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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
4
Hogs receipts 20,000 with mixed slaughter. heavy and rough heavy prices range around 5.30 to 5.65. Cattle receipts 7,500 with steady cattle values from 4.70 to 7.24 for beeves and 4.60 to 5.80 for stockers. Sheep receipts 16,000 with weak to lower quotes. lambs 5.50 to 7.60. Tomorrow's receipts projected at 2,000 hogs, 7,000 sheep.
North Bound at Audubon Branch No 339 mixed ex Sunday 6 40 am No 391 mixed ex Sunday 2 20 pm No 821 Sunday only 11 40 am South Bound Griswold Branch No 893 mixed ex Sunday 6 35 am No 395 mixed ex Sunday 2 30 pm No 328 Sunday only 2 35 pm
All trains run daily except Sunday with No. 1 Passenger and Freight at 7:00 am No. 3 Passenger and Freight 1:30 pm Arrive No. 2 Passenger and Freight 11:15 am No. 4 Passenger and Freight 5:36 pm.
A man in a distant town used a window clamp and improvised guillotine to decapitate himself after rigging a balloon and weights. The head and body were found days apart, eighteen miles from Uris, revealing the method of self-inflicted death.
An exhibit at the Tanisiana State museum features antique maps portraying Louisiana stretching from Canada to the Gulf and from Virginia to the Pacific. The maps, printed in Italy and France, are largely fanciful, showing mountain ranges and rivers in locations not present today. One map depicts the Mississippi River as a graceful curve along the future Louisville and Nashville railroad roadbed, draining into a Florida gulf, with a land called the tin enters near English Lookout and Bay Le Louis marked as a tear sole spot.
A western man visited J G Brown's studio and failed to confirm the whereabouts of a prized group painting. The would be owner offered 25,600 dollars for the work, but Brown could not locate a crew to retrieve it, as discussed by W Howard Standish in New Broadway Magazine.
A Tennessee congressman tells a district story featuring Mose a Black worker who taunts his boss about why he drinks and ends up jailed. Mose quips that he earns seven dollars a month plus board when working but ten dollars or thirty days in jail when arrested, arguing jail is more profitable than labor. St. Paul Pioneer Press.
A Philadelphia Press comedy note questions a friendship as one says the other has not been to Subbub’s for dinner lately and claims the cook dislikes him, prompting curiosity about the rift between close friends.
The French war department plans enormous dirigibles led by La Republique with a May readiness target. The 1908 budget funds two large airships 100 meters long with 111 meter span and 7 000 to 8 000 cubic meters capacity, powered by two 120 hp engines and four propellers. Designers Lebaudy plan a larger generation, aiming for about sixty kph speed, eight tons lift, waterproof fabric envelope, and a rigid frame plus dual lifting propellers for stability.
The Brooklyn Eagle discusses future ocean liners, arguing size grows with fuel economics, and noting extreme vessels may become viable only with subsidies or cheaper fuel. It compares 500 to 1000 foot ships, suggesting progress hinges on coal costs and profitability.
Reports in the London Times describe a curious owl in North Norfolk carrying a lantern. Observers note a pair of birds with a bright yellow light mistaken for a bicycle lamp. A bailiff said one bird’s glow made the branches clearly visible as it alighted near a wheat stack.
The debate over which device first used the guillotine surfaces as a sixteenth century machine with a bladeless design by Jacques Cullot is cited for decapitating sheep. The exact first use by the type devised by Quillotin remains unknown, though the execution machine attributed to Marie Antoinette is said to still be in Herlin, London Gazette.
The Denver Field and Farm notes a legend of the Acoma pueblo high atop a rock mesa in Valencia county New Mexico. In 1541 Spaniards visited the region and tribes warred, the rock city fell silent when a great earth awakening shattered the mesa, sending debris to the plains and sealing the fate of those atop the peak.
A Crookes excerpt discusses diamond hardness, noting diamonds creditably resist flattening under 170 tons per square inch. It compares diamond and tantalum drilling, recounts a three day test, and mentions diamonds phosphorescing after sun exposure, suggesting limited domestic uses for diamonds.
A humorous exchange cited by the New York Press centers on a claim under a husband’s accident policy. The insured’s widow quips that the death came from “an accident of birth” after a nurse reveals he fathered triplets. The exchange critiques insurer skepticism toward the claim.
An article explains that razor stropping should move heel to point on the strop, then reverse for shaving to exploit the blade’s teeth. It notes the edge benefits from opposite directions and cites scattered quotes about missteps and marriage humor from period publications.
A promotional blurb praises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as America's most reliable tonic and blood remedy for thirty years, highlighting its price of 35 cents for tea and tablets and listing Atlantic Drug as retailer.
The speaker advertises services to handle baggage for trains and light draying, plus garden plowing. He seeks business, asks orders be left at Bradley's on Walnut Street or Steinke's on Chestnut Street, or by phone at residence 890. The notice emphasizes ready service and location details for contact.
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