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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1908
Page
7
The ad invites readers to visit for buggies and wagons, promising fast sales and repairs. It emphasizes quick service, repair expertise, and rubber tires, inviting customers to trade old buggies for new and to see for themselves how fast they work. It highlights ready stock and skilled personnel to handle repairs promptly.
A Louisville Courier Journal remark questions realism in acting while noting a second setup where the actor is severely wounded and a doctor issues bulletins between acts. A Boston Transcript script fragment shows a quip about unexpected lessons in teaching with a witty exchange between teacher and pupil.
An elderly man named Absalom Foote, weary of city life, buys Foote's Shoe Store in a rural town to retire. He plans quiet days and keeps the existing shop sign, simply adding a wry line below it: This place has changed feet.
Professor von Herkomer’s painting The Last Master drew a stranger’s letter claiming her late mother sat for the portrait. The artist explained the work was imaginative, yet the woman produced a painting matching the canvas, astonishing the academician who had never met the mother.
A brief note on naval courts martial after shipwrecks tracing the 1741 Wager incident where mutiny was debated. It explains the origin of Article 91 and the navy’s practice to hold inquiries after wrecks. Also included are aging vignettes on Brittany pigs, a New Orleans Times-Democrat quote, and a Bohemian Magazine caption about a slide man’s thumb marks.
A conversation at a seamen's meeting in South Shields features a mixed metaphor about taking the tide by the flood and grasping it red hot. The dialogue touches on a $1,800 bungalow and an estimated construction cost of about $8,000, noted by a judge's library.
The Philadelphia Record quotes Sir Philip Sidney on solitude and noble thoughts. A humorous exchange from Blobbs contrasts a woman's love of secrets with the urge to discover them herself, framed by a witty line about being never alone when noble thoughts accompany.
An old Atlantic City page advertises Patronize the American Shin ing Parlor and Pantitorium at 11 B Fourth Street run by Roy Hedges, plus insurers A M Petite and W Hames and dentist services. It touts a Cham berlain's remedy for travel illnesses and urges travelers to take it, noting Atlantic Drug Company sells it.
A New York Sun note explains that a horse hoof is like a toe nail on a human or toeed animal. Horn grows about a third of an inch monthly, faster in unshod or well kept horses. hind hooves grow quicker. Toe grows down in 11 to 13 months, heels in 3 to 5 months. defects move outward as new grows come in, similar to human nails.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes some men feel self conscious using a dictionary in public places. They pretend to know words yet fear others will correct them. The piece suggests asking what word is being looked up to test their willingness to share.
Mandell Creighton, bishop of London, refused to let a beloved Shakespeare edition be kept long by a fellow clergyman who returned it with a quip. The bishop replied with equal wit that all the joy was his. In another brief joke, a maid’s progress is mocked as she becomes slower, prompting a playful exchange about her servant’s pace.
A brief literary exchange framed as a retort between writer and artist captures the exchange as a sharp interaction about criticism and expression. The lines reference laughter, journaling, and the shock of critique, echoing a debate on art and personal response.
The Daily Des Moines Register and Leader extends a reader offer through November 6 1908 for one dollar daily and Sunday subscriptions 1 50. The paper features exclusive Iowa news service AP reports Ding cartoons and fearless editorials to cover the campaign thoroughly for Iowa readers. Subscriptions sent by mail to Des Moines Iowa or the publisher who will forward without extra charge.
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