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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
4
The inquiry asks whether the general summer resort trade will be harmed by a surge in picnic visitors heading to Laporte, weighing potential impact on local hospitality and recreation venues.
Ambassador Wu Ting Fang in New York urges an open door to China presenting it as an invitation rather than a demand. The press notes the Chinese need only push the door open, framing it as a voluntary move toward greater access.
China’s campaign to curb the opium evil is presented as an internal struggle with external support from nations trading with China to render the opium trade unprofitable. The message stresses collective quiet backing to bolster reform without direct coercion.
Observers who have lived through the temperance era acknowledge Dr. Hexamer's claim that prohibitory laws have had less impact than beer in advancing temperance in the United States. The remark emphasizes a skeptical view of prohibition's effectiveness amid ongoing social change.
The collapse of circus seats in Chicago warns tent men to brace seating for shifting crowds. Officials compare the risk to lateral strains seen in grandstands at baseball and football parks, urging safer construction to support enthusiastic patrons.
Only American and German cars remain in the New York to Paris automobile race to complete the Vladivostok start. The event is chiefly an endurance test as ocean voyages diversify the route and diminish inherent interest.
A Brazilian military balloon accident at Rio de Janeiro caused a fatality when a lieutenant, carried away by the balloon, perished as the craft collapsed before the ascent was ready. The incident highlights dangers in every ascent for amateur aeronauts.
The U S proposes an international anti opium conference in Shanghai on January 1 next. The opium habit is a menace to China and so firmly seated that patient cooperation will be needed to eradicate it.
A Chicago roller lift bridge company received an order to construct a bridge across the Nile at Cairo. The item notes that modern improvements slowly alter Old World views and future travelers will find familiar features where relics once stood.
A Minnesota case questions the safety of maple syrup sold as guaranteed under the Pure Food Law. Inspectors probe the syrup’s character, asserting the label guarantee is a consumer fraud and meaningless.
When Missouri high school electrical apparatus can pick up wireless messages from Santa Cruz and Oklahoma City, there is little room for anyone to run a special exclusive line. The article argues wireless messaging will be a free, catch-as-catch-can communication method.
The blast in a Chicago business block stemmed from accumulated gas in a basement due to a leaking pipe. It recalls early natural gas explosions, though illuminating gas is detectable, while natural gas is nearly odorless and harder to find.
Ports along the Columbia river including Portland face navigation hazards as shifting sands at the river’s mouth make passage risky for ships drawing twenty five to thirty feet of water. The issue underscores limits on navy vessel access to the port.
The Philadelphia bark Alkaline, long presumed lost in the Greenland cryolite trade, has been heard from after months of silence. She was sold quickly by the ice pack off Greenland since October, signaling an unusually harsh Arctic winter Peary would have welcomed for sledding.
An order to the Standard Steel Car Company by the Pitsburg and Lake Erie railroad calls for immediate construction of 2000 all steel cars. The cars are destined for the coal and coke trades between coking regions and the Great Lakes, signaling brightening freight demand.
A Chicago dealer was refused authorization to sell a cap and spring gun for Fourth of July trade because it uses a dangerous explosive. The decision illustrates how authorities can prevent trouble by keeping such fulminants from children on the holiday.
A New York Yacht Club vessel has returned from a cruise of 12000 miles with her owner family and guests aboard. The voyage began last August and throughout the voyage the craft met with no mishap to spars demonstrating seaworthiness and skilled handling under all wind and weather conditions by American sailors.
The Atlanta Constitution argues hysteria harms growth and urges the South to show it is a safe, profitable field for capital investment. It calls for an end to hysteria and injustice and signals a shift toward enlightened development in Georgia.
The article notes plans to fit battleships South Carolina Michigan Delaware and South Dakota with a pneumatic flame and spark proof hoist or the two stage system used by British ships. It argues for evaluating merits of the pneumatic device before reverting to the slower American two stage hoist.
A verse driven lyric from J. W. Foley of the New York Times imagines a melodramatic stage with a villain fierce and cold and a hero bold and dutiful. It riffs on motifs of deceit, stolen fortune, mortgageed farms, and a lurid finale featuring a chained rogue and a sobbing couple. The speaker longs to plunge into a pit of raw theatrical emotion.
