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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
4
French physicians assert chlor oform cures sunstroke but have not found a cure for chloroform. Representatives of steamship companies convene in Paris to seek ways to avoid ruinous rate cuts. The proposed remedy is simple: stop cutting.
The Boston climber who climbed Jungfrau Moench and Giger in a single day illustrates the American habit of large scale deals on short notice in wholesale fashion.
A fragment notes a boiler explosion at York Pennsylvania where eight men were killed when a producer gas engine supplanted a steam engine, with the incident described as creating no similar occurrences elsewhere.
The curve beyond which trainmen cannot see led to a fatal wreck near Piqua Ohio. Similar hidden curves exist on both steam and electric railways and safety measures should be explored to reduce such accidents.
A grim account claims Yaqui Indians are slaughtering settlers in Mexico and igniting a protracted war. The piece attributes obstinacy and bloodthirstiness to Indians and argues civilization must progress by eradicating or corralling them in reservations.
The Wright brothers have shown in France an aeroplane capable of long flights. The Farman machine shown in New York last week can stay aloft only while its engine runs at full power, lacking sustained soaring ability.
Before reaching Auckland the American fleet’s battleships had a chance to show seaworthiness by steaming through a heavy gale. Despite heavy armament and vast machinery, the modern battleship remains buoyant and dry in rough seas.
Eight people died when the steamer Permier burned at a Lake Winnipeg landing early Thursday. The incident highlighted the need for proper night watch to safeguard passengers and acknowledge fire as a constant steamboat travel peril.
Fishermen on the west shore of Lake Michigan organize to urge legislation increasing net mesh sizes. They argue that larger meshes spare smaller fish for future business viability.
The passage notes Count Zeppelin, long subsisting on expectation, will endure another season of effort and waiting to demonstrate his capabilities in aeronautics. This struggle is seen as renewing his youth and prolonging activity beyond achieving his aim in a single leap.
The British wheat harvest this year is forecast to be 550000 quarters lower than last year. In the United States the wheat crop is estimated at about 781000000 bushels, up from 634087000 a year ago. Farm product prices and crop statistics are portrayed as cheerful prospects this year.
Steaming from Honolulu to Auckland, about 850 miles, American battleships now in antipodes are believed to have covered a greater distance on a single coal supply than any heavy fighting ships before. The voyage shows the modern battleship can perform remarkable feats when distant from coal stocks.
The president of the fishery section of the Brussels Chamber of Commerce reports experiments in fish carriage. Ostend boats off the Portuguese coast sold fish packed in special vegetable paper, remaining fresher and tastier after sixteen days than those packed in ice. Paper proves superior.
White Star Steamship Company reveals plans for an immense drydock of one thousand feet length. Managers expect ships of that size to appear, signaling a trend toward bigger vessels and prompting dock and canal lock builders to anticipate marine development in the near future.
The dairy and food inspector targets farmers and cheese makers with unclean and unsanitary premises. His work benefits milk and cheese consumers and should spur improvements across dairy counties to protect public health.
The Cincinnati Young Men's Christian Association has sent two hundred idle men to the harvest fields of the Dakotas. Many more would gladly leave cities for months of country work if ways to transport them could be found to answer farmers' loud calls for help.
The treaty opens a path to suppress counterfeits of American products in Asian markets. Japanese manufacturers have placed imitations in the market, causing direct harm by stealing demand from American goods and indirect harm by creating prejudice due to inferior quality.
The July fire loss in the United States and Canada reached $15,523,750, the smallest for any month in 1908 except May. For the first half of the year destruction by fire totals $141,481,500, up from $135,718,550 in 1907. Losses have been largely insured, and higher security values have helped insurers avoid serious strain.
The Pittsburg resident offers a $100,000 prize for a motor boat guaranteed at 50 mph. Herreshofts may be involved. Dixie Sr. hit over 36 mph in a private trial after racing the British Harmsworth contenders. To win, builders must boost speed by 14 mph, a pace still strong for commercial vessels.
Galveston notes New York Montreal trade rivalry and rail and canal freight complaints. Local business leaders hope to divert West export grain to the gulf route via Galveston, but the Great Lakes waterway remains the dominant path. The Montreal competition may limit Gulf route gains.
A reader cites Webster's and Standard dictionaries defining brother-in-law as the husband's brother, the wife's brother, a sister's husband, and a wife's sister's husband. He asks if, after both wives die and no heir exists, the wife's sister's husband could inherit, noting such a contingency is exceedingly remote.
A bronze statue of Father Marquette, copied from the Marquette model in Washington, will be placed at Mackinac Island Park as a gift from the late Peter White of Marquette. Though not Catholic, White admired Marquette's character and role in Northwest history, praising Trentanove's statue and Mackinac Island as a fitting site for another tribute.
A Chicago News traveler recounts Melbourne and Australia’s boom bust cycles. He notes vast wharves idle after a nineties building boom, bank failures, and poverty, followed by a severe drought that decimated livestock. Recovery returns but drought risks persist, with storage reservoirs urged as a solution. Population shifts show many men leaving for work while women rise.
