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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
3
A hopeful verse from the women's column urges perseverance through adversity. It speaks of storm clouds, a rainbow, winter's end, and dawn after night, assuring readers not to worry as effort and resilience guide destiny. The piece ends with a moral about doing one’s best and trusting the path ahead.
A period piece argues social gatherings fuel commerce and arts, warning social paupers among men who shirk hostesses. It notes the moral duty of entertaining, the impact on industries, and calls society anarchists for neglect. It then reflects on women fearing failure in business and urges steady daily work, avoiding overstrain. A US Supreme Court ruling upholds ten hour work limits for women in Oregon laundries as a police regulation protecting women’s, and by extension, their broader protection.
A court opinion notes that despite legal equality with men, women depend on male protection and require statutory safeguards. It argues that limits on contractual power and work time benefit both women and the race, guarding against greed and passion in men.
Instances show men of genius sustained by women's friendship and nursely care. Cowper found solace in Mrs Unwil, Johnson thrived under Mrs Thrale, Montaigne leaned on his adopted daughter, while trained nurses emerge as modern heroes guiding patients through battle with quiet strength and compassionate vigil.
A Harper's Bazaar perspective urges reducing noise to ease nervous strain. It argues noise is habitual, harms family life, and can be tamed by quiet upbringing and calmer homes. Mothers, through example and city ordinances, can drive a broader move toward peaceful streets and daily life.
The Passage offers tips from Cooking Club Magazine on rest and moderation to prevent wrinkles and fatigue. It emphasizes rest for the tongue, brain, heart, and muscles, warns against overwork, and suggests light meals and laughter as stress relief. It notes indigestion stems from fatigue and urges midday and evening rest.
Oliver Opp argues in Success Magazine that the American girl embodies the nation’s hope, youth, and innocence. He contrasts her buoyant health and untamed spirit with old world customs, asserting her influence will found homes and institutions, shaping America’s future.
The Montana 16 hour railway labor law is upheld as constitutional by the state supreme court. Uruguay railroad workers strike across about 1200 miles controlled by British capital. A Buffalo campaign pushes organizing boilermakers and iron shipbuilders. Norway and Denmark enact subsidies for unions paying unemployment benefits.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, a major labor group, will hold its annual convention in Youngstown, Ohio, during the first week of May. The event gathers union leaders and members to discuss industry concerns, wage policies, and labor rights.
An 1898 imperial ordinance forbids hiring foreign workers outside specific treaty port areas. It limits employment to designated ports where foreigners congregate, reflecting restrictive labor policy in Meiji era Japan.
Gov Fort of New Jersey spoke with union labor leaders as they protested the use of paroled convicts on Rahway reformatory construction work. They demand wages matching union scale, arguing lower pay undercuts workers.
The Department of Labor in Washington released a report covering 25 years from 1881 to 1905 showing 36 757 strikes and 1 546 lockouts in the United States a total of 38 309 labor disturbances involving 199 945 establishments.
In fifteen reporting states 5986 miners were killed or injured in 1906. In the other fifteen states where mining is important, deaths are estimated at 2000 and injuries at 4000.
Efforts are underway to bring all cement workers into the American Brotherhood of Cement Workers, creating a unified national jurisdiction for the trade and advancing collective bargaining power. The move signals a broader push to organize tradespeople under a single umbrella union.
Since 1906 a determined campaign against child labor has driven legislation for child protection and compulsory education, with seventeen states passing laws to date.
The London strike collapsed after workers learned promised strike pay fell short of what they were led to expect. The International Printing Pressmen's union holds its annual convention in Mobile next June to debate the eight hour day. National Railway Trackmen plan a home for aged members on a 500 acre tract near Fort Scott Kansas. Italy Austria Hungary and eastern Slavic nations are the main unskilled labor sources for the United States.
The Mississippi Legislature considers a child labor bill instituting a 56 hour work week and setting the minimum employment age at 14. The measure aims to regulate work for minors amid broader labor reforms.
The organization reports 141 new unions and 1 more member on the jobs in good standing than a year ago. Total in good standing reaches 199,828, implying overall membership surpassing 250,000.
The eleventh annual convention of the Fennessee Federation of Labor took steps toward securing child labor benefits and other measures for workers. A campaign will be launched to promote fuller organization of the laboring people.
Industrial conditions in Bridgeport Connecticut have greatly improved with most large factories resuming full operations. Several plants on short time have arranged to increase weekly labor hours, signaling a broader return to normal production levels.
The Vancouver Trades and Labor Council will appoint a committee to study securing cheap fuel along the Hues farms in Seattle. Seattle unions have purchased a coal mine and plan a railway line, claiming savings amount to a ton.