An American fishing schooner was seized by Canadian fish patrol within three miles at the north end of Vancouver Island and may be sold by the Dominion government. The incident heightens interest in boundary and fishery dispute settlements while noting both sides have offenders and the difficulty of marking a sea boundary.
Law abiding Kentuckians praise authorities in Ohio and Indiana for prompt action against lawlessness. The Louisville Courier Journal notes Kentucky consents to defensive operations and would spare residents who cross the river seeking to aid criminals, criticizing those who cloak crimes as aiding the oppressed.
Geologist C. R. Van Hise discounts Andrew Carnegie on the probable exhaustion date of U S mineral wealth. He says further coal iron and other resources may extend beyond Carnegie's estimate, while the ironmaster only guesses. Van Hise believes nature's resources will last much longer.
Gen T H Bliss reports American judicial efforts in the Moro province have failed, advising native courts and legalization of Mohammedan marriages. The piece notes that governing the islands is more perplexing than commonly believed and that civilizing efforts will take a long time.
Lieut Lahm reports success in receiving wireless messages from a balloon basket. Plans include sending communications from Cloud land as part of ongoing tests. Backers of Peary’s poleward expedition urge installing wireless apparatus on the Roosevelt to enable Arctic shore communications with civilization.
The chief justice of Canada will represent Canada and Newfoundland at The Hague tribunal to settle the fisheries dispute. Newfoundland backs the Dominion proposal and Britain approves the joint appointment, signaling a move toward a permanent settlement of a long troubling issue.
Last year nearly 1400 lives were lost by drowning in the United States. The Volunteer Life Saving Association organized in this city is made up of yachtsmen hunters fishermen and others active on inland lakes and rivers. Members pledge to equip boats with at least one life buoy and line at all times to prevent waste of life and promote safety on the water.
An old man tells of Adjulai a wandering missionary who set a drought stricken town on the path to faith and bounty. After villagers kill him a miracle reforms the river and waters return, transforming the land and sealing the new faith amidst the harsh plains of northern Nigeria.
A piano manufacturer describes the term scale in piano making. He notes the scale governs key measurements and tuning, shaping tone and action. The remark highlights industry jargon and its importance to sound quality and factory processes.
A World article contends the piano gains its soul from the scale, a craftsman whose exact method remains mysterious. The scale’s precise ear and fine touch transform a mere box of strings into a voice that can sing, a process as delicate as handling grand opera tenors and as prone to artistic quarrels as any profession.
A playful triolet about a boy who seeks his catching mitt and bat then plays outside despite spring rain, ending with the narrator remaining indoors. Clarence Becker is named as the author.
In a Pittsburgh Dispatch excerpt Dr Emil Reich argues that women should propose not only in leap year but generally, noting that intelligent women often make the choosing. A Seelub woman recalls his dinner remark, while Reich recounts a string of his snake stories about perception and humor.
A New York Sun excerpt recalls Heinrich Conried, Metropolitan Opera director, hearing of a local Bielitz ghost in a inn. The ghost, once a bustling host who built the business, is said to linger, with an English visitor unsettled by a haunted room. The landlord explains the harmless spirit keeps the business alive.
State Senator John S. Fisher recalls a tale from Pennsylvania capitol investigations about a stubborn client Dick Wilson who arrived with many supreme court opinions. The squire stopped him saying the high court may reverse itself and ruled against Wilson’s client despite the filings. The Philadelphia Public Ledger reports.
Rev W R Huntington of New York argues it is riskier to be a railway brakeman than a murderer, citing statistics that one murderer in seventy three is hanged while one brakeman in thirty is killed. He links danger to selfishness in society and urges a New Year lesson to be less self centered, echoing a Vermonter versus Wisconsin journalist anecdote from Boston Transcript.
G Fowell Buxton of Norwich learned his son Major G C Buxton was mauled by a lion while on a hunt near Nairobi East Africa. The lion charged, mauling him and injuring his right arm though a doctor nearby treated him. The Somali gunbearer was also wounded defending his master after earlier bagging three lions this morning.
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