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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1900
Page
7
A playful verse about touring China from Pekin to Chefoo and Hong Kong with boxing and sights cited. The column then shifts to a Buf alo wedding scene with a gray haired mysterious guest, revealed later as a private detective watching gifts. A humor piece on heat advice and a street scene of a lost child at Trinity Church ends with a police interaction.
The Salt Lake Tribune recalls a crowded Third Street car on a heat wave day where a blue eyed lady in a purple gown shared a humorous mishearing with a conductor. It also highlights Dr. Edward Everett Hale, 78, traveling to Hampton Roads to witness a total solar eclipse and planning a future trip to Sumatra to see another totality.
Tales recount a eclipse interest from Hampton Massachusetts to an academy town. A new infant joins school amid curious peers. A shopkeeper father described as a gentleman in khaki sparks pride. A tramp desires college president role and a letter carrier endures heat while reading Charlie’s letter with an Ella Wheeler Wilcox clipping.
A Scotsman letter describes playing golf in Singapore over a Chinese graveyard lunatic asylum and orphan asylum lawns. The tombs act as hazards while balls vanish over asylum walls. Players hack tombs and bricks to recover balls amid a sporty but deranged course.
Mr Flimnis writes his wife at least three letters daily to prove his whereabouts by postal marks. Miss Cayenne confirms the wife uses the post marks to track his location. The exchange appears as a light anecdote cited by the Washington Star.
A man shares his name with a jailed John Sullivan and prints notices denying connection to the fined drinker. The Daily Graphic notes the incident and other humorous clippings from Brookyn Life and Tit-Bits, including remarks on an upstanding millionaire Casburn and a lighthearted family birthday exchange.
A reader asks how to handle admirers sitting on the steps and talking late at night. The response suggests the father consider sleeping during the day to avoid nightly noise and restore rest for the household.
A Philadelphia Press quip plays on romance and puns as a slow young man praises fresh green vegetables while a patient girl waits for an engagement ring. The twist reveals the head on the young man’s shoulder is a cabbage.
A seacoast resident of Lubec Maine loosened a hammer from a schooner ladder but became stuck while reaching for it as tide rose. Rescuers freed him after three hours with water within two inches of his mouth, narrowly preventing drowning.
Humorous exchange shows a teacher pressuring a pupil to name a culprit for pinning a chair while the pupil wittily warns of harsher retaliation. The print cites Harper's Bazar and includes a separate German Fliegende Blaetter cartoon caption about Mr Wampers stopping a speeding car and requesting gasoline to remove a grease spot.
A light exchange from Portland Oregonian and Town Topics features a pantry slip with red stained fingers as Freddy claims truth and jammed digits. The dialogue hints at a career shift to Knight & Bay and a conductor redirects a passenger toward 104th street as night service ends.
A Blaetter cartoon shows a professor of mathematics holding a plumb line and declaring he cannot stand erect because he has drunk too much at the tavern. The caption humorously links balance, measurement, and alcohol.
Baltimore Herald notes Huddersfield in England as a model city with municipal ownership of utilities and services from housing to hospitals to burial. Artena Italy reportedly harbors criminals and has outlawed innocent arrival, while Nuremburg is famed as the birthplace of dolls with the entire town’s economy tied to doll production and exports.
The first corps of 50 000 local clerks is appointed to count Britain’s population in 1901. The census office will manage schedules from 640 districts, 2000 subdistricts, and about 40 000 enumeration districts. Enumerators will distribute forms the week before March 31 1901.
The Irish clergyman Thomas Sheridan, grandfather of dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan, quibbles with his son Tom over the doctrine of necessity. Tom presses for a demonstration of “total, entire, thorough indifference” and asks what it could accomplish. Sheridan answers, “Yes, indeed,” then invites Tom to listen.
In a Tit-Bits style vignette Mr Goodheart jokes about his wife’s indecision after he buys two handsome bonnets for her. He finds her busy choosing and considers solving the dilemma by returning one bonnet to the shop, leaving the other for her to select.
Willie Boye asks if a rival cheated in a game after losing all his money to a leading Crimson Gulch citizen. Three finger Sam questions the claim as egotism and curiosity clash over stacked cards and a cold deck in this Washington Star remark.
An English keeper at a trout rearing fishery credits the enterprise's success to precedent or ish. He argues God would not have made fish before beasts without reason and that fish would sustain themselves if there was water to swim in.
A New Orleans lawyer dismissed a 12 year old's ball bearing idea as impracticable, yet the concept became a universal invention. The boy kept his drawing. four to five years later a New England inventor patented the idea and profited, while the lawyer died and the boy became a modest clerk.
