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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1900
Page
7
A collage of remarks and verses on imitation manners stage fright and social satire. The pieces rail against counterfeit fashion the imitative crowd and boastful rhetoric while light quips and humorous vignettes recall daily gossip and social foibles from various locales and period voices.
A fragment from the Sterling Illinois Standard quotes a humorous exchange about a proverb. The speaker Sirius Barker argues the line is overused and controversial. The passage notes a woman with conventional duties, contrasting social expectations with personal actions.
Snippets from newspapers show wry exchanges on language and death reports. A Washington Star quip questions how to dispute a claim while a Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph joke notes the absurdity of phrasing. A Cleveland Plain Dealer line recalls a hot day and a melting letter with a poem clip.
A collage of light quips and curt remarks features a plumber, a stockbroker’s house, and a butler as a woman orders valuables secured. An apprentice, a since-relations joke, and pithy gags about neighbors, nurses, and in law humor populate the page with cartoonish dialogue and social contrasts.
The fragment presents a dramatic dialog where a speaker declares mad love and a broken heart to a Frau, while the response questions the speaker’s overall wellbeing. The ornate language echoes a romantic period tone from the publication.
The fragment shows a dialogue about swimming activity, with a child named Willie claiming multiple swims and a mother objecting to restrictions. The source text appears as a damaged advert or column item.
A collage of light dialogue and cartoons from various papers. Banter touches poker, remodeling, thrift, reading memory, and maritime themes with quick wits and social sketches. The items reflect period humor and tabloid tone without heavy context.
The Eads jetties in the Mississippi delta are ready for government control after twenty years of work. The government may pay $500,000 to complete the settlement, with arbitration over the plant’s price. The jetties have cost about $50,000,000 and created a 26-foot channel enabling New Orleans to handle large ocean ships, while future plans aim to deepen the Southwest pass for even larger vessels.
Henry R. Adams, a longtime Mojave mining man, donated copper oxides and carbonates from Phalon mountain district along with alabaster and rutile to the Southwest Miners association. The rutile, sourced mostly from Japan, is exceptionally rare. Adams split a single forty pound boulder into pieces. The crystal resembles a mess agate with straight dark lines crossing at many angles, valued only for rarity and beauty.
Portland, Michigan reports a strange ears of corn growth on a stalk with a featherlike top and a prong bearing oats while the base is corn. The twenty ear formation stems from J. C. Turner’s Danby farm. Ira Weeks near Hanover exhibits a potato with an iron ring embedded at its center.
The Denver Post notes the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co of Brockton Mass markets a $38.50 shoe equal to $5 shoes elsewhere by selling direct from factory. It operates stores in 60 cities, employs over 1100 workers, uses union labor, and pays high wages with a $17 485 weekly payroll. Over one million men wear them.
In Canton women act as sailors and boatmen while men work as chambermaids laundresses and seamstresses. Chinamen salute by shaking a self hand and tipping hat as respect. Signboards run perpendicular and Chinese print reads from bottom right to top left per St. Louis Republic.
An ad promotes Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute for children. It claims Grain-O is made from pure grains, tastes like coffee when prepared properly, and costs about 144 as much. Available at all grocers for 15¢ and 25¢.
The article lists how captive animals eat: sea lions and seals fed fish, walruses and pelicans on fish, monkeys and young lions drink milk, a full grown hippo drinks about fifteen quarts daily, polar bears eat bread, snakes require rabbits, chickens and ducks, and a kangaroo consumes nearly 200 pounds of bread per week.
Crosby Transportation Co and Grand Trunk By system promote the Grand Haven Route as the shortest cheapest and most popular line to Michigan Canada and the East. Steamers depart Milwaukee nightly at 9 15 p m. Tickets at 400 East Water St.
The estimate puts total American tourist spending in Europe this year close to 100 million dollars including ocean travel charges. The figure reflects costs for travel and related expenses by U S visitors abroad this season.
A Philadelphia factory produced cycles at a brisk rate last year, turning out one machine every minute, reflecting high efficiency and steady output.
The Dewey homestead, birthplace of Admiral George Dewey born December 26 1837, was owned by Captain Edward Dewey and then by T R Gordon who moved it in 1890. Gordon praises Peruna in a letter to the Peruna Medicine Co. noting dramatic relief from his wife’s chronic catarrh and sleep issues.
London Express reports stiff dress rules among Coutts staff during heat waves. Clerks must wear black coats and toppers, with heads kept fully covered, while attempts to dress lighter provoke reprimands. A strict no facial hair policy bans mustaches and beards, with side whiskers tolerated only barely.
Public morals and men’s health urged through a 94 page Boston pamphlet titled Know Thyself. The Peabody Medical Institute distributes the study free with six cents postage for delivery and urges all men to read it to improve well being and reduce medical costs.
The London correspondent recalls that Chartists began with good aims but, when power shifted, brutal acts followed. Bristol saw prison breakages, arson at the mansion, bishop’s palace, and many homes, with murders and looting reported. Birmingham suffered vast damage in one summer night on July 15, 1839.
No matter what ails you headache to a cancer you will never get well until your bowels are put right Cascarets help nature cure you without a gripe or pain produce easy natural movements cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back Cascarets Candy Cathartic the genuine put up in metal boxes every tablet has C C C stamped on it Beware of imitations
The A W Tüer collection fetched 8010 dollars in London with top pieces including Charles Lambs Beauty and the Beast first edition at 215 dollars and Mrs Leicester s School and Poetry for Children first editions at 210 and 405 dollars respectively.
Try Grain-O the new drink that replaces coffee for adults and children. It resembles mocha in color but is made from pure grains. Easy on the stomach and costs one fourth the price of coffee at 15¢ and 25¢ per package. Sold by all grocers.
In the first New York City directory over a century ago the only Vanderbilts listed were Dutch Van der Bilt ancestors. They were farmers on Staten Island, with a prominent member who was a truckman, while the later millionaire family did not appear in that era’s directory.
All flowers in the Arctic region are either white or yellow, with a total of 762 recognized varieties.
An advertisement by Wisconsin Pharmacal Co. Milwaukee promotes a guaranteed dandruff cure and hair promoter with a booklet offered. A separate public notice mentions Norway married couples traveling on railways at a fare and a half. White Plains census shows more dogs than people.
Montana, Nebraska and Texas report highly prosperous wool crops. Nebraska claims an unprecedented lamb crop this year. Texas records its largest wool crop in eight years with quality improving steadily.
Lane's Family Medicine advertises daily bowel movement to promote health. It describes gentle action on the liver and kidneys and claims to cure sick headache with doses priced at 25 and 50 cents.
A jellyfish uses its body to seize prey when hungry, swallowing it and then wrapping around the meal rather than chewing.
A man named Frank Coffe shot and killed a Mexican vaquero near San Emidio, about forty miles southwest of Bakersfield, Oregon, following an attempted assault on a young girl. The incident is reported as part of a string of sensational patent medicine and everyday notices in the era.
Miss Edna Ellis of Higginsport Ohio describes ten years of monthly agony and a failing nervous system. After doctors offered no relief a specialist urged surgery she wrote to Mrs Pinkham and used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports complete improvement and offers to answer letters.
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