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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
5
The piece argues the party nominee should reflect the majority of voters and not a minority. It compares the current primary to a convention system and promotes adopting the second choice amendment or returning to conventions to ensure nominees represent majority party sentiment.
In Toppesfield, North Essex, births over the last decade show far more girls than boys. The village school has 93 girls and 11 boys, prompting talk of substituting a schoolmistress for the master. Local workers worry about future farm labor supply. The medical officer cannot explain the gender imbalance.
The Journal of Public Health warns hurry in daily acts harms health and morals. Clarence Higley from Rockford visits for New Year, practicing law and related to Joseph Pierce who once sold grain for the Chicago Board of Trade.
A banker explains why gold is shipped in bars rather than coin to minimize loss at sea. He cites coin losing 12 to 15 ounces per million and bars losing far less, with weather and abrasion reducing coin value more than bars. A $10 million shipment savings can exceed $1,000.
The father of Lord Kitchener was a Spartan parent and a soldier. In Ireland he turned to pig breeding for income and the boys had to drive the pigs to market. They were sent off without breakfast and faced being sent again without their men if pigs remained unsold.
Mr and Mrs John C Guyer and daughter Miss Ruby will depart Thursday for a long trip covering Mexico California Oregon and Washington and return to Freeport in April. Mr Guyer has sold part of his holdings in Guyer and Calkins wholesale house to Mr Calkins.
A reflective meditation on planning for the future, duty, and lifelong growth. It urges daily deeds of learning, helping others, and cultivating friendships, art, and virtue, while recalling notable figures' end-of-life goals and urging purposeful living. It ends with a sensory party idea testing smell, taste, hearing, sight, and touch.
A New Year party game uses the five senses, focusing on sight. Guests view 35 objects on a table for three minutes then write down everything they remember. the best memory wins first prize. Objects may include inkwells pens tea caddies emeries thimbles and books with distinguishing marks noted.
In a corner drug store a caller asks if the place is busy and the druggist confirms. The scene notes 1,000 patent medicine almanacs and 900 soothing-syrup calendars handed out in two hours as a New Year bustle. Father Time, in 1906, jokes about clipping his hair to slow people down and avoid being taken by the forelock.
In a light vignette a wife mocks New Year vows while a jilted lover contemplates change. He vows to turn over a new leaf and give money, but the flirtatious beauty challenges him, insisting he will still fall for love.
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