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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
5
The Taft movement in Wisconsin struggles with internal splits and opposition from La Follette forces. Editors question the party’s strategy as delegates loom, with speculation on whether Taft or La Follette will dominate the state convention.
A scholarly discussion by Prof Newoods examines the prospects of aerial navigation. He reviews aeroplane and kite theories, notes experiments, and suggests combinations may yield better machines, while concluding travel by air remains distant.
Advert shows Hood's Sarsaparilla touted as superior for scrofula and blood diseases with testimonials from J. N. Carr in Crosby Texas and Mrs Nona Hegues in Haghey Tennessee. It promotes 100 doses for one dollar and mentions sale in tablet form as Sarsatabs.
An 19th century style analysis traces the Venezuela dispute origins from 20 years past, detailing competing concessions and timber interests, foreign involvement, and calls for an impartial Hague tribunal. It notes American and European players, economic stakes in timber and asphalt, and political tension over concessions and sovereignty.
The text lists varied topics including German competition, American and Parisian figures, and royal affairs. It mentions a German competition, Theodore A. Fhaless, Me Touman of Tennessee, and Princess Stanielaus Dentitawski, with references to forests as investments and a romantic career of Andre Bonsitowshki. The reliability and coherence are limited by OCR corruption.
The Whitewater Register reports on speculation around McGorvern as a candidate for the Wisconsin senate. Dialogue touches on debt history, influence from a senior senator, and a possible path toward a La Follette era presidential platform. Participants name Maud and Tom discussing leadership clarity and pace.
A fragment from Don Marquis in Unels- Remus' Magazine laments squandered youth and fading pleasures. The speaker recalls laughing eyes and carefree days, acknowledging a farewell as folly and youth drift apart.
News notes report New York grand opera payments at 2.21 million for last season and a crackdown on anarchist presses. Pennsylvania railways vow to hire Americans only, with other items on a royal engagement and a Berlin statement on Kaiser. A Wells Fargo car robbery near Newton Kansas leaves one messenger dead and loot of cash and jewels. Lanna Wyoming mine entombs twenty, a second blast traps rescuers, while Union Square riot findings point to a planned bombing. Police pursue the plot and identify a suspect linked to the horse incident.
Ann Arbor car ferries poised to enter navigation at Marinette on Wednesday. A Block company organized at Waukesha to build a modern theater. Power knitting machines replace hand methods at Marinette Knitting works in August. Drews resigns Manitowoc police chief post without stated reason. John Sant arrested at Superior for illegal voting after living in Wisconsin less than a year. State fire marshals investigate eight fires causing $2500 loss. Milwaukee Chair factory fire damages plant. Dr. C A Frost dies at Platteville aged 57. he was an Odd Fellow. B J Carey robbed of $58 at Arlington hotel Milwaukee. Mitch ell arrested in Memphis. Dewaukee hotel proprietor George Curlin’s men arrested for shouting at C Powers Milwaukee traveler. Fred Uierman 82 caretaker of Gen Louis Auwers residence near Pewaukee Lake killed by a fall en route home. Wisconsin winter 1897 98 expected to bring 250000 feet cut. Ambassador Hakren Speck writes he will visit Creamelts in May. Samuel Shafer fined for beating sister, with tar and feather punishment by farmers. Dr Byron Douglas pioneer dentist, died at Appleton aged 83. served Wisconsin Assembly in 1862. Explosion triggers fire at Downey & GW Roark’s North Fond du Lac saloon. stove blast scatters embers, water loss stops fire. Effie Frank, reputed check forger, tested in Milwaukee. operations tied to other large towns and a Sb Paul bogus check case.
Fond du Lac Reporter critiques Wisconsin state departments for sending public notices to newspapers with requests to publish for free and to receive a marked copy. It argues papers should charge regular rates and stop subsidizing official announcements. Editorial says newspapers deserve payment and thanks.
A collage of comic exchanges and one lengthy essay excerpt from Harper's Weekly. Features banter between two mothers about letters, a magistrate scene with a prisoner, a lawyer quipping about lending himself, and a railway carriage jape. Ends with an essay on why the poor work, attributing motive to nature and power rather than wealth.
Newspapers mark a noisy political season with critique of justice of the supreme court candidates. Readers face inflated campaign materials and editors wonder at the audacity of publishers paid to print candidate arguments. A Wisconsin lake turns red drawing amusement amid price worries at summer resorts.
Hindtip cures kidney and nervous troubles and guarantees results. Druggist Medland of Algoma Street offers 7 Gent by mail for 5 cents, with 6 boxes priced at $2.00. The ad argues removal of Bright's disease diabetes rheumatism gout gravel dropsy and bladder inflammation with no risk and a money-back assurance.
A depot fire destroyed the Locomotive Worms plant that heated the Union de pot in Kansas City and powered interlocking switches and signals. To meet the emergency a Chicago and Alton engine coupled to a coal car supplied steam to keep the depot at seventy degrees and ran the yard controls.
Poem fragment by Clinton Scollard in Smart Set describes water sprites as silver-clad figures racing over hills and hollows. The speaker runs beside them, noting the joyous brightness they bring and the awakenings of beauty and wonder at their touch, despite a blight on beauty described as darkness.
International conference planned in Paria to discuss the selection and introduction of useful exotic plants. The bureau of plant industry’s work is praised by farmers and seedsmen, with returns from new crops already repaying federal costs. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is certified drug free by eminent chemists and marketed by druggists.
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