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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
4
Advertisements note shop duties and hours while listing multiple passenger and freight trains by number and time. A local worker explains daily tasks and urges customers to visit the store for Perfection Oil Cooking Stoves and wood coal ranges as stock increases. Entities include Omaha, Audubon Branch, Griswold Branch, Atlantic Northern, and various train numbers and times.
Chicago markets report receipts and prices for hogs cattle and sheep with tomorrow’s estimates. Hogs ranged from 5.25 to 7.00 per hundredweight, cattle from 2.25 to 6.00, sheep 2.75 to 4.60. grain wheat 0.87, corn 0.60, oats 0.42. Produce and hay prices listed.
In the Evening News a Sage of Chelsea and William Allingham discuss Browning and a remark attributed to Huxley about "In the beginning was hydrogen." The dialogue hints at anger and a threat to silence or remove the speaker if the talk continues.
Adolph Flansen fourteen, son of Claus Hansen of Persia, drowned in a small pond near Avoca on July 17. He and three younger boys swam despite not knowing how to swim, entered deep water, and sank. Body recovered within an hour, resuscitation attempts failed due to cramps and heat.
The Ringling Bros double forward somersault car turns forward, per a Des Moines Register and Leader report. Officials say the car gains momentum down the incline, a spring clutch releases to lift the rear, two loops occur, then the car hits a spring platform, stretches into the tent, and is slowed by canvas and ropes before stopping.
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