It is estimated the recent telegraphers strike cost the union nearly $200000. About $100000 was paid out in strike benefits by the various locals, and $96,398 was distributed for the same purpose from national headquarters.
The Wisconsin Central railroad plans to test the validity of the Elver eight hour law applying to telegraph operators on Wisconsin railroads, which took effect January 1.
The executive council of the AFL names President Gompers, President Huber of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and President Duncan of the Granite Cutters National union to a committee to settle numerous conflicts between building trades and unions in New York.
Bist furnace men in the north of Pepeland have submitted to reduced wages after a conciliation board meeting. The iron output has declined recently, spurring the action.
Governments in Holland Germany France England and other European countries have established museums of safety devices and general industrial hygiene. They do excellent work educating employers employees and the public at large.
Nearly five thousand dollars has been raised by workingmen’s subscription for a monument to the late Austus Pollack of Wheeling West Virginia. Pollack, a leading stogie manufacturer, was known for his generosity to the Stogiemakers' National League.
Sixteen British trades unions with about 300,000 members support a movement to establish a one-cent eight-page daily newspaper in the interests of labor. The parliamentary committee of the Trades Union Congress will manage the venture. Suggested capital is 500,000 dollars.
A bill introduced in the Albany General Assembly mandates that laborers who take temporary residence near their work anywhere in New York State must be supplied with sanitary quarters. It outlines housing standards and state oversight to ensure workers have proper living conditions during projects.
The printers formed a national group in 1852 which grew into the International Typographical Union a decade later to include Canada, marking a major expansion of the craft's organization across the United States and beyond.
The Supreme Court recently heard argument on whether a state legislature may prohibit employing female laborers for more than ten hours a day under the U S Constitution. The case centers on Oregon and tests states rights to regulate hours for women workers.
After twenty years of effort the Association of National Stogie Makers of America arranged a joint conference with the AFL executive board. The meeting led to the recognition of the stogiemakers as part of the AFL by the federation and the Cigarmakers' union.
Robert H. Heath a miner launching a Legislative bid with a platform of no divorce on behalf of multiple trades unions. The move targets stricter divorce laws following numerous cases of wealthy men abandoning wives in Pittsburg.
A Norwegian importer accuses foreign millers of selling rolled oats labeled to resemble American products in Christiania. A brand uses sacks with the American flag. Consul General Borde notes American oats are preferred for quality. Norway’s International Trade Mark union participation costs 18 dollars for ten years. The remedy lies with American manufacturers per the Bureau of Manufactures report in Daily Consular and Trade Reports.
The first use of ice in dental work, called the freezing system, originated in America and spread to provincial towns while being phased out in London and major cities. Early technique used finely cut ice packed in small bags against the jaw to numb the area before extracting teeth, later replaced by cold air cooling. lead mentions lead water usage by American dentists but not elsewhere.
A simple facial treatment uses white corn meal mixed with sour milk or buttermilk. Apply a half teacup at a time and wash face and hands thoroughly. Adding a little grated horseradish can remove the heaviest tan within a few hours.
A Texas rice canal company agrees to replace a $6 per acre water rental with two sacks of rice as payment. The compromise resolves disputes over charges and aims to settle debts with farmers. Local officials and company representatives proposed the arrangement to ease financial strain on growers.
The E. P. Morse Timber Company aims to cut yellow pine in Honduras, import to America, and pay a duty of $1 per 1000 feet to compete with the home market. It has $500,000 capital and is organized by Louisiana promoters who hold 2,000,000,000 feet of stumpage along the Chamelion river in Honduras.
In Vineland New Jersey Borough Recorder W 8 Browne operates a small charity box at city hall. A quarter is charged for saying damn and higher sums for stronger words. The money goes to charity as a lighthearted local custom designed to curb profanity.
The Foren family of Mill Bridge Missouri faces a long pattern of divorce. Mrs. Charles Foren secures freedom from her husband in what is described as her third divorce on statutory grounds. Her father Captain John Mitchell, a noted seaman, had four previous divorces, and his fifth wife had also married and divorced him four times before she remarried. Mrs. Foren declares she is done with marriage, saying she is tired of men and will never remarry.
Deserted and divorced twenty years ago Emma A Baker of Norwalk Connecticut answered a matrimonial ad recently and fell into the arms of her former husband. Their affinity was renewed and they married within the hour planning to return to Norwalk. Mr Baker made a Kansas City building fortune, lost it in 1884 and later took a new name while remaining successful.
