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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1908
Page
10
The Hindu Boy protests the caste system in India as a 2000 year old hereditary bondage. Caste dictates marriage, feeding, and social contact, with strict rules on purity and touch. It cites arbitrary restrictions and the notion that higher castes purify and outcastes are unclean, as a call for social revolution.
The piece recounts Narcissus, a famed ancient flower linked to myth. It tells how the youth caused love for his own reflection, leading to punishment by Nemesis, his image turning into the flower that bears his name, with echoes of Proserpine and Cephisus in the legends.
An OCR fragment shows a whimsical couplet about a centipede and a toad with garbled words. The readable bits hint at a playful, perhaps poetic, line about distraction and uncertainty.
An old scrapbook explains a seaside trick using a paper fish placed in a tub. A circular center opening links to a tall canal creating a water path. A drop of oil causes the fish to surface and move as if alive through the narrow channel.
The passage explains that the reaction force from the oil output drives the fish in the opposite direction, so the fish moves forward yet travels a distance.
An entertaining guide for hosting a no currency auction party. Guests bid with beans for wrapped catalogued items ranging from a bit of old lace to a pen and sealing wax. A glib auctioneer leads bids while playful clues conceal familiar objects and figures.
A hard boiled egg placed on a plate near the edge spins upright on its points and revolves when the hand makes a gentle waltz motion. Place a plate, position the egg vertically, and move the hand in a circular rhythm to make the egg rotate.
Henry resists bath time and argues with his mother about bathing his four year old body. One night, worn from what he sees as unnecessary work, he sighs that his mother could skip his stomach since no one has ever reached it before.
An old railroad man recalls chasing the Detroit express at high speed after a father, Casey the watchman, begged to reach the fast train for his heart‑diseased daughter. A night ride with an extra engine ended when they reached Detroit and found the daughter safe, prompting a reprimand from the general manager.
An engineer describes how a track laying machine advances along a line from city to city. A steam shovel digs earth, dump cars carry it away, and crews prepare a graded roadbed with thousands of picks and shovels before the machine automates ties and rails.
A New Haven freight train halted within about twelve feet of a man who hanged himself from a Pocahontas Street bridge rail. Police inspected the scene noting a rope and clothing line were used. The body lay beneath the train as it was lowered to the ground after the stop.
A western railroad director traveling east in spring 1889 heeded his wife's warning after she dreamed of water danger. She urged him to avoid oceans and waters, then learned of the Johnstown flood hours after he departed. He later telegrams arrival confirmed he had passed through before the dam broke.
A Tama Musquankie Indian descendant serves as the Burlington railroad engineer, guiding a fast passenger train. He surveys the same rivers and landscapes his ancestors knew, wearing different clothes and speaking another language, yet serving civilization on the prairie.
A 300 pound buck tried to stop a passenger train from New Haven to Middletown in Durham conn. The deer faced the locomotive with head high as the engine blew its whistle. The doe and fawns leaped aside while the buck stood firm, undeterred by the danger.
Instructions describe making a garden swing chair from two 24% inch diameter round pieces 10 inches long and two 1% inch diameter pieces 40 inches long. The longer pieces form sides with mortises and tenons fitting end pieces. Ropes, hooks, and a large canvas seat complete a chair that can convert to a chain or hammock with adjustable ropes and a slide.
Lantern slides offer a profitable hobby using 4x4 inch glass plates. The article explains two production methods, contact printing and camera reduction, detailing setup, exposure, development, and tinting. It covers materials, frame construction, light source, and final assembly with a black mat and glass, noting contrast considerations and the need to follow plate manufacturer formulas.
A Metal Worker describes a boat bow lamp built like a street lamp with three faced glass a back door and a top vent. The frame holds two to four oil lamps to provide bright light for fishing from a boat at night and outlines a sketch shown alongside.
A simple thumb tack lifter is made from a regular six inch wire nail. Bend the nail as shown, flatten the point to about half an inch, and sharpen the edges. The nail head can drive tacks, and the bend prevents the lifter from rolling off a drawing table.
The article discusses using muslin instead of glass in windows as a construction choice. It claims muslin offers benefits in fighting tuberculosis, though initial statements suggest a paradoxical improvement.
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