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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
wife,s Illness Prompts Suicide.

Isaac y. Taylor, 10 years old, son of
a former well-known dry goods merchant
of Pittsburg. shot and killed himself
there. 1t is said worry over the condi-
ton of his invalid wife prompted the
Iaad
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

Echterdingen, near Stuttgart, and only
90 miles from the finishing point of the
522-mile aerial journey which the count
was aiming to complete, where tens of
thousands of persons were already gath
cred to greet him as conqueror of the
air.
Orders have already been given by
Count Zeppelin for the construction of
another airship. Subscription lists for
funds with which to provide the means
have been opened in Berlin, Bremen,
Stuttgart and other towns in Germany
and Switzerland
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
Oklahoma Lid Law Defective.

1t is stated on good authority that the
saloons throughout Oklahoma will reopen
as the result of the finding of a flaw in
the prohibition law
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
ExpIoSiou DESTROYS AirShip,

Count Zeppelin's big airship was de-
stroyed by fire and explosion seventy
miles from end of 522-mile journey in
Germany.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

The Austrian government has accepted
from Nathan Straus of New York the
gift of a complete milk pasteurization
plant for the City of Vienna. If this
proves successful in operation Straus
promises to install similar plants in 9TH
sr towns of Austria.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
7 G. Phelps-Stokes. the wealthy voun,

J. G. Phelps-Stokes, the wealthy young
New Yorker, who married Rose Pastor
out of the ranks of the workers. has been
nominated for the State Assembly by the
Eighth District. which is on the lower
East Side of the city. His brother-in-
law. Robert Hunter, prominent as So
cialist writer. is to run for Congress in
another East Side section of the city
The New York World, though opposed to
socialism. has come out in support of
Stokes. taking the ground that ''the best
way to defeat socialism is to have its
ablest advocates present their detailed
program to the public" Mrs Stokes will
take the stump for her husband.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
After biting Sarah Weinstock. a 9-v

After biting Sarah Weinstock, 9-year-
old girl, supposedly mad dog gave sew
eral automobiles and motorcycles a lively
chase through the business section of
Minneapolis. 1t was finally cornered and
shot by policeman, who had confiscated
a speeding automobile and thereby over
taken the maddened canine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

The strike of job printers, inaugurated
all over the country Sept IA, 1905, has
practically come to an end.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

Candidate Taft has now taken his
stand with Candidate Bryan definitely
against the acceptance of campaign con-
tributions from corporations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

Miss Pauline Kohlsaat became the
bride of Potter Palmer at Chicago wed.
ding notable for its simplicity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13

Ex-Gov James II. Budd Of California
is seriously i'll at his home at Stockton,
Cal. and, according to the statement Of
his physician, his condition is alarming.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Progress of Pennnnt Race I'm Base
Ball Leagues.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07
THAT MYSTERIOUS WORD.

Because President Roosevelt doclar- ed before the election returns came in that Mr Bryan and his supporters were licked to a fra2zle" a lot of per- sons on both sides Of the Atlantic are asking; What is 'frazzle?' As the LGndon correspondent of the Daily News reported in his cable dispatch of yesterday, the people of the English metropolis are shaking their heads over this strange Americanism.
 Ii is the old story. A perfectly good English provincial word of vener- able age, which came to this country two or three centuries ago and has h'tcp leading a precarious existence on the lips of persons who merely wanted to make their speech picturesque with out caring about making lt learned, has come to the surface at last and fig treated as something new. How often does tho eager public, always seeking something new, have 10 be told that there fig nothing new under the sun?
 'Wright's Provincial Dictionary" gives the verb "frazzle," meaning 10 unravel or rend cloth. as a word used in the eastern counties of England. That fig what the verb means in this country and has meant in many fami- lies for generations A "frazzle' is, of course cloth or any other article that has been reduced to shreds. Chicago News,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07

