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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1908
Page
7
A witty remark contrasts man's prowess in driving wild horses governing nations and winning wars with his frequent defeat in attempting to rule a woman. The quip highlights gender dynamics and humorous limits of control.
A Seneca quotation argues that soil rich as a mind needs enlivening nature to produce good faith, warning that cultivation without stimulus yields no harvest. The line underscores the need for intellectual and environmental nurture to cultivate virtue.
A narrator recalls buying a 150 year old house with a tall old clock said to forewarn a death by its ticking. After a superstition tale and a frightening sleepless night counting ticks, the clock is finally cleaned and repaired, though the fear lingers. The story ends with the clock restored in the hall and the narrator remaining uneasy.
Atlantic article notes Mrs Blanche Schultz of Atlantic was cured after six treatments by Prof A H Wolf at cor 6th and Poplar Sts for years of constipation and kidney trouble. Also brief ads mention a second hand Story & Clark piano, Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, Green Bay Lumber Co stationery and Atlantic Drug Co offerings.
An editorial voice urges balanced optimism that blends cheer with practical action. It cautions against relying on sentiment alone and promotes reading the Evening News for grounded guidance and informed cheer.
Farmers regret planting corn early and hope for warmer weather. June promises weddings, a new baby for Mr. and Mrs. White near Grant, and church activities by the Toadies Aid society in Wax. Elder John Westfall, nearly 95, shows flares of illness but improves. William Rabe faces possible surgery as rain finally arrives after a dry spell. Downpours halt field work and revive pastures while frost damage harms cherries pears apples and peaches and oats and strawberries suffer from cold.
I offer for sale my residence at 308 Maple street with one four year old driving horse one surrey one buggy and one road wagon. H. S. Robinson af.
An advertisement extols Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as America's most reliable tonic and blood remedy for thirty years. It promotes Tea or Tablets at 35 cents from Atlantic Drug Co.
Partly cloudy tonight with frost in west and central areas. Thursday trends fair with rising temperatures. An advertisement promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea claimed to energize and improve health. Also notes sale of lotions and new stock of ladies’ sheer hose by Block & Son.
A U S consul general advises travelers to carry a pocketbook with instructions for disposition of remains in case of death. Include home or U S contact details and funds. If death occurs abroad to how remains are handled, coroners and undertakers act, with inquests for natural causes and authority limited to the private representative.
New issues of stocks and bonds in Germany in 1907 totaled $460,500,000, down from $703,250,000 in 1906. Of these, only $60,000,000 were Industrial shares, a figure far below 1906's $196,000,000.
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