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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1907
Page
7
1st Lieut. Chas W Bowman of the 4th M S M Cav writes from Lanham Maryland praising Peruna for curing a severe cold in forty eight hours and using it as a preventive. He reports family usage and recommends it to friends and asks readers to obtain the Free Peruna Almanac for 1907 from their druggists.
Engineers moved the 65 ton range light at Ashtabula without disassembly. The 65 foot tall structure was placed on a lighter, towed 750 feet, raised by jacks, moved on rollers, and secured at a new site with guy ropes holding it in position during the relocation.
A man recounts decades of severe skin eruptions covering nearly his body. After trying arsenic, salves, iodine, and painful baths, he used Cuticura Ointment for three months and was cured, with hair restored, at age 14 years later. He offers to correspond with interested readers.
Judge Fruit rules the Dunn pocket ballot law need not be published and newspapers are not entitled to pay for printing it. The decision affects Monroe county and statewide roles for printing notices and primary candidate lists. The case arose after county supervisors set printing rates and several papers appealed.
George C. Wapp killed his mother-in-law Mrs. Frederica Freund at his West Twenty fourth Street home. Freund scolded him over inaction. Wapp beat her with a poker then severed her head with a knife. He previously spent time in an insane asylum and confessed after accompanied by another man discovered the body.
Nathan C. Wheeler the new manager of the Racine Babcock Fire Extinguisher company told the Racine Business Men's association that unless $5 500 in additional stock could be raised the business would close and the company be dissolved Assets were about $14 000 with liabilities of $1 500 and no capital to continue.
Milwaukee officials report the Wisconsin Aid Society for the Blind approved a declaration of principles and outlined efforts to persuade the state legislature to aid the blind this session. Dr. Evelyn Hoehne was appointed to solicit support from Milwaukee business leaders over the next two weeks.
The Racine city council passed an anti spitting ordinance and will arrest or fine citizens who spit on sidewalks. A report to add two police officers was adopted due to recent robberies. At the next election the city will put the question of opening its own water works to voters.
Circulation reports say American Sugar has acquired Rock County Sugar of Janesville United States Sugar of Madison and Chippewa Falls Sugar. The three profitable plants are valued around 150000 dollars.
At the fifteenth annual convention President E. D. Aderhold of Neenah denounced many manufacturers for using impure milk. He charged dealers with mixing dirty milk with clean supplies at factories, urging reforms.
Russell B. Jones, conductor on the electric street railway, was elected Kenosha county clerk to succeed W. C. Crosby at the county board meeting. He was notified of his election while on duty.
Platteville-Fritz Harvest, owner of the farm housing the territorial capitol, has died at 86 after a period of feebleness. He resided in Platteville for 36 years.
C M Hays president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway asserts the line will help move the 1907 grain crop from Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba to tide water. He recently completed a Prairie to Edmonton trip by prairie schooner covering 735 miles in eighteen days. Wheat output is projected to reach 125 million bushels in 1907, with expanded homesteads promised by the Canadian government.
An old advertise ment promotes Pease as the road to wealth with a faceless slogan. It touts 10c per pace and references Lewis' Single Binder cigars priced higher than 5c brands. The ad mentions a Peoria factory and urges buyers to recall a kindness.
Guaranteed cure for itching bleeding or protruding piles in six to fourteen days or money back. Garfield Tea sold as a mild laxative to aid quick recovery from bilious attacks headaches indigestion or colds.
Caution against mercury in catarrh ointments warns the public. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio is claimed mercury free and taken internally. Testimonials available, 75 cents per bottle. Also recommend Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The text notes starching did not arrive in England until Dutch women demonstrated the craft to Queen Elizabeth. In 1564 Mistress Dinghem van den Plasse, a Flemish knight’s refugee daughter, and her husband settled in London and opened a starching establishment. She taught English classes in the art.
A witty line contrasts pairs like Alexandrine vs woman of Alexandria and masher vs mashie. It wordplay on similar terms across language and culture, ending with a flourish about categorizing ideas. The quote highlights linguistic confusion and humor.
Workingmen diverting a road at Welwyn in Hertfordshire and Wales uncovered seven Roman urns in good preservation along with a Roman spur, two drinking bowls six inches high, a smaller cup, a bowl, bronze plate fragments, an iron standard and a small urn about six inches high.
A reader friendly note confirms the old adage that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach as a western magnate plans marriage to his cook. Garfield Tea touted as a blood purifier and cure for constipation under the Pure Food Law.
A brief quotation from Bailey on kindness as wisdom, noting that life holds none without need for kindness and learning.
A vintage ad promotes laxative bromine quininine tablets claiming a one day cure for a cold with a money back guarantee and mentions Roy Roves signature on each box. It also markets Lewis' Single Binder cigars and Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething with various prices and slogans.
Portland Michigan resident Frank Little recounts five years of rheumatism with neuralgia, numb limbs, stomach inflammation, and paralysis. After trying Dr Williams Pink Pills he improved quickly and fully recovered, with no relapse. Pills sold by druggists or mailed from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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