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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1906
Page
4
A fragmented column mocks local politics and labor action with jokes about coal shortages, grand juries, and Easter eggs. It references Dowie, Tom Johnson, Sarah Bernhardt, Andrew Carnegie, and Chicago society. The piece lampoons aging unmarriageable women, Easter commerce, and ongoing strike talk.
The passage hints at tensions in UK interviews about disaster handling and trainee conduct within large firms. It notes excessive talking by trainees and a belief that lead handlers would not retract. The fragment ends with an intriguing but unclear point.
A fragmentary column mixes local notes on Johnson and unfolding events with mentions of rising strawberry blooms in backyards and early hints on egg prices. It ponders the fate of the Southern League without Wooster players and lightly touches on football reform and imperial Russia.
A physician suggests music can shift a man toward warfare in a neighbor’s tale of brief daily practice. J P Morgan paid fifty thousand dollars for a Robert Burns manuscript relic, likely to be incorporated and sold later for a million or more.
A recent election decision leaves Chicago owning its electric railways but not operating them, a move seen as limiting control and raising questions about management and future public transit policies.
The piece notes a renomination fight for Nicholas Longworth in Congress, likening it to a political scrimmage rather than a union with a president's daughter. It also mentions a medicinal patent and a cough remedy, Dr Shoop's Cough Cura, sold by Bixler Modern Pharmacy, amid discussion of soothing throat ailments.
Green staffs are arriving in the local market and are tempting shoppers with displays. Grocers offer greens every Saturday and expect continued supply. Spring onions bring eight cents, while other green vegetables sell at corresponding prices. Several markets plan to stock more soon, promising improved life quality.
The Conrad brothers opened their new shoe parlor in the Conrad building on First Liberty Street Tuesday. Carpenters and painters recently redesigned interiors, creating a bright, inviting space with a fresh stock of goods. The firm invites the public to visit and promises strict attention to business and good values.
The dispute at the car barns over discharge of foreman John Pope was settled Sunday. Pope is reinstated and returns to work Monday morning, moving his household goods to Bere. The threatened trouble at the facilities has been neatly resolved.
A letter from L. Reiner now in the United States Army in the Philippines includes a four concert program by a two band unit with Reider listed as a member playing ivy factnd and classical pieces. The note also cites a Madilan paper ad offering beer at 10 cents a glass or six glasses for a peso, equating to about 50 cents of American money, with subscription details unclear.
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