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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
3
A social talk at a golden wedding celebration centers on wisdom and truth. Lim Jackon argues truth can vent spleen when used without restraint, comparing it to gunpowder in the hands of an idiot, while Brizantine questions if truth should always be spoken.
A farmer recounts a debt trap built on miscommunication about three notes. He fights to cover the third note, surviving by exertion yet recognizing a blend of deception and self interest. An old toll gate tale underscores the theme of professional truth telling versus honesty.
In Opie Read’s tale Uncle Limuel muses on honesty as a fragile habit. A boy’s earnest payment exposes a gatekeeper’s suspicion, revealing that truth can be misused when treated as a craft. The rhetoric contrasts innate virtue with cultivated virtue, urging truth as an unconscious, healthy trait.
A long excerpt urges women to walk in the country mornings to uphold duties at home. It frames daily chores as essential duties to husbands and children, then drifts into Christmas-themed storytelling guidance and reflections on American character during travel and abroad, with musings on manners and generosity.
A French designer's pocketed coat idea inspires rapid copying by local tailors. Sleeves hold purses and small items with a V shaped pocket and flap button, enabling quick access and safer travel. Pockets replace old plackets, reducing need for handbags, and new fabrics and trims accompany the evolving styles.
The present season favors severe lines in tailor costumes with fullness at the throat through jabots and frills. Warm weather allows unfastened jackets and no vest, letting the jabot fall along the bodice. When coats close the tie grows long and reaches toward the belt, bordered with white scalloped edges.
Galloon in faded tints, worked with gold, is used for crown bands. Entire hats are trimmed with rose petals in a succession of sizes and tones. Broad gauzequila iridescent colors suit Sumatra hats. Jet pins, cabochons register the current millinery craze. Sailor hats gain heavy crown or frontal trimmings with flowers plumes. Blue after rain pale blue emerges among new colors. Batamine and cachemine ribbons with pekine borders update the look.
A leather novelty belt in various colors features a narrow design with a small pocket near the buckle holding a four-coin nickel case. The metallic insert can be abstracted quickly to reveal fare, avoiding opening a bag. Priced at 49 cents, the belt is described as neat looking and likely to become popular.
Professional cards advertise specialties in abstracts opinions on titles real estate and probate law at the corner of 4th and Chestnut Streets Atlantic Iowa.
Formerly interne hospital state university of iowa. House phone 461 black office 263 black atlantic.
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