A skilful masked bandit has terrorized Pittsburg by robbing late night illegal gambling rooms hotels and speakeasies. In ten days visitors with large sums were held up at gunpoint and robbed while the culprit taunted police. Authorities say they briefly nabbed him but he escaped on bail forfeit before identification.
J. C. Hoskins aged 50s and Mrs. Rachel May aged 52 wed in Carmi. Hoskins acknowledges his seventh marriage while Mrs. Hoskins, claimed as number seven, says she has taken marriage vows three times.
Charles Freedman, a famed Bostonian and Western sports figure, was shot dead in his Victoria B C home under mysterious circumstances. Doctors marvel he ran 60 feet to the street line with a bullet in his heart, suggesting a deliberate act by an unidentified enemy.
President Henry Dickinson of the Mount Victory O. bank told friends of dreaming the bank had been looted. Upon arriving downtown he found a night visit by robbers, the vault dynamited and $50,000 stolen.
Alfred Taylor of Vineland New Jersey aged 12 broke his arm on his first stunt on the bars of the new Young People's association. He hurried home and, with the limb held up, told his mother with a smile that he had been initiated.
A large black cat, sprayed with turpentine by local youths, ran berserk along South Street near Eighteenth in Philadelphia. It clawed Calvin Bryant, 20, of 1707 Catharine Street, as two men fought the animal with cane and club. Bryant was taken to Polyclinic Hospital to have the wounds treated and is expected to recover.
Mary Mcine, 20, of 42 Rutland Road Flatbush, N Y, tried to kill herself after doubt over which man to marry. Two suitors had asked her to wed. she worried over choice and shot herself. She will recover.
In Las Palmas eighty residents sue chemist Alonso for damages after carnival face paint of green flies birds and rabbits proved permanent. A local expert compares the technique to tattooing used by Indians and notes the wearers may bear the green images for life. Alonso narrowly escaped lynching as courts take up the case.
Miss Grace Green daughter of a wealthy Kane county farmer and a former Chicago hospital nurse wed Grymes Grant Chapman a negro elevator operator. The marriage caused estrangement between Mrs Chapman and her parents.
Michael C. Padden and his corps of water sleuths identified an S inch pipe at Sing Sing, N Y. The colonel asserts the conduit runs directly to 1000 prison cells within Sing Sing prison. An actual fact.
Col. Padden alleges Sing Sing prison has been stealing city water for years. He estimates the losses could reach about $10,000 annually and promises to present evidence for Governor Hughes to act on.
Miss Bessie Abbott the Metropolitan Opera soprano answers George Drouillet in a $3148 suit over gowns. She contends an Paris tailor agreement required the gowns be shown to best effect on her concert tours in France and beyond to advertise the maker.
Young society women in Hartford City Ind are agog as a dis appointed suitor who did not receive an invitation spiked the punch with whisky. Patrons and young guests drank freely, leading to surprising reactions and a scene of social embarrassment.
John Hays Hammond, renowned mining expert, seeks a $400,000 raise atop his $800,000 salary at the Guggenheims. He also wants more time for outside interests, citing a private fortune of $20,000,000. He is reported to be willing to accept the raise if he can become general manager and consulting engineer for the Guggenheim Exploration Company.
Rudolph Rieper of 208 Arsenal street St. Louis and William Seibel of 2625 Hickory street were fined five dollars each in the Wyoming street police court for using profane language as Patrolman Michael O'Shaunessy approached.
Miss Etta Priscilla Grove, a Chicago school teacher now in Long Beach California, has fasted thirty one days and believes she can continue a week or two more. She stays strong yet tires quicker, avoids sun on her daily five mile walks, preferring shady streets.
A Woodin couple hosted a party in Chapinville Conn for their twelfth wedding anniversary. Mischief at the gathering led to babies being swapped among attendees as mothers struggled to locate their own children. A later gathering hosted by Grant Griswold saw more baby confusion with trials of tagging and mislabeling.
Mabel Frances Elder, Barnard College student, was expelled over uncertainty about her birth date. After a two year inquiry with many witnesses, she is reinstated aided by Nicholas Murray Butler and Barnard trustees. Records show an earlier name change by her mother, not intentional falsification.
The Dundee Advertiser reports the Giants Causeway may be sold as an ancient monument claim fails under protective acts. An American syndicate is buying it for transshipment with 200 tons already shipped and rumors of another load. The fate of the site remains unclear.
A northeastern man, MecKnab, was fined 500 dollars plus costs by Judge Cooper in Canon City for shooting a famed mountain sheep that roamed Fremont County for years. The carcass was left to rot after the horns were removed, and a game warden later recovered the animal. The Grey legend of the charmed life of the animal added local notoriety to the offense.
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