20 Feb 1911
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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1911
Page
1
The article notes how urban fire departments face unusual and humorous rescue calls in New York. It cites epilpetic cases mistaken for poison, a Brooklyn aviator tangled in wires, a girl needing help after leaning into a flue garden, and incidents where firefighters were hurt rescuing cats.
A Maine State prison bloodhound named Hilda shares a bedroom with Marguerite Owen of Belfast and shows sensitive, friendly behavior, playing with local children. The piece discusses bloodhounds’ scent tracing, contrasts with show breeds, and notes that true bloodhounds rarely attack the pursued.
Des Moines society women of the Women’s club raise 2300 to buy paintings for the club building by performing everyday jobs. The effort grew from a treasury shortfall and included earning money by selling eggs shoestrings selling doughnuts and other tasks. The governor’s wife helped solicit funds on the street and several members took roles from shampooing to baking pies and selling popcorn.
Kansas City Kansas launches a municipal employment bureau under city commissioners to place job seekers. In a short time it has matched about 100 men and women to positions, with 200 more names on file. The bureau offers varied jobs, not limited to any class, and already placed eight stenographers and about a dozen carpenters, with twenty stone mason posts ready as weather allows. The effort follows a failed job march in Kansas City Missouri and aims to provide work to all who want it.
University of Chicago professor advocates reading absorbing detective and adventure stories to stave off seasickness. He notes concentration on a gripping tale distracts the mind from waves and fear, with several colleagues reporting success on sea voyages. He plans to save his best detective story for a future storm and praises the method in lectures to students bound for travel.
Johns Hopkins hospital will open the first world ward for nervous disease treatment based on psychoanalysis. Dr. Trigant Burrow and Dr. Adolf Meyer lead the new Henry Phipps clinic, funded by a New York donor, to study dream based therapy and unification of conscious and subconscious personalities.
Julius Lorenzen, a German farmer, decided after only one hour in New York to sail back home with $3,500 he had invested in an American farm. Met at Ellis Island, he toured landmarks but fled the Battery subway and Wall Street fearing the tunnel would collapse and that the towering financial district would overwhelm him.
Rat catchers reported to Tendring district council that about 250000 rodents were killed in the crusade begun to guard against cholera. The survey notes a major wartime sanitary effort and the scale of the infestation in the region.
The Graphic reports on juvenile gambling among London’s poorest youths. A warehouse manager’s investigation reveals boys earning under two dollars weekly, most of which goes to parents, while they spend pennies on horse bets through street bookies. The piece outlines the composite system forcing three horses per bet, the touts’ influence, and the broader social damage from petty usury and street gambling.
District of Columbia officials weigh moving a proposed penal institution away from Mount Vernon after the fine arts commission urged a Virginia site. The choice sparked nationwide protests led by the Daughters of the American Revolution, amid secrecy over the Canada reciprocal pact and a wave of congressional suspicion.
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