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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
7
William A Radford offers free guidance on bulldits and home plans amid an article praising the bungalow. He cites his Editor Author and Manufacturer expertise and invites inquiries to his Chicago address with a stamped reply.
The piece argues for bungalow homes as affordable, flexible living spaces. It endorses compact design, added upstairs rooms as funds allow, built in stairs, no cellar initially, and later potential additions. It promotes economy, practicality, and citizen optimism for widespread home ownership.
A quirk filled clipping of humorous verses and light anecdotes. It includes jokes about diamonds, fortune tellers, farm life, and wandering cats, plus tiny editorials on friendship and editorial difficulties with a Perry, Oklahoma, flavor.
A Madrid Epoca report claims bullfighters earn about 417 dollars per hour with no union interference. The article questions if such pay suits the risks, noting bullfighting is deemed a healthful occupation by some experts and may grant a long retirement if they stay unhurt.
Mansfield inventor George W. Frye discovers a process from skim milk producing a soft elastic solid called onsite. With four partners he forms a Delaware company capitalized at 10 million and plans district establishments. Offers of 1 million each have been refused. onsite reportedly resists acids heat cold and is non conductive and fireproof.
In Rhinebeck New York Col John Jacob Astor presses to close Tator Hill road as land he owns expands. Locals say townspeople will fight the closure while noting estates grow and farm buildings are torn down. A Rhinebeck liveryman calls it pure cussedness.
In Killough district Meath counties residents report sightings of a leprechaun stirring old folklore. Farmers say the red-clad dwarf lingers near fields, and believers camp through the night hoping to trap the fairy and claim a pot of gold.
A York Maine keeper recounts mass bird deaths along the coast as migrating songbirds and other species fly at night into the powerful glass lantern of the Boon Island lighthouse. Birds strike the thick glass and perish on the rocks or in the water, painting the rocks with bodies each spring.
An English author, in a New York interview, promotes scientific soul affinity. He argues unhappy marriages stem from ignorance of masculine and feminine percentages and outlines a Schedule of Erogenic Values to identify a soulmate. He cites Weininger theory and posits chemical affinity as the basis of love.
A dog named Tou Tou, owned by Baroness A. Saint Laurent, receives a free license under a 1853 U S France treaty. Mayor Busse issued the license without full authorities, prompting humorous remarks about diplomatic immunity and dog tags.
Gerald K. Smith visiting Bellefontaine recounts a tale of Theodore Roosevelt dragging Taft Jr by the arm as they debated Taft joining the YMCA. Roosevelt insists the son of the next president would join, prompting Taft to concede.
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