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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1911
Page
8
Farmers are urged to grow phlox and clover, feed minimal soft fodder to raise chicks, and use bran and meat meal for sow muscle. Tips cover pruning apple trees, winter dairy economics, tree spacing, root culture, silage versus roots, hog fencing, calf rearing, and drier hay blends for pigs.
Newton Newkirk mocks Mayflower boasts with a humorous tale from a Boston Post reader. He contrasts inflated ancestral claims with the crowded reality of the Mayflower and compares the possible combined numbers to the Lusitania’s capacity.
Paris police nabbed four masked robbers after a maid spotted a tall man wearing a top hat trying to pick a country house door. The gang fled in a motor car but were traced to a Paris bar where one suspect, a hotel staffer, confessed to planning murders with three accomplices already in custody.
A narrative recalls a young man from a respected family who commits murder, his history of brain feebleness and insanity, and a trial where the defense hinges on mental illness. A sharp opposing attorney probes the guilty mind, revealing personal drinking in his family. The case ends with the prisoner committed to an insane asylum and dies two years later.
A New York Medical Journal note discusses ardent vegetarians keeping cheese in a desk supply for daily liberal use. It notes cheese protein content nearly twice that of meat and its absorbability, cites Italian and Iberian use of cheese on pasta, and mentions eggs as a common protein source. It also hints at vegetarian dishes flavored with meat extract as a savory aid.
Dartmouth college launches a social experiment in New Hampshire sending a small team to nearby villages. The group includes a speaker able to fill village pulpits and deliver simple sermons. Members may sing or play instruments to enhance Sunday services and host concerts, plays, debates, carnivals, and field days to draw isolated mountain communities into common recreations and neighborly contact.
Chesterton notes every man holds ideals and sentimentality, yet often misreads villains who claim to sell out for money. He argues true greed clashes with personal ideals and moral self image, citing harmless acts one would not barter for cash.
George Baker a fourteen year old from near Glens Falls New York found 500 in a liver in an old barn and ran home crying rich. His father discovered every coin counterfeit hidden by a fleeing gang of Italians. George hoped to buy diamonds for his mother but must wait years.
A judge quips that the bridegroom costs more than the bride since the bride is given away while the groom is bold, reflecting a witty frontier humor about weddings.
Before the Boer War no schools outside towns, and Boer children could not read or count to twenty. Now schools span the country, and Boer children eight and younger have more education than their parents.
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