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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1907
Page
4
The Monroe Weekly Times lists office location on South Jackson Street and telephone number 8. It notes subscription prices for daily and weekly editions with annual and monthly rates and confirms entry as second class matter at Monroe Wisconsin post office. The issue is dated April 8 1907.
Monticello visitors and residents move in and out of town as society notes from the period record arrivals marriages train trips and illness. Key names include M. E. Baltzer Andrew Schindler George H. Campbell and Miss Elsie Musser with Dr W F O Conner in Ladysmith and a Freeport Cardinal game noted.
Wilson Wright returns from Madison and Fred Dettloff arrives in the city. Young & Co. advertise fine home made lard available locally.
Residents and visitors are listed with social visits travels and errands across the town. Updates include Cheney and Chambers promotions, neighbors crossing to Madison Chicago Rockford and Philadelphia areas, auctions and real estate, school openings, weather snow, and local business notices.
Old Steiger, custodian of the Tagblatt estate, was famed as a tyrant landlord. Hans and Gretchen Rhein heart endure his abuse while repairing and renting the nearly uninhabitable house at a low rate. The will left the property to the devil if a couple could dwell there a year, and Steiger vanished as the couple sought court intervention.
A humorous exchange from the New York Press features Mrs. Whee and relatives reacting to a baby cutting a tooth. The brother questions why the child played with knives while a bachelor uncle jokes about teething halting soon.
A Newark librarian logs unusual items found in returned books including an insurance policy a two dollar bill spectacles love letters a will a mortgage photographs a marriage certificate a promissory note dress samples and a hare's foot.
A heated exchange shows a wife accusing her husband of leaving her after a short marriage. He pleads with her, insisting he has done his best, while she accuses him of loving another and derides his excuses.
A concise reflection attributed to La Fontaine, noting that suspicion fosters caution and protection in social conduct and governance.
Government surveyors report extensive petrified forests along the Little Colorado River in Arizona. Finds include 1500 cords of solid stone trunks and logs, many seven to ten feet across and up to eighty feet tall, with cores filled by crystals and varied hues from jasper to opal.
A Winter Garden recalls colorful sheets of color and beauty in winter days. The narrator thinks of individual flowers walking through the mind and saluting the senses with fragrance.
Fancy new Brazil nuts offered by Young & Co. For sale six lots near court house at $600 each and 14 nearby lots at $300 and $400. Mrs. John Luchsinger travels to Freeport after H. H. Warner, Illinois Central switchman, dies there. Warner had worked for the IC since age 16 and was a friend of the Luchsingers. Will Luchsinger, son of Mrs. Luchsinger, had worked with the Warners and died seven years ago on the same date.
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