seas. His cpistolary adventures are certainly more interesting than ad- nirablc. but we have no reason to suppose that the distinguished per sons to whom these letters were ad- dressed viewed them with any disdaln. More anaomiC ages cannot endure cre- atlve vitality even in spelling, and so 1t comes about that in periods when everything beautiful and hand made gives place to manufactured articles made wholesale, uniform and cheap, the same principles are applied to words, and spelling becomes mechanic trade. We must have our spelling uniform, even if uniformly bad. Just as the man who, having out of sheer ignorance eaten the wrong end of his asparagus, was thcnCeforth compelled to declare that he preferred that end, SO 1t is with our race in the matter of spelling. Our ancestors by chance or by ignorance, tended to adopt certain forms of spell ing and we, their children, arc forced to declare that we prefer those forms. Thus we have not only lost all indl- vidualitF in spelling but We prlds ourselves on our loss and magnify our anchylosis.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07
OUR ANAEMIC SPELLING.
We Must Have Our Spelling Even If
 Uniformly Bad.

Individual reform is the latest pro- posal concerning the best remedy for out archaic English spelling. A writer
 in the Atlantic suggests it in this wise. We may find an illustration of the plebclan anchylosis of advancing clV-
 liHation in the minor matter of spell ing. The laws of spelling, properly speaking. are few or none, and in the great ages mon have understood this and boldly acted accordingly They exercised fine personal discretion in the matter and permitted without question wide range of variation. Shakespeare, as we know, ven spell ed his own name in several different ways. all equally correct. When that great old EliSabethan mariner, Sir Martin Irobishcr, entered on one of his rare and hazardous adventures with the pen, he created spelling ab- solutcy afrcsh, in the spirit of sim- pie haroism with which he was al- ways ready to sail out into strange
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07
UFFRAGIiTTES RIOT.
Howl Down Lloyd-Gcorgc Who Was
 Promising Them Votes.

London, Dec. G.---After enduring the hoWls and groans of the suffragettes for half an hour and being forced to sit down till many of them were thrown out. David Lloyd d-George
 Chancellor of the EXchequer, address, ing q meeting under the auspices of the Womans Liberal association at Albert hall, late yesterday, succeeded in getting the audience of 5000 peo- pie to listen to his assurance that there was majority fin the cabinet and the liberal party in favor of woman's suf- frage and that a suffrage clause would be included in the governments fran chise bill. This bill, however, could not be introduced he said. until the eve of the dissolution of parliament
 The chancellor added that the time of dissolution had not yet arrived
 though the end of this parliament was not SO distant as some people thought The liberals still have severa ar- counts to settle, and they would dem- onstrate t0 the house of lords that
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07

the house pf commons was not so impOtent as was imagined.
 The upro9r broke out when Mir. Lloyd George had hardly got beyond announcing that he was present with the object of making known the gov ernment's intentions regarding the problem of woman's suffrage, Strid- ent voices from all parts of the hall shrieked, We want deeds, not words. :" The stewards of the hall--and there were 350 on hand to dca with the anticipated disturbanco--at once nov ed down tho aisle on the women who had interrupted the. speaker, with the idea of ejectng them. They found them chained to their seats. A con- fused struggle ensued between the stewards and the women, In the end the chains were cut and these partIcu- lar suHragettes expelled.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07

Admiral Robley Evans tells the fol- lowing story against himself He had a congressman for a guest, and, having run out of his Cavorte brand of whis- key made ID with some he could not guarantee. He explained this and add- edi Here, however Is some brandy that have kept untouched for good deal more tb9r twenty years" Hand me over the whiskey decantor" was the roioiadcr "WhN?' asked the admiral. "Wha's Dhe matter with the brandy" "Thats what [ want 10 know Bob % said inc guest "but if you have had lt untouched in your possession for more than twenty years there must he something pretty bad the matter wien il, Toledo Blade.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07

able growth of Latin Amerca's foreign trade of over slOooOOooo per annum and after an anysis of the trade be- tween the United States and her sister republics, an optimistic view of tho fu- ture is taken, notwithstanding the need for improved and increased water com muncat,on
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07
R. \. TAFT WITH r,rurR.

