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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
7
Witty observations compare flirtation to a headache free cocktail and champagne with no hangover. Jokes on men in silk hats, gambling, and misused honor show a culture of humor about love fidelity and social disguise.
Speech excerpt from Cy Warning at the Canadian Club in Guelph Ont. Warns that discouragement of capital harms labor and derides socialists and anarchists. He argues capital moves to Wall Street while labor seeks benches, urging protection of labor from misguided allies and enemies.
The article advises couples to lead a simple life and drop foolish illusions. It urges partners to understand one another, be true chums, and treat life as a balanced partnership sharing joys and sorrows. It emphasizes seeking mutual happiness within and making reasonable sacrifices to foster reciprocal kindness.
Self-consciousness harms dignity and the rich need not flaunt trappings. Experience should illuminate like a searchlight, but often shines only along familiar paths. Do not burden others with confidences, and beware of sharing secrets.
Musings from a New York columnist describe wealthy women running private pools and teaching swimming. The piece argues that skilled female swimmers attract admirers and may marry wealthy husbands, citing past cases of five swimmers who wed after public swimming matches. It mixes social observation with playful speculation on seaside romance.
Seven year old Joseph Good Jr, near Spring Grove cemetery in Cincinnati, was savagely attacked by a male swan while near the lake. The bird battered his head and face with wings and bill, threatening his sight. Gatekeeper Thompson rescued him as doctors tended his wounds.
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish deplores Newport social climbers and declares travel to Europe instead. She condemns the current New York and Newport social scene as vain and exclusive, argues wealth alone buys no entry, and laments ladders and betrayals among those who rise.
The Long Beach boardwalk hosts the first local parade of sheath skirts amid camera clusters. Three wearers in gray blue and red showcase slim silhouettes with fine hosiery as models from Fifth Avenue glossed by Walter Kaffenberg of the new Casino.
Travelers report harsh and inquisitorial treatment by American customs in spectors at pier checks and duties enforcement. Accounts describe forced declarations and rough handling of garments, contrasting with polite, trustful control abroad as in Paris. An expensive gown may mask a salable sin if the husband errs.
Paris paper recounts a Martinique sergeant waking a prisoner to find a six foot lance-head snake curled on the man’s chest. Milk and music lured the animal into a bowl where it was killed by guards. Private Durand survived after days of shock, later returning to France with snow white hair noted by officials.
In New York a ghost sighting near West Twenty Third Street station and an old graveyard behind a Sixth Avenue department store prompts police action. A detective and clerks described a pale creaking figure with a crutch slipping from a vault as guards verify a loose slab and a hidden space used at night.
G R Miller listed with a Gillespie Building address includes Sulte 2 and Office 396 with Mussen Phone for inquiries. The fragment presents a business contact block likely from an old directory or notice.
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