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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
5
A Cincinnati youth aged 21 seeks to marry a 65 year old widow, feigning delay. The wedding is blocked as the groom disappears, widow suspects kidnapping, crowd stages a prank around Tremont street with the couple paraded by actors, bride escaping as she and Ed finally outwit the crowd with humor and relief.
The strangest summer wedding trip involved a cab ride around Boston three times. Miss Pearl Caryace Cook, who plays Cupid, and Edward Beck, stage manager of the same company, abbreviated their honeymoon due to stage life. They wed at four pm and planned a train departure but were delayed as the company awaited at the stage entrance.
Miss Montana Largey of Butte, heir to a near million-dollar estate, refused to let wealth come between her and Ray MacDonald a poor clerk from Canada. After marrying at midnight, the couple fled to California for a honeymoon and planned cross continental travel to meet his family.
A Boston pie social leads to romance as Col. John H. Bartlett falls for pie maker Susie J. Reese after praising her New England mince pie. He vows affection and marriage, declaring a cook his true affinity and the couple wed with his praise for her baking.
18 year old Mrs. William Singley and Miss Weaver, both from Trinity Lutheran, kept their secret marriage six months to avoid parental disapproval. After a basket social their romance deepened, a license was obtained, and a buggy ride preceded the wedding vows, provoking talk of telling the families.
A bride resists a double life until she confesses to her parents. The mother weeps, the father softens, and Singley is praised as a good match. That evening the family reconciles, and the couple begins a new, happier life together despite earlier resistance.
An 18 year old Marjory Savin and Edwin Pilson aged 19 secretly wed in Washington. Pilson, son of a millionaire railroad man, greets the marriage with humor and warmth, declaring the couple welcome and the young couple will live with his family while they plan a business path.
The account describes native burial methods using cross sticks and ground or tree-top supports. Air and elements slowly reduce the remains to scattered bones and broken sticks. The writer laments the pitiful, grisly nature of such burial sites observed in autumn winds and leafless trees.
England’s new patent laws drew an estimated 25 million pounds in foreign capital, with Germany supplying the largest share for chemical manufacturing. The measure is hailed as one of the government’s most popular acts.
An American traveler pleads for a passport while chasing a fugitive who stole his wife. In a Paris rail station a jewel reveals his bride trapped inside a crystal diamond. The ring shatters as he mourns and dies from a gunshot.
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