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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
3
A mixed column features a Catholic translated poem urging caution against excess and gullibility, a Spanish royal motherhood anecdote of a prince’s birthday and a soldier’s uniform, a Vienna mock judgment on age fibbing, and health advice praising outdoor life and home gardening as cures for nervousness.
In a speech to the Louisiana State Federation of Women’s Clubs Mayor Behrman of New Orleans praises women’s clubs and backs extending school board eligibility to women. He credits Jean Gordon as factory inspector and cites the tenement house and public bath commissions as evidence of women’s public service benefits.
Dr. Carla Blaustein warns immigrant families face mistreatment and cultural estrangement in America from political dealers to schooling and public services. The burden falls heaviest on women, who toil unseen while children assimilate and men adopt new ideas. Forum leaders urge extending club life into tenements.
A York Tribune summary notes Dr Blaustein observing immigrants and their children fully assimilated in American life. English language use and foreign caste reportedly disappeared, with voters no longer acting like cattle. Mr Cargill urged legal access reforms as a remedy for immigrant incendiary agitation, citing a reformer who became a pillar of society through this policy.
A Michigan site ten miles west of Battle Creek on the Kalamazoo river hosts a persistent great blue heron colony. The sycamore first nesting tree, 13 feet in girth and 100 feet tall, held thirteen nests and remains home to the birds for decades. Nesting promotes pest control while the roosting birds attract observers, though the species is shy and solitary except during nesting.
A Montclair dog known as Gasolene Gas or Gasoline Gus died after chasing a passing automobile and attempting to bite a rear tire. The bull terrier, born in a garage and addicted to gasoline fumes, staggered across Bloomfield avenue and was fatally run over when the car wheel rolled over him.
A Brooklyn man William N. Marsh died after rabies from a dog bite. He sought Pasteur Institute help too late for a cure, died within 72 hours, and his case questions the limits of antitoxin advances. The piece urges more funding from wealthy benefactors.
Luxurious hunting party including Prince Demidoff departs Khartum for six months of lion rhinoceros and crocodile seeking in the French Congo. He travels with a doctor chef and cinematograph operator, keeps seventy five donkeys, private steamer at about £25 daily, and carries rifles steel guns and skinning tools.
In Diske near Warren Ind a bear escaped from a traveling menagerie and peered into Mrs Betty Holcombe s kitchen during baking. The 72 year old woman shrieked and fainted, then the bear fled into the woods with pies in its claws. A local posse forms to track the animal.
Maynard Farr, a farmer near Chetek Wisconsin, claims the cow is the most productive in the United States. The animal reportedly raises a family of four calves born in the last eleven months with the mother, including two pairs of twins, all healthy and thriving in the field.
Mrs James Klock leaving her father’s home for Kalamazoo was pelted with mud by a mob of women and children as she wore her wedding gown. Authorities needed a police squad to disperse the crowd after about an hour of hooting and shouting.
Burt Eddy a young farmer from Lee township Michigan was fined sixteen dollars for stealing a kiss from Alma Sunderg. The judge refused to reduce the fine and Eddy remains in county jail for ten days for nonpayment. Sunderg’s public rebuke followed the incident near the schoolhouse in view of pupils. Chicago newsboy Thomas Tagney, now wealthy, built a fortune behind fifty news stands and a large billboard operation. He notes that money working is better than idle wealth, having earned through real estate and persistent effort.
A hard substance broken by Mayor Alfred Royer of Atlantic City proved to be a brown pearl. Expert jewelers repaired the tooth and paid Mr. Royer 200 in addition for possession of the gem.
Mrs. da Green of Stamford Conn sought revenge for alleged tale bearing by whipping Andrew Charlton. She struck him about six times in the face before he was overpowered and a police officer was summoned. Green claimed Charlton accused her of receiving attentions from a St. Louis visitor, with her husband present.
Wilmer Sandt of Bethlehem Pa was arrested by Deputy Game Warden Acker after picking stones from a field at Freemansburg and finding a rabbit nest. He was fined 38.35 dollars. A Mexican Cornell student’s bulldog leapt from a Willson block window and was saved by an awning. the dog remained unharmed as the caper cost Cape ros 45 dollars.
