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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
4
Citizens anticipate a daily focus on the upper end of the thermometer as temperatures trend upward. Local observers note heat signals loom near the highest readings, guiding forecasts, wardrobe choices, and outdoor plans.
Graduating girls focus on composing essays as the baccalaureate ceremony approaches, with the sound of graduation prayers and songs anticipated across the community.
A donor who withholds his name made a gift of 100000 dollars to the St Louis Skin and Cancer Hospital. The contribution is described as noble beneficence and worthy of imitation.
Valparaiso prepares a major harbor project estimated at 20 million dollars to deepen channels and upgrade docks to keep pace with global commerce, reflecting the high cost of modern port development.
A Topeka judge rules the law restricting cattle in transit to not exceed twenty eight hours inside cars is constitutional. It requires rest water and food breaks when transport exceeds the time limit, ensuring animal safety during shipment.
The death of Gen Sir Redvers Buller recalls British wartime disappointments with Boer tactics. England’s best generals faced a tenacious foe, yet their courage and perseverance under pressure remained unquestioned.
A physician addressed fellow doctors at a Chicago convention stressing sanitary precautions in schools. He argued that medical science's greatest wins have come from sanitation and that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Both houses of Congress have passed the bill providing for a sanitary amount of air space in steerage aboard ocean steamers. Steamship companies will be compelled to make alterations where steerage room is inadequate. The new law will insure better health for newcomers when travel pressure is high and every bunk is filled.
The Wrights say they flew at about forty miles per hour during a recent test at Kill Devil North Carolina. Despite the claimed speed and enthusiasm, observers like Mr Farman of Deutsch prize fame and other French aeronauts doubt the achievement. The publication suggests the feat amounts to little in comparison.
A Bristol nurseryman sued over plant injury from fumes from creosoted wooden paving blocks. The jury awarded £40, and the higher courts sustained the verdict on appeal, adding to arguments against wood pavements.
Dr Nansen, weary of politics, has had his resignation as Norwegian minister to Great Britain accepted on May 1 and is back in his professorship of oceanography at the University of Norway. He is a man who wants to act, while governments often limit initiative in diplomacy.
Summer resorters along Lake Champlain decry paper mill refuse dumped into the lake and the destruction of fish. They argue state authorities must act to stop the defilement of public waters as poisonous effluent harms bathers and fishers.
Great Britain's armored cruiser Indomitable takes the lead among fast ships with a measured speed of twenty eight knots per hour. At about thirty one statute miles an hour the turbine engine proves its speed capabilities while America’s fastest turbine cruiser has reached twenty six and a quarter knots.
Doubt about submarine practicality fades after the Octopus completes an official test, staying submerged for six hours total. It travels at eight knots for two hours and five knots for the rest, covering thirty six miles. The craft is described as a potential menace sea fighters cannot ignore.
The piece notes twenty-five thousand dollars as a small sum for a voyage led by Commander Peary. With business conditions tight, few are willing to loosen purse strings to fund the Roosevelt’s July departure. Many once concerned with the north pole now focus on daily survival.
An evocative brief notes the enduring appeal of Arctic exploration as implied by the initials YV. The fragment hints at a thematic interest in remote regions and adventure. No dates or specific events are present.
Seffanson, who joined the Mikkelssen Lefingwell expedition two years ago, is heading north again with Capt R M Anderson, an attaché of the American Museum of Natural History. They will conduct exploratory work along the Arctic coast east of Alaska, aiming to chart and explore a wide, largely unmapped region.
Secretary Metcalf urges judicial determination of express companies status to clarify their control of rates. If recognized as common carriers, they fall under Interstate Commerce Commission oversight, shaping public service regulation and policy.
Work has begun on an eighty mile waterway to connect the Volga and Danube riv ers, creating a direct link between the Black and Caspian seas. The canal will be financed jointly by Russia, Germany and Austria, with future water transportation improvements planned as funds permit.
A Bay City refinery received a cargo of sugar by steamer that brought it from Montreal. The sugar was then transferred in Montreal from the ship that carried it across the sea. If the original carrier had continued to the lakes, costs would be lower by one handlings, and direct shipment could offer a potential margin if profits prove uncertain.
Observers note the Chicago gasbag ascended from Quincy and landed by Clear Lake South Dakota after plunging 1500 feet in under a minute. The rapid descent supports critics of polar air routes, including Commander Peary and Walter Wellman, who warned of dangers from atmospheric changes to pole hunting by air.
The State Board of Health of Wisconsin urges concerted effort to treat every typhoid fever case to eradicate the disease in under five years. It warns to guard water and food from flies, ensure proper drainage, and promote sanitary measures as summer visits approach.
