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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
3
A collage of Victorian era vignettes with sharp gender observations and social notes. It glances at a Screech-Owl fable mood, a German born protest about half fares for women, a hostess guide for visiting young women, and insomnia advice, ending with an anecdote on reliability and decisive yes. The pieces center on women’s roles, humor, and everyday etiquette in a bustling social world.
Jane Addams urged Massachusetts readers to reform Chicago street cleaning by appointing more women ward inspectors. She cited 36 inspectors with only one woman, and noted women’s demand for suffrage to influence clerical hiring and city sanitation. Raymond Robins echoed with figures: 20,000 government jobs in Chicago but only 1,800 held by women, linking suffrage to better public health and safety.
A conversation between two women centers on the virtue of keeping promises. They admire Miss A for her reliability, noting her firm yes means yes and trustworthiness in work. The piece uses a narrative voice to reflect on manners, timing, and everyday honesty.
The German Oriental Society report under Dr. Friedrich Delitzsch details Babylon ruins, tracing walls and size to about one square mile, similar to London. Excavations uncover Nabopalassar and Nebuchadnezzar palaces, with royal quadrangle, audience hall, and immense brickwork lacking ornament, as historic events echo in the Chamber of Selamlik.
The deputy public administrator W Hynes uncovered the fortune of late Mrs. Jessie Fremont Dietsch of San Francisco inside a secret hollow leg of an old table. The cache included a bank book for 4200 dollars, jewelry, and shares in wild cat concerns, revealed after a days long search.
Lockport and Gasport, New York, likely the only towns with women United States mail carriers. Lockport has Mrs. N S Maynard, Gasport has Mrs. William Bolton and Mrs. A H Bradford. They were sworn in by the local postmasters under Washington authorization to fill husbands’ vacation posts. Local authorities praise their work and favor a full women’s force.
Miss Sadie Roland aged 35 inches tall and 30 pounds died at her father Henry Round’s near Nena Ohio from brain fever. She never performed publicly, though skilled in needlework and other tasks. Arrivals from Stanle county say Fort Pierre jail prisoners threaten a strike if city councilors’ loud, late-night debates continue in the jail basement. They seek quieter sessions and restraint from aldermen, hoping to sleep.
In Home stead Pennsylvania Fourth Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church the cheerful choir halted singing after a playful mice outbreak. A soprano shriek interrupted the hymn Abide With Me causing the performers to pause while the congregation watched. The sexton orders the mice to be killed at once.
Melvin E Sundvold recounts farmer Henry Hanson story from Worthing county South Dakota. During the last high water pike and carp moved up a drainage canal near the Hanson farm. Hanson rushed out with bare legs to save a calf caught by the water monster. He grabbed the calf but the giant pike lashed water and blinded him briefly before the animal drowned.
Miss Mabel Olmsted of Morristown New Jersey owned Rob Roy an Irish setter who died at Spring Blake. The dog’s sealed coffin was buried in the Olmsted pet cemetery with the owner present as earth was sprinkled on the grave. Olmsted long led the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Laban Pollock of Mansfield Delaware died from bumble bee stings after disturbing a nest in a hay mow. A severed hand was found by a dog along the Nanticoke river near Seaford, prompting speculation of foul play as authorities search for a possible drowning or murder. Eight diners at a Newton hotel ate fried rattlesnake, praised as palatable. the snake was inspected near Lake Owassa and the skin with eight rattles will be tanned.
White River in Indiana sees pearl hunting grow into a distinct trade with campers and locals pursuing gems along the stream. Farmland near Muncie yields the only notably valuable pearl, sold for around 500, while many find only small, cheap stones bought by nearby jewelers. Muncie jewelers ship White River pearls to eastern markets where polished gems fetch higher prices. Separately, news of the marriage of Josephine Miller of St Pauls to Arthur Bartley of Willow Hill, with a dramatic backstory, noted. The groom, 19, wed a much older widow, former wife of Rev. Marion Bartley, amid domestic controversy and a move to live near Athe Stone, WI.
Public safety director Edward E er Hee ordered bathers inside city limits to be suitably clothed from neck to knee. Police are empowered to arrest anyone in trunks on the charge of indecency as Pittsburg communities resist openwork swimwear in local lakes and ponds.
Director Lang criticized town bathing attire calling some costumes flimsy and indecent. He ordered stricter rules restricting exposure, requiring stocked outfits, trunks to be worn in public baths, and high necks for women to curb immodesty.
