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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
6
A Bohemian piece from The Chaparral at Stanford humor page features verses about a maiden bidding farewell to a starboarder and his unclear promise. Witty quips and wordplay follow, with lines mocking college humor and contemporary absurdities. The poems exhibit sharp, lighthearted satire typical of campus publications.
A mother’s worry over her slow-talking baby. Four year-old Elizabeth asks if he will grow up English or French. The aunt and family share anxious humor about language and identity in a domestic scene from Lippincott’s publication.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 guarantee for deafness due to catarrh, describes deafness as a result of inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube, and promotes Hall's Family Pills. It also notes the Duchess of Portland opening a church hall near Hucknall, Notts, England in memory of Canon Godber.
We Pay High Prices for Furs and Hides and tan them for robes rugs or coats by N W Hide and Fur Co of Minneapolis Pitch pine once seen as worthless now in demand for cranberry barrels
Read a reader letter from Mrs. Sallie Rrench of Pancannla Indian Territory describing seven years of female troubles and nervous debility who improved after taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The ad touts the remedy’s 30 year history and urges women to write for free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
A well dressed man in a waistcoat bursts into a New York hotel stenographer’s office seeking a letter to his girl. He claims a barrel of money from racing, plans two weeks at Narragansett Pier, but struggles to spell Narragansett. He abandons the attempt and storms off toward Newport.
After years of back and kidney pain in Cambridge New York Mrs Mary E H Rovse says a five year bout with a bac fall followed by severe back pains and weak kidneys ended quickly after using Dean's Kidney Pills She reports rapid relief and full recovery noting improved health Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
Acting under the prefect of police the French Automobile Club in Paris formed an extraordinary bicycle police corps with a uniform similar to the regular squad. Three small flags signal Smoke Too fast and Smell to alert motorists breaking municipal rules. Currently centered on the Champs Elysees, officials may expand the service to other main thoroughfares if effective. The Automobile Club bears the entire cost.
A vintage remedy advises mixing glycerine with whiskey and Concentrated Oil of Pine in half ounce vials from Globe Pharmaceutical Co. Dayton. Shake well and dose a teaspoon to a tablespoon every four hours. Ingredients available at any drug store.
A Baltimore American item notes a father and child exchange about a sea voyage and a query if the sea creature chase occurred on their travels. The brief reflects maritime lore or a curious nautical anecdote appearing in local paper chatter.
A 1907 Alberta farming report from Coaldale notes wheat at 38 bushels per acre and oats at 74, with values of 38 and 37 dollars per acre. Included are hay and potato yields, plus notes on acreage and pasture work. A second letter from Warner, Alberta, reports winter wheat at 25-30 bushels per acre, spring wheat 30, oats 50-80, barley 50, and flax 10-15 on sod, with general farmer optimism and brief cattle feed remarks.
Coal expert Neil Robinson of Charleston, West Virginia, told a Washington Post reporter that England’s coal mines operate under stricter discipline and heavier penalties for negligence. He noted many accident causes in the United States are beyond operators' control, and urged careful discussion at a Washington meeting of coal operators about safety legislation.
A Newfoundland report notes the season loss of 123 St Pierre fleet members, illustrating fisher hospitality and hardship. Anecdotes include a Yankee gift misunderstanding and a sea of patience, contrasting with curious water wonders and spontaneous production myths from Australia.
Mrs Lizzie Vincent of Fairmont Walden's Ridge Tennessee recounts using Cuticura to treat her daughter's stubborn eczema with burning sores on feet and limbs and to heal a boy's poison oak sores within weeks. She notes dramatic relief and no recurrence after treatment began last year and again this year.
Three complete camel skeletons excavated from a sandstone ledge near the Wyoming Nebraska border reveal prehistoric life before humans. The fossils, dating to a long-ago era, show camels that inhabited America long before man.
An advertising notice extols Billion Dollar Grass as exceptionally productive with claims of three crops yearly. A farmer reports 3800 dollars of seed sales and 300 tons of hay from 100 acres. The John A Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes seed catalogs offering sample seeds including Billion Dollar Grass and Victoria Rape. England egg prices have risen, with last year’s home output valued £2.5 million higher than twelve years prior.
An advertisement promotes lemon flavored pastries called Our-Pib preas, claiming easy production and low cost at grocers. It mentions a Rochester New York producer D-Zerta Food Co. and cites Leonardo Da Vinci's fondness for oranges in a promotional tone.
Advertisement notes a single product brom oquinine laxative with slogan used worldwide to cure a cold in one day and claims signature of E. W. Grove. It also highlights the largest plow ever built used on a Texas ranch that clears seven feet of ground in one pass.
Hides and furs tanned for robes coats or rugs. Send for price list to Taubert Tannery Minneapolis Minn. There is a clearing house for packages lost on the British railways and peat 1000 packages a day are handled.
A dietary excerpt lists nourishment from bread and butter with three slices of beef twenty cups of beef tea half a glass of milk one and one half eggs a small plate of baked beans sixteen oysters and eleven cups of home made beef tea for a meal.
Guarantee offered that PAZO ointment will cure itching bleeding or protruding piles in six to fourteen days or a full refund. Claims emphasize rapid relief and money back guarantee to attract buyers.
A wax from the rafia palm of Mada gascar is tested as a substitute for beeswax. The new material is being evaluated for bottling purposes and phonograph cylinders.
A nurse at a New York Children's Home promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children to cure constipation feverishness teething disorders stomach troubles and destroy worms. Thirty thousand testimonials claimed. sold by druggists for 25 cents. Allen S. Olmsted, Levy, N.Y. distributes.
Milan city government approves 1.15 million dollars to fund an additional series of houses built for workingmen and their families. Garfield Tea is promoted as a health aid claiming to support liver kidney stomach and bowels and to purify the blood.
In Paris a contest produced 17 000 words in four hours on a typewriter while 9000 words were written by hand. The event emphasized speed writing and precision, drawing participants to a public demonstration of competing methods.
A jumble of广告, including Dr Kline nerve restorer предлагает cures nervous diseases and teething syrup for children. Mentions a White League in Johannesburg to boycott Asians. Notes 18000 men employed in Sicily sulphur mines.
In Kansas City, a quirky exchange over glove style ends with Murphy rejecting suede gloves and asking for Irish swades. The clerk proposes a suede option, while Murphy insists on a traditional Irish design, highlighting a playful cultural prompt in a local storefront scene.
Briggs accuses Griggs of speculation while Griggs insists the deal was a guaranteed success from the outset. Conversation reflects investor bravado and certainty in market moves from the Life magazine exchange.
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