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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1902
Page
11
A nocturnal scene unfolds with stark imagery of sea and shore. The speaker contemplates solitude and the coming storm as dawn nears, urging steadfast courage and spiritual calm against awe and doubt. The poem closes with a call to face the sea's surges and the master’s test.
The Milwaukee Musical Society male chorus presents a concert in Oshkosh with eighty singers and a mixed German English program. Soloists Miss Felix and Erich Lehmanl are featured amid a season of park concerts and a planned Fourth of July celebration at Electric Park.
Byron Van Keuren and his mother Mrs. Hansen of Oshkosh visited Picketts. Mrs. T. Stone hosted Oshkosh guests who opened a Grocery Store near the Fowler house. Mrs. Howes of Oshkosh decorated Rev. YD Howes grave, former Elo M. church pastor and Civil War veteran. Mrs. Griffith led Epworth league, and Mrs. E. Lyness and her son Eddie visited their daughter.
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Smith of 311 Elm Street marked their 59th anniversary with a Tuesday reception for about 159 guests at the home of their son KE. S. Smith at 29 Elmatreet. The afternoon dinner preceded the informal gathering with many pastors present. The couple, aged 73 and 71, have long service in the Methodist Episcopal conference.
A long piece examining The Desert as subject in the June Century with Ray Stannard Baker and Maxfield Parrish, plus related features in Everybody’s, Smart Set, and Leale’s Monthly. It notes biographical, commercial, and scenic angles and previews several prominent articles and stories.
A vivid 1902 fashion overview outlines the summer wardrobe for fashionable women. It highlights a fast-changing daily schedule, walking skirts with complex cuts, light jackets, Gibson shirt waists, satin or taffeta jackets, open-work stockings, and dainty breakfast gowns. The piece emphasizes color, intricate stitching, and the impracticality of selecting every style.
Prominent Mrs Atherton provides a letter praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for various women's ailments. The testimonial asserts the remedy treats inflammatory and uterine disorders, back pain, and menstrual irregularities, urging women to use the product.
The piece details chic afternoon gowns in foulard crepe de chine and banded silks, with open nets and yokes, plus long trains for dual use. It notes evening gowns in pale blue plisa chiffon with black lace, and mentions ivory gloves, tattooed arms as a costly fad, and knitted shoulder shawls trending at summer resorts.
Description describes buds and leaves in raised design and a deep silken fringe. The fringe is two colored with the chale tint predominant and is part of Maude Griffin’s embroidered Sena.
The piece notes large movements of farmers from Iowa, northern Missouri, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan selling old farms for low prices and buying land in the northwest at higher value. Trainloads move through St Paul and Minneapolis as American-born settlers bring farming experience, boosting crop production, commerce, and innovative methods in new communities.
The American Monthly Review of Reviews assesses Bret Harte as equal to his early genius, noting that his later works, though vast, are judged by different standards. It highlights his miners, gamblers, and camp women as idealized yet vividly drawn, reflecting Harte’s keen humor, pathos, and nature’s gentle portrayal.
An 19th century style advertisement claims local treatments fail for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal medicine that acts on blood and mucous surfaces. It asserts a physician pedigree, lists ingredients as good tonics and blood purifiers, and offers testimonials on request with druggist availability and a trial price.
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