Wisconsin Senate OKs 8 Hour Day for Operators and Dispatchers
The Wisconsin Senate concurred with the Assembly on an 8 hour day for operators and train dispatchers by 18 to 5. The Assembly defeated the physical connection telephone bill by a wide vote, signaling disapproval of such regulation. The university appropriation bill passed the Senate 211 to 3 with a last minute medical college amendment. The Cameron dam inquiry was killed in the Assembly.
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Madison
Wis
Senate
Assembly
Froemming
Aia Voca
Ingram
Judiciary Committee
Ekern
Assemblyman
Cleary
State Railroad Commission
Bel! Company
Monroe
Co-Operative
House
E .E. Browne
Whitehead
Committee On Claims
Cameron Dam
Frail frazil ice blocks St. Lawrence channels and floods
A rare ice type known as frazil ice forms in spiky shapes where currents are too strong for sheet ice. It gathers near waterfall bases and in open channels during cold winds, travels beneath surface ice, and can accumulate to dam rivers to depths of eighty feet, causing flooding.
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St. Lawrence River
Where It Ought to Be and Ashanti Army Notes
Cardinal Manning asks where conscience sits in a Roman studio while a sculptor jokes. The Ashanti Army section explains male service, women patrols, rear-guard generals and harsh self-punishment for defeat. S.S. Summers returns from Madison for a Sunday visit.
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Cardinal Manning
Rome
London
Rev William Hartman Resigns To Lead Monroe Grace Lutheran
Rev William Henry Hartman resigns after eleven years as pastor of Forreston Illinois Lutheran church to take charge of Grace Lutheran in Monroe. He served ten years as secretary of the Rock River Chautauqua association and was a Carthage College trustee. Farewell sermon August 18 follows, arrival in Monroe August 19.
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William Henry Hartman
Forreston, Ill
Grace Lutheran Church of
Monroe
Hartman
Forreston
Dixon
Rock River Chautauqua Association
Carthage College
Brodhead men injured when bridge collapses at shops
Several men carrying buggy gear across a bridge at Ol'son Brothers Day's shops in Brodhead Friday watched as the stringers gave way and the structure plunged fourteen feet. William Brey vogel suffered a badly bruised arm, Pearson broke a shoulder and other injuries, and William Day had a deep leg cut with bruises to the head and shoulders. The bridge was an old, unrepaired structure long in service.
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Ol'son Brothers & Day
Brodhead
William Breyvogel
Pearson
William Day
Wildcat Stirs Bristol Hen Shack. Deer Killed
In Southern Prospect near Waterbury Connecticut a wildcat chased a deer into the fdson Black hen shack measuring 15 by 12 feet. The deer died of a broken neck, 32 fowls were killed and a watchdog awakened Black after glass and roosts were broken and the coop ransacked.
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Connecticut
Bristol
Prospect
Waterbury
Conn
Fdson Black
Turkey tale from temple market and mis sionary wife tale
A missionary wife hosts guests with a turkey found by an old domestic after a day of searching. The roast impresses guests as perfect, and the servant explains it came from the Temple of Kinkakuji where it was dubbed the sacred Tin Wara. They note it has fed people for 15 years and two moons.
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Japan
Kinkakuji
Antiquity of Playing Cards Origins
The article notes that the origin of playing cards is ancient and uncertain. It cites a 1377 reference by a German monk in Switzerland mentioning that card games had arrived in that region.
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Switzerland
Pay for Nation's Rulers Through Global Expenditure
The article states that the annual payments to world rulers total eighty million dollars, highlighting the vast sums allocated to governance and authority across nations.
Britain’s Debt to France and Cultural Exchange
The piece argues that Britain owes France for shaping and enriching its ideas and Renaissance influence, noting mutual parentage and a quarrel only over territory prestige and commerce with the “sweet enemy.”
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Britain
France
London Academy
One Benefit of Matrimony
A nameless woman at a restaurant helps a long underfed man whose loneliness drives him to tease about marrying for companionship. He thanks her, saying the soup will taste different now, revealing his habit of dining alone and seeking connection at cafes.
A Thousand Dollars Worth of Good
A. H. Thurnes of Buffalo Ohio reports kidney and bladder trouble for years with gravel and stones. He credits Foley's Kidney Cure for drastic relief and states it has done him a thousand dollars worth of good. West Side Drug Store sells Foley's Kidney Cure.
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A. H. Thurnes
Buffalo
Foley
West Side Drug Store
Monroe High School Alumni Banquet Largest Yet
The class of 1907 with 35 graduates joined about 175 alumni at the annual banquet in the armory on Flag Day. Superintendent Swartz introduced the class. D A Stearns gave the welcome. the event featured songs, solos, a notable talk by Howard Chadwick about the American Flag and San Francisco earthquake, plus dancing to Bast's orchestra until midnight.
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Monroe _ high school
Armory
Alumni Association
Old Academy
W. W. Chadwick
Academy
M. H
Geo. W. Swartz
D. A. Stearns
Laurene Gardner
M. &,. Church
Helen Stearns
Alice Cornelius
Dorothy Stearns
Howard Chadwick
San Francisco
United States
Funston
Stanford University
Phoebe Twining
Bast
Home Sweet Home
Damocles Comments on Hangover Over Sword
Damocles admits a hangover as he views the suspended sword, urging no hair-splitting on the issue in this Yale Record item.
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Damocles
Yale
Hat Shops on Ocean Liners Planned for Hamburg-American
The Hamburg-American Line plans to open hat shops on all its liners. The deck will feature top English French German and American hat makes.
Diamond Working Industry Emerges in 1898 U S
The diamond working industry in the United States began in 1898 and has steadily grown since.
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United States
Corn Planting Progress Report From Country Fields
Farmers busy in corn fields with plowing and replanting. Corn that is up shows a good start and overall the crop looks well. Over half of the corn is up and growing for this time of year.
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W. H. Hartman
Shack
Wm.a. Becker
Racine Street
Longley Derbies
Benkert & Stauffacher South Side Square
Monroe, Wis
Citizens Bank
Wisconsin
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