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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
2
A fragmented Washington Herald item recalls a fat-tailed remark about old Iago tales and a candid tall man selling airship stock. The dialogue hints at patents and Mexican oil while a passenger questions the seller, who dismisses interest in reminiscences.
A home remedy claims to rapidly break up a cold and cure coughs by mixing glycerine a half ounce Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure eight ounces of whisky. The Leach Chemical Co of Cincinnati endorses the formula and sells the Virgin Oil of Pine compound.
Luisa Tetrazzini receives warm applause at the Manhattan in La Traviata with tenor John McCormack. Her entrance as Violetta halts the opera for a half minute as she smiles, then she returns to the sorrowful role. McCormack is praised as a pure lyric tenor with flexible voice and potential as a Hammerstein performer once acclimated.
Archbishop P. J. Ryan visited the Altoona diocese ruby jubilee and amused orphans at Cresson with stories. He pledged to send candy to the children once he returned home, after a joke about a candy stick and a horse.
A New York broker recalls a tale about the Russian ambassador to Louis XIV. The story involves Louis dropping a franc and Harriman, described as very rich, offering help by producing a thousand-franc note and using it as a torch to seek the fallen coin. The Washington Star is cited.
The Washburn Times notes few deer seen in the north woods as hunters apparently exhaust ammunition on human beings, suggesting scarce game and ongoing conflict.
Absence of snow in the north woods makes hunting harder as hunters trade railroad fare for long marches. Yet they report unusually active hunting with more deer expected in the future due to animals escaping this year.
Congressman Parsons says he can fill the West Point vacancy by a competitive exam open to all New York youths. He argues this is better than privately giving the slot to a political ally’s son.
Washington reports that half the Culebra cut is finished as proof of progress in the Panama Canal digging. Most excavation is now on the Culebra ridge and once the ditch through this spur is done, the canal's main work will be nearly complete. The Culebra cut stands as the world's greatest digging task.
A steamboat agent from St. Louis reveals traffic possibilities on the lower Mississippi River and vows to develop them. The claim supports Taft's view that current facilities are underutilized and that calls for new improvements clash with neglect of existing ones.
Sixty two Kansas county offices are held by women including forty one superintendents, seven registers of deeds, five district court clerks, four county clerks, three county treasurers, one probate judge and one county commissioner. Men’s gallantry is shown by women never losing to other women at the polls. Kansas women push for full suffrage.
The Cunarder Lucania, once hailed as a grand ocean liner, is sold for junk for $150,000 after a fire and outclassing by newer steamers. Six of nine workers died in a celluloid factory blaze in Brooklyn where barred windows hindered escape, prompting criticism of safety failures and calls for better precautions.
Henry Farman the English aviator stayed aloft four hours and six minutes covering 144 miles in circles. The feat, while notable, may not sway public opinion as much as a direct cross country voyage. A Paris to London flight would more convincingly prove aerial navigation.
A Los Angeles dispatch notes a California grower cannot market fifty tons of grapes for raisins. It cites Cucamonga as an area where raisin grapes are so unprofitable they are used as horse feed. The piece compares past farm sacrifices to current lower freight costs and anticipates improved Panama Canal related transport easing California farmers to ship Coastward.
A microbiology view states tents are less hygienic than wooden shacks due to confined air and lack of windows. It recommends a shelter for invalids in dry regions like the Arizona desert built from four posts with wire netting and woven tree branches to allow light for reading.
Poem excerpt comparing seasons and moods as autumn dominates the landscape. The speaker laments missing spring and longs for April’s youth and the skylark’s silver tone, claiming that while earth knows autumn, spring is his own.
In a sunlit harbor scene on the pier two former lovers reunite after two years. They debate wisdom and gender roles while recalling broken engagements and the fickleness of partners. The moment ends as they walk away together seeking privacy away from the crowd.
Alderman Reginald S Doull presented seventy five medals at city hall New York for heroic rescues from drowning awarded to the United States volunteer life saving corps.
Bronze medals and certificates of honor were awarded to youths for courageous rescues. Miss Mamie Kavanaugh, 15, saved a 12 year old from drowning in Jamaica Bay on August 3, 1908, receiving the strongest ovation. Herbert Elder, 13, saved Gladys Conklin at South Beach on September 2, 1908, also recognized with applause.
English suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst told a New York audience that American women are ready for the ballot, dismissing claims to the contrary and urging militant methods to win suffrage. She contrasted a suffragist with a suffragette, noting the latter will press to obtain the vote.
On the Eastern Point estate of George W. Watson a newborn fawn was accidentally injured by a mowing machine. Suffering then nursed by the Watsons, the fawn recovered with daily care and later followed its mother back to Gordon woods, a rare display of animal companionship.
A Grand Trunk express traveling east encounters a plague of insects near Cornwall. Millions of flies clog the engine and cowcatcher bars, halt the train, then require extensive cleaning before resuming to Montreal. The event creates a bizarre, messy delay.
Report from Paterson New Jersey claims Dr E B Morgan will receive a million dollars from his Boston brother Dr John Morgan eye specialist. John Morgan allegedly earned 7.5 million in a Jamaica copper mine speculation and sent three letters confirming the fortune and intention to share.
Irving a Stover, a New York City subway guard, died on a station platform from a nose bleed while on duty at 157th Street. Witnesses say he was in good health moments before the incident as he opened a door for two passing women and began bleeding, then collapsed at the waste receptacle.
Jacob H. Schiff of Kuhn Loeb & Co protests to the budget board against adding 4 million dollars to New York City’s annual expense account. He argues for a smaller 1910 budget than 1909 feasible, noting residents expect the city to live within 160 million. The tentative budget totals 163,049,480 dollars.
A diamond neck lace valued at 10000 and a princess ring with four diamond rows vanish from Tiffany & Co New York. Extensive privacy measures and cage locks fail to reveal the culprit as detectives question workers and tighten security while resisting police notification.
The article traces naval stores from pine sap to resin and turpentine, noting annual U.S. industry value around $30 million. It outlines historical shifts from France and Austria to the Carolinas, then Georgia, and now Florida leading production with Georgia and Alabama as close followers. It projects a westward move toward Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas within twenty five years.
Lillian Randall, 22, daughter of Brooklyn carriage maker Christopher Bussman, had a secret 1905 marriage to Walter Randall annulled in supreme court. She testified she married to save his life after he threatened suicide with a pistol. Bussman described his reaction when Walter demanded the annulment and acknowledged the marriage.
The Fort Sam Houston facility is to be expanded to house 4000 officers and men. Current capacity serves 2400 enlisted men and 120 officers, with plans to add quarters for 800 more by year end and complete the full expansion later.
By 1910 the original forty acre tract has grown to 944 acres excluding manoeuver grounds. When the current additions are finished the installation will host all military branches including infantry cavalry artillery signal corps and hospital corps.
Edison and Col. John Jacob Astor discuss collaboration at the Menlo Park lab. Astor funds a new invention with a $1,000,000 cashier’s certificate, but Edison’s test session ends with Astor asleep in the shop, prompting Edison to send him away. Edison recalls Astor later joking about governing New York.
Paris circles focus on Senorita Paz Ferrer and Senorita Trinidad Ferrer, daughters of Senor Francisco Ferrer executed in Spain. Paz, famed on Paris stages, and Trinidad, a biscuit factory worker married to an artisan, gain notoriety from their father’s will disinheriting them in favor of Porter and Soledad Villafranca.
A Chinaman named Cheng was seized at Rangoon as he landed from a sampan. He carried a tin that looked like kerosene but hid a smugglers outfit. The tin’s corner formed a four inch cube opening to a hidden chamber holding fifty five totas of beiichi and fifty two and one eighth ounce bottles of cocaine.
Police statistics for 1908 show 2082 new taxicab licenses issued while 1126 fewer hansom licenses were issued than in 1907. The extinction of the hansom is proceeding rapidly and may leave only outlying districts with this vehicle within a year.
Raymond Shearer aged seven narrowly survived a freight train at Farmersburg on Evansville and Terre Haute tracks. The train backed onto him as Conductor Burton shouted to clear the line. Three cars passed over him before the engine stopped and he was removed unharmed.
A New Yorker who spends time in Paris recalls a Parisian dentist visit. An attendant asks, Whom shall I have the misery of announcing to M le docteur, using sympathetic tones, illustrating the French habit of considerate politeness.
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