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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
5
Lance Heriot and Shirley Cadogan tour the Lilacs, a modest house, as Aunt Faith plans rooms for themselves and kin. A bank forgery threat looms when Mr. Lynthwaite reveals a seven hundred pound loss and hints at possible internal betrayal, steering toward a shadowed motive and a broader family mystery.
The Westminster Gazette notes English trials in intensive gardening yielding £625 per acre in a year, with a seedsman’s acre at £270. It cites Samoa cocoa £60–£80 per acre, Georgia eggplants £80, and West Indies pineapples £100. A Moselle vineyard once sold for £24,000 yielding £2,500 yearly, and Tibet’s sacred tree leaves bring £3,000 annually.
Henry Grimm recalls a German friend’s illness in which a doctor advised liberal eating. The wife, hoping to comfort him, placed Limburger cheese in every room as he improved. The next morning the doctor asked when he died, a maudlin誤 of aroma and mistaken outcomes cited from the Hartford Post.
A brief utopian reflection tracing the idea that nudity is immoral through history. The piece argues morality stems from dress and that a naked race would lack vice, while societies most shocked by nudity may be the most sensual. The Lone Hand, Sydney, N. 8. W.
San Francisco officials declare the bubonic plague scare is over as May tests show only five of 900 rats killed were infected. Despite the drop, 200 inspectors still conduct duties and receive pay as a precaution.
Paulsboro iceman complains of poor street conditions delaying ice delivery. Bantam Conn. hotel owner James Burns learns a Baptist church was moved onto his 200 foot limit, affecting license plans. Monroe New York man fears newspaper intrusion and hires extra Great Dane guards. Middletown residents urge peace with a man who divorced his wife. Bloomington Michigan man fears water and has not bathed since 1901, per his wife’s petition.
In De Midi probate court Louis Schroeder's will allocates a farm to his daughter Rose Gladden and her husband James Gladden with strict conditions. They must supply Mrs Schroeder with two dozen eggs weekly two fowls when demanded a warm barn for one cow all firewood Mrs Schroeder can use sawed and delivered and by December 1 each year a pig of at least 150 pounds plus $50 cash annually. If any condition is not met the Gladdens forfeit the farm.
Rudolph Bloomfield a seven year old from Broad street Bloomfield New Jersey was hit by a car and thrown thirty feet onto the sidewalk. His top rolled into the street and his chase led to the accident though he suffered no injuries. He cried out Where's my top after the impact.
A thirty foot blackfish or finback whale wedged beneath a pile driver at a fish trap near the east entrance of Deception Pass Washington. The pile hammered through the fish and forced the body into tidelands as the rigging shook. The laf tman toppled from the driver rigging and was saved from drowning by John Nelson who rushed to assist.
Benjamin Treibley, two mules, and a wagon were engulfed by a ground cave at Hickory swamp colliery near Shamokin Pa. They were drawn down sixty feet. one mule was smothered. Treibley scrambled up the new shaft and was buried to his neck before a difficult rescue.
United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas, ill with throat trouble in New York, has submitted to a surgical operation on his throat and is recovering. His condition is favorable though he has a slight fever and he could not leave his Waldorf Astoria apartment to attend a monetary commission meeting of which he is a member.
Panic erupts on Superior avenue in Cleveland as three toads escape a paper bag and roam the car floor. A frightened man carries them home to repel garden bugs while a stout woman screams after spotting the largest toad in her lap, leading to a tense stop. In Connecticut, Mrs. Ashe kisses a sick niece and contracts a severe case of whooping cough described as a death threat from the disease.
A compact sealed device sold in pharmacies and shops lets a woman dab powder on her nose with a single penny drop. Invented by a young woman, the pocket gadget fits a box no larger than a half dollar and a quarter inch thick. It promises powder during emergencies on a railroad car or in stores and restaurants.
Russian immigrant Jo seph Barosky, 26, living at 1128 South Gest Street, is treated at Cincinnati hospital for laughing hysteria. Doctors say nicotine addiction from heavy cigarette use worsens his nervous disorder and may kill him unless he stops smoking. Barosky resists and continues to smoke.
Thirty four men arrested at a wedding on Saturday night at 33 East Seventy first street in New York faced disorderly conduct charges in Yorkville court. Two East Seventy second street physicians caused the arrests but Magistrate Herrman discharged the men, ruling guests may enjoy themselves at a wedding.
Alva O Montgomery of Owensville Indiana carved his name on a watermelon last summer. Arena Hardy of Fairchild Illinois was intrigued by the prank. A courtship followed, and the couple wed in Henderson Kentucky after she visited Browns Illinois. They plan to live on Montgomery's farm near Owensville Indiana.
The report states Andrew Carnegie will grant a monthly pension of 12 to Civil War telegraph operators. It notes a resident of Oklahoma named Cash M. Barnes, who has been governor of the Oklahoma Territory for four years and is in his third term as Guthrie mayor. The article mentions Mr. as the Civil War began.
Michigan resident Barnes joined the Battle Creek engineers in the Union army. A hydrophobia skunk bit Peter Rupp near Perry Oklahoma, prompting treatment at the Pasteur Institute in Oklahoma City. Captain Kelly, aboard the steamer A G Lindsay at Aberdeen Washington, nearly drowned after slipping on a gangplank but clung to a boom for about an hour aided by a 7 year old boy who tossed him a line.
A remarkable lightning incident at Saginaw Michigan struck a tree near Harrison and Mackinaw streets during a storm that toppled a Roethke greenhouse barn and ruined fifteen tons of hay and straw. A squirrel in the tree was killed, leaving no mark on the tree or ground apart from a burn on the squirrel.
Minnie Turner, long known as Bob Ellaworth a cow puncher in northwestern Nebraska, revealed her sex to Jim Spearman after eight to ten months of work together. They left Pullman, Nebraska for a coast wedding journey and plan to settle in Montana upon return.
A horde of black mice has caused estimated $250,000 in damage in the Carson River valley, wiping out alfalfa fields and ruining potatoes while even stripping shade trees. Government station crews are in the field to exterminate the plague, using Strychnine in many cases as in the Danberg ranger region. The pest also afflicted Humboldt county last fall and was reported near Genoa.
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