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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
6
A large German woman blocked the Boston money order line as memory failed her. She sought a payment to a place she could not name, describing it as sounding like a car honk. Clerks misheard and advised sending the money to Hong Kong, which satisfied her.
In a Chicago hotel the proprietor recalls an eccentric guest during the simplified spelling debate. The visitor signed the register as Hi K Phtholognyrrh, provoking a clerk’s puzzled question about pronunciation. The guest explained the playful spelling to mimic “Turner” with complex letter sounds.
A college president meets a newly graduated youth who is poor but highly gifted. Two offers arrive, one for a scientific journey and another for a baseball contract paying $5000 per season, highlighting divergent paths after college success.
A young rare swan, pure white with black feet and bill, was shot near Webb's by Hamlin Kingman of Waltham and brought to Ellsworth taxidermist W D Braun. The 6 foot 9 inch wingspan places it among noted wintering birds near the Gulf of Mexico with migrations along the Mississippi valley.
Brugsch Bey argues the seven lean years in Genesis have real history. He reports hieroglyphic inscriptions show Nile floods, famine, pestilence, and misery about 1700 B C, confirming the biblical account with deciphered pictures.
Dialogue from the Yonkers Statesman quotes a father and son debating the idea of becoming an epicure at breakfast. The son asks what an epicure is and declares he plans to avoid hash, aiming for finer food today.
A light anecdote about farm life recalls past methods for cow fodder. The speaker asks the farmer about pasture shortages and recalls using greenies on cows to force eating shavings, humorously noting the milk tasted like old furniture.
A fragment depicts an athlete and a dyspeptic debating summer vacations. The dialogue questions voting education while a fish is imagined learning to walk on dry land, presenting a surreal, reflective exchange.
Rev Harris J Harrington argues that true religion is not cramped creed but living virtue earned by hardship. He cites Christ’s call to the narrow gate and straightened path, asserting life comes through struggle, toil, and discipline, not drift.
Rev Henry F Cope reflects on providence and divine overruling care across cultures praising the Lord for guidance and support. He argues Providence cooperates with human effort, urging progress rather than sloth while facing financial risk and hardship.
Poem urges faithful action in small deeds. The speaker suggests serving sailors, comforting the afflicted, visiting the needy, and gleaning in hardship. It emphasizes humble, persistent service over riches or grandiose feats. The message: strive to help where you are, as songs endure beyond the singer.
A reflective meditation on divine fatherhood and universal love. It argues that the all wise must be all loving and that God’s parentlike care provides guidance, hardship, and growth, shaping humanity through trials toward a better, illuminated future.
A Indiana inventor shows a double pan design with an inner and outer pan to cook two vegetables on a single gas jet, promising gas savings. The illustration accompanies the concept, noting practical use on a gas stove.
To craft maple sugar candy, break one pound of maple sugar into pieces and place in a granite pan with two cups of milk. Heat over fire until boiled and sugar dissolves, then boil until tested in cold water yields a crisp crack. Stir in a walnut sized piece of butter, pour into buttered tins, and while partly cool, cut into squares with a sharp knife.
The text urges frequent airing of the kitchen during cooking and a daily airing of dining rooms living rooms and halls. It emphasizes efficient venting to prevent tainted food keep the kitchen clean and aid comfort, while avoiding excessive exposure to weather. It also notes the importance of regular fresh air throughout the house without wide open windows.
A simple recipe describes beating five egg whites to stiff froth then adding three tablespoons of sugar and half a pound of pitted dates. Bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Serve cold with thick cream or a custard made from the yolks.
Cover two dozen walnut meats with boiling water and add a bay leaf and a small slice of onion. Cook slowly for ten minutes. Drain and peel skins with a pointed knife. Moisten with lemon juice and stand until ready to serve. Arrange on watercress and season with salt paprika and oil.
The excerpt argues that delaying judgments perverts justice and happiness. It warns envy corrupts the heart, duty is only clear when finished, and borrowing trouble mirrors faultmaking. It notes self reflection often targets others, not self, and cautions about misplacing ends over the work.
Wash berries and put through a meat chopper then cook in a double boiler with one cup water per quart of berries. Simmer twenty minutes then sweeten before removing from heat. Beat butter powdered sugar and lemon juice with nutmeg to a white cream. Serve chilled in a small dish.
Thot milk is said to remove most stains better than boiling water. Clean pear knife handles with a rag dipped in fine salt and polish with leather. Grind two tablespoons of rice through a spice mill to remove traces of spice. Sprinkle salt or cloves where ants are troublesome. Paint stains on floors may be scoured by turpentine or benzine then pumice stone. Tea leaves steeped in water used to wash varnished wood for a cleaner finish.
A compact admonition urging humility and charity over rigidity and pride. It warns against mistaking polished manners for virtue and cautions that hatred blocks love and heaven, urging readers to endure tribulation with a loving heart.
A dramatic chase on the Stockton and Darlington line ends when a powerful locomotive pursues and finally stops a runaway engine near Darlington. The pursuing driver uncouples, takes the lead, and drops a chain over the runaway to halt it at the crowded station.
Regina letter from Mr A Kaltenbrunner reports 160 acres of oats yielding 9,000 bushels with 80 acres fall plowing at 90 bushels per acre and 80 acres stubble at 30 bushels per acre. Wheat on 70 acres at 20 bushels and 30 acres fallow at 25. He notes 53 cents a bushel for oats, shipments of three carloads, no frost, and optimism that Western Canada crops will thrive despite adverse weather. Information on free homestead lands in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta available from Canadian Government Agents.
A Japanese youth gifts his sweetheart a length of silk to wear as a sash rather than an engagement ring, reflecting a cultural gesture through a romantic, symbolic token. The anecdote highlights traditional courtship customs and a personal pledge expressed through cloth.
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