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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1901
Page
4
The fragmentary report threads boxing lore with belt lore, noting a belt valued at $20,000 or $8,000 and the jewelers storing it, while discussing Jeffries, Corbett, Sharkey, and McGovern. It sketches weather impacts on fighters, tours American sport scenes, and mentions racing stock, vaudeville plans, and a distant boxing era with Sullivan perspectives.
New York's Amen Corner gathers doctors, lawyers, politicians, journalists, hotel men, and town figures in the Fifth Avenue hotel corridor to discuss politics, finance, law, culture, and social issues. The exchange spans local and international topics, with attendees from across the United States and abroad.
Letters from civil service officials in Manila report Filipino women showing intense interest in government offices. Many have secured application blanks and plan to take examinations in Manila, with about 800 people seeking to be examined and expectations that the government may need all clerical staff.
The piece argues that while marriage does not disqualify a woman from teaching the issue is practical. Married teachers face household duties and motherhood that can distract from classroom work, and boards have to weigh social realities over theory. It questions whether married or single women better serve students.
Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago told his class that middle hair parts, shirt waists for men, and tattooing mark a degenerate instinct in modern civilization. He urged students to avoid these fads, sparking reaction among athletes in the lecture audience.
A long antiquated excerpt summarizes a study of over forty thousand pairs of ears in England and France. It notes that ears continue to grow into old age, with elderly individuals often showing larger ears than younger adults. It adds that ear shapes persist through heredity and that ear size may increase from youth to old age.
A Saturday Evening Post excerpt discusses how ears reveal age and changes over time. It claims ears can indicate youth loss, with wrinkles forming in the thirties and a cartilage lump near the top. The piece notes variations in ear shape and placement and contrasts human ears with pointed ape-like origins.
George Totten of Warwick eludes a train guardsman by feigning a jailbreak from a Erie bound trip to Goshen. Totten tricks conductor Bemrose, escapes carrying no money, but returns on foot to meet his captor and is finally lodged in Goshen jail after a unlikely, humorous pursuit.
The Church of Carmen in San Angel hosts a unique feast called the feast of the poppies or Poppy Thursday. Pilgrims from neighboring districts and Mexico City attend a service and a churchyard procession with poppy petals showered from the wall and floral decorations inside the church. A devotional scene commemorates the appearance of the Saviour after the resurrection to Mary Magdalene.
A New York Sun item describes shop clerks offering stretched secondhand shoes to customers. Worn enough by professional stretchers to ease stiffness, the shoes slip onto feet with little effort, sparking talk of making stretched footwear a staple feature of the feteck and promising a small extra charge for relief from the usual fitting pains.
In a friendly action, Admiral Dewey and officers pursue adjudication of Manila Bay prize money against the government. The case aims for a favorable Supreme Court of the District of Columbia ruling within a week. Washington Letter notes government delays in payment without court authorization.
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