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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1907
Page
2
The notice lists subscription prices for daily and weekly editions with mail or carrier options. It notes the Office on Bridge Block South Jackson Street and that the newspaper is entered at Monroe post office as second class matter with telephones provided.
In Milwaukee circuit court Judge Halsey granted Mrs Carrie Payne a divorce from Frank W Payne on desertion grounds. She received 3800 dollars plus a share of the real estate and household effects after agreement over property division. Mrs Payne, formerly of the city, traveled from Chicago for the decree and returned with a signed copy. Colin W Wright represented the plaintiff. Payne formerly ran a local restaurant and bakery.
Government issued uniforms for Company H were shipped from Camp Douglas yesterday. Capt. F. A. Shriner reports the full lot has left the camp and soldiers are expected to debut in their new attire on Memorial Day. They will join O. F. Pinney post G. A. R. in ceremonies and march to Greenwood Cemetery.
A Dodgeville bound Illinois Central passenger train struck a landslide about a mile from Dodgeville Friday morning. Engineers could not see the slide on the curved track and the engine passed the creek bridge after the wreck. The train suffered minor engine damage. baggage car steps and first coach were ripped off, but no injuries were reported.
Advertised letters list includes John Bararette Franz J Bussman foreign Sheeby Divan Mary Grace Louis Heintzlman Bruni Lena Leesl Jacob Reinmann Mrs Ben Watson R Etter P M. Names indicate foreign entries and a mix of individuals awaiting pickup at the post office.
In Madison on May 3 the Wisconsin legislature adjourned with little progress. Frear’s balloting kept a senate seat split, Grassie urged a $10 000 attorney general salary for ten years, and a new minors in saloons bill faced penalties. Tax credits remain hotly debated between houses.
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is recommended for women and children because of its mild action and pleasant taste. It aids digestion and stimulates the liver and bowels without nausea or gripping unlike pills or ordinary cathartics. Remember the name Orino and refuse substitutes. West Side Drug Store.
J B Treat gave a vivid talk on his Cuba visit at the high school and shared many photographs. He described Cuban life noting oxen yokes on horns and predicted a Florida to Key West railroad across 259 miles, begun and expected to be completed in a reasonable time.
The Brady property on Hubbard street Winslow Illinois a ten room house a barn and three lots will be auctioned in Winslow May 4 by Union Loan and Building association of this city owners of the property.
The month of May delivered a surprising blizzard with a cold north wind and scattered snow that fell through the day but largely melted quickly. Despite the chill, yellow dandelions emerged as the season nonetheless pushed forward.
Government surveyors report a vast petrified forest along the Little Colorado river in Arizona. They found over 1,500 cords of stone trunks and logs, many seven to ten feet in diameter and up to eighty feet tall, silicified and colored by jasper opal and crystal-lined cores.
The dentist declares the trouble stems from a dying nerve while treating the aching molar. the patient retorts that care should be given with more respect. The exchange captures a tense moment in a dental visit.
The Rev James Spurgeon, grandfather of the famous preacher, prayed nightly under an oak in Honeywood park. Warned by a dream of Satan, he chose the safer path, reached his goal unharmed, and found a gold piece the size of a curtain ring. He later used it to make his wedding ring.
Illinois Central announces Saturday and Sunday excursion tickets from Freeport and intermediate stations to Madison Wisconsin from May 4 through October 27 1907. Round trip Monroe to Madison Saturday night 1 45 Sunday 1 10 with return by Sunday evening. intermediate points 1 fare for round trip on Sunday. Train departs 8 10 a m and returns Madison Sundays at 6 p m. Madison lakes offer a pleasant day outing. F E Lmboley Agent
An old advertisement notes Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for physical weakness and promotes tea or tables for 35 cents. It credits A. F. Lichtenwalner as the advertiser.
A Venezuela traveler notes carib fish in the Orinoco with three cornered teeth. Schools attack any moving target, and an Indian woman died after being bitten while fetching a bucket. Dart pinned a carib, which bit him and nearly severed his finger. The fish reportedly bite hooks in two.
The article traces dentistry from ancient practices noted by Herodotus and Galen to Ambroise Pare and Richard Owen. It notes that dentistry became a surgical science only in the mid 19th century, with early American dental schools opening in Baltimore 1889, Cincinnati 1845, and Philadelphia 1856.
Lady Dorothy Nevill recalls her father a gentleman of the old school traveling by post chaise on the continent at night. The driver fearing the road and a heated exchange prompts the horseman to flee with the horses, leaving the narrator to endure a night in the woods.
The New York Gazetteer column from Sept 8 1786 laments a rise in lawyers threatening prosperity. It calls law a now dominant, genteel trade crowding all posts and eclipsing merchants and freemen. It cites Congress assembly and a commercial convention filled with lawyers.
In Atchison a father disciplined his son by using a soap suds mouth washing ritual and a ritualized word list. The boy initially complied but soon abandoned the list, choosing to stop the foul words altogether.
The toad molts its old skin to reveal a new layer formed beneath. It does not share the cast off coat with others nor discard it like a snake. It swallows the old skin whole, turning its stomach into a portable storage.
Dowager in London Chronicle notes a shift in beauty standards as aristocratic noses, once highly modeled and prominent, fall from fashion. She observes Illustrated papers rarely depict noses with such distinction in contemporary women.
In a Washington Star quip Mr. Comrox deflects asking for a favorite composer. He jokes that the name is unfamiliar and hard to pronounce while appealing to his wife.
Local shop offers fresh home made sorghum at eight cents per gallon from R Grienwalds. The item draws interest from nearby shoppers seeking farm produced sweet syrup.
A short OCR fragment quotes a maxim about loyalties among vicious men and the virtuous. The line suggests distrust and social boundaries without naming people or places.
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