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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
2
A humorous column from the Detroit Free Press muses on aging performers and shifting trends. The piece recalls graceful waltz legends, the need to learn anew, and the fickle gaze of admirers as youth eclipses former stars. A joke about Jinks and Blinks ends the skit.
A Cleveland era reminiscence recalls Georgia Governor Smith, then interior secretary, returning to Atlanta on business. Wearied by duties, he tried sleep, but a porter woke him asking to stay awake fifteen minutes so other passengers could sleep. The anecdote, timed to a night in the capital.
A humorous dialogue piece features Percy-Dobbs lamenting labor for the public with Reggy noting he deserves nothing. The Papa Hen and Mamma Hen serve as a parable about claiming reward, with a punchline about pride and entitlement in a Jersey Jingins style.
A Brooklyn Life snippet depicts a grocery clerk asking how the girls round at 1219 approach their new mistress. The waitress responds that she is indeed a fine lady, just like one of their own, capturing a local printed chatter tone.
A brief Brooklyn Live item notes a humorous exchange between a little English girl and her mother about travel and watching Americans spend money. The quip highlights a contrast between English travel fatigue and American spending.
A compact Indianapolis News item notes how campaign stress rises as events unfold. The piece contrasts aggressive conflict with a quieter, safer approach, suggesting the steadiness of a calm strategy over dramatic theatrics amid political competition.
A solitary pioneer builds a house with help from a neighbor and marries Jess who dislikes Chinkies. Quong, loyal and capable, tends tasks, cooks, and nurtures a child, earning affection from Dick and Jess while navigating cultural tensions and devotion. The passage ends as twelve months pass.
Dick junior grows bold as Quong guards family fortunes and misfortune befalls when a fire engulfs the home. Missis staggers through smoke toward the blaze as Quong rescues a scorched partner and a triumphant infant crowing beside a singed blanket.
The piece critiques a New York daily for publishing a supposed interview with J Pierpont Morgan and a declared denial the next day while still printing interviews about the interview. It questions newspaper ethics, whether selling papers justifies truth abandonment, and warns that frequent such errors erode reader trust.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet features Mr Suddenrich and Mrs Suddenrich quizzing a foreign guide about their country origins. The guide singled out an old photograph and claimed an interest in Rubens, prompting playful chatter about travel and background.
The annual yield of the engines of Australia is valued at eighty thousand dollars.
A Boston Herald item mocks John Sharp Williams with a tale of missed engagements spurred by a bobtail mirror episode. It contrasts with a Washington Post interview where Gen. Joubert Pienaar criticizes West Africa governance, noting a sick boss and the physician’s blunt diagnosis of underwork and overpay.
Miss Agnes Repplier recalls a Philadelphia dinner exchange where a young man and a girl discuss literature, exposing pretense and social snobbery. Robert Alphonso Taft Jr., Yale sophomore, attended Yale banquet where Secretary Taft spoke, noting his son’s anxious gaze and the moment of his first hearing his father speak.
Representative Cushan, a Washington careerist, announces a move toward the Republican nomination for vice president. He jokes about a slip on the ladder of office while projecting confidence, as a Port and Oregonian asks for an official declaration in the Senate doorway. The piece also recalls a Chicago doctor recounting Dr. Senn's classroom anecdote about Caesar and Hannibal to illustrate cautious answering.
Former ambassador to Great Britain and renowned international lawyer Mr Choate entertained friends at a dinner. Amid private conversation he spoke frankly about national affairs and President Roosevelt, recalling his long friendship with the Republican party and his candid impressions.
An elder Roosevelt urged his son to study law with Choate but the younger preferred politics. Choate recalled meeting Theodore Roosevelt Jr and the moment the Harvard graduate chose a legislative path over law, noting the son’s disinterest in the legal career.
Organized labor plans opposition to Representative Littlefield in Maine. A Honolulu marine engine strike is avoided by arbitration. Boone Iowa servant girls form a union demanding at least $1 daily. California labor federations condemn Roosevelt and Metcalf over Japan. Hatters union announces a $100 death benefit rising with seniority. Oklahoma's Fulton proposes constitutional amendments to adopt initiative referendum and recall. New York federation supports Women’s Trade Union League. Minneapolis Metal Workers plan a new union for tinters and can workers. AFL formed in 1886 in Columbus, linking most U S unions. Massachusetts free employment office reports 14,480 placements in a year. Fingland railway settlement introduces six day week with Sunday pay. Holland defines laborer under new July law, excluding civil servants. Pennsylvania Federation of Labor sets March convention. Chicago Trades Union Label League seeks union label support from saloonkeepers, backed by AFL and Chicago unions.
A Virginia tale recalls Governor Fitz Lee using the capitol elevator to test its strength with Judge Samuel B. Witt. Witt, Hastings judge, briefly left court when summoned. The governor hinted he would dine, and Witt rode the elevator to the office to confirm it could hold him.
The Emperor of Germany reportedly spent about 1,000,000 marks more of his own income on Berlin and Wiesbaden opera houses in 1907 than receipts. He grants first class seats to distinguished acquaintances and tradespeople, maintaining a permanent free list of 400 seats. Deadheads often secure the best spots, while nobility may fare worse. The spender seems liberal, perhaps to reciprocate his salary’s generosity.
In Austria ice sticks are made at a profit by a chain of poles where water drips slowly and freezes into large icicles. Workers haul away broken ice carts to storage, suggesting easier handling than river or lake ice though quality may vary.
The Pernambuco penal colony sits on an off shore island 300 miles from the coast with 600 convicts. They rise at 6 a.m. and toil until 2 p.m. for the state growing superfine cotton, then work for themselves after. The island is noted as orderly and productive, a model colony and among the cheapest in the world. Surrounding waters host commercial fish as currents divide nearby.
A light exchange in Harper's Weekly features a portly man asking to sit on another passenger's hat. The hat sits unscathed as the other man playfully invites him to try, yielding a humorous, safely absurd moment aboard a railroad car.
From October to May colds are the most frequent headache cause. Laxative Bromo Quinine is advertised as removing the cause. E. W. Grove, box 25 cents.
The case centered on a $310,500 claim by Robert B. Lee Jr., administrator of Washington’s estate, for 3 acres in the Virginia Military District of Ohio said to be entered on land warrants by Washington. The land’s value then was under $15,000. today its worth is uncertain. The matter dates to 1807 and resurfaced in 1852. in 1899 Congress ruled warrants not surrendered within a year were invalid. The writer argues the heirs should receive alternative public land instead, suggesting 8000 acres elsewhere.
A Philadelphia Inquirer item recalls a humorous note from a butcher to a parson's wife who ordered a leg of mutton. The butcher jokes he has not killed himself but can obtain a leg from his brother, closing with affection.
A surgeon recounts how coffee caused tremors and insomnia and how Postum offered relief. He describes quitting coffee, trying Postum, and a friend with similar results, noting improved nervousness, circulation, and a desire for Postum as a national drink. The ad urges boiling Postum per directions and cites The Road to Wellville.
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