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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1910
Page
8
A report notes that many American tourists in Europe remain in Paris or London as unwilling prisoners unable to book return steamship passages. With ships full from the exodus of travelers, hundreds are stranded, using up funds and seeking help from home while some become willing captives.
The piece notes rising numbers of Americans stranded in Paris with few jobs for outsiders while others cover hotel bills, rail fares, and steamer tickets before departure, often returning with little cash and relying on pawnshops to fund essentials. It highlights Paris beggars and a trick to deter them by naming a starving artist.
Humboldt Tennessee reports Henry P Cola, a prosperous local farmer, has developed a novel grafted plant the peppermate that combines tomato and pepper. The fruit parts may separate for use with pepper pollen allegedly mixed during bloom. Observers compare it to a two in one tomato pepper specimen and suggest it may interest scientists.
A report notes a pest described as a greenish color resembling a mosquito has stung Pattavi and others in Schuylkill County. Frank Ebach may lose his right hand due to a blood poisoning risk linked to the bites amid a seventeen year focus on the outbreak.
Berlin reports a challenge to the claim of Frau Dutkie witz of Posen as the world’s oldest woman. Mme Baba Vasilka, born May 1784 in Bavelsko Bulgaria, has a long life of field work and war memories. Her son Todor also worked and fought in Balkan conflicts. She enjoys eyesight and hearing, walks unaided, and lives on a pension from descendants.
In London a petition from 200 000 cyclists was presented in the House of Commons urging a bill to provide cheaper conveyance of bicycles. The move indicates broad support for eased access and affordability in cycling.
London reports indicate Parliament may enact Queen Marys plumage bill with little opposition. Millinery factions claim rising public feeling against slaughter of birds for fashion, while some London and Paris shops predict a shift to nonfeather hats if import bans take effect.
Daniel Crawbaugh, 83, Cumberland County inventor, organizes a company to build a coin separator device. His brass plate model sorts coins by size, delivering dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, nickels and cents into separate tubes and piles by pressing a button. He plans two sizes priced at 65 and 76 dollars for banks and counting rooms.
A sweeping view argues dynastic lines from Napoleon I to the Caesars and Capets are impermanent. It traces royal fortunes in France and Britain, noting marriages and rulers, from Victor Napoleon and Radziwill to Tudors, and suggests extinction looms for many houses as Europe’s royal blood thins.
A New York Medical Journal synopsis describes deaf education methods in schools for the deaf mutes. Breathing, tongue gymnastics, and mirror demonstrations teach mouth placement and vocal tone. The physiological alphabet, lip reading, and word sentence construction follow, with reading and up reading begun after speech is established.
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