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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
7
Two visiting women, friends of the superintendent, walk near the insane ward at Warm Springs. A disheveled man in pursuit suddenly taps one woman and exclaims tag. The guard and ward repairs are noted as ongoing.
The Kaiser's latest leisure activity is designing an efficient braking device. He claims an axle brake with merits and considers offering it to automobilists. Germany ranks second to France in car exports, sending sixty-five million five hundred thousand to England's twenty-eight million.
A southern congressman visits a Tennessee barber shop for a haircut. After finishing, the barber asks “Tennessee or Georgia?” surprising the guest. The congressman answers “Georgia,” and the barber proceeds to brush his hair dry in a quip about the choice.
In a playful exchange from the Yonkers Statesman two girls tease about a doll with a past. Ethel invites Eva to bring her doll to play at her house, while Eva hesitates, noting the doll’s rumored history.
Chester Firkins rues the year by memory and seasonal emblems. The poem blends April’s youth May’s blossoms and Autumn’s harvest with Christmas and a star guiding back to the manger. It celebrates joy, time, and the birth of Christ as life's pinnacle tonight.
On a cold Christmas morning a poor girl named Katie travels with a half fare ticket and cookies for grandma. A wealthy young woman gifts her a gray scarf and shares a cake, while a kindly grandmotherly passenger offers mittens. A man with an overcoat brings a doll from his daughter, completing a quiet act of generosity that moves the scene.
Christmas spirit remains alive since the annunciation of the Holy Child, as noted in St. Nicholas by Helen A. Hawley in a reflective piece about enduring holiday cheer.
A masked highwayman confronts a lone traveler in a snow covered wasteland. The victim yields when no money is found. The robber, angered by the lack of coins, curses the man and raises his pistol in a fatal threat.
A highwayman lowers his weapon as bells ring on Christmas Eve. The Rev Jeremiah Briggs and his long lost brother Harry Briggs Dare-devil Harry Briggs reveal their identities. They embrace, tears in eyes, and sing carols together, echoing a warm festive awakening.
On snow beside him Daredevil Harry sits near a divine figure wrapped in a brother’s cloak. He chants carols as bells fill the air. The repentant cutpurse proclaims the spirit of Christmas and wishes to make a great sacrifice in honor of the season.
Daredevil Harry decides to share his Christmas dinner with three starving wolves as he frees his sleeping brother. The wolves feast while bells ring and a moonlit snowbound scene washes the land in silver light. The hero finds consolation in the spiritual message of Christmas.
The piece traces Christmas customs to heathen origins in Norse Hebrew and Celtic traditions. It notes the evergreen tree linked to Freyr symbolism, the December 21 ritual, mistletoe’s Celtic role, and Jewish candle customs shaping modern Christmas date and practices.
A nervous patient complains of sleep disruption from No 22 in a sanatorium. The doctor moves the next room’s bed to the roof for quiet and finds the patient sleeping well, revealing the power of imagination in disease. No actual occupant slept in room 22 for weeks, highlighting mind over matter.
Mrs Lavina J. Henderson of Stamford Connecticut describes a four year fight with inflammatory rheumatism hair loss skin peeling and bed sores. She credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent with relief and regaining hair and complexion following treatments begun in March 1907.
A Tennessee judge, self educated, wrestled with spelling from Noxville to Nashville then Knashville. He moved to Murfreesboro and quipped how they spell the town with a K, illustrating lifelong orthography lessons from a Philadelphia Ledger quote.
Picture postcards now carry announcements from weddings to newborns and business ads. A German card shows a coffin wreath with the inscription So rubte unser Seliger Thus rested our sainted one, illustrating a somber recent trend in memorial communications.
Champ Clark recounts a heated exchange where a debate raged over a racially toned insult. Johnson retorted that the Illinois representative was out of order, prompting a quip about a veterinary surgeon. The remark stayed on the record in Success Magazine.
