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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1907
Page
2
The Monroe Weekly Times lists subscription prices for daily and weekly editions. Daily edition by mail or carrier is 25 cents a month or 3 dollars a year, while the Monday and Thursday weekly edition costs 1 dollar a year in advance. The paper is entered at Monroe post office as second class matter and provides telephones for contact.
Green County faces a proposed bill shifting circuit court terms to earlier dates, a move seen as favoring Rock County. Monroe backing and Brodhead editorials clash with local opposition, arguing the change could crowd schedules and sideline Green County interests.
Over 100 butter and cheese entries compete at the University of Wisconsin dairy school with tests starting May 10. Judges will score, analyze water content, and verify Elgin price contracts before sending results to factory operators. Cheese from each factory rests in curing rooms for a month then undergoes final judging and returns to makers in June. State dairy officials report growing demand and praise for Wisconsin dairy products from Philadelphia and other cities.
Next Wednesday evening the Saville company presents Humpty Dumpty at Turner Opera House. Johnnie McDonald leads a renowned pantomime with Parisian gowns, a chorus of singers and dancers, lavish scenery, up-to-date songs, and the original Buster Brown chorus. It promises a high class, entertaining production.
Linden Boy, a renowned half mile running horse from Linden Iowa County, died at Robb's veterinary establishment after a long treatment for an ailment. A favorite at county fairs from 1890 to 1900, he also raced in Robey Indiana for winter meets. Purchased by Fred J. Karlen, he spent his last years serving the J. Karlen & Sons wholesale cheese farm.
Barnhart & Meyers Piano Co announces a major sale in Monroe Wisconsin as part of a national expansion. The firm fronts a no gimmick policy with fair pricing and ten year warranties on every instrument. The new Mon roe branch will open in the Eilert building around early June after Mr Clark vacates.
A man who had been in Europe entertains friends with Paris tales and unfamiliar places. A quiet man argues that even the most observant miss details, noting the reader has never noticed the column count of the paper or whether the six on a watch is Roman or Arabic.
A Neapolitan woman demonstrates remarkable balance by carrying a brimful water vessel on her head across a rough road without spilling a drop, showcasing skill and tradition in daily practice.
A short editorial note from the Atchison Globe observes that a father who saves on summer parlor fuel is expected to spend the savings on outdoor comforts like hammocks and lawn swings.
This week at E A Huffmans store children’s hats are featured for Decoration Day with all styles available and all prices shown.
Mayor Pierce explores a crackdown to enforce Sunday closing at Belvidere by having police collect all saloon keys at closing time Saturday and retain them until 5 AM Monday. The plan aims to deter Sunday sales and ensure compliance.
Indications point to an attendance of over 650 students at the University of Wisconsin summer session. The program adds new courses and marks ten departments represented including law for the first time. Eighty two faculty and thirteen visiting instructors from eastern and western institutions will teach in the varied offerings.
In Ram sey Huntingdonshire a superstition linked a tapping from a family deed box to a death in the home. Mrs Bellamy, frightened by nightly knocks, pined away after claiming the box warned of a death. The taps were later revealed to be from the death watch beetle signaling its mate.
A retrospective on maritime superstition notes sailors’ beliefs and rites from keel to crowning wine bottle christenings. It cites J. J. Kelley and The Ship's Company, detailing practices like lucky remains in the keel, silver coins in the mast step, blessed bells, and the backward strike to ward off curses.
The gospel of play is urged as wholesome and life enriching. It argues play promotes a stronger, more humane populace and shines on piety and worldliness. The idea applies to city life and, modified, to country life, noting rural reliance on rest from daily toil.
A Venezuelan travel account describes the carib fish as ferocious. Though only about fourteen inches long, they swim in schools and have three cornered teeth. An Indian woman filling a water bucket was killed after being attacked, flesh torn from her body. A second observer watched a carib bite and injure a man, severing his finger to the bone, as the fish bite even hooked fish.
The article traces dentistry from ancient crude practices noted by Herodotus and Galen to Ambroise Pare’s references in 1550. It highlights the mid 19th century as the start of dentistry as a surgical science, with early U S schools in Baltimore 1889 Cincinnati 1845 and Philadelphia 1856.
Lady Dorothy Nevill relates her father a gentleman of the old school who, clad in a blue coat with lace and white stockings, cursed in strong terms when the postboy sped through a forest. The driver fled shouting I will not drive the devil while the father allegedly spent the night alone in the woods awaiting dawn.
The New York Gazetteer column laments rising numbers of lawyers threatening prosperity. It contends honest trades once valued by common people now see lawyers and merchants as dominant in offices, notes crowded Congress and assemblies, and a five-to-one lawyer to merchant ratio in a commercial convention.
An Atchison Globe item tells of a father who made his son repeat a list of naughty words to satisfy both parents. The boy soon grew tired of the exercise and abandoned the list, illustrating a quirky rustic moral about restraint and habit.
The toad periodically sheds its old skin to reveal a new layer formed beneath. It does not share the cast off coat with others. Rather than leaving the skin behind it swallows the over coat whole, turning its stomach into a portable case.
A Dowager notes a shift in female beauty ideals from prominent aristocratic noses to subtler features. She observes elegant profiles once common in society portraits and magazines have given way to a different ideal in modern fashion.
A Washington Star quip ponders taste in music as Mr Comrox dodges naming a favorite composer. He wryly says it is someone whose music he cannot remember and whose name he cannot pronounce, glancing at his wife for reaction.
The statement asserts that wicked individuals fail to form genuine friendships, whether together or with virtuous people. It implies moral alignment governs trust and companionship, suggesting ethical conduct shapes social bonds.
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