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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1911
Page
8
A short guide by Myrtle T Mons explains how to craft simple imitation animals from raisins and cloves, such as a turtle with a raisin body and clove legs and head, plus a greenish grey paper frog pasted on an eggshell. The turtle moves when pulled by a thread and the frog wriggles with the slightest breeze.
The essay muses on animal likes and dislikes. It argues horses despise camels due to aesthetic judgment, preferring dogs for grace and humor. It claims bears are seen as unpretentious and honest, while dogs are friendly and sociable, with both horses and dogs sharing a love of sport.
Harper's Weekly recounts the jacana in tropical South America and Pacific islands famed for its love dance. Males perform bewitching maneuvers to win the admiration of a chosen female, spreading wings to showcase brilliant colored feathers as mating season nears.
Little Ford tells his father Bout of a peculiar stone found in the backyard. He describes its size as “about as big as a good-sized meal apple,” a quaint misstatement reflecting a playful local narration.
A child’s pocket reveals an whimsical list of items for each letter from A to Z. Carolyn Wells presents Bobby six years old, collecting toys and trinkets like a rosy apple, bouncing ball, cake, eggs, feather, grasshopper, handkerchief, knife, lion, marble, nail, oil can, penny, quilted ear tab, ruby, string, stone, stick, taffy, umbrella horn, camila Valentine, yarn, zinc in a playful old fashioned alphabet treasure.
A peculiar magic square named Hera places all odd numbers within the inscribed diagonal squares while its columns rows and diagonals sum to 369. This curiosity highlights a symmetric distribution of odd values in a classic 3 by 3 like arrangement.
A Brooklyn dealer F. 8. Benson sold his Greek coin collection over fifteen years. Record price of 3500 for a Katana tetradrachm. Amphipolis tetradrachm fetched 1750. Terina atater bought for 200 realized 1500.
A Massachusetts county fair offered a $25 prize for the pony race winner. Nine boys and one girl entered. the girl led by a wide margin, prompting some boys to ride off in disgust. The piece envisions a day when girls outrun and outpace boys in events.
Dr. Jesse Fewkes urges excavating and preserving Betatakin or Kit Bie l cliff dwellings, Inscription House, and West Canyon ruins to protect Navaho National Monument. He details access routes, water sources, and proposed improvements for tourism while outlining the architecture and possible migrations of cliff dwellers from the San Juan region.
Sapleigh asks whether to marry a beautiful or sensible girl. Hammersley jokes that both are out of reach, noting a beautiful wife could be pursued by others and a sensible wife would see through the plan, in terse banter reflecting social wit.
A humorous verse describes a sick day mood with red nose blue thoughts and endless sneezing. The humorous dialogue then shows a wife apologizing for throwing a rolling pin and the husband joking about making a favorite pie instead.
Mr. Schwartz takes possession of a small book store and greets his first customer, a young woman seeking arctic romance. Misunderstanding, he misreads her request for "Frozen Dog Tales" and pretends the shop carries nothing but his own pipe. The scene ends with the frustrated customer leaving.
A young man recently accepted confides that this is the happiest moment of his life while the girl resists, preferring variety over the posed photograph. He wraps his arm around her and asks for a keepsake, despite her request for an alternative pose.
Partial entries show contact details for Dr R A Gamble Opera House block J A Giffen successor to Thurman Furniture W M Bailey undertaker and furniture dealer Binbulmer with day and night phones. Listings include office and residence numbers and chestnut street address in Atlantic Iowa.
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