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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
3
In the Elizabeth Street Italian quarter Beppo charms a peanut roaster girl Pepita and earns a nod from Pepita's grandmother. A late-night fruit sale entices Beppo to hustle a bargain with a cheap boardinghouse woman, earning a cut of a bulk sale and a plan to woo Pepita amid street trade intrigue.
Elder J. W. Cook recalls a Missouri incident in which a delayed night meeting in a dark, rainbound schoolhouse used splinter light from torn platform planks and improvised candles to illuminate the preacher’s Bible. The devoted turnout and resourceful plan yielded an astonishing success.
Latest estimates show France spending over 5 000 dollars daily in the punitive expedition against Moroccan tribes. The force totals about 5 200 infantry 1 000 cavalry 700 artillerymen 350 service corps 300 irregulars and 406 others. On December 2 Bent Snassen engagement 1 500 projectiles fired costing about 5 000 dollars, the daily ammunition cost for such a force.
Canada exported pulpwood to the United States totaling 1,231,368 cords across 1907 and 1908 with a value of $7,879,715. The 1907 figure was 593,624 cords worth $2,400,814 while 1908 reached 628,744 cords valued at $4,478,901.
In Philadelphia Bulletin text a dentist jokes about makeup in the chair as French farmers are praised for top soil, fertilizing, and thrifty land use. Benjamin H. Ridgeley reports Spanish kiosks sell American dime novels well, at 4 to 6 cents. Clay’s youthful senate entry is noted with exact age.
The article discusses lendo novel profits and reader demand, then shifts to historic notes on James Clay born April 12 1777 and his 1806 Senate appointment to fill a Kentucky vacancy amid questions of constitutional age eligibility. It cites references noting he was constitutionally under age despite serving.
The piece traces how alligator derives from Spanish el lagarto and notes Shakespeare’s misclassification of the animal as a fish in Romeo and Juliet. It also connects the words lizard hyaena ostrich to their roots, showing they reflect literal meanings like sow bird and bird-bird.
A southern pulpit orator on a Sunday morning evokes the prodigal son tale to illustrate remorse. He recounts the youth discarding his wicked life by shedding his coat vest and shirt in a vivid regional cadence.
The term bushranger once denoted a respectable bushman but has degraded to mean a ruthless outlaw. Advertisements like want ed a good bushranger appeared, yet today a good bushranger would be absurd as an honest burgher.
A Timely Jake remarks that a clockmaker’s business is unstable. He notes the trade relies on travel and change, with a “window” of opportunity and a likelihood of a strike or disruption amid effort and timing.
A lively doctor jokes with a nurse at a patient’s door about fever pain and cough noting the patient’s recovery, then reveals the patient is dead. The Illustration Sunday Magazine piece also highlights King Alfonso as a sportsman amid European monarchs during a tense Barcelona visit.
The article recalls Glasgow’s last graduation where 50 women and 59 men earned MA degrees, noting women’s emergence from rarity since the late 1880s. It cites eight young Indies in Prof. Tait’s natural philosophy class and a playful remark about the eight pioneering women occupying the front row.
The skull of a deer with horns fastened in the fork of an alder tree was found by GC F Oldenburg in the forests of Fidalgo Island while hunting. The barren skull and the horn position suggest the deer tried to scratch its head against the tree and became lodged, the tree about six inches in diameter and three feet above the ground.
The discourse describes a figure pressing toward Barcelona despite warnings to delay. It notes his bold, impulsive nature as a former reckless motorist in Spain and hints at dangers in his path. A grisly animal death is mentioned with a claimed two year skull suspension observation by Mr. Olden burg.
A Gallican bishop dining in Rome with a high church prince asks about his diocese. He first says he is Bishop of Angouleme, then of Charente. When he declares Cognac, guests react, exclaiming Cognac is “something like a bishopric,” and laughter follows.
Hans Andersen, the renowned Danish writer, was a nervous man with a strong dread of burial alive. His nightly precaution was a large note beside his bed declaring I am only apparently dead, a claim he kept as reassurance until sleep.
A New York dredger firm manager visits Tacoma to study Alaska operations as he predicts record shipments this summer. Inquiries extend to Alaska regions previously unheard of while existing heavy-dredge districts in California form the largest orders.
A Detroit Free Press item records a man shouting at a neighbor who sings softly, asserting she does not own all the world. The sharpshooter of the moment depicts a petty domestic feud sparked by her repeated rendition of If All the World Were Mine.
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