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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
2
An essay on memory’s power to transform pain into beauty, with reflections on childhood, home, schooldays, first loves, and the lure of heaven. A Western exposition painting titled Past Present and Future frames memory as a stairway from a stagnant hag to a hopeful youth aided by a guiding future figure.
A reflective meditation on American character and nature. The author extols rural life, forests, and trees as a source of beauty, spiritual solace, and national identity, invoking Bryant and nature’s calming, restorative influence in times of sorrow.
A poetic meditation on dream and night, then a personal essay by James A. Edgerton of Cold Spring on the Hudson. He cites Rockefeller and Benedict Arnold to argue that people are drawn to high ideals, that truth endures, and that only the good survives as appearances prove unreliable.
A speaker urges moving beyond perfunctory reverence for the past while honoring its contributions. He praises past sacrifices that built civilization, cautions against harsh denunciation, and argues the living must serve the unborn by advancing wholesome, true values without burdensome nostalgia.
A historical account of John Day a clever yet ignorant diver who died in June 1774 after sealing himself in a water tight box to prove a wager in Plymouth Sound. It contrasts Day’s folly with modern diver safety practices the dangers of air supply entanglement currents and shark encounters.
Reports from the English coast describe signals that seem to vanish and return at varying distances. Sightings include distant gunfire during Queen Victoria’s mourning and cries heard by a guard onshore. Wind direction fails to explain the sound’s travel, a perplexing acoustic mystery noted by the Chicago News.
In the era of the first Quincey baby the Quincy couple rely on a daily issue of Peggy's advice. Mrs Quincy discovers Peggy is not a woman but a smiling male writer in a newspaper office, prompting her outrage at male-written motherhood guidance.
Gaston bursts in upon his friend Alphonse asking to be his witness and declaring plans to marry. Alphonse asks if an apology is needed, and the moment shifts from fight to marriage.
A Washington Star quip has a stern parent asking a young man about the value of a dollar and the gilded youth replying that at the club a dollar buys one white chip, underscoring social satire on money and leisure.
A humorous exchange features a parent and child named Johnny. The child is praised for talent and mischief including playing cards bowing and cussing while a priest asks if he can say his prayers. The humorous line notes he is too little for prayer.
A witty Chicago Record-Herald quip notes that love may move hearts but money keeps the machinery turning, joking that cash buys the axle grease essential for progress.
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