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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
11
Washington letters lampoon the city’s rich as burdens to neighbors, noting provincial belief in their sway over plutocrats. The piece mocks solicits for graft and favors, describing conniving appeals from home districts to the well connected residents of the capital.
The piece portrays Senator Clark as a connoisseur who could buy, while mortgage interest and money pressures drive a market for old objects. Junk hawkers target public figures, with Washington seen as a source of easy gains. It notes thrifty bargaining by the senator and a culture of selling heirlooms like family jewels, old lace, books, and objets dart.
1907 year book details progress in food and drug inspection and legislation. Government experts improved manufacturing methods and sterilization cut reliance on chemical preservatives. Studies on sulphur drying, cold storage, bleached flour, lemon oil, and nonfermented beverages show regulatory advances and prosecutions.
Masano Hanihara, second secretary of the Japanese embassy and social favorite, was severely injured while rescuing an American woman from a runaway horse on Rhode Island avenue. He leaped for the bridle, was struck under the animal, and later found his foot crushed and bruised, with an abscess forming and possible surgery ahead. The incident occurred days ago en route to the embassy.
A social incident in Washington causing chatter among diplomats centers on Marius Gude’s refusal to participate in a German led by William Taft. Diplomats call his stance tactless, predicting Taft’s presidency may erase the episode from memory.
A Pennsylvania Oil Company well at Dos Bocas Mexico has burned for days, costing over $1 million in losses. Fire reaches hundreds of feet, lighting the landscape and deterring approach due to extreme heat and fumes. Firefighting plans include heavy drags across the mouth to smother the well, with automatic smothering as a last resort.
A young Altata post office employee in Guaymas Mexico stole 270 dollars to conceal the crime. After a $100 postal order misfit was traced, he fled, attempted suicide by leaping from a pier, was rescued, and then displayed violent fits. He is a Spaniard who had been respected in the community.
Charles Smith aged 66 faces a divorce action from Margaret Mattie Smith, 77, his sixth wife, five prior marriages having ended in divorce. He was ordered to pay 15 dollars temporary alimony and 30 dollars in attorney fees as the case proceeds. The report notes his frugal living, modest earnings of 40 dollars a month, and a claim he owns nothing beyond his person. In Freeland, Pa, an attempted child abduction linked to a stray baseball was thwarted after authorities secured the child in exchange for the baseball.
In Frankfort Kentucky a jail theater project features moonshiners rehearsing a play titled The Moonshiners written by Sam Sheppard an accused liquor dealer. The troupe plans staging when released with acts set in Harlan and Whitley counties portraying raids court scenes and a climactic battle led by a mountain girl. The cast includes Sam Sheppard Ol Whittington W S James E D Ritchin Sunland Meyers Dan Trout Henry Boulden Ezekiel Anderson Will Sturgeon Wick Terry Magee and Thomas Magee.
Government scientists pursue a two year field program at Salton Sea to measure water supply and atmospheric loss. Profs Bigelow and Weather Bureau members lead the project with six to eight men on site.
Willian M Sherwood a 71 year old former section boss on the New York Central road died instantly when a bolt of lightning struck a tree in the yard during a thunder storm. The lightning caused a vivid glare and the man, who had heart disease, was seated on a sofa in his daughter's Bronx home when he was struck.
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