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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1900
Page
6
Glasgow has run the tramways since 1894 with clean painted cars and clear route colors. Advertising is removed to improve appearance though revenue falls. The city operates more cars, uniforms staff, and plans electrification with overhead trolley lines expanding citywide.
The Russian czar Nicholas I, famed for roughness yet showing chivalry, confronted a household officer who mistreated a beggar woman. The emperor dismissed him sternly and sentenced him to pace the corridor all night shouting I am a puppy.
Libby McNeill Libby offers ready to serve luncheon meats and quick meal ideas. The Chicago company markets its superior meats and provides a free booklet titled How to Make Good Things to Eat on request.
A traveler returning from Siberia reports prisoners are not chained and eat with guards. The government provides a six dollar monthly pension to each prisoner’s family. After sentence end the prisoner may return home with government assistance including a home and work implements.
A 1920s advertisement touts Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute for children. It claims Grain-O is made from pure grains, tastes like coffee when prepared, and costs about one eighth as much. promotes serving Grain-O through grocers nationwide.
Dr. C. D. McIver, principal of Greensboro’s normal school, argues education for women benefits more than men, noting that educating a woman safeguards the education of four or five future generations.
Poem and clippings contrast mining power with statehouse clout in Montana. A Copper King figure looms amid legislative glare while a later anecdote recalls misread fanfare for a baseball star. Includes European conductor von Buelow tale and a Boston Transcript humor snippet.
A Baltimore American quip recalls Mrs Titewadd threatening suicide over a new bonnet. Her husband sought funeral estimates and found saving two dollars on the bonnet could avert tragedy.
An admirer at the capitol addresses Thomas Brackett Reed as mister causing his amused acknowledgment that the title suits him better than speaker or colonel. The exchange highlights Reed’s view that the speaker’s title does not follow him into private life and his preference for the simple form. The Library Journal humorously recounts a library delivery desk joke about book titles.
The Philadelphia Post reports Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore presided at Johns Hopkins commencement. A faculty member, forgetting his address, admitted to forgetting the speech and instead went to the opera. Bonaparte replied with Opera non verba as the audience roared. A playful exchange about Mr Clifford’s looks and ears follows, with a Missouri girl noting her fortune in mutles trading.
A New York Tribune quips at elaborate table settings with many forks and knives as a Western debutante nervously contemplates which end to use, seeking advice from a doctor who claims remarkable longevity. The editor ridicules the doctor’s health claims as miracles fade.
Rev Cassius M Roberts known for cheerfulness and humor recalls his switch from law to ministry in Kansas He practiced law in Ross County for years before joking that preaching was easier than practicing law during a reunion tale
The New York Sun notes the phrase I couldn’t hear him signals a buoyant slang shift toward the East as speakers resist impractical propositions. An Easern Texan writes home about Fitz urging him to join the ranch venture, but he cannot hear him.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Earl de la Warr reportedly escaped after being captured by the Boers. He allegedly lay all night with a wounded leg behind an ant heap and quips about whose ant it was spark playful disbelief in the tale.
An American refugee describes a Transvaal school exhibition after war began in Johannesburg. A master’s lesson prompts a pupil to recite a language joke about conjugating possession with the phrase I have a gold mine. The exchange highlights playful language use amid upheaval.
A string of brief jokes and notices from newspapers shows social foibles and quick wit. Punch style quips on rheumatism and gout, a Glasgow university LL D joke, a fire dispatch punchline, and a New York women’s club deadlock over the black ball habit reveal contemporary humor and etiquette while a Boston observer notes the parallel of highball abstention for future hope.
An eager autograph hunter sought poet Thomas Campbell for a signature. After a cryptic line in a poem, the man asked Campbell to explain it. Campbell replied with a terse and famous one line signature: Sir: In re turn to your note, I send you my autograph.
