. The plan was to flee to Michigan.
In Coatesville a pigeon became trapped in the organ tubes after efforts to seal off belfry entrances to deter overrun pigeons. The bird slipped into a pipe and could only protrude its head from a lower end during services. The organ will be torn apart to free the bird.
Mingtead Conn Pete, a lone trout in a deep spring at Wintergreen summer home of Mr. Stone at Highland Lake, answers to his name and surfaces on command. He has learned to jump out to take worms from fingers and kills rival trout released into the spring.
New York restaurant keeper Nathan Wagner claims a wooden leg stirred his lemonade outside 215 Park Row. A one legged man allegedly used the prosthetic to mix the drink, shattered the glass, and was arrested after a scuffle with a passing patrolman. The defendant, James Harmon, denied breaking the bowl claiming he had no leg, while the magistrate reminded that the missing limb is being sought. Harmon was sentenced to six months.
Four Kalamazoo women report sighting a new sea serpent near their boat on Long Lake. They describe a 40 foot creature with an alligator head a turtle neck and dark red skin that surfaced within five feet of their craft before vanishing as they shouted.
Reports on administrators and guardians appointed, appointments secured. General law business transacted. Atlantica.
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