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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1908
Page
6
A veteran researcher outlines his twenty five year study of spiritism, asserting belief in phenomena but not in communications from the dead. He argues true manifestations can be explained scientifically, warns many mediums are self-deceived, and stresses the role of impressionist experiences and auto-suggestion.
Chicago artist model Miss Franc Kingsworth was led blindfolded into an anatomy room filled with cadavers for a staged photograph titled Asleep with the Dead. She fainted when the bandage came off and survivors recount hours of hysteria after a terrifying glimpse of grinning corpses and a cadaver near her on a couch.
Statistics from a Fuchan resident trace tea trade shifts from England’s lead in 1678 to India’s rise by 1837 and China’s 1886 peak of 300 million pounds. In 1884 China supplied about 72 percent of exports, with India and Ceylon at 18 percent and Japan and Formosa at 10 percent, attributing China’s decline to careless cultivation and processing.
Honolulu records show 18,187 Japanese arrived in 1906, triple the prior year’s arrivals. The same year 12,187 left Hawaii for the Pacific coast.
A brief exchange features Willie asking about a hole in Papa’s pants and a judge’s comment that the hole is worn out. The dialogue presents a rustic humor moment with a punchline about wear and age.
New York woman Mrs. Abraham Greenbaum, wife of a restaurant keeper, posed as a beggar for months to fund luxurious clothes for nightly forays in all night restaurants. She was fined $25 in Hoboken recorder’s court after arrest, with husband’s refusal to pay. Her case parallels Marie Louise Voysin’s role in Henri Bernstein’s play The Thief, highlighting themes of deception and vanity along The Great White Way.
Alfred Eddie and Albert Bystrom, returning from a lake fishing trip near Tower Minnesota, escaped a pack of hungry wolves by scrambling into an old hay shed. Their fathers located them after midnight, having sought them in the woods near the lake.
Angella Baldesarre said the act was penance for using evil words. She cut a large portion of her tongue and gashed her throat after a gay party celebrating her brother Michael's engagement to Camilla Franca, who recently arrived from Italy. She confessed to surgeons and nurses at St. Agnes Hospital and faces possible life-saving surgery.
After a 30 year separation and her marriage to another man, Mrs. L. M. Clark of Muskegon will wed Owen Mulholland of Seattle. Mulholland, a gold mine owner, disappeared while traveling west and only recently did the pair reconnect.
A 400 foot vessel was constructed and launched on the Tyne in record time, taking 69 working days from keel to launch. The achievement showcases rapid shipbuilding efficiency and advances in industrial productivity.
Senate approved the Aldrich emergency currency measure authorizing up to 500 million to national banks on deposits secured by bonds. The Bailey substitute for government issued currency failed 42 to 18. Debates covered bank reserves, interest timing, and bans on officer stock investments.
A pair of quakes near Chilapa Guerrero toppled buildings set fires across the town killing and injuring residents. Telegraph service was cut and the town, 115 miles south of Mexico City, is reported ruined with limited details from several sources. Chilapa, home to a bishop and key manufactories, faces unknown total damage.
Emmanuel L. Philip, president of the Union Refrigerator Transit Co. of Milwaukee, won $15,000 in a U S circuit court jury verdict against McClure Publishing Co. The suit, based on libelous statements in McClure's Magazine by Ray Stannard Baker, charged that the company received unlawful commissions.
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