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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
2
Excerpts praise political and theatrical figures with satirical lines on Bill campaigns and Clyde Fitch’s wit. The Washing ton World and Washington Star quotes appear amid a column of light social notes and entertainment jabs.
A teacher recalls using stories to illustrate Gospel lessons but a new boy with Irish eyes answers a question with humor. The anecdote, from Bohemian Magazine via the Baltimore American, reflects on how stories can entertain and unsettle while teaching moral points.
A fragment shows Philos nodding that nothing is new and a wistful exchange with Have you seen my baby as a Judge contemplates.
The speaker notes a man who has brought happiness to thousands and calls him a philanthropist. He asserts the judge has granted more divorces than any other judge on the bench.
In afternoon lessons many schools studied Columbus. A pupil answered the teacher by saying Columbus was the gem of the ocean, after she asked who he was and described his voyage. The Baltimore Sun reports the amusing moment.
The 6 year old son of President Hadley was found in the bathtub sailing boats. He left the house only by force and told a lady friend that the Yale college president won’t bathe this morning. “Because I’ve got” he said, implying a playful boast.
A satirical piece mocks political campaigns and etiquette in Washington Society. It contrasts a campaign rag, mudslinging, and public fuss with hints of social whirl at the White House. The poem also notes airship trials and rough landings, mixing politics with whimsy.
A congressman’s 19 year old son pursues literature of the half-dime variety despite his father’s objections and a decree. The boy declares he wants people to tremble like aspen leaves at the mere mention of his name, in a witty exchange quoted from Lippincott's.
In a montage of comic snippets from Lippincott's and the Houston Post, Mrs. Patterson fears a judge may grant alimony in a divorce case while Mr. Patterson pleads tenderness. A separate gag mocks a gossip about Brown's auto and a missionary exchange features a humorously skewed African setting.
Poem lines praise autumn and a bright world while a Washington Star quote notes a breezy message from fall. A Town Topics exchange jokes about a man charged with attempted death by own action and a father’s remark about a late neighbor.
A Chicago Tribune report details a method used by about forty U.S. vehicle and wheel makers to gauge tree growth rates. By examining 1 inch by 1 inch by 0.5 inch blocks of hickory oak ash and tulip they measured annular rings to estimate years per inch of diameter. Results show four to five years for a single inch, with hickory between 4.87 and 5.88 years and oak about 4.68. ash 4.91 and poplar four years.
Reports to the secretary of an apple group project this year’s crop as enough for 6,000,200,019 pies for 80,000,000 people. Dividing yields about seventy five pies per person, promising many days of self denial in the year.
A columnist urges constant parental vigilance from birth to adulthood to keep children pure and loyal. He argues mothers must devote themselves to raising children, decrying reliance on hired tutors, and contends marriage is noble when based on sympathy and genuine love rather than mere financial arrangements.
Two women discuss marriage and money on a street corner. The older woman cites a neighbor's divorce and suggests love is optional in marriage because a man's salary supports the household. The dialogue hints that some women stay with unloving spouses out of necessity, though the claim about most women is overstated.
In Puget Sound Washington cedars reach vast girths and firs tower above two hundred feet. Workers watch a giant fall and after the crash inspect the split trunk, while the forest looms as ancient and mighty, reminding laborers of their brief span.
The piece surveys 1907 oil use by U S railroads iron ore production and values, a lead pencil substitute from potatoes, a trackless trolley plan to Tennessee, and Pacific coal geology. It notes glacier movements in Norway, wind‑sensitive viaduct safeguards, a pince nez with auxiliary vision, and a color-vision thought experiment on light and perception.
A German astronomer contemplates how changing the sun’s color to blue red or yellow would alter world colors. If blue the world would show blue and black only, if red many things would look red or black, and yellow would yield yellow or black reflections with white items turning red under the sun’s light.
While Wagner toured England directing the first production of his operas, artist Herkomer pursued the composer, enduring agitation and a lack of sittings. After relentless painting sessions over two days, the portrait was completed and Wagner exclaimed it perfectly captured his look.
Four year old Mabel runs downhill holding her dress tight. Mother warns to be careful. Mabel answers she will not fall because she is holding tight to herself.
A general truth about female vanity: women feel pleased when they hear others praise them, regardless of affection for their partner. The statement suggests social approval boosts a woman's self esteem and allure.
A long, varied page notes pigeon post service in the French Congo and global currency use, German statistics on steam power, first Australian play 1789, a Berlin year round rink, palm ivory nut crops, and a fictional war scenario in a Berlin publish. It also covers Thum marks in stationery, Bertha Ayrton’s work, and local Maine and Henderson County notes.
The Liverpool Daily Post extols reels and eightsomes danced by women and men in kilts to pipes in a grand paneled hall of a Highland castle, calling it one of the most exhilarating spectacles.
A historical advertisement argues surgical operations on women are often unnecessary and cites letters from Mrs Barbara Base and Mrs Arthur R House praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as life saving. It touts thirty years of use for female ailments including displacements inflammation and fibroid tumors and invites readers to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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