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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
7
A profile of J Ogden Armour reveals a man of immense business reach with Armour & Co. and broader investments. The article highlights his time management, home life with daughter Lolita, and the contrast between a terse business persona and a devoted family presence.
A profile of J Ogden Armour detailing his managerial style and exacting inspections. The piece notes 350 branches, potential $200 losses per site, and the relentless, precise questioning that keeps branches in line. It also covers his wealth, influence, and complex public image.
In a Connecticut town station a stormy night tale unfolds among six travelers waiting for a New York train. A cigar man spins a near-murder mystery claim about a July wreck with survivors, then a shoe drummer edges toward a flawless finale as the group pieces together the improbable alibi.
A humorous warning about a Pennsylvania line that runs only one train annually. The piece invites readers to imagine missing that lone locomotive as it whisks by, stressing the imagined dangers and the strain on neighbors and visiting relatives when the yearly train arrives.
A tale from a vice regal commission on Irish railways describes a 1868 Birr to Portumna line built by the Great Southern Western. The lease lapse in 1876 led locals to steal the railway including telegraph wires rails gates and equipment. A missing bridge girders incident was thwarted by a nearby police sergeant.
A playful but dry guide explains the box car as a fowl like creature limited to rail lines. It shows seasonal behavior with spring and summer roaming, autumn migration, and occasional captures using a lasso or greased switch crew while noting noise can scare it away.
Kenosha official Johnny Keating pleaded guilty to leasing a building for a gambling room. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs. The Kenosha civic federation seeks Attorney General Gilbert's written opinion to support Sunday saloon closures in a broader anti Sunday gambling effort.
Thomas C Coghill cashier of the First National Bank of Seymour Wisconsin admits losing forty thousand dollars of bank funds in wheat pit speculation over six months. The bank is under national bank examiner supervision and directors say stockholders will cover the loss. Coghill is held on thirty thousand dollars bond as S R Dittmore, ex county board chair, serves as bank president.
August Beutel aged 24 and seven Rival club members rode a gasoline launch after a wedding. The boat carried too many passengers and filled with water, sinking in the Sheboygan river. Beutel drowned. survivors include six other young men from the same club.
In Kenosha circuit court Judge Belden appointed Frank Slosson Walter J Frost and James Penneweather as commissioners to award damages in the condemnation of land for the Chicago Kenosha and Milwaukee Electric railway main line through the city. The land valued at more than 300000 and a lengthy legal fight is anticipated.
In Appleton Judge John Goodland holds a saloonkeeper not liable for a bartender selling to minors during the proprietor's absence if the employee was instructed not to. The decision was issued in a mandamus case where the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon League sought to force the city council to revoke a license.
George N. Fay a wealthy Kenosha hardware dealer who had been missing since January was located living in a small Canadian village. He is said to be prepared to fight extradition if the district attorney seeks to bring him back on charges of abandoning his family.
Four year old Clarence Heiman, son of Rev. and Mrs. M. H. Heiman, was killed by a colt’s kick to the head while gathering flowers in a pasture near Pleasant Valley. A search party found him about two hours after the accident, unconscious and clutching flowers.
A fire bug is believed at work in Racine, targeting vacant barns. The Kragelund barn fire damaged furniture and goods valued at 5000 dollars, followed by a blaze at Alfred Wiernaz's barn where a horse perished.
Kenosha William Esch a Chicago physician and president of Esch Brothers and Rabelee was arrested by Deputy Game Warden Kleist at Twin Lakes in this county on a charge of fishing with a gill net.
Frankie La Salle, keeper of a resort, contesting the late Gus Ensel estate in probate court seeks $50,000 claimed as due. She asserts Ensel acted as her banker for years and she paid about $140,000, leaving a substantial portion of the estate to heirs in the west.
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