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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1908
Page
8
Election night crowds in Broadway streets stretched from Madison Square to Longacre Square as police managed the dense throng. Citizens celebrated with tin horns confetti and hats torn from heads while theatergoers and newspaper offices displayed election bulletins on large screens.
Discussion swirls over Mrs Astor successor as New York society queen. Foremost names mentioned include Mrs Stuyvesant Fish Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Mrs Clarence Mackay and Mrs Ogden Goelet. Frederick Townsend Martin says there will be no single ruler as the old 400 dissolves into many cliques. Astor lineage and social grandeur noted with Beechwood Newport and Fifth Avenue townhouse outlined.
Vacant flats rise as tenants flee crowded centers. October moves hint at a lasting shift with 100000 leaving Manhattan and 50000 arriving in Washington Heights. Immigrant losses approach 300000, while school and voter data mirror the drop. Prices fall about ten percent as owners held rents firm.
George Burroughs Torrey the American portrait painter behind a Roosevelt portrait sues Mrs John Hanan for 4000 claiming breach of contract. He says she sat for him repeatedly over a year but vanished from sittings as the portrait neared completion. He cites his fame and notes past royal and industrial sitters.
The Guanajuatillo silver mine near Tepic Mexico, long famed as the world’s richest, is to be reopened by the Castellano Consolidated Mines Company. Manager L B Godin plans to drain the lake above the galleries with two 600 gallon per minute electric pumps powered by a turbine plant. If successful, old treasures estimated at millions may be revealed, despite legends of untimely death for those who pry the waters loose.
William H Harrington of Claremont New Hampshire near 81 in January is enjoying the rare feat of cutting his third set of teeth. He says he never had a toothache or needed a dentist and recalls his first teeth at 30 and a full set by 50 with two remaining at 76. He lives with his sister on Baker Street and admits tobacco use.
Mr Harrington of Ward Twelve Boston reflects on health practices and dental care. He recalls Mount Washington hotel becoming an asylum for the blind and shares views on diet, candy, smoking, and late nights as factors in vision and teeth. He notes a long career as a shoemaker and later as owner of an express route to Wakefield.
New York physician Dr Joseph Ostrewick whose fox terrier Prince vanished, pleads with Mrs Redder who found the pet to return it. Magistrate Harris rules, in a playful session, that Prince must pick his owner. The dog pounces to Ostrewick and snuggles against him, declaring him rightful owner.
Nero the dog, faithful companion of Mrs. Christiana Lapardus of Trenton, N J, was buried in a satin casket with violets and his favorite collar and bow. The funeral procession included Mrs Lapardus and her colored maid, and the burial occurred in a field near the city with the owner’s permission.
A professional card lists specialties in abstracts opinions on titles real estate and probate law. Located at the corner of 4th and Chestnut Streets Atlantic Iowa.
G R Miller Suite 2 Gillespie Building listed with Musson Office phone 396 in Atlantic directory entry.
Dr C G Clark a homeopathic physician and surgeon lists a former interne position at University of Iowa State Hospital. Residence and office address is 461 Black and 263 Black Atlanta.
T B Swan offers probate services with reports for administrators and guardians and appointments secured. General law business transacted. Atlantia
Washington report from Consul McNally at Nanking describes cigarettes overtaking pipes in China. Women of all classes now smoke openly, and the habit spreads rapidly. cigarettes cost as low as one quarter of a cent and are used even by opium smokers after inhaling fumes. Temple walls are reported to bear cigarette posters.
A veteran turtle wandering Clayton Gable’s Chanceford township farm near York bears a carved shell inscription reading J. A. S., 1861. The initials refer to the late John A. Seitz who once owned the property. The animal has appeared on the premises multiple times over 47 years, suggesting such turtles are not migratory.
Thomas Windle of Coatesville Pennsylvania used a new cement while repairing his dam and unintentionally killed about 3000 trout. He watched the fish die and then employed several colored women to remove the corpses from the dam and dress them. He plans to salt and keep two barrels of the surviving stock for winter consumption.
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