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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
2
Iowa delegates reportedly back Governor Cummins for vice president, hoping his nomination would unite factions and boost the ticket. Roosevelt and Taft pressure suggest a Iowa origin, with Dolliver’s stance shaping the convention. If Cummins gains the nomination, he could moderate radical stances and strengthen Republican prospects.
A 1910s style note claims hair color signals temperament and that baldness results from a germ. It cites Prof Sabouraud of Paris inducing baldness in a rabbit with dandruff germs and recommends Herpicide to destroy the cause. Advertisement mentions send 16 cents for a sample via Atlantic Drug Company.
The piece questions the Denver convention’s influence on nominations, notes Fairbanks as likely second place, and critiques Taft Roosevelt differences on injunctions. It cites Burlingame’s forgetfulness of Teddy, Welliver’s talk of Dolliver’s VP bid, Cummins’ Iowa role, and demoralized colored delegates returning home amid a Democratic party in peril.
The piece describes a wave of unusual campaign pledges and gifts aimed at the yet unnamed presidential candidate Taft. Bizarre tokens include a silver mounted gourd and trousers made from Texas Angora goat hair, reflecting booster enthusiasm and a larger trend to publicize and support the Angora goat industry in Texas. The eye toward gifts grows as nomination approaches and could expand after a successful campaign.
The column lists numerous local visitors and residents in Anita from Dallas Center Omaha Des Moines Manning and Grand Island while noting cement crossings being laid. Socials include Flag Day church services, a church dinner for orphans, and Memorial Day observances with Rev Kelley conducting. Travel includes C S Lang in Indiana and Belle Plaine, with Drake university summer readings announced for W H Chehock. Deaths prompt N C Burkhart to Morill Kans.
A report notes blood poisoning from an earlier injury led to an attempted limb amputation, which proved fatal or unsuccessful due to shock. In local sports, Walker Shoe company nite beat Anita 11 to 4, with Hopkins Bros. team set to challenge the home club next Saturday. J Lattig sold his Rose Hill residence for 4000 to James Morgan, who plans to move there after selling his farm portion. Lattig family to relocate to a Lincoln township farm early next March.
Dr T W Porterfield returns from a land business trip in southern Colorado noting widespread rainfall between Iowa and Colorado. County Treasurer William Crisman travels from Albert Lea Minnesota after Cedar Rapids AR meeting, joined by his wife, enjoying the trip. Woman's Home Missionary Society meets tomorrow at 3 PM in the Methodist church league room with Mrs Anna Elder speaking.
In a German town two strangers arrived with a large packing cage and stayed at a hotel before vanishing without paying a sizable bill. The hotel keeper opened the crate to reveal a richly upholstered throne bearing the Freiherr arms and Louis Napoleon monogram, with a musical box in the cushion. The tale says the chair was meant for use if French forces captured Berlin. fate foiled the plan and the chair later moved to England with a buyer tagged by Stray Stories.
Hamlin Garland questions whether so called spirit messages come from the living minds around us. He recalls a test with a sealed letter and a renowned psychic who could not read it until a reader on Earth absorbed the words. The piece hints at a universal mind reservoir as a startling hypothesis.
A fragmentary critique contrasts wealth with genuine enjoyment noting that wealth cannot shield one from petty constraints or social judgments. A childlike visitor admires a man immune to such reproaches while a caregiver ridicules shared meals and manners. The passage closes with a meditation on flowers as earthly stars and poetry to the Creator.
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