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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
6
A Burleson-style summary notes milder days ahead despite snow in the South and a Pope concerns over divorce and remarriage. Chicago civic groups push anti white slave traffic laws while a Missouri man with a six foot beard seeks office. Jamestown Exposition buildings burned. grounds must be cleared. Chicago acts to curb smoke. A firm pays $450 total fines for excessive smoking.
General endorsement of the army appropriation bill favors a flat $500 raise for officers and a 35 percent increase for enlisted men. Proponents argue Uncle Sam must pay soldiers enough to keep the army attractive and capable.
The outbreak in Kentucky involving tobacco raiders could draw Night Riders away from their feud. Observers say many raiders join the melee for the thrill of combat, risking further escalation.
An aerial performer plunged eighty seven feet into the Chicago River and surfaced without difficulty. Observers note drainage canal fluid risks but the diver escaped unharmed as safety concerns about flies and sanitation arise, urging screens and outdoor venues to keep flies away.
Forty typhoid fever cases in Marshalltown Iowa trace to food or drink at a church festival. The outbreak underscores the need for careful handling and storage of consumables. Nearby Monterey shows the battleship fleet in the bay, symbolizing national power near Fremont’s historic flag-raising site after Sloat’s Monterey victory.
Andrew Carnegie provides 200000 dollars to the Mechanics Tradesmen's Association of New York to promote public instruction in mechanical and building trades. The donation follows a strong call in New York City for better schooling to prepare youths for self reliance and responsible work.
The April movement of marine tonnage from Milwaukee is smaller than last April, reflecting slower lake carrying and anticipated declines. Some Lake Erie ports face a tremendous drop due to iron trade dullness, Milwaukee likely to mirror that trend.
The German emperor argues for an enlarged income to cover rising living costs. He acknowledges this shift would impose greater taxation on the people, already strained by higher living expenses. Expansive imperial policies have driven up sums to be taxed, disproportionately falling on consumers.
The Marine Firemen's and Marine Cooks' Unions will not require owners to sign contracts this season, and the Seamen's Union is likely to follow. Conditions on the Great Lakes avoid conflict with owners, who would quickly lay up tonnage at wage trouble onset. Lake navigation workers should not impede amicable owner relations to maximize employment.
A Galveston steamship and importing company president declares banana fiber superior to manila for rope making. He argues vast waste by planters could become valuable if banana fiber is exploited, predicting a practical Yankee demonstration and profitable rope material soon.
A British admiralty statement puts the annual cost of maintaining a first class battleship at 1 157 500 pounds, including interest and depreciation. American battleships cost about 600 000 dollars yearly, excluding financier-added items. The figures suggest navies are expensive luxuries small maritime nations may well shrink from.
Prof Alexander Graham Bell argues for strict immigration control to prevent unfit ethnical elements and promote a higher American type through selective admission. He asserts children deserve both parents and urges policies to ensure lifelong parental care and assimilation into a unified national lineage.
The speaker argues the labor question is broader than unions and stresses the church’s duty to labor conditions. He urges a square deal for all, says the era is the common man’s rise, and claims personal reform as the path to social peace while the church fosters healthy dissatisfaction to inspire improvement.
The phrase highlights the ability to distinguish between important and insignificant, useful and idle, reflecting a nuanced judgment about value and relevance in various contexts.
A discussion on mastering emotions to conserve energy and enhance willpower. It argues that unchecked feelings like anger and exuberance waste strength, making a person reactive and weak. By restraining impulses, one strengthens judgment, mental power, and self discipline for better outcomes.
Senator Depew lauds bankers for keeping commerce moving and preserving solvency after the crisis. He stresses bankers act for legitimate profits and dividends while maintaining strong institutions, and notes leaders are able, patriotic, and level headed in managing banks nationwide.
Hamlin Garland quotes discuss the belief that many healthy individuals carry occult powers. He notes limited practice among advertising mediums in New York and cites personal anecdotes from family members about automatic writing and unsettling experiences. The text argues hysteria fails to explain these phenomena and suggests powers may be more common than assumed.