Joseph Sandlin a charter Red Men member in Advance Indiana invited his lodge brothers to view him as he lay in a coffin he crafted from yellow poplar with his hands crossed over his chest. He bought a cemetery lot and placed a monument where he wishes to be buried, leaving funeral instructions with the lodge.
Two hundred Seabright fishermen in 100 boats set out at sunrise for fishing banks. In the afternoon each boat carried 500 to 600 pounds of blue fish, totaling about 50,000 pounds. Buyers paid commission houses on the beach 7 cents per pound, yielding the day's earnings of $3,500 for the crew.
George Laubach of Durham Pennsylvania cherishes his hen noted as a steady layer. Under extraordinary conditions she will lay daily only if allowed to do so in a large grandfather rocking chair in the parlor of the Laubach home. The privilege is accorded her.
James Gillies, shocked by 13,000 volts at Newark’s River Street power house, describes the moment the circuit completed at his left foot. He recalls a whipping-like sensation as his body convulsed and every bone cracked during the jolt.
John Kazehuba, a Russian exile, insulted Old Glory during a funeral march by tearing the flag from a bearer and trampling it. A crowd beat him, he was jailed on a $1000 bond for cursing the flag, and at Monongahela City he was beaten again by inmates. He lies in serious condition.
William A. Cake of Trenton New Jersey suffers a mysterious skin condition repeating skin shedding for 53 years. Numerous physicians have tried to diagnose it with no success. In Los Angeles California Morris Hurwitz found four gold nuggets weighing about a half pound each worth 500 dollars apiece. The nuggets were found at 25 feet depth in gravel near Moneta and Santa Barbara avenues. Hurwitz will file a mineral claim and expects the area to become a major gold field.
John Yates employed by Dr. George Edge of Round Hill Conun died at Greenwich General Hospital from consuming two quarts of baked beans in one sitting. He earned $2 weekly plus board. The Edge household served baked beans for Sunday dinner, and Yates finished the portions.
John Nicolay Jr. became trapped in the dark cellar of the Lemp Brewing Company in St. Louis. Surrounded by rain and unable to escape, he lay for twenty two hours before a brewery foreman heard his cries and rescued him.
Carrie Withers and Annie Munroe, two Philadelphia women boarding near Lackawaxen, forced a rattlesnake to surrender with chewing gum. They pinned gum to the end of a stick, the snake struck, gum wound around its fangs and mouth, and a farm hand later killed the reptile.
Miss Leona Kingsley of Centralia Missouri suffered a broken arm and facial injuries after refusing a freak wedding in her home cellar with Charles Bodkin her longtime sweetheart. Bodkin struck her with a riding whip when she resisted. She insists on a parlor wedding and reconciliation as she recovers.
Congressman William Hughes of Paterson New Jersey and Charles Curtis of Hackensack a photographer displayed their presence at a local gathering.
A vivid seaside scene shows two fishermen diving after a purse and four return tickets dropped by a New York party of four women. Hughes and Curtis retrieved the tickets but the purse could not be recovered after multiple dives, leaving the women awaiting a solution to the missing ten dollars.
Harrison Bowser of near McGrann Pa after a celebration could not find his wife and ran an ad in the Nittanning paper declaring she had left him. His wife returned home this morning and Bowser paid for a retraction admitting the claim was imaginary and his own fault.
Grace Farlee, 14, plunged into the turbulent Burlington Creek to rescue 9-year-old Fred Schard after he was swept into midstream from a wharf. Despite adults nearby hesitating to swim, she reached him fully dressed and brought him to safety, joking about ruined russet shoes.
Samuel Wallace of Freysville Pa unearthed a suspected burglar's stash while removing building stone at Owl's Valley. Under a large stone he pried loose lay seventeen pieces of solid ware wrapped in a July dated newspaper. Each piece bore the initials HT and M L 4 Nesmith Mida E, initials not matching any local resident.
A Baltimore American excerpt quotes W. E. B. Mignell of the San Francisco chamber of commerce on global pickpocketing. He recounts losses in Venice and Rome, noting an attempted theft of a $10,000 letter of credit and a costly watch, plus advice from local officials about reporting thefts and rewards.
A New York Central official narrates a fast express near Schenectady where a window slammed shut on a woman’s fingers, crushing a $500 diamond that flew from the car. The passenger sent word by telegraph, sparking a line-wide search that recovered the gem from the ballast after a rapid railway response.
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