Dr Carroll Rogers and Miss Alice measherby of this city have married, striking another blow to the Bachelor’s club once eight years old. The group, which aimed to keep twelve members by fines for marriage, has lost eight so far and now faces only three remaining members. Each marriage triggers a new vow to stay single, but suspicions grow as the club dissolves.
James Graham unearthed a cache of English gold sovereigns and half sovereigns worth about 5000 dollars after a house move in Glen, Pittsburg suburb. The house formerly belonged to Mary Ant Kilah, who buried the coins to protect them from invaders. Libby Kiluh died after paralysis. digging for treasure uncovered the stash which Graham turned over to Libby Kiluh.
A national apple show in Spokane offers a $1000 prize for the best single apple. The premium committee is still forming its terms and will announce the official offer for the top display regardless of apple variety.
Forty six men jailed in Georgetown Delaware County for vagrancy are cited as fruit growers push for a solution. The men were arrested for riding freight trains.
Delaware farmers complain as railroad detectives arrest and detain berry pickers at the jail, funded by taxpayers. A meeting vowed to free the men, warning of a potential jail delivery if they are not released.
While driving on Upper Mountain avenue Montelur New Jersey Tor rens his wife and two sons were startled as two large black snakes crawled into the car. Mrs Torrens cried out as one snake slid over her lap and Mr Torrens halted the engine and grabbed the reptile flinging it away. He then found a second snake and saved his wife from another shock. Torrens believes the snakes leaped onto the chains of the car and then crawled into the tonneau.
Dr. Fordyce of Lakewood New Jersey returns from Ohio after a phone hoax aimed at pulling him away. He finds his home entered and his valuable collie dog stolen, then traces the dog to an Ohio city and recovers it following a 1500 mile journey.
John McNeill Frank Allison and Frank Kendig of Philadelphia chase a four foot water snake on a small Darby Creek run below Colwyn Pennsylvania. The snake seized a half swallowed frog while trying to flee into deeper water. Allison knocked the reptile from the water with a four club. It wrapped around McNeill's leg before the frog was released and the snake killed to free him.
Dr Charles Lawson of Kokomo Indiana paid a fifty dollar fine after Miss Anna Keane testified that he approached her on State and Washington streets Chicago and invited her to have ice cream. Miss Keane struck him with an umbrella and probation officer Miss Gertrude Biton intervened. Judge Decker warned against downtown street harassment.
Mary F. Skally sues for 500 dollars claiming an ape at Edwards Big Animal Show and Museum on Bowery 250–261 assaulted her with hugging kissing and biting. Attorney Samuel Deutsch says the incident occurred as the show closed and the case set for May 25 in the First District Municipal Court.
In a Harlem apartment building tenants form a cooperative buying group led by a single initiator. They buy in bulk for groceries and later extend the plan to dry goods and clothing, saving about ten dollars a month for a small family compared with corner grocers.
The Seven Stars hotel at Village Green Pa has served as a public house for 145 years and once housed Gen Cornwallis during 1777.
The 1841 will of Moses Wailis in Douglas Mass created a fund from woodland sale proceeds to loan to residents for real estate three times loan value. By 1905 the fund reached 28 000 while the town sought to divert 12 000 for a hall. Courts required continued payments at 3 percent until 25 000 total, shifting future interest to hall costs and pauper support, delaying endowment for paupers.
The piece argues newspaper work shapes character from a boyish cub to seasoned observer. It contrasts two failure classes and praises the reporter as a student of people and events with diplomacy learned in the newsroom.
France has 38,350,788 people with women outnumbering men by 1,367,901. Unmarried men and widowed or divorced women are notable, while two thirds of families average three children or fewer. A few families show very large brood counts, with twenty four families at seventeen and thirty four at eighteen children.
A Gothamite bet twenty five dollars that he could keep his friend's cat from returning. The cat repeatedly escaped by unusual means including dropping from a bridge and swimming the Harlem River to Port Morris before walking back to its former home by 1 30 pm on Sunday.
A coconut brought from a Colombo garden shows a dead rat head fixed inside the nut. The rat appeared to be in the nut when it dropped from a tree and was crushed between the nut and the ground. The discovery is reported by the Ceylon Observer.
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