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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1909
Page
3
A column presenting selections from noted humorists, highlighting famous wit and literary style. The piece surveys multiple authors and eras, offering brief readable excerpts and commentary on their impact.
A humorous 1909 essay lists each month with playful quirks and myths. It blends playful lore, almanac references, and light social commentary on January through December, noting holidays, weather, and December Christmas spending.
A boy leaves a suit for pressing with a nine o'clock hotel delivery. A bishop from Pittsburg pairs with a tailor’s tricked robe tale ending in a jilted bride. The punchline lands as a tailor’s iron burns a trouser hole, amid shared laughter.
A 1909 copyright excerpt critiques self help books and moralizing verses on hard work and family roles. It uses the potato metaphor to contrast the valued laboring figures with the overlooked, unappreciated ones in domestic life and warns against judging worth by labor claims.
Seven miles northeast of Cairo the Heliopolis Oasis rises from barren desert into a planned suburb with boulevards electric lights and verdant gardens. Financiers Nubar Pasha Boshos and Baron Empain lead a 1000 acre project featuring a casino hotel and horse racing track. The oasis showcases Moorish white marble buildings and a power station supplying illumination as a new health resort and residential center earns the locals' Masr Gedida name.
Washington reports scrub pine from abandoned farms and cutover lands can replace spruce sulphite in paper making. Forest Service tests show Jersey pine yields and fiber are strong and durable, suitable for bag, news, wrapping papers and possibly ledger grades with proper treatment.
Adolph Melzer of Evansville plans a state bill to create a bureau for caring for dumb animals. He offers 8000 dollars for the first year and would feed horses and mules unable to buy feed, with a chief and assistants statewide. The plan has support among local charity groups.
Danville Puddler Peter Radinger, recently arrived from Lebanon, learns he will inherit $50,000 from an elderly Reading woman whom he aided years ago. He quits the Danville rolling mill, leaves on the first train for home, after a tense wait with a feverish letter read.
In Bokhoma Oklahoma a preacher Rev Charles Ford claimed he could call down God’s drought. After being denied back pay from Frisco Lumber Company he prayed the drought would end. The drought persisted six months and forced hundreds to move their families seeking work elsewhere. Ford, a small congregation minister, also worked at the mill and quit last September over wages.
Switzerland could assemble an army of 350000 trained soldiers in short order says Fritz Bon an officer in the Swiss militia at the New Willard He notes every man aged 20 must serve in militia with 77 days yearly for infantry 90 days for cavalry until 28 then landwehr 13 days yearly maneuvers for landwehr and landstorm reserve 35 to 45 Instructors train even abroad and rank progression from corporal to higher ranks is regular effort All able boys must serve and those physically unfit are excused but if able must compensate for absence
Washington reports renewed activity in U S manufactures with Bureau of Statistics figures comparing imports of manufacturers materials for January to the same month in the two prior years. Wool imports in January 1909 exceed twenty four million pounds, far above 1908 and 1907 levels. Lumber imports also rise with January figures well above the previous year.
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