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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1908
Page
6
A reflective piece by Mrs. Hugh Fraser contrasts Japanese ivory carving with pottery. It portrays ivory artisans as patient, imaginative masters who carve from flawed tusks and produce many animal scenes, while potters work with white, red, and black clays to create solemn vessels. The essay notes gender roles, craftsmanship, and the contrast with European tastes.
Waterbury drift reports Dwight Wheeler of Middlebury declares a spud that grows on a vine like a tomato and needs no cooking. He claims a trio of plants, including Frish potato, create a pre-cooked potato. Wheeler foresees vast uses from army rations to everyday meals and invites farmers to view his vines blooming soon.
Paris reports a band of beggars and tramplers arrested near Chalons after crossing from the Pyrenees. Many members showed deformities or wounds to evoke pity. Spaniard Vicente Rubio y Alvarez organized pilgrimages and collected daily earnings, with funds channeled to banks in Spain. The haul included over 1,000 francs in a wagon headquarters and postal receipts. Police linked the group to broader networks across southern Europe.
Peter Proulx, a pioneer prospector in Central Idaho, has sold six mining claims at the head of Santa Ana creek in Oro Grande district southeast of Spokane for 60000 dollars. Nathan Haas, a mining engineer representing Spokane capitalists, buys the claims. I D Maxwell held one third of three claims and helped since 1905. Proulx began in 1898, dug 250 feet of tunnel, and struck ore at 120 feet. The ore is free milling with high gold values.
In Kankakee Sir J A Randall and his wife mark 91 years of marriage and applaud 19 children, ten boys and nine girls, all living. The mother of Mrs Randall bore 28 children, and a Chicago sister has had 1. The oldest son will be 21 on his next birthday and the youngest is a few weeks old.
A London crowd questions if the venture can pay but Vanderbilt states the aim is enjoying the best wearing sport in the world. With 70 horses and high coaching costs, the seven week expedition in English society runs to about 15000 dollars, offset by rail, crews, and eventual sale of horses at auction.
In Conshohocken Pennsylvania a Methodist church wedding united Rachel Gray daughter of Rev J T Gray and William P Gray a Bangor lawyer Rachel taught in Philadelphia schools and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Twin sister Tona was maid of honor in a white dress with pink roses Cartoons note the bachelor club in Woodbury New Jersey where Dr Carroll Rogers and Miss Alice Weatherby wed shrinking the club to three members as married members must host a fine supper
A clipped humorous piece reports the young king of Portugal seeking immediate work due to royal finances. It notes unpaid royal bills, dowager Queen Maria Pia, and the duke of Oporto, amid a deficit figure of 300000 dollars and political turmoil surrounding the regency and reforms.
Chicago reader Tockwell Sayre offers payments for cats killed, promising ten dollars per hundred cats and one dollar for the second largest total. The notice, dated to December, labels Sayre as a deceitful figure in various crimes and jokes about felines as easy prey.
Professional cards for Chas A Grubb attorney at law in Atlantic list special work in title registry estates and probate law. Office at O lone Trust and Savings Bank.
G R Miller suite 2 Gillespie Building with Musson Office phone 395 Atlantic listed for business contact.
An internal hospital notice lists contact details for the University of Iowa health facility. The entry provides a street address, office location, and a phone number for internal inquiries.
Atlantic reports Calla answered from the Office regarding matters at No 4 Opera House Block.
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