Coal miner Wilhelm Lempertz arrived from Port Arthur Texas with a cathedral crafted from matches. The structure embodies two years of his patient labor and stands as a striking handmade monument created during his recent stay.
A plan for a 14 by 14 by 7 foot building yielded a full cathedral crafted from 2,000,000 matches. The creator worked two years, often full time, using over 100 pounds of glue to assemble walls towers galleries steeples and ornaments in exact matchstick detail as reported by the New York Press.
Water, seen as tame, can unleash explosive power under certain conditions. It erodes earth and rock far beyond gunpowder in a day, breaking apart ground as it freezes and expands. In trees its pores can crack and explode with a gunshot-like force, a phenomenon noted by the Dundee Advertiser.
Rose Garth of Clinton crafted perhaps Missouri’s first corn shelter around 1858 from water oak plank and tenpenny nails. Used on his farm until 1861 when Price’s men carried it to Jackson’s mill to shell corn for Confederate meat. The device was later reported preserved among other Southern trophies in Washington.
A playful exchange from the Louisville Courier Journal cites a person claiming lawbreaking arose from a taunting urge to defy authority. The quip frames a cheeky motive behind legal trouble.
An affecting scene at a play moves both sexes as men blow noses and women pat eyes. The text notes that a man’s way of crying is to blow his nose, reflecting stage emotion and audience reaction.
Rear Admiral Coghlan outlines the Navy’s growth from four battleships to 25 since the Spanish American War. He notes faster firing, better gun mechanisms and optics, stronger armor, and smokeless powder as key advances, contrasting 1898 and 1908 capabilities.
A lyrical piece salutes the May Queen with verses about a woodland festival. It celebrates the Queen O The May with garlands and song. The poem from Milwaukee author Asa Foster Smith evokes nature, birds, bees, and festive dancing before the nightfall rest.
A young man narrates his romance with Elizabeth Smith daughter of a wealthy diamond maker. After marriage they scheme to outwit her father using a scientific diamond machine. In the end the father reveals he knew all along, praising Elizabeth’s judgment over his own values.
Hagenbeck, famed animal dealer, acclimates ostriches to harsh Hamburg winter conditions. The birds, kept active outdoors with dry resting places and ample food, develop thick valuable plumage. This feat highlights significant adaptation to cold climates by a major international supplier.
Popular Mechanics reports Hagenbeck the German dealer runs an ostrich farm near Hamburg. By exposing birds to cold, he acclimates them to severe weather and increases feather output, challenging the notion that tropical birds cannot thrive in snow.
Coppers in Great Demand. To ease shortages, the British mint runs four tons of copper coins daily. Gas companies in London favor penny-in-the-slot meters for lighting, which are emptied each quarter. In 1907, London gas meters yielded 1336 tons of pennies, averaging 400000 pennies daily.
A Boon Island lighthouse on the Maine coast attracts migrating birds to its bright lantern. Birds flying at night strike the glass, fall or drown on the rocks below, and litter the shore with thousands of casualties each spring. The keeper recalls the deadly lure and the occasional larger birds that perish there.
A brief note on a bargain counter showing a list of varied book titles sent by mail. The publishers question the list as possibly advertising with no accompanying instructions. Items include The Man With the Hoe illustrated, The Heart of Midlothian bound, Siberian Exile in Russia bindings, and My Wife and I two volumes in white and gold, among others.
Dr. Herbert Gresham Jones recounts a noted actor jailed to curb drinking who outsmarted confinement by bribing a street vendor and using a keyhole pipe trick to drink. The tale, from the New York Sun, illustrates cunning differs to obtain liquor. Also noted: nearly all of Bay City Michigan’s Indian colony of forty families have died of consumption, with survivors in poverty aided by white neighbors.
A Cleveland grocer shares a customer health story claiming nerves and stomach issues improved after stopping coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. He cites personal experience of irritability and loss of appetite before switching, noting his wife’s suggestion and urging others with nervous or stomach troubles to try Postum. There’s a promotional line about The Road to Wellville.
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