Natal reports a flagrant red tape incident during the Ladysmith siege. Civilians relied on imperial supplies as central authorities allegedly demanded payment guarantees from Ladysmith mayor for food consumed, amounting to several thousand pounds, prompting gubernatorial involvement.
Well known actresses and actors will bring dramatized novels to the stage next season. Mary Mannering, Viola Allen, Julia Marlowe, Gertrude Coghlan, and others join Mary Cholmondely and Molly Seawell in adaptations from Ford Crawford Parker Cholmondely and Ward Moore. Actors include W H Crane Henry Dixey Wilton Lackaye Otis Skinner and others in works from Harum to Prince Otto and The Choir Invisible.
The article notes steamships now dominate freight traffic over sailing ships due to faster growth in number and size. Yet sailing vessels persist since wind remains cheaper than fuel, especially for non-urgent cargo shipments across the sea per Youth's Companion.
A New York Journal recipe instructs making syrup from one cup sugar and one pint water with finely grated orange peel for ten minutes. Cool the syrup and blend in half cup strawberry juice, half cup pineapple juice, a wineglass of brandy and a quart of claret, add strawberries lemon slices and pineapple shavings, chill and serve over shaved ice.
The article notes summer expansion of Brooklyn Bridge cables raising the span by about two and a half feet measured from a winter standard. It recalls truss buckling due to cable expansion last summer. It claims over half the world’s population has direct access to the Pacific.
An advertisement warns shoppers against substitutes for CASCARETS CANDY CATHARTIC. It argues universal popularity proves merit and that traders pushing replacements act with an ax to grind. The piece stresses buying only CASCARETS in metal boxes with the long-tailed C and stamp C C C.
Judge Foote of Topeka jokes about how lawyers draft deeds to oranges. He contrasts a plain gift sentence I give you the orange with a verbose form granting all interest and rights including rind juice pulp and pits and power to bite suck or eat.
An advertisement extols Grain-O as a grain based drink for children that tastes like coffee but costs far less. It claims Grain-O nourishes and improves health when given freely and is sold by grocers nationwide.
In Mexican theaters women go bareheaded and men keep hats on until the curtain falls. During performances men rise to sweep tiers with large glasses. It is seen as an honor to have a swell's glasses at low level in your box. Smoking is permitted in all theaters.
An advertisement touts Cascarets laxative promising quick bowel relief for 10 cents and warns against imitations. A separate colonial regulation requires all arrivals in Madagascar to declare identity and birth details within 48 hours at police or local administration.
The Crosby Transportation Company and Grand Trunk system promote the Grand Haven Route as the shortest cheapest most popular line to points in Michigan Canada and the East. Steamers depart Milwaukee nightly at 9 15 p m.
Experts examined rice straw and concluded it can yield a high grade paper suitable for newspapers and books. Louisiana produces thousands of tons of straw, currently waste, offering a potential new industry as reported by the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Heel pain relief for tight or new shoes with Allen's Foot-Ease powder. Cures corns bunions swollen hot and sweating feet. Available at all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Sample sent free. Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
In China twelve and a half miles from Liou Chek lies an alum mountain. It is a natural curiosity and a source of wealth, as inhabitants dig from it yearly tons of alum.
In the Philippine islands cocoanut palms yield small pearls made of lime carbonate. Opals were also discovered in the joints of bamboo.
The English starling has been brought to America and is rapidly domesticating. Introduced only a year or two ago, its numbers have increased considerably.
A report notes that Chicago firemen own more pianos than any other body earning similar pay, suggesting a notable trend in leisure culture among volunteers and professionals.
Bank of England officials estimate the total gold coin in actual circulation worldwide at about 865 tons.
Lane's Family Medicine advocates daily bowel movement for health, claims gentle action on liver and kidneys, and relief for sick headaches. The ad lists prices at 25 and 50 cents, bundling medical claims with education notes about government-directed schooling in Mexico.
The notice references a constitutional cure priced at 75 cents and reports Austria Hungary railway freight rates rising due to coal cost. It promotes Dr H H Green's Sons in Atlanta offering free dropsy treatment and touts the bones of a human as capable of bearing high pressure, citing a claim about strength.
A collage of brief items includes medical cures and tonics, patent medicines, and household products with prices and distributors across multiple cities. It notes military dog training in several European countries and trivia on China, Formosa, and Russia demographics.
A fragment notes that a dangerous under current can strike unseen, weakening a mucous membrane in any organ such as lungs head throat stomach or bowels and lead to disease with a common underlying cause.
An ad claims catarrh inflames the delicate pink membrane and weak winter resilience cause pneumonia grip and fevers. It touts Peruna as the sole cure reaching the right place and permanently treating the systemic catarrh rather than other illnesses.
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