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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1908
Page
4
An old cuckoo clock given to Wertz senior causes late night wakefulness and startled moments as the clock strikes two. Wertz junior winds it for his room, then both are seen at breakfast tired and sheepish after the incident.
A brief note lists Ghas F, E P Chase, R K Chase as directors and stockholders of The News Publishing Company. It indicates it is published every evening except Sunday under the company name.
The fragment surveys the word bogus and its possible origins in Bowhese and French slang. It mentions the shadow of counterfeit bills and “Bogus” tied to words meaning rind or case, linking to outward appearance without substance. It cites sources like the Shadow Papers and Brew, noting possible corruption from French boyasse and related terms.
A New York Sun excerpt recalls a Frenchman’s morbid curiosity about world events and anniversaries from April 1800 to July 18. The narrative mentions Bayard’s death, Napoleon’s exile, Dieppe bombardment, and the 1640s era, all framed as a series of fatal reflections ending with the man’s fever and death on the 22nd while muttering about St Bartholemew’s Day.
A Chicago News item quotes a Welsh native contrasting Welsh eloquence with English speech. The tale features an English visitor who admits Welsh superiority, noting Welsh expresses exact meaning while English is only a dialect and implying Welsh speakers need to learn to truly speak.
Fragmented text mentions a fortune and marriage constraints amid garbled dialogue. No clear individuals, events, or places emerge to form a coherent news item.
An excerpt narrates a tense rescue on a remote island where a child is accused of doom by villagers. A shooter, threatening to fire, prevents mass violence and negotiates a paid sale of the girl, turning the girl into a slave owner in a perilous encounter during a colonial encounter on the beach.
The century plant blooms after long periods, maturing in southern California in 15 to 20 years, longer in colder climates. Native to northern Mexico as maguey, it yields pulque. When flowering, a single tall stalk rises 12 to 20 feet with treelike blossoms, then the plant withers and dies.
A fragmentary passage claims a salad crafted by a gourmet called cheenilxed. It praises its crispness and tenderness, suggesting it wards off indigestion. The text contrasts indulgence with Indians and firewater, noting readers’ reactions and a sense of exoticism.
Smithson, once seen as a born humorist, abandons jokes and visits a school friend. He is shown into a room where his sister is arranging dried grass as she jokes about grain. His reaction and later recollection blend in a puzzling, truncated memory.
Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune, reportedly partly deaf, once failed to hear a question in a loud room. A young employee repeated the query louder and was told to chase himself around the block. Medill refused to chase himself and the young man promptly quit.
A fragmentary report describes a bustling scene as a stranger approaches Ms Ott and Mrs O Toole amid a street band and crowd. Voices and exclamations mix with a tense, lively street performance.
A witty quip compares marriage to courting a cally and how the process begins with admiration, a name given to a maid, and ends with being taken in, as echoed by the Boston Transcript.
A fragment recalls the Mermaid in Broad Street as a gathering hub for Elizabethan writers and actors, noting Shakespeare and others who frequented the famed tavern and the Mermaid Club founded by Sir Walter Raleigh. It notes multiple Mermaid locations tied to the same tavern lineage and the destruction in the Great Fire.
Fragmentary OCR reads as quirky lines about lobster and champagne for supper and rough breakfast imagery, with garbled phrases including hygiene and coy references. Readable names or clear events do not emerge from the fragment.
Fragmentary OCR note hints at a discussion of Hastings, a hidden generation, and a referenced Chesutton om y Elton. Ambiguous names and phrases suggest a literary or editorial fragment without clear events or dates.
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