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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1909
Page
6
Loren H. Knox argues in Atlantic December that mass production turns citizens into a uniform mass. He laments ready-made foods, clothing, medicines, travel packages, music, education, and housing that erase personal taste, reducing diverse individuals to a mass market.
The Youth's Companion promises busy evenings during the long season with nearly a hundred complete stories, serials, features by renowned authors, and numerous sketches. A subscription for $1.75 includes remaining 1909 issues and the 1910 Venetian Calendar, lithographed in color gold, from Companion Building, Boston.
From Woman's Home Companion for November, the piece portrays Pittsburgh as a pie with a light top crust and a dense under crust. It critiques the middle class, noting precarious social ties and widespread pessimism among residents with comfortable salaries.
The Christmas number showcases a colorful cover by Alice Barber Stephens depicting a scene of child life. The issue also includes works by Elizabeth Shippen Green, J A Williams, Harold Matthews Brett, Harry G Dart, Dan Sayre Groesbeck, Albert Levering, Horace Taylor, Arthur William Brown, Howard V Brown, J Conacher, and H C Wall across several plates.
Gilbert Parker William Dean Howells and Mark Twain join the illustrious company of George Elkin in a new reprint list from Harpers. Titles include Northern Lights Fennel and Rue Captain Sturmfield's Visit to Heaven and The Mill on the Floss.
Edward Stratemeyer presents First at the North Pole in which two Maine boys join a polar ship with a wealthy explorer and a scientist. The tale blends practical polar exploration details with a thrilling adventure and references to Cook and Peary, offering both romance and historical context.
Edward Stratemeyer portrays the Lakeport boys forming a football eleven under a college coach. They stage exciting gridiron contests, including a dramatic teamwork moment and a message of perseverance as youths overcome timidity by determination.
J. T. Trowbridge, author of A Pair of Madcaps, to spend the winter abroad. He and Mrs. Trowbridge sail from New York on Wednesday December 71st aboard the Romani c of the White Star line for Naples and Genoa, visiting Alassio and Mentone before returning in April.
In a December vignette a four year old named Philip reports the cow has dried up and cannot yield milk, remarking that she will not thaw until spring. The piece references The Delineator January and notes new books by Philip Aston Martin Crane and Edward Stratemeyer, with early sales acclaim and a larger second edition planned.
Crane & Co of Topeka Kansas announces a Charles M. Sheldon Year Book printed on handmade silk-tissue Japanese paper. The daily reference quotations are excerpts from Mr Sheldon’s published writings. The book sells for 1.00 postpaid.
A brief note from The Delineator January issue recalls Leah’s first lessons in punctuation. She explains to her brother that a period is a dot, and a comic is a period that sprouted.
Governor Peneen ordered 10 militia companies to Belleville to guard William Clark accused in the East St. Louis street car murder and the shooting of conductor O'Brien. Sheriff Cashel expanded riot gun protection as lynching fear grew. Clark was moved from East St. Louis to hospital and then to Belleville.
In New York on December 21 a bomb exploded in the lower Prince Street tenement, panic sweeping thirty families and leaving the building badly damaged. Authorities link the device to Black Hand enemies of Dom inick Ambrose, who runs a basement fruit store. A child once abducted from Ambrose’s household and ransomed years ago resurfaced. An arrest followed the kidnapping suspect by Lieutenant Petrosini, who was later murdered in Italy and sentenced to fifteen years. Subsequent threats plagued the Ambrose family.
The National Power Boat association offers a $500 gold trophy for the first motor boat to navigate the Whirlpool rapids below Niagara Falls. Enthusiasts add a $1,000 prize with the trophy. The feat has been achieved once before by the steamship Maid of the Mist.
A clean-shaven man walked into a New York City police station claiming an urge to kill himself after seeing a green stone in a Broadway jeweler’s window ten days earlier. He refused to identify himself and was detained for safety. Battleship Utah launched in Camden with Utah governor’s daughter as sponsor. Frank Bernely buys a Missouri farm with tips earned as an usher. Fire in New York factory disables a seven story building, forcing 100 workers to flee. $200,000 loss.
A hurricane tore off the doors of the airship garage in Cologne and hurled the dirigible balloon inside about like a giant gooball, wrecking the craft. No injuries reported.
A collage of ad copy and notices includes a Des Moines incubator catalog joke showing a hen, duck brood and a tearful hen led by the male head of the flock. Also present are divorce quips, a Lucas County crime note, a Toledo firm oath offering a cash reward for cures, and Hall's Catarrh Cure advertising. The fragment ends with a remark on maintaining wisdom before youth.
An old newspaper clipping promotes a rheumatism cure with a whiskey-based compound and sedges a ready supply from druggists or wholesalers. It also touts Pettit’s Eye Salve for eye strain, and features quips about digestion, resolutions, and a fur company ad promising top prices.
Ad copy extols Hamlin’s Wizard Oil for tired swollen feet with nightly rubbing and morning relief. It ends with a quip about happiness and a question about the weeping willow, implying a philosophy of avoiding stagnation.
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