In a Detroit Journal item a young woman named Griselda rejects a suitor, noting her Puritan ancestry weighs on her. he asserts she looks good enough to eat and she calls him a bird, indicating a playful but fraught courtship dynamic.
Snatches from papers show humor and chatter. Harlem Life notes a rider earning a medal for beating a bicycle record while claiming a seventeen men beaten in a week. Washington Star recalls Uncle Eben on duty versus pleasure. Syracuse Herald mentions an elopement “nippt in the bud” with gasoline hidden by an old man. Puck has a minister and a girl preferring choir over Christianity.
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore notes in Century Magazine that Hang-chau hosts an awe inspiring Great Tide. The bore vents up to twenty feet in a white roaring surge, speeding ten to thirteen miles per hour, a living wonder weath of open doors in China’s waterways.
Mrs Archie Young of West Superior Wisconsin writes that after five years of neuralgia she is free from pain thanks to 5 Drops. She claims the medicine restored her strength appetite and sleep and notes sample bottles and a full bottle price. She directs inquiries to Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co Chicago.
A man recounts chasing a cow for a mile and a half in heavy rain only to realize the animal was not his own. The episode is noted in the Indianapolis Journal.
Mail your order details to Sears Roebuck binder twine department Chicago and they will quote a price to save you money by securing your order or forcing a lower price from your supplier.
The Washington Times reports on a proposed British Columbia act to regulate hair length worn by mine workers as a workaround to exclude Chinese subjects. It notes Parliament weighs a direct exclusion against a friendly power and the province hesitates to act plainly.
The American Electric Carnival and Gondola Company announces a plan to obtain a right of way for an electric boats line on Chicago River and drainage canal.
Foot powder promises relief for aching feet and tight footwear. It cures corns bunions and swollen hot feet and is sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with free samples. mailed from LeRoy New York. The text notes average college tuition is about 75 dollars per year while college costs run about 115 dollars.
H C Barnabee of the Bostonians recounts a Patience performance in which a gallery couple’s baby cried to his booming lines. The moment drew loud laughter and the crowd yelled with glee as the comic milked the reaction.
Advertisement touts Grain-O as a new grain drink replacing coffee. It claims to be safe for children and adults, with a mocha like color, gentle on stomachs, and priced at 15 or 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers.
San Francisco street railway announces hourly bonuses to long serving staff. Five years earns 1 cent per hour, ten years 2 cents, fifteen years 3 cents, and twenty years 4 cents. The measure rewards fidelity among workers.
A historical advertisement promotes Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement supports health. It describes gentle action on liver and kidneys and relief for headaches with prices at 25 and 50 cents.
A clipped note recalls Kingstown in Ireland once named Dunleary where Queen landed. Mentions include Archie Tegtmeyer silversmith shop in Milwaukee and vintage merchandise like sterling pulley buckles. An old testimonial from Wim. O. Endsley cites Piso’s Cure and a remark on global deer consumption brewed in Germany.
A collage of vintage ads notes cures and products including Halt's Catterrh Cure at 75 cents, Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic with a free trial, 931 Arch Street Philadelphia, Fisher's Flavoring Extracts endorsed under pure food laws, Chicago fire department engines, Mrs Winslow's Syrup for teething, and Washington leading New York in automobiles.
The lightship three miles southwest of the Columbia River mouth notes a fresh water plume at calm, ebb tide. A bucket drawn from the surface yields water palatable for drinking, forming a two foot deep fan of fresh water whose apex is at the river mouth.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for tired women. It claims the product strengthens and restores health by addressing burdens and ills women experience.
It is known from coast to coast. It has cured more sick women than any other medicine. Its friends are everywhere and they are constantly writing thankful letters in this paper. If you are puzzled write for Mrs. Pinkham's advice. Her address is Lynn, Mass. She will charge you nothing and she has restored a million women to health.
Real sale prices on all kinds of clothing and family dyeing. Mail orders promptly attended to. Hack & Alten advertise at 534 Clinton Street Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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