A Baltimore era article notes widespread discussion in the medical fraternity over whiskey as a remedy for lame back rheumatism. It cites a formula using half a pint of whiskey with Toris Compound and Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound, taken before meals and at night, available from Globe Pharmaceutical Co. Chicago or any druggist.
A proprietor of a stuttering cure institute advertises a trial lesson free. A rural Pennsylvanian visitor is astonished by the gilt sign STAMMERING INSTITUTE at the entrance and quips about learning to stammer, noting modern education’s breadth.
Advertisement by F J Cheney & Co claiming nine of ten deafness cases from catarrh can be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Describes deafness from inflamed Eustachian tube and offers $100 for uncured cases. Mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Public notice style sales pitch with product endorsements.
A teacher of a geography class humorously misquotes English spa import origins in a Bohemian joke. The exchange features sparrows and worms as a playful mispronunciation, highlighting regional wordplay and classroom banter.
An ad touts Brom o Quinine as the laxative cure we use world over to cure a cold in one day, signed L E W Grove. The ad prices at 25 cents and notes the product’s wide usage. A separate news brief reports crime in New York City rising rapidly with more complaints indictments charges and trials than any six month period in the city’s history, outpacing population growth estimates of 65 000.
An upstate visitor to New York at Grand Central alights at Eden Musée. He ignores a policeman’s warning about smoking and quips that the wax figure he’s studying must be what he knows best.
The London Globe recalls Gladstone’s amusing political bull in a debate on disestablishment. He joked about English church influence in marriage baptism and burial, prompting the House to roar with laughter as he noted a bull may be excusable when contrasting English and Irish churches.
A series of sixteen post cards depicting Washington Park Zoo views and Ringling Brothers menagerie animals is offered for sale at 15 cents in stamps. If not taking the entire set, samples can be obtained for 5 cents in stamps. The Evening Wisconsin Co. Milwaukee Wis.
A gypsy released from jail meets a friend. He explains he was jailed for finding a horse before its original owner lost it, prompting disbelief. The exchange underscores a quirky misunderstanding over ownership and fate.
An advertisement promises to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles in six to fourteen days with PazO ointment. It guarantees a full refund if the condition is not cured within the stated period. The claim emphasizes rapid relief and money-back assurance.
In Pennsylvania about 1700 fire bosses and assistant fire bosses earn 75 to 100 dollars monthly while 2200 mine foremen and assistants earn 100 to 125 dollars monthly. Forty inspectors receive 3000 dollars per year each.
An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething soothing gums reducing irritation easing pain and curing wind colic sold at 25 cents per bottle.
New Zealand is called the happiest country in the world by its inhabitants as it becomes a dominion. Names such as The Fortunate Isles The Wonderland of the Pacific All Lands in One and The Star of the South reflect pride in its status and geography.
A Dundee Advertise item recounts humorous banking tales from London about women and their check books. One overdrawn customer apologizes with a check on the same bank, another pays a sovereign to ease distress, and a third tries to cash a crossed check, only to be told it cannot cross the counter.
In a Chicago hotel smoking room a group of aeronauts share balloon lore. Captain H B Honeywell recalls the Fielding Antonio balloon and a centenarian Elyot tale of a Charleston summer voyage. A thunderstorm, rain, and lightning drive the craft over a plantation where an anchored grapnel hung from the rope.
A funeral morns approach as a dozen friends sit near a hut in a soft summer night hearing ghost stories. Strange noises rise from above, a formless dark shape appears, and a man is seized by a grapnel pulled aloft at speed while crying that Dick is at home. Washington Star report.
We sell guns and traps cheap and buy furs and hides at 105 NW. Catalogue from Hide and Fur Co. Minneapolis Minnesota.
The article, citing the Chicago Journal, notes the Russian emperor has crowns for every state occasion. It highlights the Russiaga imperial crown with a patriarchal miter design, five large diamonds on a glowing ruby cross, flawless diamonds and pearls, and a singular sapphire praised as the finest of its kind.
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