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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
9
Management announces ten monster shows with novel features including the Largest Pleasure Wheel ever carried, Broadway Belles performances, an exact Johnstown Flood reproduction, Pearl and Jennie as noted women, and Tours and Scenes of the World an educational exhibition offering a realistic land and sea trip.
A rural sale will offer 40 Milch Cows 60 Thoroughbred Duroc Jersey Hogs 19 Shorthorn and Black Polled Cows 10 High Grade Jersey Milch Cows 12 Shorthorn Heifers two years old. The sale promises the best milch cow list Cass county has seen. Usual terms. Auctioneer A G Todhunter Clerk Ed L Newton. Free lunch at noon. Sale starts 1 pm. Jens Quist and E M Bourne.
South Omaha Neb October 12 1908 supplies of cattle last week amounted to about 35000 head or 4000 head heavier than the prior week. The run consisted largely of grassers killers stockers and feeders. Trading was generally unsatisfactory and prices declined sharply fifteen to twenty five cents on most killers and fifteen to twenty cents on ordinary stockers and feeders. Few corn feds appear wanted at this time.
About 9,000 cattle sold with prices steady to firm. Heavy feeders 4.65 to 5.00, fair to good 4.238 to 4.65, light weights 4.00 to 4.49, common to fair 3.50 to 3.85. Good steer calves 4.00 to 4.25, good heifer calves 3.00 to 3.25, stock heifers 2.85 to 3.00, light feeding pulls 2.65 to 3.00, heavy 2.50 to 2.65. Hog prices down 15 to 20 cents. bulk 5.95 to 6.05, top 6.15. Clay Robinson & Co.
A reflective political poem from the Emporia Gazette foresees the end of party clash. It imagines final appeals from More Anon and You Know Who while Justitia's protest and readers' voices signal a quiet after the contest. The piece urges dropping politics to pursue a higher life.
A man charged with murder was assigned a crude looking counsel. The prisoner asked the judge if the lawyer would defend him. The judge affirmed. The prisoner then asked if another lawyer could replace him if the current defender died. The judge again affirmed. The exchange prompted the jailhouse moment of doubt.
A Billville correspondent writes that the river has drowned all cattle, the uncle has broken jail, and the widowed woman to marry has run off with a con artist. Aside from these troubles, everything else is said to be well.
A transplanted American laments New York waiters spoiling meals in grand hotels. He describes overbearing staff, constant service, and waiter-driven menus as ruinous to his dining experience amid upscale restaurants. The piece echoes a Times style caricature of service culture.
The pelican’s red tipped bill inspired the fable that it feeds its young with blood. A press of the bill on the breast to empty the pouch and a mistaken blood color are cited alongside a comparison to the flamingo’s bloodlike secretion to its young.
In Philadelphia Praca a brief chat reveals Miss Chellus confirming engagement to Mr Boxley. Miss Pechis notes the match with calm sarcasm calling the groom a catch and Miss Chellus retorts with a playful remark about a catcher.
Stray Stories notes that public penance with a white sheet was historically common to mark grave offenses. The last explicit public confession in England occurred July 30, 1882 at All Saints East Clevedon by a man named Hartree, though no sheet was used. Earlier public penances appeared in St Bridget’s Chester in 1851 and in Essex churches in 1849.
A. L. Parrott, famed for daring on the southwest border, sits in a southwest Texas town playing chess after leaving state service. A bullet through an open window hits a black knight, paralyzing him briefly before Parrott quips Cheek, revealing a near-miss pistol shot.
An Exchange note recalls the legend of Junius Brutus and the Tarquins seeking Rome’s successor from the Delphic oracle. The oracle’s line Be who shall first kiss his mother leads Brutus to kiss the earth, Earth Mother of all, marking an early use of the term Mother Earth.
The article explains pietra d infamia or stone of infamy used to punish bankrupts in Venice Verona and Florence. During carnival week bankrupts were paraded read aloud about their failure and then bumped on the stone twelve times in honor of the twelve apostles amid creditor jeers.
London News notes the shift from wigs to natural hair tied in power and pig tails tied to the move toward nature surrounding the French Revolution. The wig allegedly began with Louis XIII as he balded and courtiers imitated him to please the monarch. The piece observes wigs lasting over a century in England while trousers were rare a century ago.
An excerpt from the New York Press notes humorously that blue drinks are not popular with the public. A bar tender claims blue substances recall poison bottles, causing distaste and horror, despite claims that blue drinks could be made.
A student whispers about a teacher calling him a duffer. The professor suspects a framed reply but encourages the boy to speak up, saying perhaps you are right. This vignette captures a tense classroom moment with humor and doubt.
Readers offered a trial subscription for one dollar to The Des Moines Daily Register and Leader through February 1, 1909. The paper promotes Iowa news coverage, cartoons, livestock market reports, and wide Iowa delivery with a renewal option.
The Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer is a Chicago weekly with strong daily ties offering a combined subscription for 1.25 a year. Normally 1 for The Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer and 1 for the Farmers Messenger, this special rate invites readers to join both papers for a year.
J. S. Sankey J. C. Stewart and C. C. Spear of Maine were Atlantic visitors Wednesday of last week.
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