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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1908
Page
9
The piece discusses the national Republican tilt led by Hughes and Roosevelt across New York. It notes sentiment supporting Hughes to win the GOP nomination and expects a Republican victory in November. It mentions potential Democratic advantages if Hughes faltered, and praises the party’s current united appeal under Hughes.
The piece argues the city faces up to a half million dollars in riot damages plus vast costs paid from the public treasury. It decries delays in recompense, notes losses double the initial hit, and criticizes lax policing during the mob outbreak. It then shifts to electoral politics highlighting New York’s 39 electoral votes and Governor Hughes leading the Republican state ticket.
Announcement says Taft, Republican presidential nominee, will speak in Milwaukee to energize voters ahead of the six week election. The piece notes Wisconsin's tepid general election interest since the primaries and argues Taft’s appearance could counter Democratic momentum and Bryan’s appeal. It also references Bryan’s low-key status and Taft’s potential to reawaken Republican support in the state.
A professor warns that overwork in schools and excessive study at home harm children’s development. He urges reforms to reduce school hours and parental help, arguing that current aims to “make records” risk overburdening students and hinder genuine progress. The piece also discusses political vitriol and opinions on parties, farmers, and leadership, noting election returns and commentary on Prohibition nominees and public service issues.
Shadrach Davis of Oshkosh, retired, testifies in 1898 to kidney pain and relief from Doan's Kidney Pills purchased at F A Horn's drug store, noting long use and consistent benefit. In 1905 he reaffirmed Doan's efficacy and keeps a supply, with Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo listed as U.S. agents.
A fragmentary Paris era item mentions census figures for Phippinnes and Merstham, a Russian expedition to find a northwest passage, rising U S cigarette use with billions of papers smoked, Texas onion crop receipts near 100000 dollars, a public health study funded by the Sage, a Southport figure with revolutionary ties, Curie radium labor and value, and a note on laboratory use and value of radium.
A ragged clump of items from Wisconsin news reports a burial in Chilton and other obits, a marriage in Tacoma, a boy saved by antidotes, capture of a fugitive in Racine, and various legal and political notes including a suicide note, a proposal to adjust town burdens, a rail wire underground protest, and a mental anguish telegram suit in Superior.
News notes recount Tati's address to Cincinnati negro ministers drawing a strong reaction. Giovanni Morcaini, Italian banker and philanthropist, dies suddenly in New York. Baimaond asserts Hughes’s nomination ends Democratic hopes in New York. Harriman tells of railroads through alliances reducing costs in Chicago. Judge Tuthill to order amputation of a boy's arm at surgeon's urging despite father's protests. Des Moines' "red Hehe" district disappears. Eighteen women accept respectable work. others leave the city.
Fragmented political summary notes Wisconsin and Minnesota election doubts, GOP strength since 1832, past votes for governor and president, and shifts in party support with references to Parker Bryan and Roosevelt. Several figures and dates are garbled, but the piece discusses sustained Republican plurality and potential changes in 1912.
An unclear excerpt discusses proprietary mencies and a reputation for elitism among individuals of different social statuses. It references Binchbera and the Corn Reyal Tils, with phrases about wealth and health being tied to social standing. The text is garbled and lacks coherent facts or events.
Fragmented text references a rate, act, and sale context with unclear entities. It mentions a subject moving, a seller, and potential witnesses but lacks coherent names, places, dates, or outcomes. The readable bits suggest a financial or legal action but details remain obscured.
New York on September 16 1920 Frank Vincent Bennett longtime hotel executive and former manager of the Hotel Arlington in Washington D C fatally shot himself after ordering a pitcher of ice water to his seventh floor room at the Hotel Gotham Bellboy Frank Rooney found him dying before a physician arrived Coroner Harburger and East Fifty first street police opened an inquiry Frederick Wishart Gotham hotel manager alerted authorities and Walter Bennett another hotel executive spoke with his father shortly before the tragedy The water request came at 125 PM and the bellboy discovered the body five minutes later
A humorous etched adaptation recounts ten figures on a water wagon through misadventures and losses. It parodies the children's rhyme by mapping each stage to drinking choices and outcomes, ending with a grim final fate as the refrain. The Hohemian.
A compilation of brief quotes and notes from Wisconsin newspapers discusses tensions among senators, candidate endorsements, and the political climate. Reports reference Adlai Stevenson, Adl a and Cook’s Wisconsin run, primary endorsements, and local editorials on campaign openness and voter sentiment.
A collage of seaside humor and misheard lines, including a farmer’s joke about a horse picture, a doctor’s visit gone awry, jurors’ supper counted as eleven dinners and a base two, a drunken preacher’s tirade, and a village constable quip about corroboration, all reflecting late 19th or early 20th century light fare.
The text reflects on the restless impulse to move west for opportunity. It cites the Kansas and Nebraska settlement boom of the 19th century, populated by hopeful settlers drawn to irrigated valleys. Crop failures and financial strain are noted as factors that turned many into floaters seeking new lands.
A fragmentary lyric conveys a portrait of a Wind Maiden whose charm sparks laughter and joy, and who captivates the speaker Arthur Guterman in Smart Set, ending with a vivid, personal image of dancing into the heart and closing the door.
The Saxeville dinner bell once used on Jeff Davis plantation near Vicksburg was seized during a forage party and shipped to Berlin. Leonard Buck delivered it to Saxeville, where local students placed it in the schoolhouse as the bell.
The piece explains how Napoleon a century ago split beggars into three classes and assigned different treatments. Incapacitated poor would go to infirmaries, able-bodied beggars to correctional institutions, and vagabonds to houses of detention or prisons with police supervision after release. It notes infirmaries grew at workhouse expense due to wartime needs.
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