Robert Alphonso Taft of the Vale class 1910, win sprnd his Christmas vacation with his father, William Howard Taft presideut-elect of the United States, in the cottage he has taken al Augusta. Ga, for the winter,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07
LADY MACCAREES.
Election of Officers and Other Import
 ant Business Tonight.

There will be a meeting of Jennie B. Cation Hive, Lady Maccaoees, .o- night in room 39, Insurance building, for the nomination and election of of- hcers. The meeting will open at 8 o'clock sharp and lt fig requested that all members be present at that time, In addition to the elections the next whist will be decided upon,
 All members are requested to settle for assessment number 12
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
Bishops Tale About Nurses.

"The late Bishop Fitzgerald" said a
st. Louis man, ''once presided at the
graduation exercises of class of nurses.
He told the young women a story that
pleased them nightly.
"He said that during our war with
Spain a certain hospital had corps OF
nurses of exceptional beauty just such
corps, in fact, as the young ladies
ranged before him would have made.
But it was whispered that these fair
nurses were inclined to a little frivolity,
inclined a little to firt with the ailing
young soldiers in their charge.
'Now, when soldier felt that he was
on the mend Irritation with a pretty
nurse was delightful, but when his
wounds were troublesome, then gallan-
try was thing that he was hardly
up to.
"And, indeed, it was said that some
times a pretty nurse in this hospital
would come to a favorite soldier and
find him lying with closed eyes, as if
asleep, on his cot, and this note pinned
on the counterpane:
Too i'll to be nursed today.-John
Smith. '"-Brooklyn Citizen.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
THOUGHT CHILD WOULD DIE.

Whole Body Covered with Cuban
Itch-Cuticura Remedies Cured at
Cost of Seventy-Five Cents.
''My little boy, when only an infant
Of three months, caught the Cuban
Itch Sores broke out from his head to
the bottom of his feet. He would :tch
and claw himself and cry all the time.
He could not sleep day or night, and
light dress is all he could wear.
called one of our best doctors to treat
him, but he seemed to get worse. He
suffered so terribly that my husband
said he believed he would have to die.
I had almost given up hope when a
lady friend told me to try the Cuticura
Remedies. I used the Cuticura Soap
and applied the Cuticura Ointment and
he at once fell into a sleep, and he slept
with ease for the first time since two
months. After three applications the
sores began to dry up, and in just two
weeks from the day 1 commenced to use
the Cuticura Remedies my baby was
entirely we'll The treatment only cost
me Toe. and l would have gladly paid
500 If I could not have got it cheaper
I feel safe in saying that the Cuticura
Remedies saved his life. He is now a
boy of five years. Mrs. Zana Miller
Union City, R. F. D. No. l, Branch Co.,
Mich, May II, 1906"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
POTATO GUM ON STAMPS.
Uncle Sam Tries to Guard the Health
7 of Stamp Lickers.

Every time 4 person ticks a United
States postage stamp he gets taste OF
sweet potato. The gum with which the
stamps are backed is made from the
succulent vegetable because Uncle
Sans lieutenants consider it the most
harmless preparation of the sort.
All of the gum used on American
postage stamps is mixed by the govern
ment at the bureau of engraving and
printing, where the stamps are made.
It is spread on the sheets after the
stamps have been printed.
The gum in liquid form is forced up
through pipes from the basement where
it is made. These pipes lead to series of
machines consisting of rollers between
which the sheets Of stamps are fed one
at a time.
A continuous fine stream of the liquid
gum falls upon one of these rollers. The
sheet with it's wet coating of sweet po-
tato mucilage passes from the rollers
into a long horizontal fiue filled with hot
air. When it energies at the other end
of the fue the gum is dry.
The government makes two kinds OF
postage stamp mucilage. If one could
see the packages of stamps as they come
to the postoffice ready to be sold one
would find them labeled, according to
season. Summer Gum or Winter
Gum" The former is much the harder
OF the TWO anu was ueFloeu oolAle yea .
ago to keep the stamps from getting
sticky in warm, moist weather.
While Uncle Sam tries to make the
lot of the stamp Ticker as innocuous as
nossible he does not advise making a
meal off his sweet potato gum. The
whole process of gum making and ap-
plying is made as clean as possible, but
there is yet another item to be consid-
cred.
a good many times before it even leaves
the bureau where it is made. If you
must lick any of your stamps pick out
those from the middle of the sheet. The
corner Ones have gone through the fin
gers of half a dozen or more counters,
not to mention the perforators and the
separators and the rest.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
Dangerous Enough.

