Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-21

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will probably cause James j. Jeffries to
shy his mitts into the ring for another
go" after the purse and a percentage
f the gate receipts.
IIoratio Garter of Wellesley, Mass.
has started a plan to obtain money
enough to purchase the home Of the late
DR.. s. +. Smith. the author Of Amer
lea" and make Of it an historical land
mark, in honor Of the author,
Prof George Foot Moore Of Harvard
university has been awarded the Walter
Charming Cabot fellowship for three
years. Prof. Moore was born in West
Chester Pa. in 1851. but most of his
early life was passed in Ohio.
Congressman T. l.. Campbell of Kan
saS is regarded as one of the best dressed
men in Washington. His correct sarto-
rial taste led one Of his friends to de
scribe him as the only member of the
Kansas delegation who does not look like
II kansan.
One of the oldest men in northern
New Hampshire is Luther b. Towne of
Littleton, who is in his 03d year and
hale and vigorous He is disciple of
the fresh air fad and on the coolest day
Of the winter can he seen going about
with his chest exposed, prcferring to
leave it bare and unprotected.
Andrew j. Harlan of Savannah, Mis-
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first Congress. having represented the
Eleventh Indiana district. Although 81
years old, he is still hale and hearty.
Among the members in this Congress
were such men as Daniel Webster. John
C. Calhoun, William II. Seward. Stephen
y. Douglas, Jefferson Davis and John j.
Crttenden.
After more than fifty years of activ-
ity in the ministry as pastor Of one
church, Rev. Edwin Wheelock of Cam
bridge, VT, one of the oldest, if not the
oldest Congregational preacher in the
state, has retired from active religious
work. In the whole Green Mountain
state there is not a minister who has a
wider acquaintance and who is more
highly esteemed.
Prof. Angelo Heilprin, author of
Tower of Pe!ee," Mont Pelee." and
editor of "Lippincott's New Gazetteer"
is just completing a series of paintings
in oil TO illustrate the features and phe-
nomena in Mont Pelee When finished
these paintings are to be exhibited pub
lcly, and it has been Prof. HeIprin's de.
sire to show pictorialy what has been
written scientifically.
Sir John Drummer has arranged for the
town Of Wilmington, Norwich, Eng.
what is called II house scheme for
healthy babies' Every birth will he re-
ported upon, and at the end of twelve
months Sir John Drummer will make n
grant of s. to the mother or the guar
dian of each child that has made salts
factory progress. The object of this
scheme is to reduce the infant mortality.
DIR. Wiley's dictum that beef, graham
bread and potatoes are all that are
necessary TO keep humanity we'll fed will
not be opposed by the hungry; but there
are many good things to eat which those
who have the wherewithal to enable
them TO make choice would like Mt
times, Just for Il change" An immedi-
ate boom for the three officially endorsed
products is therefore not to be expected.
The report from Washington that the
condition of wheat and rye is slightly
lower than that of the same grains ut
this time last year is not surprising.
There was little snow during the winter,
to protect the grain and had the season
not been mild one things would have
been much worse. The slight decrease
gives nobody ground for complaint. and
existing conditions are above the average
for ten years.
The claim of jamestown. Va, to being
the oldest named place in the United
States has been challenged from the Pa
cihc coast. Frank ii. Powers of San
Francisco has asserted in Washington
that Carmel-by-the Sea in California
comes before Jamestown. He says Car
mel was named in 1902 by the Spanish
navigator Niscayno, and that a French
man. Perouse, made a map of Carmel
in 1868, which referred To one made in
the hrst-named year by the Spaniard
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The statement to President Roosevelt
by DIR. Scale Harris, professor of medi.
cine i'll the University of Alabama, that
tuberculosis is ravaging the negroes Of
the South aud threatening To extinsuSl
them. is a warning 10 the Southern peo-
pie TO look to their own welfare by con
Sidering that Of the colorcd people Con
sumption may lie thriving among the
blacks who are living in msanitary
places, but the disease is no rrspecter of
persons, aud will attack white as vel
as black if it is permitted TO have unre
stricted sway.
Rev. DIR. Thomas Trotter president Of
Acadia university. Wolfville. n s. has
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