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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1908
Page
6
The Casper Press cites Detroit Free Press on Congress of Governors reflections about past forest destruction. It laments pioneer over exploitation, warns of near baldness in the West, and notes Washington forester figures equating losses to a fleet of battleships, possibly over 100 million.
Prof F Moritz of Strasburg promotes a milk only diet to treat obesity. The regimen allows a small amount of water and five daily milk servings totaling about two to three pints, with a reported patient loss of 56 pounds in 81 cure days. He claims the method suits those with heart or kidney issues and is easy for doctors to supervise.
The text notes M. Alberti, once a popular Danish minister of justice, caused a Bank collapse through reckless speculation and embezzlement. It quotes a $6 million loss affecting many small savers and eroding public trust in leaders, with lingering damage beyond the immediate financial impact.
The text recalls Prof Josiah Royce's lectures at Harvard a dozen years ago arguing that plants and inanimate nature may possess intelligence and communicate. It suggests that these intelligences might not be lower than human intellect, echoing the notion that little is new in fact or theory.
The writer, a Liberal critic of reform, questions Lord Rosebery’s plan to add a limited number of eminent commoners to the House of Lords for the duration of each parliament. They argue electing a guaranteed minority of Tory Lords risks upholding hereditary privilege.
A declaration asserts three years are needed to properly promulgate a new fashion for women's dresses, surprising men who expect instant changes when dressmakers act on a whim.
Various stories: Ira Yates and widow of a war governor die in Jacksonville aged 86. Mrs George Coller drowns inspecting a winery near Santa Rosa. Stanford President David Starr Jordan urges a national fish protection bureau. Western Miners endorse a $100000 strike fund. Indigenous reports claim Curwood killed by Indians. Auburn, California gunfight ends with a posse killing J P Gard. Montana bans entry of livestock from Dakota and Wyoming. A Confederate gavel disappears after San Francisco session. Henry Baker killed by train after pugilism with Jeffries. New wireless link San Francisco to Oahu claims two and a half hours of uninterrupted airwaves. Denver to host next Transmississippi congress in 1909. Panama Canal project widely praised. Goethals forecasts completion in six years. Cuba hit by demi cyclone floods and crop damage. Venezuela faces political shift as Castro ill. Louis Fitzgerald dies in New York. civil and legal notes. White Star to build two colossal liners. Race tragedy in Alabama. race tensions rise. Insurance totals rise. Colorado holds a large share. Attempt to wreck Youngstown hotel by pulling down building. Ernest Barry wins English sculling championship after ten years in Australia.
Several people injured when rioters shattered hotel windows in New York City after an assault on Albert Lind, a strikebreaker for the New York Taxicab Company. Equitable Life announces sale of its Denver building for 1.4 million dollars to William Barth of Denver. Pittsburg reports a growing automobile population, surpassing prior city counts.
Reports from Washington detail Col William F Stewart's retirement after a board review. Postmaster Meyer designs new U S stamps with several denominations while others are retired. Land withdrawn for Shoshone project returns to public domain with entry rules. Naval academy exams drop twenty four midshipmen. Forest service district foresters named by Pinchot. Treasury buys 100000 ounces of silver at 51 994 cents per ounce. Geological survey cites mineral springs output for 1907 and 1906 with values and totals.
The Colorado & Southern reveals a plan to build new tracks from Fort Collins to Cheyenne and from Orin Junction to Forsyth Montana, creating a north south trunk line from Montana to the Gulf. Three million in bonds start the project with $72 million remaining from the $100 million authorization to finish the northern system into the northwest.
An enormous suffragette crowd surrounds Parliament in a Tuesday night melee blocking traffic and causing disorder for over three hours. Mrs Travers Symons disrupts anti-cigarette debate, seized by officials, as police and troops keep order near Trafalgar Square.
The second of three American balloons in the international Sun day trophy from Schmargendorf met disaster over the North Sea. The St. Louis crew N H Arnold of North Adams Massachusetts and Harry J Hewitt were carried by air currents and forced to descend into the sea, where they were buffeted for an hour before rescue by a lifeboat.
New Wyoming Power Company of Cheyenne filed articles of incorporation and seeks authority to construct a large power plant near Lander to generate electricity from crude oil. The venture aims to supply power to Horn Power and deliver about 10,000 electrical units.
Sheridan wins federal building contract for 131000. Rawlins penitentiary holds 260 inmates the largest count yet. Forest service completes 40 mile Cody to Sunlight Basin line. Booming irrigation plans near Laramie and Bosler Carey act drawing draw buyers. Burglaries amid rally. miners strike impact on UP coal transport.
Mrs R Crouse of Fayette Manchester Indiana reports two years of back pain with rheumatic symptoms and sleep loss. After using Dean's Kidney Pills her kidney function improved, backache stopped, and her health became unusually good. Ad by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A vivid scene from Everybody's Magazine describes a dawn parade of a traveling show waking two young brothers Billie and Robert as their mother pretends to sleep. The elder guides the younger in dressing while the mother ready to assist hesitates when the younger boy urges Billie to ask the mother for help.
In a Richmond hospital a lonely patient meets a new maid who brags about education and a past in a house. She recounts a deadly gas incident that made a previous rival easy to beat, a grim anecdote within a magazine excerpt.
Walter Pater, aging and bald at fifty, is compared to Dean Swift in views of women. A friend asks about marriage and Pater says men and women pull in different directions and women will not pull their way. He notes few words suffice for wit and parrotlike speech pleases.
An Englishman boasts his great great grandfather became a lord by the king pictured on a shilling, while a Yankee counters with his great great grandfather becoming an angel by the Indian pictured on a cent. The quip appears in Ladies' Home Journal.
A reader recounts relief from chronic indigestion after trying Grape-Nuts with cream and Postum. He describes previous breakfast habits of oatmeal meat bread coffee and fruit and notes rapid improvement within a week and further benefits by two weeks.
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