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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
4
Inventors push tiny flights as the game stays young and progress looms. Automobilists reach Siberia in the New York to Paris race, with thrilling reports and hints that a book recounting the journey may follow. Madison students test tobacco burning in thesis work, while many cigars vanish in smoke.
Automobile drivers attempting extreme speeds risk sudden disaster. Ceddrino, the renowned Italian chauffeur, met a swift end when a mechanical derangement or a fire dislocation struck during a high speed trial.
The text asserts cholera in the Philippines will not cause alarm, citing sanitation authorities who handled the bubonic plague effectively. It claims advances in sanitation prevent the disease from becoming epidemic and suggests cholera cannot recur as it did sixty years ago.
The Southern Pacific railroad plans a vast irrigation project to reclaim 1,500,000 acres in Imperial valley. By controlling the Colorado river to prevent floods, residents’ holdings will be more secure, and future Salton sink inundations are expected to be unlikely.
A critic argues against using sentiment to push a large appropriation for the 1912 Tokio exposition. The piece condemns claims that U S generosity would lessen war risk with Japan as puerile and unworthy of self-respecting Americans.
Rear-Admiral Sperry recommends Capt Richard Wainwright be made acting rear-admiral immediately pending his expected promotion. Wainwright earned wide praise for his bold attack on Spanish destroyers with the gunboat Gloucester at the battle of Santiago.
The steamer Calvin carried away three gates in the Welland canal illustrating a chief hazard of a lock sequence like that planned for the Panama route. The incident will cost thousands in damage and three days of canal closure. A wider collapse of locks could shut the waterway for months on a major new canal system.
The article notes King Edward endorses pooling all gratuities given to servants rather than they keeping individual tips. A graduated scale would divide pooled funds among tipping staff. It frames tipping as an established institution and suggests pooling curbs excessive generosity to service workers.
Sir Thomas Lipton declares he will not cross the sea again for the America’s Cup unless accompanied by a serviceable sea-going racer. Yachtsmen agree the racing machine is costly and dangerous, to be discarded in international and home matches.
The Lusitania completed the voyage in four days twenty hours and twenty two minutes at nearly twenty five knots, surpassing all prior records for twenty four hours. If accurate, the run could secure a $750,000 subsidy for the Cunarder, reflecting a strategy backing record attempts by Lusitania and Mauretania over the past year.
The fleet faced heavier seas than seen on the voyage around South America yet weathered the gale and reached Puget Sound in good condition. The storm prevented entry into the Columbia River, making Oregon’s bar turbulent and reassuring Portlanders that the mouth is unsafe for deep draft warships.
Milwaukee County voters see Clerk of the Circuit Court Fred W. Cords as a man of integrity who fulfilled his 1906 pledge by shifting office pay from a fee and salary plan to a straight salary. His first term has won broad support from taxpayers and business leaders who praise his honesty and public-spirited conduct.
The Annisquam river deepening and a new canal across the neck to Gloucester harbor redefine Cape Ann as Ann Island. Fishermen and coasters praise the waterway which lets ships bypass Thatcher's Island reefs. A schooner from Essex sails directly to Gloucester via Annisquam during high tide, avoiding towing around the cape.
The text argues that thousands of tuberculosis cases are curable in early stages and that a New York Legislature enacted law would empower doctors and health authorities to apply early remedial measures, offering hope of complete recovery in cases that would otherwise become incurable under secrecy rules.
Four Munich consular district plants sterilize pure apple juice using washing, chopping, hydraulic pressing, and airtight retort sterilization. Juice is settled and filtered, bottled with a touch of carbonic gas, pasteurized for four hours at 150 to 158 degrees Fahrenheit, producing a clear, flavorful drink with about 0.5 percent alcohol.
New York Gov Hughes signed a bill classing tuberculosis as a dangerous communicable disease and requiring physicians to report cases to health authorities. Cases will be recorded without public patient names to aid disinfection, prevent infection centers, and protect tenants and neighbors. The act funds house cleaning and renovation by the owner and allows sputum examination and reporting of recoveries while limiting publicity and stigma. Health boards will supervise disinfection at public expense and treat patients as under medical care rather than subject to public shaming.
A North China Daily News item describes a dentist in China creating a new four front tooth set by selecting four teeth from a heap, drilling longitudinal holes, threading wire to bind them, and inserting the ends into adjacent teeth to seal a gap. The patient opened wide, showing four missing upper front teeth.
A brief Princeton Tiger note contrasts Tessie and another girl, debating who truly belongs among the famed Four Hundred and who resembles the group of fifty seven. The item highlights social lines and reputational labels in campus life.
County treasurer Julius J Goetz a Republican candidate in the primaries. He has ten years in the office, two as incumbent, and is expected to win nomination and election. He cites long service, a strong bond record, and duties including tax levy, Grand Avenue viaduct funding, and hospital treasurer work as bases for re election.
A narrator recalls Virginia beech nut ham in London and contrasts it with his boyhood ham smoked on corn cob fires. He wistfully remembers hog butchery, the aging process, and the brick oven, then moves to souse as a related delicacy and notes its distant kinship to head cheese and scrapple.
An archival snippet notes that a pig’s head served as a main ingredient giving body to a dish. It describes the porker’s central section used for texture, resembling sausage meat in look but not taste, then sliced and fried. The quote laments modern rapid wholesale slaughter and canning compared with past careful methods.
A Yonkers Statesman excerpt recounts Congressman John E. Andrus advising a young man newly appointed in Washington to carry only 30 cents daily for meals and transportation. The counsel aims to curb overspending and instill prudent habits as the young man begins his life in the capitol.
In 1857 Queen Victoria awarded the first Victoria Crosses to 62 Crimean War heroes at Hyde Park. Now four survivors remain Admiral C. D. Lucas Col. G. D. Dowell Dr. T. E. Hale and Maj. Gen. Luke O Connor.
The middle aged man may stay youthful and all agree that a forty to fifty year old lover shows ardor far surpassing earlier years. The piece notes that wooing by mature lovers outshines younger passions.
A brief observation notes the shift from the term old maid to gentlewoman reflecting a wider change in the status of single women. It highlights the evolving social position and respectful labeling of bachelors and single women.
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