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Newspaper
Wauwatosa News
Location
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1908
Page
6
Andrew S Draper argues that industrial strength and real culture depend on practical schooling aligned with labor needs. He criticizes the fractured system that pushes students into unsuitable fields, leaving wage workers vulnerable to job loss and societal inequities. He urges open chances for every American child and a base in industrial foundations.
Louise Satterthwaithe argues that good husbands shoulder a heavy, unseen burden balancing work and home life. The piece stresses a husband must provide bread and shelter, endure orders, and bear responsibility for the family’s welfare, while mothers manage daily duties.
The piece argues teens crave excitement and intensity and that vicarious thrills shape their emotions. It discusses German theories urging curated love stories or dramatic theater to channel adolescent passion into elevated forms, citing American Magazine.
An op ed argues that politics remain corrupt until voting is made compulsory. The author contends that many eligible citizens shirk duty, allowing inferior factions to control primaries and graft persists in state and city life. He urges compulsory voting for all eligible voters.
The Rev. I P Gilby of St. Savior's Episcopal Church in Oxford Street addresses about 2,000 deaf and mute parishioners and family members, delivering aid and using expressive signing to communicate with a mixed congregation including aristocrats and bootblacks.
A historical note retells the tale of the boy on the burning Orient to show it rests on fact not myth. It traces Captain Hallowell from Jamaica Plain to the Nile battle and the boy’s heroic refusal to leave the doomed vessel despite his father’s death. The story connects Nelson and Felicia Hemans to the legend and her poem Casabianca.
The text describes how signaling by sign language aids preaching, aiding young men and women to church positions with regular wages. It mentions Sir John Blundell Maple hiring apprentices, a charitable act, and a tale about a French admiral's son connected to Nelson at the Nile. It ends noting Captain Benjamin Hallowell's birth in the Boylston house.
In a London Graphic snippet, Boggs quips with the magistrate after being caught stealing oranges. The magistrate reminds him of prior admonitions against theft, noting the prior warning did not mention oranges.
In a New York Press exchange Jewett jokes that Hewitt’s absent minded attempt to light a cigar from an electric light lamp shows a countryman blowing out the gas, a humorous aside on rural misfires.
A concise aphorism notes the danger of someone who aims to kill time, yet ends up wasting the hours of those who are busy. The remark underscores wasted effort and the value of purposeful activity.
Pinkerton’s annual report to the American Bankers Association records 89 bank burglaries in the year ended August 31, 1908, with total loot about 129 thousand dollars and an average per robbery of 1,450. Major losses occurred in Rock Hill Missouri and Hewitt Minnesota, with several other large sums reported across Adair Illinois and neighboring states. Hold-ups added ten cases with loot totaling over 25 thousand dollars, Texola Oklahoma yielding the largest single theft.
The passage discusses how beginners may damage paper with bold periods while learning to press keys lightly. It notes that with progression learners adjust touch across letters, eventually producing artistic, uniform typewriting. The ideal student is intelligent, sensitive, and truly competent.
Mrs C L Orrick heads one of the city’s largest blacksmith carriage and wagon shops as she recalls a grim past. Seven years ago her husband died and left her with loss of home and wealth, yet she kept the business alive amid a grimy, demanding factory setting.
A detective notes that major bank robberies target small towns, with none near New York, Philadelphia, or Chicago. The piece cites Minnesota leading in burglaries, then Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas, and explains vast rural areas hinder police pursuit facilitating thieves’ escape. A surviving widow recounts rebuilding after her husband’s death, mortgaged home, and starting a wagon shop, stressing a husband’s duty to share finances with his wife.
A New York Sun interview quotes an experienced typewriter explaining why beginners punch periods and commas darker. Equal force on all keys yields uneven print because keys have unequal printing surfaces, causing deeper marks on punctuation.
In Illinois, during a heated political clash around Speaker Cannon, opponents used bold moves including dismissing several of Uncle Joe’s public service allies. A supporter, distressed by Post Office firings, asked how to respond. Cannon, calmly smoking, replied that in battle there will be dead and wounded.
A London Tit-Bits item records a short dialogue about a man with insomnia who is under a doctor’s care. The exchange notes the patient’s wakeful state and the doctor’s treatment, reflecting a brief humorous social snippet from the period.
A terse reflection on fate and inevitability, noting that time ultimately overtakes every person. The saying suggests delays and procrastination lead to eventual consequences, with time acting as an unavoidable force that erodes opportunities and alters outcomes.
Rochester proposes a simple wooden accessory that fits a recess in the end of a hammer or punch handle. A plate at the punch end clamps over the opening to prevent loss and hold nails, tacks, and screws inside. This design aids households and offices by keeping fasteners readily available.
A simple fruit pudding recipe uses two cups sifted flour one egg one half cup sugar one cup milk half teaspoon salt a heaping teaspoon baking powder one teaspoon cornstarch and three cups blueberries. Beat the egg, mix cornstarch with milk, add sugar and salt, sifted flour with powder, then blueberries, bake in a buttered tin in a hot oven and serve with cream.
Blanch thick rind melon, remove red flesh, then cut into pieces. Soak in strong salt water overnight, rinse in fresh water for a day, then harden in weak alum bath. Drain dry, sugar at a one to one ratio, make a syrup with ginger and lemon peel, simmer until clear, jar and seal.
Three large tert apples twelve large green tomatoes one large head celery or celery seed to taste four large onions four large red sweet peppers one cup light brown sugar one pint good cider vinegar five cents worth of mustard seed white Chop tomatoes then salt Let stand overnight drain through colander put all together in granite kettle chopped Allow it to come to the boiling point Stir and heat thoroughly but do not boil Bottle
When an egg is boiled too long the pan is removed from heat, placed under cold water for a rapid shock. The sudden temperature change softens the egg, yielding a correct consistency ideal for invalids.
To smooth burned edges use fine sandpaper once the cake is set but before it cools. A paraffin paper cut to the cake’s shape prevents sticking to the plate as it sets away.
Short Suggestions describes hot fritters and doughnuts frying properly and many kitchen hacks. It covers stove polish from black lead and vinegar and alcohol with whiting, tomato butter spaghetti dish for lunch, flour to stop sputtering fat, raw potato to remove mud from tan leather, scalding milk handling, kerosene for finger marks on paint, quick muslin curtain prep, and keeping coffee pots odor free with baking soda steps.
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