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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1909
Page
6
An English garden party tale describes children making paper butterflies with scissors chalk and color. Judges award three prizes as a wall gallery forms from the art. The activity teaches hosting manners and decorum while sparking curiosity about real butterflies.
Readers learn how water play grows tiresome and swimmers seek novelty as they improvise gear like circular tin bathtubs used as makeshift boats. A Popular Mechanics note highlights English bath tubs serving as shoes in a playful scene where one tub might slip and dump a swimmer.
The piece advises calming breath and stillness to reduce tension while traveling. It explains that effort and tense muscles do not speed progress and that relaxing leads to arriving just as quickly with less fatigue. The tone urges practical self-control for quicker, steadier journeys and renewed energy afterward.
A compact list matches flowers to sentiments including Red clover industry Daffodil chivalry White daisy innocence Forget me not true love Goldenrod encouragement Honeysuckle bond of love Hyacinth jealousy Myrtle love Pansy think of me Pink pure affection White violet modesty Blue violet love White rose I am worthy of you Hawthorn hope Dewslip you are my divinity Bachelors button hope in love Jips Moesan preference.
A neighbor reports a boy who impressed his mother by mastering games songs and sewing in kindergarten. The child shows notable intelligence and eagerness to learn.
The article explains cricket, its traditional setup with 11 players, and the bowler trying to dismiss the batsman. It notes cricket's long history since the 16th century and highlights a new bowling machine for practice, capable of delivering any length, pace, direction, and break for amateur batting training.
Dorothy, a shy child who stutters especially in front of strangers, misstates the length of a walk after a morning with Nellie. Nellie’s mother questions the claim. Dorothy explains she felt the stutter coming and four miles seemed longer when anxious.
Lumber ranks among top freight crops per acre, surpassing corn and other staples. The article explains how railroads track timber yields by region, the shift toward measured forestry, and how timber profits compare with crops. Washington, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Wisconsin lead in production with yellow pine dominating. overall output declined 23 percent from the prior year.
Mr Graytop muses on time and its varying speed as a playful metaphor. He recalls a New York tale of a dying physician selling a cure and a reader suggesting mixing molasses with sands to slow time, ending with a quip about needing the right molasses.
Statistics show substantial female presence in France with poets, writers, educators and dramatists. London suffragettes rely on women printers and a cooperative business model for printing and profit. The Pioneer women’s club features journalists authors and artists supporting a stable financial base.
The New York Press recounts Rev. Dr. Henry Marsh Warren who marries on a whim and helps a bride elect secure an answer from the janitor in a late night ceremony. Warren trains the janitor to respond with Who gives this bride away. The ceremony proceeds with the janitor answering Me, the iguttar.
Two burglars were caught in a London house sitting at the kitchen table drinking whisky. A passing constable heard a noise, found boots and an overcoat by the wall, and forced entry after surrounding the premises. The magistrate’s question about cigars drew laughter.
A little boy moving into new apartments attends school for the first time. He answers routine questions about name and age, and when asked his father's occupation he proudly states he "occupies the rooms," as reported by the Doston Record.
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