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Newspaper
Mineral Point Tribune
Location
Mineral Point, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
2
The Mineral Point Tribune surveys widespread campaign spending, urges limits on expenditures, and promotes candidate accountability. It notes tax-like poll proposals, coal shortages harming the Northwest, and calls out political influence from trusts and wealth in shaping elections.
Pete Shramior voices concern as Hon Duncan McGregor prepares a bill to place a miner's engineering branch of the state university in Platteville. The aim is student visits and field training in mines, following Michigan's leadership with its College of Mines at Houghton attracting international students.
Representatives from Monroe White water Platteville Milwaukee and other towns met in Janesville at the call of Colin W Wright to push improvements on the Mineral Point division of the Milwaukee road. They urged through trains to Milwaukee eliminating two changes for west of Janesville passengers and Sunday service with an extra daily train each way to start by March 1907 aligning with Northwestern’s planned service on its Lancaster branch Madison to Platteville and Lancaster.
The article argues that Christmas gifts reflect the giver’s motive. It distinguishes heartfelt generosity from ostentation and obligation, praising gifts as expressions of love, gratitude, and remembrance while noting spirit matters more than the gift. It also notes gifts can be tangible or spiritual, big or small.
The Dooley observations grow brighter and wittier as a new series appears in The Chicago Sunday Record-Herald. His timely pieces on Me Young Frind Count Boney's Love Affairs and The President's Activities promise enduring quotable wit for thousands of admirers.
In a city cemetery a headstone bears the inscription honoring family ties and memory with solemn tribute.
The piece extols loyalty to family as essential and warns that disloyalty harms all members. It notes the ease of sacrificing for material comfort while urging stronger fidelity to the family unit and to preserve a child’s natural right to a good name.
The College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin received 835 dollars in prizes for its exhibit at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. Sheep entries from the animal husbandry department earned 610 dollars across 37 prizes for 43 head, while the swine department led by J G Fuller and Ancola earned 75 dollars for nine fat hogs. The sheep and hogs combined also won the top prize of 75 dollars for the most instructive carcass and breeding demonstration.
Cram Baking Powder is advertised as a guarantee of perfect food and a protection against health risks from alum and alum-phosphate or other low grade powders.
A meditation on marriage interference and early years of matrimony. The piece cites William George Jordan and notes growth, mutual concessions, and kindness as remedies. It contrasts domestic harmony with the lure of economic frugality and the refrain I cant afford it.
Readership of Hoards Dairyman among dairy farmers surveyed across Minnesota to Connecticut shows readers earned up to six dollars more per cow than non readers. Professor G L McKay notes successful dairymen are readers. Subscribe with a dollar and a half for five months.
Mine owners in the district complain of inferior labor quality amid high wages and labor market pressures. Reports cover Will Carrow and Jim Tregear farms, heavy lead and jack findings, and ongoing prospecting by Bob-Tailed Mining Co. plus Glanville mill operations and shaft developments. Also notes the First National Bank annual meeting set for January 8, 1907.
Dr Green arranges with Dr Boschee's relative to promote Boschee's German Syrup as a universal household remedy. The ad claims it cures croup coughs colds sore throat bronchial troubles and lung conditions with 25c and 75c bottle sizes and worldwide sales.
Ivey's Pharmacy announces tax collection readiness starting December 26 in Waldwick with visits to Mineral Point on Saturdays and Jonesdale on Tuesdays. Mineral Point taxes to be collected at the council chamber from December 26. Also offering 260 acre farm four miles southeast of Mineral Point for sale or rent with flexible terms. Contacts: Jos or Geo Richards, Mineral Point, Wis. Tribune promotes clubbing offers for Chicago or Milwaukee papers.
Morris Proctor proprietor operates a daily stage except Sundays from Mineral Point at 7:45 p m to Dodgeville arriving around 2 p m and connects with the C and N W railway for Madison Milwaukee. At Mineral Point stage ties to the 4 30 Dom train for Platteville Darlington Shullburg Monroe and Janesville. Calls left at local hotels and phone 136 for prompt attention.
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