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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1907
Page
10
The essay explains Chinese phrenology linking skull shape to temperament and intellect. It describes features such as a conical skull top, hatchet face, and specific bumps indicating traits like truthfulness, fiery temperament, or marital prospects, noting cultural beliefs about brain and skull development.
Admiral Robley D. Evans argues in National Magazine that the navy is a scientific, profitable enterprise. He notes efficient target practice saves powder and reduces wartime waste, and sees canal construction boosting trade, urging national readiness and pride.
The piece criticizes spectacle in courts and calls out New York Thaw case proceedings as a disgrace to justice. It argues courts serve a higher purpose than entertainment for sensationalists and curiosity seekers.
A patient confined at Bicette exhibits a unique mental disorder: he remembers only his birth month and year and writes page after page of memory aids. It is a delusion of forgetfulness, not true amnesia, the first described case of une idee fixe d oubli in the insane.
The passage notes crude tortures once used to extract statements from witnesses but contrasts them with the restraint of seasoned legal practice. It mentions lawyers avoiding hypothetical questions as a mark of refined jurisprudence.
The president states men should be good fathers and husbands while women should be good wives and mothers. This stance draws praise or quiet acceptance even from political adversaries.
Anita Ellersly seeks escape from her family’s control after a coercive confrontation with Mr. Blacklock. He vows protection and urges immediate marriage, while Anita wavers between love and fear, torn by conventional pressures and a plan to flee to safety with him.
A humorous exchange jokes about luck and a cross-eyed chauffeur. One character asks if it is bad luck to meet a cross-eyed person and the other mentions a previous cross-eyed person who was driving a car and caused a near collision.
The data shows London consumes 90 million gallons of water daily while New York uses 500 million gallons. London covers 118 square miles, compared with New York’s 326 square miles.
Jane Addams of Chicago urged Milwaukee College Endowment Association to press for tougher Wisconsin child labor laws forbidding children from appearing on stage. She argued 95 percent of child actors are supplied by a New York syndicate and called Illinois a model.
Mrs. Sarah Kendall files a $5000 breach of promise suit against Winnebago county District Attorney W. J. Foulkes. She also seeks $830 alleged loaned to fund his campaign, claiming he promised marriage, loaned funds, and then abandoned her after election.
Shullsburg post office was broken into and the safe blown open with nitroglycerin. About $800 in stamps and $100 in money plus several registered letters were stolen. Blood on the floor suggested an injury to a robber during the blast.
In a special election the city approved bonding up to 150 shares for the Waupaca and Green Bay Railway project with a $15,000 financing. The plan passed by 447 votes for and 49 against as surveys proceed.
Kenosha sheriff investigates disappearance of 23 year old John Rudnick who vanished while working on the lake ice. Searchers at Powers Lake have dragged the water for five days after his cap and tobacco were found on an ice floe.
Racine police chief Fred Pfister begins a three to four month medical leave of absence to seek treatment for tuberculosis of the bronchial tubes. The city council grants full pay during the leave.
Fred Wilke Walter Allie and Kurth Wilke were swept onto floes off Two Rivers and carried toward Manitowoc. Car ferry No 18 of the Pere Marquette line found them in fog and guided them to the breakwater where the lighthouse keeper tended to them after a near deadly ordeal.
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