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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1900
Page
8
A veteran Chicago detective describes the rise of check workers and grafters who forge genuine signatures, create fake marriage and court documents, and cash falsified checks. The piece details schemes from signature forging and engraving tricks to social con games, noting many victims and inventive methods across cities and banks.
Two Smith College graduates pursue a new occupation in laundry work, proving the business safe and profitable for educated women. They visited over 100 laundries in Boston, built a model plant, and earned steady customers while emphasizing sanitary, efficient practices and improving working conditions.
An observer catalogs inventors with humorous names and their patents. Pairweather, Buzzard and Thunderbolt appear on weather devices. Snow patents ereigh. Cutter improves a runner. Gunn credited with breech loading gun. Candy sells new candy tablets. Hogg, self wasting treble. Tait, a combination lock. McTam many, a Yoting machine. Horse, a safety driving rein. Pulley, a stump extractor. Girl invents a baby walker. Husbands, a bachelor, patents aaby dimper.
An in depth look at gutta percha golf balls describes source materials from India and Borneo, the costly process of washing shaping molding and curing, the careful quality checks marking styles and the capital needed. It notes varying ball sizes marks and the economics of starting a gutta percha golf ball business with large initial stock and long lead times.
A jumble of notes and local items mentions gutta percha imports, price effects, and a vague business note. Nearby items report deaths, reunions, music student graduation, and local society events. The text blends miscellaneous notices with poetry and anecdotal comments.
A dense OCR of Sunday services and programs lists many churches with weekly sermons, Sunday School times, choirs, and special music. Notable entries include Second Baptist on Slath Street with morning and evening programs, First Congregational led by Rev E H Smith, Plymouth Congregational at Church Street and Franklin Avenue, and Episcopal details at St Paul on Jefferson Avenue and Melhin Street. Also noted are Trinity Church and Evangelical congregations with varied schedules and events through late summer.
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