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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
3
A compilation of essays and vignettes on women's education, public ignorance, and social behavior. It critiques voter ignorance, idealism vs. modern society, and women’s hospitality, arguing for informed citizenry and genuine, affordable social warmth over ostentation.
The article notes Miss Dove of High Wycombe as England’s first woman mayor, cites her Girton College origin and Wycombe Abbey leadership, and reports pushback to a female mayor. It also mentions Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson as Alden mayor, her early medical work, and her connection to nurse physicians who fled Paris during the Franco Prussian era.
A historical note recalls a sister who nursed two young women medical students through smallpox at the top floor of a building. The Pope sisters were strangers to her, seen only as distressed students seeking care. The account underscores quiet personal sacrifice in dire illness.
A St. Louis correspondent argues that modern influences ruin female attractiveness. Women should not copy men in dress or manners but emulate colonial women who sewed, cooked, cared for the home, and trusted their husbands, as urged by the Rev. Dr.
Westminster College president William Hayes Leavill spoke at the Society of Colonial Wars banquet in Fulton praising colonial era women for courage and loyalty. He urged women to stay home unless necessary, warned modern influences harm attractiveness, and praised cooking as central to a husband’s heart.
The article introduces several novel sandwich ideas. A cheese paste fried on graham bread creates a light fried cheese sandwich with paprika and salt. A chicken and nut spread uses white chicken meat, almonds, walnuts, sweet cream, salt, and paprika on graham or white bread. A chocolate spread blends powdered chocolate, boiling water, sugar, and vanilla to a thick paste for spreading on buttered bread slices.
The article tours Canton’s imperial custom house and the Canton river showing the taukia or boat dwellers. Floating slums house millions living with little rent or taxes while transporting goods and people. Some daughters work in factories, but earnings are meager. Boats vary from fifteen to sixty feet, with $20 for a family’s boat and free anchorage aiding savings for shore dwellers.
A Paris laboratory expert mockingly cites adulteration in foods as harmless necessity. Milk is watered and enriched with brain matter, sausages secretly use dog flesh, sugar is replaced by saccharine with gelatin, jellies lack fruit, and pomegranate syrup misleads. Chocolate is grease and flour. tinned lobster is potted octopus.
The Oxford Varsity notes Oxford’s growing cosmopolitanism due to Rhodes scholars. It expresses hearty welcome and appreciation for the scholars’ distinct national characteristics, praising their contribution to the university’s culture.
Buenos Ayres Herald asserts Argentina has centralized governance, reduced regional pastoralism, and seeks to maintain leadership in Latin America through strong external engagement and market presence. The article frames Argentina as a modern, unified state intent on global influence.
Altoona observers recount a pheasant struck by a wire fence, the body tearing the wire nearly in two upon impact. In Indiana, Mrs. Olmstead's quick ride with James Voyles saved her life when a horse bolted, tripping her and leaving Voyles to restrain the animal until danger passed.
A Newfoundland dog saved 12-year-old James Verderamo by stopping a frightened horse from trampling him. The dog grabbed the rein with its teeth and led the horse away, then barked to summon the boy’s family to the scene.
At a New England conference in Boston six state governors unveiled a grave peril to the food supply. Francis J. Herrick of Cleveland, a special investigator for the U S fisheries bureau, warned that the lobster stock is waning and calls for immediate action to avert a calamity threatening the chorus boom and musical comedy era.
In Wilmington a physician alerted an ambulance crew to a man with epistaxis. They rushed to Court Street where they found William Wright, a Black man, suffering a violent nose bleed. He was taken to Delaware Hospital where a surgeon stopped the hemorrhage and explained epistaxis is nose bleed.
In Red Lion Pennsylvania a frantic horse bolted down a street with a large shepherd dog on the wagon seat biting the reins. The dog dragged the rig under control as a pedestrian intervened, stopping the runaway. John Johnson and wife from Stewardstown visited John Raab and left their dog under the seat.
The supply ship Celtic will carry Christmas remembrances to officers and men of the world touring battleship fleet at Manila. The Celtic leaves Brooklyn navy yard mid December and will meet the fleet at Negro Bay or Gibraltar. The fleet arrives at Negro Bay December 31 and at Gibraltar February 6. The ship will also bear 15000 eggs 500 tons of meat chickens flour meal and other provisions.
A bulldog owned by Benjamin Desom of Evansville Indiana killed a horse by tearing it apart after breaking his chain. The dog reportedly disliked the horse and had been kept chained. The incident ended with the dog attacking the horse in the stable.
J Hoffman, employed at Jee's glass factory in Clayton, warned that the shop would have two or three holidays. He later became ill and died within about three hours from hemorrhages. An investigation into the incident follows.
