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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
3
A verse urging progress and perseverance. The speaker compares dwelling on the past to a briny statue, invoking Bud Wheeler Wilcox from The Nautilus to urge moving forward with hope and forward-looking resolve.
A critical look at church attendance argues the problem lies in church messaging rather than laity. A New York rabbi’s shift to ethical leadership reflects demand for religious truth stripped of ecclesiasticalism, while debates over creed and inerrancy fuel loss of trust and empty pews.
A magazine excerpt urges men to allow their wives fuller engagement with life beyond homemaking. It argues that women seek experience and wisdom to enrich motherhood and domestic duties, not indulgence, and warns disregarding this instinct can wreck marriage. The piece also previews a serial by William J. Locke and includes a dialogue from Septimus Dix about humanity and restraint.
Marie Van Vorst depicts Cleopatra in Harper's Magazine as Egypt incarnate, the nation’s charm and Alexandria’s lure. The essay traces her political and romantic power from Philae to Dendera, Antony's devotion, and Cleopatra’s lasting imprint on the Nile and Cairo’s shadowed past.
The narrator recalls casual attitudes toward marriage from Newport to a Virginia town. A young woman mocks divorce courts as a trial run for married life, while memories of church entertainments reveal rigid social lines and playful courting games.
The passage meditates on wedding rituals and sacred vows as choristers approach a church door. It laments fading memories of an Edenic love and prays for divine presence and perfect love to unite two hearts as in timeless sacred unions.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes that in Peckham the best speeches come from the women suffragists. In three hours the paper heard seven women and seven men, finding the women's arguments sharper, better expressed, and more knowledgeable on current questions.
The article explains piano construction uses diverse woods from spruce for sounding boards to elm for frames and various veneers like walnut and mahogany. It notes veneer beauty hides heavy backing, and materials come from distant sources though many come from the United States with foreign woods for high grade instruments.
A new Florida senator Milton gets a lesson from a Senate page on how to call for an elevator. The page explains three rings signal a lift and shows how the car carries the senator first, then drops off others. Washington Herald.
A small parish hosts a staged concert with a renowned singer from Covent Garden. He performs Village Blacksmith and, after an eager encore, agrees to reprise and add a verse about letting out bicycles, prompting a humorous interruption from the chairman.
A California inventor designed a shelter tent whose canvas covering splits into sections that can be worn as a uniform or poncho during the day. The flexible design aims at use by soldiers, hunters, and campers, resembling some oriental military attire.
Meriden aunt Fred Prageman found a wedding ring his wife lost twenty five years ago while dissecting a duck on their Yaleville farm. A Cleveland parade hippopotamus driven wagon caused chaos with several horses crushed, while a fire in Lagerstown trapped Nellie infant. In New Hampshire a two year old had two sprouted beans removed from his nose.
An extraordinary Humble Texas oil well drilled by Harry R. Decker blew out and surfaced an entire tree from 200 feet below the surface. Pieces are preserved for verification while the site reports unusually high underground pressure compared with neighboring oil bearing areas.
Elder Joseph Hall’s son Leonard aged 15 and Annie 11 daughter of Mrs Sarah Profitt wed at Upper Rockhouse Creek Kentucky. The ceremony by Elder Hall drew many relatives and followed a courtship while the pair attended district school. Parents opposed until majority. In a separate note, John Barreuther of Winsted Connecticut survived a dangerous burn after using very hot alcohol and water for rheumatism causing a blue flame and fire risk.
A gray-bearded wharf rat at the Aiken lumber yard in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, befriends Ed Tompson the watchman by sharing his tobacco. Tompson, loner and unselfish, leaves a chew daily for the rat, which now expects a bite and appears to chew with human gusto. Miss Caroline Tibbetts, 23, of Toledo, Ohio, suicides at Danby California desert station after days of loneliness. body sent to Toledo for relatives.
After the Georgia explosion several officers criticized American munition hoists for directing from the ammunition room to turrets with risk of sparks in fires. Critics also cited Rennerdahl’s claim that U S battleships have low armor belts offering inadequate above water protection and noted British ships use double hoists from the ammo room to the turret.
A Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin account reports a new pneumatic hoist for naval turrets that uses a package carrier principle to shuttle ammunition rapidly from magazines to gunners. The device eliminates explosion danger above magazines and may outpace the British system, prompting calls to adopt the American invention.
In Pioneer Mine and Manufacturing Co. v Talley an employee who leaves his post to reclaim lent tools cannot sue the mine owner for injuries from slate falling in another part of the mine. In Lebensburger v Scofield a building owner who leases floors without control is not liable to a lower-floor tenant for stock injuries from overflowing water caused by the tenant’s failure to maintain or negligent use.
The court holds that a labor union’s attempt to force a mill owner to join the union by boycotting his product and informing customers is an unlawful conspiracy. The ruling references Purvis vs Local No 500 United Brotherhood citing 12 L.R.A(N.S.) 2 as the basis for the injunction.
The case held that under a statute for mental anguish recovery a telegram sender may not recover damages for delay in delivery causing fear and potential dismissal. The plaintiff, with one day of leave, feared the recipient might be harmed or fired for returning late after missing the next train.
In People v Williams the court ruled that a statute prohibiting adult females from factory work before 6 am or after 9 pm amounted to an undue restriction on freedom of contract. The decision discusses the balance between labor laws and personal economic liberty under the era's statutes.
The owner of part of a drove that trespassed on another’s land is liable for a proportional share of the damage. The court finds damages based on the proportion of cattle owned to total trespassing cattle when evidence shows equal damage by all cattle.
The case Stokes v Continental Trust Co holds a stockholder may subscribe to new stock at the same proportional price when stock is issued for money, preserving his proportionate ownership. Mead v Owen distinguishes a sharecropper occupying a farm home rent free from a tenancy relation, due to employment needs and housing terms.
Jacob H. Schiff on his way to Egypt recalls a New England tour where a young broker’s solo voice drew admiring gasps in a church. The sexton silenced the scene with a wheezy whisper, saying, We pay people to do that here.
A hotel head waiter, an old southern negro, explains why it feels cool in midsummer. He says the earth has shaken off its axis due to many earthquakes and eruptions, so it is coming winter instead of summer. The remark captures a humorous folk explanation from a Philadelphia Ledger quote.
The Association of Women Principals of New York urges reform in school reading materials arguing glossy paper and long lines tire the sight. The New York Medical Journal backs this, noting glaze and line length as harmful but recommends shorter lines and avoiding half tones, while acknowledging economic forces driving modern printing.
The Practical Farm urges long term leases and clear duties for landlords and tenants to restore fertility, control weeds, and improve profits. It calls for tenant crop rotation, livestock upkeep, and landlord provided buildings and fences. James J. Allen, at a White House Conference, warns soil wastage is a national peril.
A man runs past Socrates armed with an axe chasing another in pursuit shouting stop him. Dialogue debates who counts as an assassin revealing provocative ideas on killing across roles from butcher to physician. The chase ends with the axe-wielding man fleeing.
Poultney Bigelow predicts possible success for a Malden chicken farm while recalling Rash Rogers who boasted on a suburban train about buying a $50 incubator and $15 worth of eggs to hatch a blue bottle, claiming to own the only $65 bottle fly in the world.
Belgians line roadsides with cider and perry apple and pear trees creating a profitable roadside plantation system. About 50 000 trees earn roughly 15 000 pounds yearly, averaging little more than 4d per tree. A small additional fund contribution adds around 1d per tree.
The Baltimore News reports an agricultural appropriation amendment proposing to eradicate mistletoe as a harmless parasite on trees was defeated in the House. The piece notes mistletoe’s romantic role in marriage customs and questions a flippant disposal.
The country editor's assistant reports Silas Kidder, now dead, replied to a letter about an expired subscription by sending the letter back with Italian words at the bottom, read as requiesent in pace. The exchange appears in a Catholic Standard and Times item.
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