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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
8
A magazine themed party invites guests in outfits reflecting periodicals and features a game with typewritten romances. Subscriptions served as prizes while candy booklets list magazine names. The rain day club brings six matrons together monthly for plain gowns and charitable, gossip-free luncheons with stories.
Design a tulip motif pillow using denim, crash, burlap or rajah silk with two upper and lower bands of four motifs and a center back motif. Steps include making stencil paper, shellacing Manila paper, salt pre treatment, Easy Dye preparation, and careful dabbing to prevent running. Various color schemes profile light golden tan rajah and Delft blue options.
Des Moines report on Canon Robert Bell proposing paroling first time offenders to trusted citizens with state-bond repayment and potential mandatory guardianship. He argues humane release and eventual return to society while critics note practical and legal challenges. Also mentions a waiter anecdote about earning tips and real estate connections.
Walter W. Hoover of the Sudan United mission in Wakari Northern Nigeria writes that football attracts native children to school. He reports using footballs and meat rewards to boost attendance and notes cannibalism concerns while recounting a prior pursuit by man-eaters.
Cleveland waiter Patrick McLaughlin has saved an estimated thirty thousand to fifty thousand dollars in tips since 1892. He plans to resign, take his wife and two children to Ireland, then tour Europe, before returning to Cleveland claiming he is now American. He remains the city’s most popular waiter with a perpetual smile.
Pittsburg plans a colossal flag 160 by 28 feet, claimed as the world’s largest. City contract budgeted at $1,000. The banner will be about 28 percent larger than any previous US flag and 400 percent larger than the army storm flag. Production uses ninety thousand feet of thread and two thousand feet of tape.
Washington dispatch reports Capt. Thomas Franklin faces court martial over alleged irregularities at West Point tied to ticket distribution and finances. The affair traces to Col. H. L. Scott and a costly Philadelphia Army Navy game mascot bear, with investigations revealing discrepancies in athletic association dealings and Franklin recalled from the Philippines for trial.
A peach-basket hat trimmed with artificial cherries drew a robin from a tree as a girl walked along Broad Way near the old courthouse. The bird alighted on the hat and pecked at the cherries, became tangled in the trim, and was captured briefly before escaping.
Hamilton C. Finley, newly elected mayor of Hoopeston, is the first Democrat chosen for the office since incorporation 38 years ago. He opposed raising the mayor’s salary, which remains 50 cents a year. aldermen receive 26 cents a year each.
Parrish, an absent minded bookkeeper, recalls a late night mishap slipping into the wrong flat after leaving work. He finds his bath dissolved by hot water and discovers a neighboring couple’s home, triggering a scene with a noisy neighbor and police intervention. The incident is dismissed by his wife and reporters at breakfast.
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