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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1911
Page
1
A Maine woman designs a lobster-like megaphone with four tubes that direct sound at 45 degree angles. Two longer back tubes rest on the announcer’s shoulders and rotate to adjust the mouth, enabling announcements to be heard in all directions including behind the speaker.
Debats recounts how Napoleon’s stuffed dog, once with the emperor, was left at a chateau. After relics moved to Bourges museum, Chateauroux residents claimed the dog for their own museum. A citizen faced risk in seeking ministers’ aid, jokingly entangled by separation law debates.
A reader notes twelve EH starting names arranged in patterns up, down and slanting across a page. The fragment ends with a child Nellie asking a dinner table question about why soup precedes fish, joking about fish swimming.
A sweet faced dolly on a couch with a big Teddy bear fears a lurking beast. She cannot speak yet sits and stares while a boy proclaims Beauty and the beast and is deeply shocked by the scene.
A young woman loses a tiny stickpin and, after fruitless searches, a child suggests "look Indian." By lying with head close to the floor, the child spots the pin in plain sight, explaining the technique works by sighting along the horizon line. The method, common on the plains, is said to help locate items indoors as well.
A Popular Mechanics idea suggests filling a glass with water to just above the rim and adding nickels or dimes nearby. Viewers are asked how many coins can be added without overflow. The trick claims ten to twelve coins can be inserted with care as the surface becomes more convex before any spill.
A simple magic act changes a glass of ink into an aquarium. An audience sees a handkerchief removed to reveal water and a fish already in the glass. Ink illusion uses a rubber cloth inside the glass and a cork threaded to create the concealed transfer.
A brief dialogue scene questions the silent watchers of the night. Gladys asks Ethel about who watches in darkness and Ethel replies she does not know unless those left unwound remain.
A London report links cottage shortages to postponed marriages across rural England. Workers forced into workhouses or migrations near Dunmow and in Huntingdonshire report engagements of ten to fifteen years due to lack of affordable housing. Royal and ecclesiastical bodies built inexpensive cottages, but most areas still face high rents, restrictive bylaws, and unhealthy conditions. The piece argues for standardized cheap concrete cottages as a solution, noting recent £80 developments in intensive gardens and the reluctance of English workers to accept wood and corrugated iron homes.
Berkeley report from the University of California notes 6000 annual housefly related deaths and an $18 million annual loss to the state. Entomology assistant professor William B. Herma says flies transmit typhoid dysentery tuberculosis pink eye and under certain conditions leprosy and other diseases. He urges mothers and nurses to keep flies off babies to avert thousands of infant deaths.
In Chicago Mrs. Eelen Mulvell leaves 170000 dollar estate to executor Richard W. Clifford for twenty years care of her old horse. The horse must never be sold or worked and any remaining funds go to her staeters and brother.
State Horticultural Commissioner Jeffry dispatches a quarantine order to halt shipments of bananas and pineapples to California until a safe wrapping method is adopted to prevent contaminated produce from entering the state.
The international conference of dancing masters approved five dances in addition to the five step Argentine. Descriptions include the Pas des Aviateurs a topical piece with a flying start and slow finish, Lukinskoff a Russian dance, a Spanish pas de quatre, the Royale step inspired by King George's coronation, and Sleeping Love from the United States.
In bankruptcy court the Earl of Yarmouth described attempting a poultry business funded by his wife Miss Alice Thaw but it failed. He admitted sinking 5000 dollars yearly from her settlement into the project and later tried a farmyard play Then Chicken House without success. He disclosed signing 85000 dollars in notes for which he got 22000 dollars, the rest eaten by interest and costs. His present income is about 1500 dollars yearly and he seeks other work.
A sermon urges forward faith over stagnation, citing Moses and biblical figures. It argues that a forward-moving life, selfless giving, Bible familiarity, and purity can reduce divorces and strengthen families and churches, emphasizing daily scripture study and service to others.
Reverend Dr W Gungaulus of Chicago extols harmony among poetry painting sculpture architecture as five fingers of a hand with musta as blood uniting the arts. He asserts every technique of the arts is tuned and toned in musical harmony.
A short, reflective line attributed to Rey, R O. Stone of Danvers, praising effort over grace and warning that true holiness requires struggle and personal effort. The fragment presents a moral stance on labor, virtue, and self-reliance.
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