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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
4
A Washburn Times notice announces advertising rates and an application. Published by Nels M. Oscar editor in Washburn Wisconsin dated June 18 1908. This item includes postal matter classification and a print note.
Regular Washington note says Cortelyou has unique strength for vice presidency, with a strategic New York residence as a potential convention factor. Supporters tout his cabinet popularity and appeal to commercial interests, while critics worry about two cabinet members seeking the top job.
The President reshapes the Inland Waterways Commission by adding key figures such as Senator Allison and Representative Ransdell of Louisiana. He forms a conservation commission pairing the waterways body with three others, led by Gifford Pinchot, head of the Forestry Bureau and conservation leader.
Booker T. Washington met the President in recent days and said he arranged a separate interview with the President for a Libyan delegation from Liberia seeking moral support against British and French encroachment on its territory.
Party leaders had feared the tariff plank was too radical but fears are allayed and the platform now calls for a possible special session of Congress to consider the tariff issue and adopt the maximum principle. Senator Hopkins, in New York with a rough draft, will confer with the President and Secretary Taft before returning to Chicago.
W R Ward of Dyersburg Tennessee writes praising Urine Laxative Fruit Syrup as a thorough practical remedy for chronic constipation. Q V Frost urges inquiry into kidney or bladder troubles and promotes Foley's Kidney Cure as a dependable treatment.
A 40 page illustrated trap book shows 46 wild animals in natural colors. Includes a fur animal calendar and a gun and trap catalog with hide and fur prices. Offered postpaid for 10c stamps or free with shipment or purchase. Fur Dept. N. W. Hide & Fur Co. Minneapolis.
Two Annapolis graduates, including George Dewey, visit London on leave and order strawberries and cream at a top hotel. A £1 bill shocks the pair but they order two more plates to preserve American naval honor, leaving with empty pockets yet pride intact.
Frank Presbrey notes the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh, built by a Caesar era authority, a 400 mile macadam thoroughfare with few dust issues and many speed traps. He recalls motor use rising and rail travel declining, and describes village inns providing trap locations near Biggleswade Buckden and Weston.
A Cajun style anecdote describes Mose in eastern Texas facing razorback hogs raiding a cook tent. He decries the hogs as hawgs with startled humor, noting their ravenous appetite and the Lord’s naming of them, as quoted in Everybody's Magazine.
A humorous exchange from Chicago News shows Mrs A accusing Mrs C of hypocrisy for prompting her to say something mean about Mrs B. The women discuss friendship and trust in a light social vignette.
The article notes pawnbroking was introduced in England by Michael de Northburg bishop of London during Edward III’s reign. He founded a loan shop for poorer Londoners on portable goods, and Dugdale records that if a loan remained unpaid after a year a St Paul’s cross preacher would announce a sale in fourteen days unless redeemed.
A poetic reflection compares joy to lamp oil. when oil wanes the wick glows with red fumes and black smoke fills the air. Life without joy becomes unprofitable, casting mood and sadness.
A brief item notes a hawk preying on a dove and facing as many threats as the dove in its surroundings, reflecting a perilous balance in nature observed by the Atchison Globe.
Sir Spencer Walpole argues that Homer’s world was a small, flat sphere bounded by surrounding seas and limited Greece. He notes Homer’s general knowledge of Africa and Egypt, yet stresses the gulf between Homer’s geography and actual facts, with the Aegean as a vast, fearsome sea to him.
A New York Tribune note explains the term lucky bag aboard ships and at Annapolis and West Point. It describes monthly openings collecting lost items such as jackknives shoes tobacco caps photographs and sewing kits from sailors and cadets alike.
A Philadelphia Ledger item quotes college women reacting to a missionary’s urging that women join the mission field. The students snickered at the call to become fishers of men, prompting the speaker to note a deplorable spirit of levity among the audience.
Sir Henry Roscoe on a European tour visited Vesuvius erupting and met an American who mocked the spectacle. Roscoe replied that America has nothing like it while the American boasted a river that could extinguish the volcano in five minutes.
A humorous Harper's Weekly quip features Mrs X and her child debating pins on a dressing table as a Latin schoolboy offers a pun about pins falling to earth becoming ter rapins. The fragment captures light social humor and wordplay typical of the era.
A Louisville Courier-Journal exchange notes the sun is seen as universal by kindly citizens while others fear it is treated as a spotlight. The piece contrasts broad public fairness with self serving glare and suggests society chooses how to value light. The article also recalls the 1853 arrival of the first mail steamer from England to New South Wales.
A Philadelphia Press quip notes Fle talks of becoming an actor but critics doubt his qualifications. The joke credits a deceased friend who left him a fur lined overcoat and a high hat as the sole credential for a stage career.
A messenger boy sits still for an hour as a comic moment unfolds in a Philadelphia Record snippet. Blobbs notes the boy would make an ideal chess player while observing the scene.
The excerpt muses on camels and eyes with a mix of science and poetry. It compares camel eyes to human emotion and memory, noting a soft gaze that evokes sympathy. The tone blends reflection with gentle humor about self-assessment and life opportunities.
The piece discusses the relativity of knowledge asserting appearances mask reality. It then reports a record price for seed potatoes at Bilby England with El Dorado tubers selling for vast sums, including six tubers weighing five ounces fetching £56 8s 6d and a new Sir John Franklin variety at £3,000 per ton.
Notice to loggers offering logging by contract and load or pick up logs by the thousand. Contact Eugene Newhouse & Willette in Washburn Wisconsin for work opportunities and address details.
The advertisement touts Boschee’s German Syrup as the only preparation on the market that relieves and cures consumption. It cites ingredients like pare tar and gum extracts, claims endorsements by medical congresses, and promises rest, soothing treatment, fresh air, and good food for the consumptive. Small bottle 25 cents. regular bottle 15 cents at Frost & Spies.
A call from the Republican Congressional Committee invites contributions on why the party should win in the coming election. Submissions must be under 1000 words, mailed by July 15, with an award of 150 dollars to the top piece.
An advertisement promotes a travel book titled The Old World and Its Ways by 576 Imperial Octavo Pipes. Bryan photographs recount his global tour and nation visits. It claims 41,000 copies sold in four months and invites agents to request a sample report after paying fifty cents for mailing costs.
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