The Des Moines dispatch chronicles five deaths and thirty illnesses after a church social meal of chicken and ice cream. It cites ptomaine poisoning as the probable cause and notes typhoid germs would not manifest so quickly.
The Florida monitor will be hit on its side by an American Whitehead torpedo behind a special bulkhead said to act as a water buffer. Promoters expect sinking, while bulkhead inventor believes the ship may stay afloat despite perforated outer plating. The test bears financial and naval implications for safety and ship loss insurance.
Berlin Tageblatt correspondent portrays Boers who went to German Southwest Africa as lazy and unclean with little prospect of assimilation. He warns migrants include irreconcilables, while home burghers integrate into colonial governance and show better adaptation.
A Cairo trust corporation named Wakfstholde held landed property for pious uses but often served to secure donor families a large share of the income. The Egyptian Standard reports its net income last year at 2,161,500 dollars with a carried forward balance of 581,070 dollars for new religious or educational ventures.
A booster article extols pineapple juice as a universal tonic and health aid. Dr. David T. Day credits the fruit with aiding digestion and longevity, recounting Cuban and Florida experiences, and urging wide cultivation to boost supply, lower prices, and profit for growers.
The market shows rising product demand as pineapple lands are drained to support future plantations. Pineapples and products come from Cuba, Porto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida, packed in crates of about two feet square, housing twenty four to thirty fruits. Cuba supplies about 850,000 crates, Florida 400,000, Porto Rico 150,000, with the Bahamas contributing a varying share up to 15 percent, mostly in canned form.
The San Antonio school garden program operates on a practical basis with 949 plots attached to 29 public schools. Teachers supervise, while pupils plant tend and harvest. Gardens cover 0.1 to 0.25 acres each, totaling over 100 acres. Boys gain health and discipline, and rivalry between schools thrives as fall and winter crops extend through June.
Curious Foods in Italy describes large meaty chestnuts sold cheaply and prepared in red broth with laurel and caraway. Genoa and Naples friggitori offer artichoke fritters and cheese balls fried in hot oil, with portable kettles and door-to-door service from roaming friggiturists.
A London Chronicle passage notes archaic but vivid collective nouns for animals and humans, such as a pride of lions a herd of deer and a bevy of roes, with terms like hart harbored buck lodged hare formed rabbit set. It observes how these poetic descriptors also labeled people from princes to cooks and even thieves or friars in quirky pairings.
A scientific expedition led by E. V. Peritsenmayer and K. A. Volosovitch will depart from St. Petersburg for northern Siberia to seek mammoths. Funded by the Russian Ministry of Finance, the team has drawn wide interest from societies and press abroad.
The final private garden in London is to be destroyed at No 4 Crosby Square. The site boasted a fig tree wall and a fountain, with historic ties to 1677 houses and to Lady Mary’s marriage to William of Orange, noted in 1850 Murray’s London.
Lawyers real estate men and business leaders urge continuance of Charles C. Maas in Milwaukee county Register of Deeds. He argues a clean record, two years in office, no new political office, self supporting office, and broad endorsements from attorneys, real estate men, and county residents. Maas highlights courteous service, firm administration, and strong backing from social and fraternal groups. Nomination implies election in the forthcoming Republican primary.
A historical note on J Franklin-Adams F R A 8 guiding a vast star counting project. Plates cover southern and northern hemispheres with 200 plus sets. each plate records 20000 to 250000 stars. Counting and cataloguing will take about ten years, using grating and microscope to tally stars while excluding dust specks.
The London Daily Mail notes Adams used a triple achromatic 10 inch lens at F4. In the northern hemisphere minimum exposure extended to 2 hours 20 minutes while in the southern hemisphere clearer air cut exposure to about 2 hours.
A Vienna report describes Lionel 16, a boy with a lion's mane, drawing royal notice. He speaks three languages, travels widely, and profits from his abnormal appearance. He says the world’s gaze makes him feel superior and happy.
Republicans Lost Twice. Since 1860 the Republican party s carried every presidential election e cept two, the two exceptions being 1884 and 1892, when Cleveland s elected. The largest number of os toral votes ever polled for a presiden candidate was in 1904, when Rooseye received 336 votes. Since 1872 York has been carried three times by ' Democratic party and six times by '' Republican party.
An 800 year old oak in Sucy forest Buckinghamshire was burned to the ground. Visitors were suspected to have had a picnic in the hollow trunk, leading to the complete destruction of the ancient tree. The forest, one of the seven fine oaks, has long belonged to the crown since the conquest.
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