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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
6
The Washburn Times notes a mix of whimsical musings on weather aviation and life. It comments on fine weather, aviation races, farm fires, poultry and produce, and social observations. It humorously contrasts progress with prudence amid daily oddities.
Vivid hues appear at dawn in the crisp mornings, noted in early light. A pedestrian’s nose is playfully excluded from the observed colors.
One professor states a provocative view that women have ruled men for centuries while others at the university refrain from sensational commentary, presenting the remark as a nuanced footnote in campus discourse.
A Virginia father with a large brood of 56 children is labeled a convict yet merits sympathy for supporting a wide family on an average wage. The remark highlights the hardship of sustaining many dependents on modest earnings.
A New Zealand man asserts ownership of 167 million dollars in New York City real estate, noting he would have a better chance if the New York era had not reported on it first.
The article notes that colleges do not issue life or dent insurance policies to young men who go out on the football field to represent their alma mater, highlighting a gap in student athlete protections.
A wry remark notes that renting a flat leaves a man idle and staring out the window, while occupying a humble cottage gives him many distractions to ease his mind from troubles.
Connecticut tobacco and New Jersey cranberries are reported larger this year than in many years. The note acknowledges that neither crop provides a livelihood for most people.
A motorist stranded when his car failed as he offered a thousand dollars for a new oath. The odd proposal suggests a desire for a vigorous expletive, though he admits he lacks imagination.
American travelers will pay duty on their baggage and the trunks themselves. Smuggling routes have shifted toward shipping trunks with their contents via airships, marking a new method in border enforcement.
A New York judge known for a bachelor stance on in-law support is cited in a broad discussion. Census bureau figures suggest farming as the occupation most favorable to health and longevity, implying life near nature supports longer life.
Reporters note Paris faced power outages causing darkness for residents and visitors. Tourists wonder how sightseers will plan activities with limited lighting and potential closures, seeking guidance on safe routes, indoor attractions, and updated hours.
The report notes the Haitiar gunboat sunk with ten generals aboard causing havoc among enemy ships. It questions whether costly armed destruction outweighs easier methods to preserve peace, given the ease of reproducing such devices.
In a White Mountains hotel General Wentworth employs over fifty college girls as waitresses for breakfast lunch and dinner. He screens applicants from Wellesley Smith Vassar Wells and other colleges. The students tutor guests during idle hours and earn large sums. Wentworth cites discipline efficiency and strong work ethics as reasons for the arrangement.
A talking acquaintance recounts a telephony mix up where a diligent operator made seven calls and fifteen minutes of work to locate a Maude. She charged $2.85 and $2 for the time, totaling $4.85, used to justify valuing her eight hour day at $64.
Outside Bank of England, a chocolate penny buys conversation in languages. William Shepperly, a sweets hawker turned linguist, learned French in Belgium, Spanish in Spain, Latin and Greek in school, and Italian from study. He supports a family by selling chocolates on Lothbury while reading early each morning and writing plays. He preserves a small library including Oedipus Rex and Horace.
In Samoa governor Dr. W H Solf reports copra as the leading native product with strict quality laws raising value. rubber trials show 211 varieties planted by firms, no export yet. He notes cordial Anglo-German native relations and a growing white population, plus active Savali volcano and lava destruction.
Louisville bans sale of all dangerous fireworks including toy pistols cannons crackers and roman candles after January 1 1911 a new city ordinance will go into effect following one final celebration.
North Carver is a town of 800 people with no doctors or undertakers. The last funeral was two years ago and the sole physician left 19 months ago, leaving the community without medical or funeral services.
Miss Marie Lee of Brookline discusses how modern society girls who play baseball and other sports have clarified minds and reduced scandals. She notes captain Alice Thorndyke and players Clara Winthrop Catherine Breed Susanne Thayer Mary Armory and Gladys Munn, plus broader influence of athletics on both rich and poor and on college and noncollege girls.
Fredericton reports the Canadian fur trade may be less profitable for trappers this season. London, a major fur market, notes a heavy decline in values with drops from 10 percent on raccoon skins to 50 percent on silver fox.