Rear Admiral Mason, chief of the
governments bureau of ordnance, talked
Of martial inventions at a recent dinner
in Washington.
Many of these inventors" he said,
with their automatic torpedoes, thei1
new explosives, and what-not, fail to
take into account the danger to the
users Of their inventions. They are like
the farmer and the bull.
"A farmer was driving a bull along q
fairly busy country road.
That's dangerous looking bull
you have there, friend, a milkman said.
Oh no. said the farmer; he's just
as civil as sheep. He wouldn't hurt
ANYBODY, unless, maybe, women and
children and such like Washington
Herald
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
A Competent Witness.

ing judicial wit in England. He hat
doubts as to the credibility of a witness
on one occasion, and the man declared
that he had been welded to the truth
from infancy, says the London Taller.
'"That may be-" said Judge Maule,
'but the question is, how long have you
been divorced?'
A little girl was a witness before him,
and he proceeded to ascertain whether
she knew the nature of an oath. The
child, in answer to questions, said she
would go to heaven if she told the truth,
but would go to the other place if she
told lies.
Are you sure of that, my dear? JUS
tice Maule asked.
Yes, sir; quite sure"
"Let her me sworn" said the court;
'she knows more than | do"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
whv Always a Black Bound Bible?

Why should our Bibles always be
bound in black? was a very pertinent
question put by. Bishop TugWell, fresh
torial Africa, at a meeting in connec-
tion with the Religious Tract society's
Tooth anniversary, The bishoP viewed
nrayer books of the society bound in
brisht red cloth, instead of the hitherto
invariable black, a color which is mostly
associated with what is melancholy: Bish-
tbo brighter and more attractive coiors
FOR his heather converts more especial
". One is reminded in this connection
Of the now almost extinct black gown,
70 which objection has been taken for
tbo same reason, the donning of which
hy the par3on before delivering his ser
mon M savored so much of the judges put
ting on the black cap before pronounc-
mo the death sentence, whereas the Cos
mel message is one of peace and life
pail Mall Gazette.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
FULLY NoURIsHED.

Ufape-Nuts "a Perfectly Balanced
Food.
NO CHEMISTS analysis of Grape-Nuts
"n begin to show the real value Of
4e Iood-the practical value as shown
W personal experience.
"lS food that is perfectly balanced,
'uppleS the needed elements Of brain
aIa nerves in all stages of life from the
I'ant through the strenuous times
v actlVe middle life, and is a comfort
"Io support in old age.
y TOT two years l have used Grape
SUS with milk and little cream, for
s's"AIaSt am comfortably hungry
LOT ny dinner at noon.
use little meat, plenty of vege-
~'tS and fruit, in season, for the noon
c n.0'' and if tired at tea time, take
lOurished
o. '''''e and brain power, and mem
A.. 'e much improved since using
p p,a, I am over sixty and
,.,. sd 100 lbs, My son and husband
rsin Mug no" l had improved, are now
~S.aS Grape-Nuts.
es,s ~ son. who is a travelling man,
M. D''uIng for breakfast but Grape
ors, olu q glass Of milk. An aunt,
e,. a. seems fully nourished on
Rsss,Nuts and cream" There's q
C,ssr gwen by Postum Co., Battle
vDs a' 4len' Read The Road to Well
New ' Ct read the above letter? A
Thew a appears from time to time.
human genuine, true, and full OF
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
Gpography Not Needed.

