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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1908
Page
2
Henry Warner notes in Bohemian Magazine on how comic opera scenes rely on deliberate absurdities. A trolley car crew sails a yacht in a Sahara arid west, with sandstorms and wind machines used to generate spectacle.
A young New Yorker recounts a mother-in-law episode that turns a simple outing into a public display. He vents that his mother-in-law treats the baby as her private property, grabbing the child at every stop and narrating parenting tips to nearby strangers, while he and his wife sit silent and embarrassed. The tale, shared as a light-hearted jab at family dynamics, highlights strained humor and social faux pas.
In Boston two sisters return from a music hall. One sister Mary is dejected while Eleanor says the concert was fine. The other calls Mary’s conduct a disgrace for sneezing during the symphony at the hall.
Needles are produced entirely by machinery. A wire is cut to length, the point is filed, the head is flattened, the eye is pierced, the needle is sharpened and polished. A counting and packing machine then places needles into papers, which are folded by the same device.
A humorous Harper's Weekly item describes a jokester carrying an onion epie to the depot to bid farewell to a young lady. He bites at times to shed tears, and before the train leaves eats the entire onion, prompting the young lady to remark that he has swallowed his grief.
The note reflects on aging norms of past eras, contrasting expectations for age and vigor. It quotes London’s Throne and Country describing men as considered elderly at forty, old at fifty, and decrepit by sixty, to illustrate shifting social views of aging.
A terse aphorism attributed to Bancroft warns that greed worsens with age, noting that character weakens as years pass and wealth or desire for gain erodes virtue. The line reflects a moral reflection rather than a narrative event.
A London Strand Magazine piece recounts a street con as a boy asks for a bun and tips a baker into shoving it down his back. A bigger lad follows, questions the boy, then grabs the till and bolts, while the shopkeeper misses the comic aspect.
A brief joke noted in a Boston Transcript item about a wife recounting that her husband did not follow a doctor’s directions, swearing each time a medicine was given, highlighting humorous misbehavior in medical comedy.
The Boston Globe notes how early presidents varied in keeping or replacing cabinet members. Adams sought continuity with Washington aides, while Jefferson Madison Monroe kept some, Jackson created a kitchen cabinet, and later leaders like Polk Taylor Pierce Buchanan Lincoln formed new cabinets. The piece discusses evolving norms on retaining or renewing the cabinet across administrations.
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