A ragged urchin teases a well dressed man about missing half mast trousers. The aristocrat snaps back with disdain while the youth presses for the cause, asking if a cat or dog is dead, prompting an amused denial and a final quip about half mast trousers.
At the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Bloomsbury a hanging treatment is used for certain nervous disorders, notably wryneck. A metal tripod and pulley raise the patient by rope so neck muscles are stretched, with gradual increases over two weeks, sometimes lifting the patient clear of the ground for 20 to 30 seconds.
In Ann Arbor President H. B. Hutchins denounces women pursuing careers at Michigan. In his annual address to the women of the college he urges studies направ to fit them for homemaking and motherhood, adding that only if they have special ability should a career be sought.
Alfred Dalby, a prisoner at Toombs prison in New York, is composing a book of anthems for church choirs. The first anthem titled Entreat Me Not, based on Ruth chapter one, was sung during a prison service with Dalby playing organ as inmates congratulated him.
In London there are several candidates for the Order of the Garter after Lord Spencer's death. Likely contenders include Lord Beauchamp Lord Granard and Lord Morley of Blackburn. Two further Garteres are expected next summer in honor of the coronation.
A New York state artificial camphor factory produces a substitute meant to compete with natural camphor. It claims identical properties aside from origin, being derived from turpentine and oxygenated chemically. Three-fourths of camphor supplies go to arts, one-fourth to medicine.
George Horace Lorimer, famed editor and author, told a Franklin Inn audience in Philadelphia that critics claim short stories are dying. He quips that every Chestnut Street stroll yields three literateurs who boast their own shortness.
Quip from Puck features the Early Bird admitting a hook worm in a cheeky exchange about lateness. The exchange notes seven o clock has passed and the Bird's lateness is explained with a humorous line.
A concise remark asserts that both educated and uneducated men share similar suffering from starvation, highlighting equal hardships across social lines.
Swiss workers reportedly clock about eleven hours per day in long hours regimes. The figure reflects a trend toward extended workdays across industries, highlighting labor conditions and potential policy debates about limits and worker welfare.
Alfred Zeyas of San Juan predicts Porto Rico will be occupied by American millionaires within 50 years. He says wealthy Americans seek beauty and rest, with mountain scenery matching Switzerland, macadam roads, and a perpetual spring climate. American visitors already come in large winter numbers.
In Lincoln Nebraska the beet sugar industry is highlighted as a rising force. Sugar consumption reached 7.5 billion pounds last year with 1.025 billion pounds from beet fields and 750 million from cane. Beet sugar rose from 73 million pounds in 1899-1900 to 967 million in 1907, surpassing cane sugar’s 829 million peak in 1909.
Byron Bennette of East Liverpool says six months bedridden with kidney trouble left him 80 pounds. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills, purchased for 50 cents a box, with his recovery and six years free of kidney trouble. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo, N Y, markets the remedy.
An editor rejects a poet’s submission saying the paper never buys poetry. The thin hollow eyed writer insists he seeks a niche in the Hall of Fame, asserting his work deserves recognition despite the editor’s caution.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls a postponed action and a mistaken intention to end life. The speaker humorously notes forgetting swimming tights upon arriving at the river, shifting the mood from grim to light.
A 50 cent bottle of Pape's Diapepsin is advertised to relieve indigestion in five minutes. The ad claims it cures fermentation sour stomach and assorted stomach troubles by digesting all foods promptly. It targets symptoms like bloating heartburn and belching and markets itself as effective for Dyspepsia Gastritis and related conditions.
Bram Stoker recalls a 1878 Ulster Hall reading where a speaker praised Henry Irving as a gentle man whose life was of unbroken blemish in a pointed Irish bull. The anecdote highlights ironic praise amid excitement.
In a curbstone clash Mrs. Miami Brown asks what the man did after she threw coal at him. Erastus Pinkley replies he stayed and hoped for more, prompting the exchange about how far the quarrel went.
Advertisement touts Hamlins Wizard Oil as the best cure for rheumatism neuralgia and sore throat claiming it delivers relief from all pain. The copy also wryly notes sermons on fatherhood of God are pointless if one dislikes boys.
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