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Newspaper

Atlantic Evening News

Location

Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 14, 1911

Page

8

Farm notes on livestock care and crops from a rural guide

A dense guide covers barn cleanliness, calf rearing, pasture management, seedbed prep, and crop planning. It advises manure use, disking before plowing, early sowing of vegetables, proper water for poultry, and pruning rooted trees. It notes dairy grading trends, duck care, and hog cholera control with serum.

Fortune Teller Reassures Winscomb With Contrasting Readings

A man and a woman exchange banter over fortune telling at a porch meeting. A prior Reading by another lady matches many points but differs on wife timing and appearance, prompting skepticism and a dramatic exit as the woman wishes misfortune on him.

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Realized His New Dignity John Barrett and a bold dinner switch

John Barrett, director of the Bureau of American Republics, once waited a year in Washington for a consular posting. With a comrade announcing his appointment as consul to Liam, Barrett paused his cheap meal, adjusted his attire, and moved to the Willard Hotel, to uphold proper dignity.

John Barrett Bureau of American Republics Washington Consular Service Barrett Liam Siam Willard

Small Estates in Jamaica and Labor Patterns

In Jamaica 75 percent of 155000 landholdings are worth under $200 each. Most smallholders are black peasants living on self-grown fruits and vegetables, especially yams, and salt fish. They avoid yearly or monthly labor contracts, so plantations rely on East Indian coolies for steady work on sugar and banana estates where reliable labor is needed.

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Wise Man Returns as Prospective Employer Tests Family

A witty exchange shows a prospective employer asking a potential employee if he has a grandmother. The office boy replies no, and the boss humorously vows to hire him but warns to avoid additions to the family during the baseball season.

Etiquette of the Persians in Nasir al-Din’s court

Mary A. Colquhoun in Los Angeles Times notes Persian pleasures, language skills, and social etiquette. Persians mix refinement with strict protocols, no caste alongside rank rules, and old customs fading. An amusing royal hareem anecdote ends with a European bowing, then a gift from Nasir al-Din.

Persia Nasir- i-Din Shah Anderun Zii-Sultan Nasirt Din Nasir-i-Din Mary A. Colquhoun Los Angeles Times

Counting Our Hours in a World of Varying Time

The piece reflects on how minutes and hours carry different meanings for people based on life’s joys and burdens. It notes that some live through unclouded moments while others endure slow hours filled with care, each person receiving a unique message from time.

The Storm’s Double Face and Quiet Beauty

Describes rain’s music and soothing calm plus storm’s fury and power. Notes trees bending in wind, thunder, lightning, and dark skies. Acknowledge immense, terrifying force alongside eerie beauty in nature’s turmoil.

Serena Atlantic Monthly

In Training. A Broker Answers Marathon Exercise Question

A real estate broker defends long workouts as a matter of conscience. He had advertised homes as ten minutes’ walk from the station and seeks to improve his reputation by meeting that claim. The exchange frames ethics, marketing, and personal discipline in a brief dialogue.

Quotes Against Alcohol From Medical Figures Across Eras

A compilation of quotes from doctors and researchers praising the dangers of alcohol. The statements warn that saloon habits shorten life, destroy organs, and cause numerous diseases while stressing alcohol as a major moral and health evil. Prominent names cited include Sir Andrew Clark Dr Dickerson The Lancet and others.

A. Carpenter Andrew Clark Dickerson Drysdale William Gull N. Kerr Leonard J. Millar Dr. J. Rogers H. Thompson S. W. Tibley Dr. Timms Dr. Murchison Parks G. H. Todd, M. D

Test Value of Alcohol in Military Rations

British authorities conducted experiments with three regiments to test alcohol effects under heavy labor. Whisky boosts early alertness but fatigue soon followed, malt liquor delayed fatigue yet lowered initial vigor, and abstainers improved in alertness and endurance. German studies explore sugar as a sustaining ration for fatigue.

Lincoln on Liquor Cancer Quote Urges Eradication

Lincoln on liquor traffic says it is a cancer threatening society and that regulation only worsens the evil. He asserts there must be no attempt to regulate and the cancer must be eradicated with no root left behind.

Lincoln Abraham Lincoln

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