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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1910
Page
1
A business manager describes four types of men regarding responsibility: the timid needing guidance, the irresolute who stay in dull routine, the cocky who rush to decisions, and the brave, clear headed leader who combines courage with brains. He argues that courage plus knowledge drives success and influence, urging readers not to fear responsibility while blending it with intellect.
The article explains ptomaine poison from acid acting on tin containers. It warns to serve meat and vegetables in earthenware and not to store mayonnaise in tin receptacles. An incident where women became seriously ill from salad at a reception is cited, with doctors estimating enough poison to kill forty men if ingested.
A Dover park witnessed a remarkable display as a male thrush returned to its nest with a worm and attacked a nearby cat that threatened the hen and chicks. The bird's relentless beak and wing strikes drove the cat down from a tree to a wall, where repeated assaults forced the predator to retreat.
A London newspaper analysis cited by Saturday Evening Post notes widespread food adulteration in Europe. It details chocolate using raw starch and rancid suet, fake Camembert in France, adulterated wines, and cider made from apple parings from American canneries.
Do not press remedies on the ill beyond what their doctors have prescribed. It is unsafe to tamper with drugs as medicines that help one person may harm another. Instances exist of people becoming seriously ill after taking a medicine that was suitable for someone else.
A Louisville Courier-Journal item notes a dressmaker botched a gown causing the wearer discomfort. The dialogue suggests surprise at the flawed fit and questions the gown's functionality, highlighting a fashion mishap and its practical consequence.
A brief quip in the Atlanta Constitution recalls a Billville matron asking about winter snakes and her son viewing them as a year round circus, reflecting folk humor and rural amusement in a public dialogue.
In Chicago Attorney General George W. Wickersham declares federal prosecutions will pursue individual heads under the Sherman act after Judge Landis threw out the indictment against National Packing Co. and ten subsidiaries. Indictments will target individuals rather than corporations, marking a shift from the prior grand jury action.
In Washington remarks, Mr. Wickersham defends the railroad rate bill as essential for presidential access to crucial data before proposing further laws. He supports an inquiry into stocks and securities amid concerns of watered stock and overcapitalization, noting railroads often resist new financial scrutiny but will see its value in time.
Moses Haas of New York and Frederick A. Peckham of Cincinnati pleaded guilty to conspiracy to effect misconduct in office in the cotton leak case. Judge Gould fined Haas six thousand dollars and Peckham five thousand, both paid. Other indictments were nolle pressed.
Porter Charlton, the self confessed wife killer, faces extradition fight with Italy. His father calls him tuberculous and unsound minded as alienists and defense attorneys prepare to challenge his mental state. Court adjourned to next Tuesday.
Granite City June 25 Charles A. Uzzell the mayor has been indicted on malfeasance in office. It is alleged he permitted gambling houses to operate.
At Hazelden farm in Brook Indiana about 600 guests from the Indiana Society of Chicago gathered for a huge day of dances, races, fireworks and baseball. Notables included former Vice President Fairbanks Senator Beveridge and other national figures. The day featured two lively games the Lazy Guys versus the Plain People and a natives versus exiles match with F E Baker as umpire.
Governor Haskell issued a proclamation for August 2 to submit an initiated proposition that would disfranchise illiterate Negro electors. The measure, known as the grandfather clause, was started by 42,300 petitioners via the state Democratic executive committee and would amend the constitution under the initiative law.
Charles P. Knapp of Knapp Brothers private bankers of Deposit New York was convicted of receiving a deposit while knowing his bank was insolvent after the Binghamton Trust Company closed. He was sentenced to Auburn prison for 15 months to two years.
New York reports 18 000 to 20 000 cloakmakers on strike over two days with union leaders predicting growth to 50000 next week. The strike order is anticipated before July 1 as workers demand shorter hours and a 20 percent wage increase.
Judge John F. Philips of the United States Western District of Missouri retires voluntarily on the twenty seventh anniversary of his first state judgeship election. He has served on the bench since 1878 and announced the retirement date months ago while his full salary will continue.
In Chicago on June 25 the Browne bribery trial closed with State's Attorney Wayman delivering a vitriolic final argument. He asserted Browne's guilt while defense attorney Forrest urged careful deliberation. Browne expected acquittal though Wayman and his allies anticipated a conviction as the jury prepared to read the judge's instructions.
Winnipeg Manitoba reports a vast forest fire zone from Fort Frances to Atikokan east of Rainy Lake consuming timber, camps, mills, and dams. The F Weyerhauser timber berth at St Paul suffered 1.5 million dollars in losses while Northern Construction of Winnipeg and Rat Portage Lumber suffered major damages and closures. J D McArthur Lumber of Winnipeg also lost its mill and 500000 feet of lumber.
St Louis, June 25. Miss Claudina Ballone, 19, sought to cancel an engagement to marry Robert Nicholson, 20, by drinking chloroform on a crowded Broadway car. She is one of three hospital patients who took poison over love disappointments. She said she learned the man she wanted was married and she did not love the other.
Washington June 25 The house adopted the conference report on the public buildings bill and it now goes to the president for signature.
An unknown man leaped from Second Sister Island into the Niagara River and was swept over the Horseshoe Falls on June 25. Rescue efforts were initiated but details of fate were unavailable.
Washington reports the House ceded to Senate by a 138 to 130 vote on the Sundry Civil Bill exemption for labor unions from the Sherman anti trust act. President Taft mobilized scores of representatives to defeat the provision, declaring he would not approve any law granting such exemption. American Federation of Labor leaders denounced the move as a betrayal of workers’ rights.
In a common pleas court ruling Judge Josiah Cohen permanently bars the Allegheny County commissioners from opening ballot boxes in the Thirtieth district and from recounting votes in 66 precincts challenged by Dr Robert J Black and 23 by John Dalzell. If Black’s lawyers do not appeal, the county canvass after the primary will stand and Dalzell will secure the Republican nomination.
The steamers Charles H Hebard Caldera T A S Clarke and Walter Scranton are laid up under the breakwater at Cleveland with Harvey D Goulder ordered from Buffalo to join them. About forty freighters will be out of commission at ten days end as subscribers to the agreement lose 20 percent of capacity.
Police search for burglars who stole five thousand dollars in Austrian and Italian currency from Julius Rottenburg’s private bank in Boston. The money, placed in a show window, was taken after intruders cut a hole in the window’s bottom and entered from the cellar while the bank was crowded.
Moritz Weinstein aged five leaned from a window to get air and fell four stories onto Anna Novak, age two, on the front steps. Both cried after the fall but were not injured. No serious harm reported in New York on June 25.
Annual reports of the state highway commissioners say that oiling roads to lay the dust has had a marked effect on the Jersey mosquitoes, driving them from residential districts and confining them to tracts where roads are not treated frequently with the oil.
Bethlehem Pa June 25 under the will of Elisha P Wilbur financier and former Lehigh Valley railroad president an estate of 17 million dollars is bequeathed to his family. So far unknown there was no gift to a public or charitable institution.
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