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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
8
A seaside anecdote notes whelk egg capsules as a natural soap substitute with millions of eggs per fish. At Paris Zoo a man in a strange dress leapt into a hyena cage, danced for them, and was restrained and returned to the asylum where he had been released a month earlier.
The schooner Elmo of Gulf Fisheries Co. hauled up a petrified human thigh bone about fifteen miles off Galveston coast. Seaman Martin Swanson retrieved it after a long line brought it to port, where it was exhibited. The bone measures nearly 23 inches and suggests a person of exceptional size. Bones have been found before in the bay, but this is the first petrified fragment from human anatomy.
A Welsh court ordered £250 to Eva Pettit of Doncaster and £230 to her younger brother on his coming of age from uncle Charles Pettit a sergeant in the Imperial Yeomanry who was killed in the South African War. The will written on a postcard directed the $500 insurance to be split between them.
Prof Frank J Abbott notes in Society and Politics in Ancient Rome that suffragettes first appeared in 195 B C as they protested a law limiting a woman's gold, gown color, and chariot rides near Rome. They stormed the forum and blocked streets, urging men to vote to restore women's rights.
Miss Emma Reiter of West Yard, Pa., told a friend a joke and, laughing, opened her mouth too wide and dislocated her jaw. A physician set it but as he turned to leave she yawned and threw it out again. Her jaws were bandaged to prevent a third occurrence.
A reader notes a Charleston church steeple housing a lighthouse once claimed unique. He cites Thimo church on a Danish island near Samso with a government run lighthouse and a minister acting as inelector.
Mr and Mrs Charles Bernard of Middletown New Jersey welcomed their fourth set of twins a pair of daughters joining three existing twins. The couple now has ten children with the eldest at fourteen years old.
In Castle Caldwell cemetery on Lough Erne County Fermanagh Ireland a tall memorial known as the Fiddler's Tombstone bears a commemorative inscription for Denis McCabe a fiddler who drowned August 1770 after leaving the St Patrick barge of Sir James Caldwell. The epitaph warns fiddlers to avoid drink on water and notes D D D stands for Denis died drunk.
In Pau France a 19 year old servant with uneducated background demonstrated second sight. Dr Meunier's $600 theft prompted detectives to hypnotize her master’s servant who answered clearly leading to arrests. Two years earlier she foretold her father’s death. he was found shot the next day.
The grand viaduct over the Siewe valley in France was opened recently. It stands 122 meters high, claiming the title of the world’s highest bridge and opens a new line from St. Macy to Valvie on the Orleans railway. A 203 meter test train weighed 1,102,000 kilograms with two Atlantic-type engines and 30 loaded cars.
A tale of Henry Horsecollar and Kirksy who smuggle a phonograph to a South American port. They meet Homer P. Mellinger, private secretary to the president, who reveals graft schemes and attempts to coerce officials with money and music. A coup ends with a dramatic escape by boat and a sharp lesson on graft and power.
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