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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1908
Page
3
The Christmas Dinner club will give a Christmas meal to many people who want one. The president and secretary treasurer manage the club. Details of the arrangement and operation appear in the newspaper columns of this issue.
Washington December 1 Associated Press Senate debate centers on a bill by Jonathan Bourne Jr. to raise executive salaries. He argues the president, as head of the world’s largest corporation, deserves higher pay due to extraordinary responsibilities and risks. Bourne cites French salaries and the poverty often faced by former public servants. The proposal sets the president at 100000 dollars and the vice president at 26000.
An imperial edict issued in Peking on December 19 grants special honors to thirty two princes and officials. Prince Ching becomes a prince in perpetuity, with grand council members receiving other marks of favor. The edict bears the regent and grand councillors’ seals for the first time under the new regency regulations.
Kansas City December 19 testimony focused on Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad rates. Chief witnesses were statisticians whose early statements indicate rate findings amid the Missouri hearing.
The general auditor of the Rock Island system presented figures in Missouri showing cost of early stage passenger travel at 15.91 cents per mile and for state passengers 2.86 cents per mile. The data aim to refute state contention that a two cent per mile rate spurred craft activity.
In Washington on December 19 a strong probability emerged that further absinthe imports to the United States will be banned. Dr Haney W Wiles, head of the bureau of chemistry, recommended action, noting absinthe's habit forming and health risks. He cites the Pure Food and Drug Act prohibits imports injurious to health and mentions France and Belgium moving to restrict or prohibit sale.
A Delineator essay contrasts the semi decollette with full decollette styles in London and New York. It argues the semi-decollette offers formality and practicality, veiling the neckline with tulle or lace, suitable for both daytime and evening events, reducing wardrobe needs.
Justice Harlan and Judge Taft share humorous fox stories about a calf and a wagon. Harlan recalls a wild drive that lands near a caddie within three hundred yards, while Taft narrates a fishing tale where a wagon ends up three hundred yards from the river. The exchange ends with Silence after Chapple’s vignette.
The article notes beet sugar is a young industry in the United States with about 120 million in capital, arguing for protective policy to enable development. It describes Europe’s cheap labor and high-wage horses influencing production, and discusses experiments in the beet belt toward reducing hand labor through seeding, thinning, and machine loading of beets.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a universal cure for indigestion and stomach misery. It claims rapid relief from sour stomach, heartburn, belching, and nausea, with a 60 cent case available at pharmacies for prompt action after meals.
Bonnie Liewster seeks donations for crippled children and charms Charlie Warren, a promising lawyer, into giving a large check after a luncheon with Tom Brewster. Warren later pledges a hundred dollars, courts Bonnie with dinners and theater, and finally proposes at the charity event, as Bonnie accepts hopeful happiness with him.
London readers learn how dog breeds got their names from country or occupation. Spaniel from Spain and Blenheim Palace, King Charles from the merry monarch, fox terriers linked to hunting foxes, bulldog history with cattle and nose pressure, Anchshund as German badger hound, Spitz meaning sharp, and Dalmatian from Dalmatia.
An account recalls Cherokee Indian methods for treating rattlesnake bites. A knife is used to cut out the bite area and bleeding stopped by tying and immersing the limb in running water while awaiting medical help. The tale notes this as a practical, traditional approach when a physician is unavailable.
A jumble of promotional blurbs and quips satire style text. Includes lines about coffee habits a Buffalo Wyoming reader and a Buckjen salve claim. Mentions self satire compliance jokes and a patent medicine Dean's Reguleta promoting bowel movement relief.
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