05 Jun 1911
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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1911
Page
1
Indiana county clerks face a bounty mess as crows heads pour in under a 10 cent bounty. Farmers hunted birds, strings of heads fill offices, causing odor and disrupted marriage license sales. Clerks appeal to the governor for a fix or a commission to solve the issue.
Chicago’s Chinatown awakens to a hair trend as 90 percent of Celestials in the United States reportedly end their queues. Barbers trim the pig tails along South Clark street while hair is shipped to London for processing into imported puffs and curls. Masters like Hip Lung bow to the change as imports return to America in new styles with payments routed back to China. The old queue law is noted as a former strict rule allowing no return without queues.
Judge C M Lee in a separation case between Elizabeth T England and husband John B England says a man is justified in slapping his wife if she rifles his pockets. England admitted slapping and kicking after wife searched pockets for a watch. Judge urges reconciliation and tells counsel to warn client not to rifle pockets again.
A $2,000,000 structure planned on the Brewster site between Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth streets will replace Madison Square Garden as a major exhibit and trade venue. Atlas Development partners back the project with Schlitz Brewing interests. The building will feature a roof lake for display boats, a flying machine track, an enormous elevator, and a basement restaurant for thousands. The roof will serve as an open air garden and the lake will double as a winter skating rink.
The article traces Mexican burial practices from pre 1825 church burials to modern municipal cemeteries. It explains rent and perpetual rights, bone exhumations, niches, and the shift from church to public grounds after epidemics. It notes prices in cities like Mexico City and Oaxaca and recalls cholera era niche use and safety questions.
A brief dialogue between a beautiful girl and a sad looking post about writing. The girl questions writing for love, while the post admits striving to write for at least 15 canta One. Juda.
A Hanover plumber named Harry Plate rises from journeyman to a peer in the Prussian upper house after the Artisans congress petitioned for representation. He will sit in the chamber to advocate for workers and the common man, an unprecedented shift for a body long dominated by nobles, scientists, merchants, and retired officers.
Henry E. Huntington, heir to Collis P. Huntington’s fortune, reveals a shift to book collecting. He paid 1.3 million dollars for a premier educd collection and 50 thousand dollars for the Gutenberg Bible, the highest price for a book to date. Born 1850 in Oneonta, New York, his English-descended family ventured from Norwich in 1622.
Dr. Orville W. Onwen digs in the River Wye seeking manuscripts he claims were hidden by Lord Francis Bacon. He asserts a guiding cipher proves Bacon killed Shakespeare and hid the bard's head in a buried chest. Archaeologists see a Roman bridge foundation, but Onwen says all aligns with his forecast. He works on Duke of Beaufort land under Bacon’s cryptographic direction.
Gen Grenville M Dodge of Council Bluffs Iowa, a Civil War veteran and pioneer engineer for the Union Pacific, celebrates his 80th birthday. The self made man rose from Danvers Massachusetts to lead Fourth Iowa infantry, earned a brigadier general rank for gallantry, and directed the Mississippi and Ohio railroad construction. He later led large business ventures, contributed to periodicals, and spoke publicly while holding military society roles.
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