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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1908
Page
3
Kitty Glove and Bobbie Hilson stumble from mutual admiration to love after a dinner invitation by Mrs. Bradbury brings them face to face with famed writer Felicia Belknap. A mistaken glamour fuels longing until both reveal plain truth and vow devotion.
An elderly Black man, Paul Bolden, arrived at Union Station claiming to be from Arkansas and to visit Fred Douglass and President Roosevelt. He said a vast fortune awaits him and offered the policeman half the money, then thanked officials as a patrol wagon took him away. He claimed the fortune would be collected “by height and depth.”
Capital invested in Canadian factories totals 834000000, up 86 percent in five years. Factory workers rise 18 percent and wages paid increase 43 percent, reflecting broad productivity and growth across the sector.
In a moonlit mansion a quartet of skeletal housekeepers debate a plan for the heiress daughter. They assign roles to destroy her virtue with money, education, marriage, appearance, and social ambition, as she dreams of a glittering career.
Twenty inches of rain swelled the Trinity River to a ten foot rise in twelve hours at Fort Worth and North Fort Worth, killing several and leaving hundreds homeless. Dozens of bridges washed out, stock drowned, and searches continue for missing people as Muskogee faces gas outages and rail lines halt operations across the region.
Charles Frohman explains that world success for musical plays hinges on a single distinctive feature rather than broad excellence. He cites The Merry Widow and A Waltz Dream, noting their fame comes from one strong attraction and its emotional link to the story, not from balance across every number or flawless book. He compares this to Gilbert and Sullivan, whose success rested on a central concept, and warns new writers to seek a defining edge rather than all around scores. The lesson extends to Peter Pan, where one core idea—the boy who would not grow up—drives the work despite other beauty.
De Rose Stahl recalls a dinner tale about a jockey and a horse doctor outwitting each other over a lame mare. The jockey feigns luck by showing a five dollar bill while the horse doctor overclaims the mare is sound. The twist reveals the fake note and a deliberate bad shoeing scheme.
A violent wind and rain storm, at times forming a tornado, swept Texas from the Panhandle to the gulf. Crops vegetation and trees suffered heavy damage, many houses unroofed, villages inundated, and Austin faced hours of impassable streets as utilities failed. Agricultural areas across central and southern Texas were greatly damaged.
The Morrell airship, the largest ever built, collapsed around 400 feet above ground during a trial trip in Oakland California. Sixteen occupants of the car were seriously injured with broken limbs and suspected internal injuries. several may die. None were killed.
A note highlights that the republic of Liberia harbors twenty two species of rubber trees. It underscores the country’s botanical diversity and potential natural resources.
Maud Adams extends in The Jester for a month while Otis Skinner’s run in The Honor of the Family stretches to June. Henry Miller ends ties with the Shuberts, Mrs. T. P. O Connor to write a play for Andrew Mack, Charles Klein’s new work to be staged by Henry B. Harris, Adelaide Keim opens Barbara Frietchie in New York, Margaret J Anglin to present Mater in Europe, Louis Mann on tour under William A. Brady in The New Generation, Mme Schumann-Heink applies for naturalization in New York, after taking out papers in Cincinnati.
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