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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
2
A government expert proposes using ice to keep a car warm in zero weather. Insulated compartments hold four ice filled cylinders at each end to retain heat, while summer use cools with ice and salt. In winter solid ice prevents freezing of car contents and banana transport benefits.
The Newark News defends Jersey City's tenement law and its enforced provisions amid opposition from architects politicians tenants and capitalists. It argues predicted harms did not occur as better tenements were built and notes enforcement challenges remain for sanitary construction. The Wisconsin paper observes the case as a model for other communities facing similar housing issues.
A discussion on two classes of Chinese banquets, birds nest soup feasts and sucking pig feasts. The pig marks high status, but cracking a sucking pig excludes more costly dishes like turtle, stag cartilage, seaweed, fungus, birds nest, and lotus seed. Birds nest feasts are costly, signaling greater host standing.
Dr. Howard A. Kelly argues that a $300 daily fee for a highly trained physician with a strong reputation is not exorbitant. He notes other professionals command high stipends, and a portrait painter illustrates how past earnings relate to current value. The measure of payment, he says, aligns with reputation and societal esteem.
The London Daily Chronicle notes Tasmanians as "Tassies" and "jam eaters" for their fruit industry. It labels New South Wales residents as "Corn stalks" and Victoria as "gumsuckers" due to gum trees. South Australians are "crow eaters" and Queenslanders are "banana eaters" while Western Australians are "sand gropers" for arid lands.
Governor Hughes emphasizes fixing government to its intended function with honest oathful officials and an impartial administration. He argues for free institutions serving all people, a vigilant majority, and building an enduring structure for happy, useful lives. Good humor comes from being loved and from order over disorder.
The jurist argues for a massive navy funding and predicts a future clash with a powerful yellow race. He cites the Constitution to justify funding limits on the army but not the navy and warns of a coming global maritime conflict.
Camille Meliland argues humor as life’s saving grace. He notes desire to keep good humor at will, likening it to a button to brighten all, and asserts humor begets more humor and favorable fortunes.
The Record reports Queen Alexandra wears superb imitation rubies to amuse herself as she notes privately they are false. Her majesty enjoys admiration for the stones while revealing their counterfeit nature to friends, including Duchess of Roxburghe who bought some as a joke.
Ten members of the Uecker Avenue Baptist church labored after 11 o’clock by lantern light to raise a new church building. Organizing three years ago, the congregation, not wealthy, funded materials and shared labor under Rev. William L. Harms guidance with carpenters directing daily and nightly work and the women providing coffee after sessions.
I M Robert of Hydropolis Louisiana writes that his wife suffered eczema for three years with little relief from a doctor until using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The hands and eye were affected and the eczema returned when use stopped, but was greatly helped. After the full Cuticura set she fully recovered and recommends it locally.
The London Graphic describes Signor Caminada’s new canal scheme linking Genoa to Lake Constance. Senator Columbo backs a system of two parallel tubular canals with alternating rising and sinking water to move barges over the Apennines and Alps, masonry tunnels with iron gates, kept from freezing by continuous water flow.
Father Heinrichs, a popular Franciscan priest in Denver, was killed by Giuseppe Guarnaccio, an avowed anarchist, while administering Holy Communion at St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church.
A half mile of railroad ties and iron with the Branys Bend Iron company mark "B. B. I. C." was found in the Allegheny River between Oil City and Franklin. The rails date from early rail construction by the Brady’s Bend Iron company, makers west of the mountains. It may be hard to tell which line, Franklin branch of the Atlantic & Great Western now Erie, or Franklin & Jamestown branch of Lake Shore, lost the section long ago. The Brady’s Bend Iron company ceased operations about forty years ago.
The article notes growing medical interest in using whiskey to treat rheumatism. It cites an 0 ne half pint whiskey with Toris Root and Syrup Sarsaparilla as an effective mix, to be taken in tablespoonful doses before meals and at night, with Globe Pharmaceutical Co. Day ton, C. named as the source.
The obituary notes Father Heinrichs, formerly of St Bonaventura in Paterson and previously in Crogan New York, born Koeln August 15 1867, joined the Franciscan order in 1886 and was ordained in 1901. He had lived in his final residence since last September and was sent to Paterson for interment.
A fragment from Macmillan's Magazine describes a dark sack shaped patch below the Southern Cross as part of Australian Blackfellow astronomical mythology. The note blends myth and science in a concise cultural vignette.
Astronomers describe the coal sack as a vast black hole with nothing visible inside a fact the eye can detect without instruments. The piece contrasts southern sky wonders with northern legends and explains Aboriginal beliefs about the roof and flat earth, linking travel to a transformation of identity.
An Hobart family member warns young James about his gift for foretelling outcomes. The Cape uncle argues that public reaction will hinge on the accuracy of his prophecies. He cautions shielding him behind routine mental work to avoid blame or ridicule.
An optimistic line from the Philadelphia Press contrasts luck with personal effort. The pessimist retorts that bad luck dominates, and the optimist replies that individuals must make the best of circumstances. The exchange frames a practical view of luck and agency.
The article argues that church air is not at fault for sleepiness. believers self-hypnotize by fixing gaze on a single object during the sermon. It contends that those who do sleep are among the most earnest in trying to heed the preacher, per Current Literature.
The freezing of river sloughs in Iowa opens a new winter industry as men hunt turtles under the ice. Hunters chop holes and catch cold half stupefied turtles, shipping them alive to New York where they fetch high prices in restaurants. Both soft and hard shelled varieties are barreled alive for transport.
Leopold Desbroses, last representative of the Water Drinkers society, died in France. An engraver by trade, he hosted members at his home where art and literature were discussed. Murger, author of Vie de Boheme, found shelter there when fortunes faltered and is said to have met Rudolph and Schaunard, later depicted in his work.
A simple treat combines ice cream with a fresh maple syrup poured over and mixed with chopped nuts for a tasty dessert discovery.
A $750 nugget of gold was recently found embedded in the skull of an elephant. The discovery raises questions about how the treasure came to be inside the animal and who may be responsible.
An advertorial note extols the Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a reputable family laxative. It urges buying the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Co. and highlights FDA-recognized health benefits and wide physician endorsement.
Yi Kang Nyan, chief of the insurgents once linked to Ul Mi era, resurfaced after the Japan Korean talks and urged Koreans to defend their country. He has faced Japanese forces in multiple engagements, was wounded, and now attracts many recruits. His strict discipline reportedly led to his son in law’s execution for a breach. Villages remain safe under his force, and even the Japanese praise his courage and humanity.
The Rural New Yorker praises Salzer's Earliest Potato as among 38 tested varieties yielding 464 bushels per acre with Salzer's Early Wisconsin at 736 bushels per acre. Send 10 cents in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co. for the seed catalog with Emperor William Oats and other seeds. add 14 cents for a package of new seeds. C. N. U.
European award of a large steel rail order to Stahlwerks Verbund shows freight costs swing bids, with U S mills losing to German producers due to lower South America shipping. From Pittsburgh to Rosario would cost 6 per ton, while Germans ship for 2.50, saving 87 500 on the shipment. The piece notes Atlantic mills may arise to reduce coastal rail-haul.
A Pennsylvanian patient praises Grape-Nuts as a cure for chronic indigestion and biliousness after using it as prescribed by a local doctor. The testimonial claims rapid health improvement, renewed vitality, and sharper thinking within months, with a plug for Postum Co. and The Road to Wellville.
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