Orlie Hizer of near Lawrie visited Guthrie yesterday to claim a bounty for two large wolf scalps. While hunting a rabbit he spotted a wolf in a bush and fired with a single shot, then reloaded and killed the animal as it charged. He later found the mate had also struck at him in the bushes.
The illuminating material liquid gas was found three or four years ago by Hermann Blau, a Bavarian chemist. Rectification separates methane and hydrogen, and under forty atmospheres the gas becomes liquid in steel receivers. It could replace petroleum, alcohol and acetylene, and is said to emit a vivid color superior to electric light.
The Kaiser Wilhelm II docked at Plymouth and loaded Bremen bound cargo consisting of ten thousand live eels in two cases for stocking German rivers. The eels will be lab tested at Cuxhaven before release into streams once mature.
A speaker recalls a striking yet fleeting romance with a beautiful woman. He questions his capacity to judge character, wonders what drew him to marriage, and acknowledges the crash that followed. The piece captures vanity, desire, and eventual remorse in a dated lyrical tone.
In New York, Booker T. Washington lauded the dry state of the South noting many southern beverages are impure. He recalls a story of two brewers debating the ease of brewing good beer versus making bad beer that people will still drink.
The Philadelphia artist John Lambert, blinded by bright Spanish sun, died of grief. A Philadelphia club member recalls Lambert as a realist whose portraits were true and unflattering. He refused to flatter, noting a matron’s request to alter a mouth, offering to omit it if desired.
A Atlanta clergyman recalls Harris joking that everyone seeks free editorials and medical tips. He retells a tale of an editor jailed for ten days for hitting the mayor, with the warden bidding farewell and asking for a puff for the jail as a joke.
A Philadelphia painter says P A B Widener’s Van Dycks are genuine and notes Widener’s deep art knowledge learned from John G. Johnson. He cites Widener’s cautious buying and compares ignorance in collecting to a failed Ogontz chicken-raiser who fed chicks milk, not feed.
A Harvard anecdote recalls Dean Briggs and Rev. Edward Everett Hale joining forces at Soldiers' Field amid a fierce Yale rivalry. When asked where he was going Briggs replied to yell with Hale, reflecting shared spirit and diplomacy in sports rivalry.
An anecdote from Harper’s Weekly recalls Richard Mansfield in failing health, who remained cheerful and claimed others near death had warm legs and feet, citing Joan of Arc and Salem witches as examples in a wry joke about warmth in illness.
A Burlington Vermont man recalls the late Senator Proctor disparaging international marriages where a titled foreigner weds an American heiress. He supposedly claimed he would respect such unions only if a duke or prince married a poor American girl, quipping that his church would be decorated with marigolds if he had to finance his daughters’ marriages to counts or earls.
The Old Curiosity Shop in Portsmouth street and nearby property will be demolished after month end. The freehold has been sold to allow a block of business premises to rise. The 300 year old building, linked by some to Dickens and James I., may lose its famous name but tenants will continue printing in Great Queen street.
A short poem in a rondeau form expressing feeble art to capture deep love. The speaker laments the inability to write of a love that lies within the heart and the silent rising of their affection beyond artful words. Armin Trebor in Appleton's.
Berlin police limit ornate electric street signs on premier avenues while not opposing signs in poor spaces. Milking cows by electricity proves profitable. Marconi develops two way wireless telegraphy with direction finding. GE inventor patents mounting device for recording instruments on electric vehicles. Wattmeters stabilized by new vibration dampers. Caledonian railway in Scotland adopts a large new electric signaling system. Lightning colors vary by type from white to blue. sheet lightning often white. hail accompanies blue lightning. Electric drive doubles output in English rolling mills. Chicago church uses electric floor footlights to avoid overhead glare. Knudsen’s wireless visuals show promise for picture transmission and possible typesetting remotely. Irrigation along suburban rail lines with electric pumps validated by Puget Sound Electric. potential sales hook for utilities. Electric cooking in dining cars reduces fire risk. dynamo powered by Curtis turbine generates the needed current. First electric streetcar line in Bareey, Poland. wages for crews noted. Denver to Fort Collins rail electrification planned. if successful, full route to Laramie. Water purification via Leon Dion’s electrical decomposition creates ozone to kill germs and burn contaminants.
According to Notes and Queries a contributor traces Banzai to the Imperial University of Tokyo. It arose about fifteen or sixteen years ago as a response to an equivalent for Hurrah. Invented by gene, a leading Japanese literature authority, it spread worldwide as a brief congratulatory expression.
A fragmentary snippet captures a rural Jayhawker dialect exchange about buying a chicken near midnight. The brief exchange hints stores closing time and a plan to buy food, reflecting local color and a moment of daily life.
August C Backus seeks the Republican nomination for Milwaukee County district attorney. Born near Milwaukee to German parents, he began as a messenger for Western Union at 13 and rose through the ranks to become a trusted prosecutor. He attended Wisconsin University Law, became second assistant DA in 1905, then first assistant, then senior assistant in the DA’s office, with extensive court experience and leadership roles in county boards and multiple courts. He emphasizes honesty fearlessness and conscientious service to taxpayers.
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