The last pot broke and molten glass was lost, delaying production until a new pot is installed. Hoffman, age 14, was mentioned in the report.
Miss Mary Gladstone of South Norwalk Conn learned of a planned tin shower and quickly found a husband, presenting William Green of Stamford to friends who were left in consternation by the match.
The steamer Indiamayo arrived in Boston harbor with nine million pounds of tea from the Far East. It was the largest consignment ever received in Boston, with half discharged and the rest destined for New York. The voyage covered 12,000 miles and faced a fierce typhoon in the China Sea.
Elihu Smith and Frederick Chase killed a 600 pound bear near Bear creek in Parsons Pennsylvania. After wounding it the animal crawled into a deep cave and the men spent three days rigging a windlass and wire rope to haul it out. The bear’s skin measures T feet from nose to tail.
Post mortem on Mrs. Robert Glenn near Newville Pa. reveals a six inch square silk wash cloth swallowed during recovery from a hospital operation. Doctors believe she swallowed it while waking from anesthesia as she breathed and moved during convalescence.
Oscar Kent of Republican City Nebraska assaulted a St. Louis Denver line conductor near St Joseph Missouri at 12:20 PM waking from a dream of fighting. A brakeman was struck and the train backed to town where police detained Kent. Another conductor was seized and the train was delayed an hour with further delays to other trains. Kent claimed he slept and only dreamed the fighting.
Charles Crampsey of Newark and two friends touring Caldwell witness a dog pursuing a rabbit race alongside their speeding car. The dog collapses dead from gasoline fumes after failing to reach the vehicle, later blamed on a weakened heart. The rabbit remains in the car, to be kept as a pet by Crampsey for his children.
German professor Gross reveals a stirring invisible writing technique used by prisoners. The process uses two sheets of paper with a graphite mark. after drying the writing vanishes and reappears when moistened, provided the sheets are not overheated. The method permits repeated reveals by moisture, though excessive heat destroys the writing.
The article lauds New York for its antiquated horsecar system amid rapid transit growth. It notes Brooklyn Rapid Transit remains, contrasts with Boston's retirement of horsecars, and reports the New York City Railway company purchasing horses and cars for multiple horsecar lines.
Notes of notables profile Rev Edmund T Shanahan born November 22 1868 in Psion educated in parish schools Boston College Rome and Louvain. He earned Doctor of Sacred Theology from Propaganda College Rome in 1898 and since 1901 has served as dean of theology at the Catholic University. He wrote a noted 1897 critique of John Fiske on the idea of God.
Julius Chambers born November 21 1851 in Bellefontaine Ohio attended Cornell 1870 studied law at Columbia. He worked on major New York papers including New York Herald World and later edited leading dailies. He reported major political scoops and authored novels and plays.
George B McClellan born in Dresden November 23 1865 son of Gen George B McClellan. He studied at Trenton schools, Princeton and law, served as New York alderman president and congressman before becoming mayor in 1903. His name often linked to national Democratic vice presidencies.
John Wolcott Stewart born November 24, 1825 in Middlebury Vermont. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1846. He served in the Vermont Legislature 1856 and as state senator in 1862. He led the Vermont House as speaker in 1864 and again later. He was governor of Vermont 1870 to 1872 and later served in Congress starting 1882, with three terms won. After the death of Senator Redfield Proctor he was appointed to fill the remainder of Proctor's term in the U S Senate by Governor Fletcher Proctor.
Paul Haupt a professor of Semitic languages and director of Johns Hopkins oriental seminary was born in Gorlitz Germany on November 25 1858. He studied at Leipzig Glasgow Berlin and at the British Museum and later taught in Germany before joining Johns Hopkins in 1883. Haupt authored works on Biblical and Assyrian philology history and archaeology and stirred debate at a London congress with his claim that Jesus was born in Nazareth not Bethlehem and may not descend from David.
Thomas L. Hisgen born November 26 1869 in Petersburg Indiana. He moved to Albany New York at 16 to clerk in a clothing store. He later built capital in Springfield Massachusetts oil business and opposed Standard Oil. In 1907 he ran for Massachusetts governor as Independence party candidate and received the second largest gubernatorial vote.
The Manhattan board approves a 25 000 appropriation to begin a viaduct at the Forty second street and Fifth avenue intersection as part of Fifth avenue widening. The project saves a thirty two by thirty six foot mood and involves surface car traffic and a bridge estimated at 265 000 dollars.
The Christian Register argues that railway and public service companies in the United States have caused more deaths and injuries to Americans in the last twenty years than all wars combined, condemning the heavy toll of such enterprises.
The irrigated districts of Egypt cover 5,340,000 acres and sustain about 10,000,000 people.
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