In one Of the city public schools is a
little girl pupil whose ancestors and CO.
rpIigionists have ever held that the prin'
cip5l aim Of the life of a woman is mar
rage. This little girl is we'll up IN
most of her studies, but she has an in
yeterate dislike of geography and il
seems impossible to teach the study tq
her. The other day her teacher, made
inpatient by her seeming unWillingness
to learn her geography lesson, sent ia
Rosie's mother a note requesting her ia
see that the girl studied her lesson. The
next day showed no improvement, how
ever. and the teacher asked Rosie
whether she had delivered the note.
Yes. ma am" was the reply.
And did your mother read the note
RosieY said the teacher.
Yes, ma am"
What did she say?"
MY mother said that she did not
know geography an she got married.
an my aunt didn't know geography an
she got married, an you know geogra'
ply an you didn't get married. New
York Times.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
The Stationary Clock.

A West Philadelphia woman had not
heard the clock strike once during last
Sunday afternoon, and thinking per-
chance it had stopped she sent her hope
full. little boy about 5 years old, down
stairs to see if it was running.
The little tot went down on the err
rand, and after hasty survey of the
long pendulum swinging back and forth
he ran back to his mother with this in
formation:
"Why. no, mamma; the clock ain't
running It's standin' still and Vaughn
it's tail" -Philadelphia Ledger.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
Ignorant Woman.

"This thermometer" complained the
old lady, "ain't no good. l can never
tell by it how cold the room is
'My dear madam" said the rascally
dealer, with a plying air, "do you not
know the word thermometer is derived
from two Greek words meaning "a meas
ure of heat? Naturally, therefore, it
isn't meant to measure cold. The Cath
Ollie Standard and Times.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26

Mrs. Pinkham, of the Lydia E..
Pinkham Medicine Company Of Lynn.
Mass, together with her son, Arthur
W. Pinkham and the younger members
of her family, sailed for Naples on
May 20 for a three months tour
throughout Europe and a much needed
vacation"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26

-Germany's war in southwest Africa
has cost $5OO0O,OOO which has been
spent overcoming the resistance of one or
two native tribes. The losses in action
were heavy Eighty-six commissioned
officers were killed and the non-commis-
stoned officers numbered 229; rank and
fle 1867; total, 1882. Among the CO.
lonial troops 16 officers and 1875 men
persisted.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
Income Is Low.

Of the 1.125,OOO persons in Berlin
who support themselves or themselves
and families. only 5S,611, or less than
51A per cent, have incomes of STA or
more year. About 100000 have less
than that amount. and more than half
of these even less than $214 year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
Permits for Use of Alcohol

Manufacturers using less than fifty
gallons of completely denatured alcohol
per month are not required to secure a
permit Those using more than that
amount per month must secure a per-
nit from the collector of internal rev.
enue of the district in which the business
is located-Popular Mechanics.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
Naval Scares.

The talk about crushing the fleet is
absurd. If we attempted to engage the
German fleet. it would stay at home, just
as the French feet did in Toulon when
Nelson's ships were on the lookout for it.
What particular good did the French
faet do cruising off the German ports
in the Franco-German war, or our own
fleet in the Baltic during the Crlmea =
Sir Charles Dixie in Pail Mall Gazette.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26

II not you are missing half the pleasure
OF life. Just order from your grocer a few
packages of "OUR-PIE' and learn how easy
1t is to make Lemon, Chocolate and Custard
pies that will please YOU If your grocer
won't supply you go to one who will Put
up by D-Zerta Food Co. Rochester. n Y.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26

q pioneer OF COLO
RADIO, now living at
21S East Nebraska
street, Blair, Neb.,
says: 81 had such
pains in my back for
a long time that l
could not turn in bed,
and at times there
was an almost total
stoppage of the urine.
Nv wife and | have
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
Bonus for Service.

One of the large electrical firms il
Germany gives yearly from 81 to 81
to employees who have served for more
than a year. The sum thus expended
exceeds $4,000 a year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26

both used Doan's Kidney Pills for what
| doctors diagnosed as advanced kidney
troubles, and both of us have been com
pletely cured"
| Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. n. Y.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-26
A FOREIGN View

Mrs. Gunson-"Count. do you con-
slider American girls good enough to
marry foreign nobleman?
Inc Couut-Ah, madam, re beggar
cannot be re chooser.-Sunday Maya.