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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
6
A letter denounces Governor Haskell for his alleged unfitness and links him to managing a national campaign. The author urges judging William Howard Taft by deeds over words and contrasts Taft with Bryan, warning against partisan manipulation and moral issue appeals.
Article compares U S savings bank data from 1820 to later years to dispute claims that the poor grow poorer and the rich richer. It cites per capita savings, total deposits, and counts of depositors, naming James Buchanan and Bryan in a critique from Baltimore American.
The former president urges far sighted citizens to support Taft, praising his deeds for moral uplift and policies of immense consequence to the honor and interests of the American people.
In Taft’s Cincinnati speech cited here Judge Taft critiques William Jennings Bryan’s political history. He questions Bryan’s practical achievements, consistency, and ability to implement reforms especially on trusts and bank deposits, warning that Bryan’s election could paralyze business.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a curator guiding a reporter to a tank where six starfish attack six mussels. The starfish use gastric juice to dissolve the hinge of each shell, opening the mussels and feeding. The exhibit ends with open, empty shells on the sand.
The piece surveys early nineteenth century views on drunkenness in Maria Josepha Lady Stanley's life, noting neighbors and laborers celebrating a christening with varying degrees of intoxication and witty remarks from Lady Sheffield about such festivities. It also covers diverse snippets from periodical notes on fashion, footwear turned into combs, overcoats, courting quips, melodrama ideas, and canary color changes via pepper.
A wandering compilation notes brass and gold as currency and temptation, a London umbrella theft warning with playful apologies, a Dublin opera joke about hell, and a comic tale of Jack stealing a feather bed told with misdirection and a backward descent.
A quoted speaker insists productivity depends on being fed, saying she cannot work on an empty stomach and would not work on a full one, urging continuity of effort despite hunger. The tone mocks or questions work norms and appetite, set in a playful local voice.
Brief literary exchange shows a nervous traveler questioning speed of travel to a seat companion who jokes about flirting with a girl across the way. The playful banter captures a moment of social interaction aboard a journey.
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