27 Mar 1902
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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1902
Page
1
Advertisement notes J. E. Jones as editor and publisher of a weekly Bayfield County paper. It promotes NewspapER and Commercial Printing services with home printing claim and a yearly subscription rate of two dollars.
Emile Zola begins a trio of Paris lectures before an aristocratic women’s club by accusing the audience of superficial culture and shirking real literature and politics. He rebukes their vanity, charity, and social climbing, contrasting them with honest labor and motherhood duties.
Chippewa county officials report a settlement requires Chippewa to pay Gates county $20 385 10. Board members doubt county building values and defer final action until Thursday.
Jacob Jordi, 50, a Belleville harness-maker, attempted suicide to avoid appearing before Court Commissioner Pfund in a contempt charge tied to debt. He fired four times. one bullet struck near the heart, not believed fatal. Jordi has a wife and six children and had faced an earlier execution for debt.
Jacob Jacobson survived a seventy foot fall in an ore shaft near Hibbing and expects discharge soon with no broken bones. In Madison a fire insurance outlook shows rising rates and fewer Wisconsin insurers amid growing fire risk. notable affiliations include Sons of Herman and Royal League. A student attack at a Burnham residence left her with cut lips and a man jailed for assault and attempted suicide.
Lincoln March 19 W J Bryan is forty two today. He leaves his city residence at 1625 D street and relocates to a four mile distant farm to oversee the new house’s construction. The family will live in a brick barn during building. Bryan helped with the move and will remain to supervise the super structure.
John M. True of Baraboo reports Andrew Carnegie offered $12,000 for a new library if Baraboo pledges $1,200 yearly for maintenance. The gift was arranged through True and Baraboo aims to raise the project to a total of $25,000.
Charles Burnham who runs a university student boarding-house at 604 Frances street beat his wife shortly before noon today and then cut his throat with a razor, wounding himself. The quarrel followed disputes over boards money and a threat to kill her. She avoided sleeping last night. He later descended to the dining room and struck.
A collection of brief jokes and anecdotes from various papers. A Pottsville lawyer recalls a sharp algebra exchange with a student, while satirical quips touch political figures Brown and Washington, fortune tellers, and patient roasts about marriage and jail.
Col Sam Reed, dining at Delmonico's, frets over a French menu and provokes the waiter with ornate dish names. The waiter corrects him and translates the order into a mock bill of fare, prompting a brisk return to service.
A reflective piece argues the king’s authority rests on the people and envisions a future where books are essentials, not luxuries, marking a millennium of enlightenment and literacy.
In a note on the Hay family, Little Breeches may gain popularity and significance as multiple weddings draw attention to the area and its social standing.
A summary of multiple medieval legends about the Wandering Jew named with figures such as Car taphilos and Ahasuerus. The text recounts Pontius Pilate’s hall, Jesus’s rebuke, and the vow to wander the earth until judgment day, with variations attributed to Paul von Eitzen and other tellings.
The piece quotes Isaac Barrow describing wit as often elusive and varied. It lists forms such as allusion to a known story, apt application of a trivia, wordplay, odd similitude, sly questions, smart answers, quirkish reason, shrewd imitation, irony, hyperbole, metaphor, and a mix of simplicity and bluntness.
At the viceroy’s garden party in Benares the Countess Palovolovetsch wore a gown described as blue flame and liquid fire. Observers saw changing colors as she moved, never sitting still. A friend revealed the costume was a brocade gown adorned with 535 fireflies in nets.
The piece notes the impossibility of moving the eye while viewing its reflection in a mirror. With the head fixed and the eye attempting motion, it cannot move, yet to observe the nose or other facial parts the eye must shift. It explains why self view differs from how others see expressions.
Dr Mason, a noted musician, recounts visiting Richard Wagner who gave him a theme drawn on a staff by Wagner. The fragment later proved to be the dragon motive from the Siegfried dramas, in the version used only in Act II. Wagner warned the janist to remember him if he heard anything like it.
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