Utility Bills and Rate Cuts Dominate Wisconsin Session
Madison reports the Wisconsin legislature debated a public utility bill affecting water, power, heating, lighting and telephone firms with limited changes. A key shift allows depreciation funds for plant extensions, while the railroad commission gains broad regulatory power. The session also moved to cut express rates by one third and adjourned until Monday after Memorial Day.
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Madison
Wis
Assembly Transportation Committee
State Railroad Commission
Commission
Assembly
Elver
Bancroft
Senate Committee On State Affairs
Social Democrats
Senate
Humpty Dumpty at Turner Hall Stirs Monroe Audience
Mrs F F West visits Juda relatives and a merry go round rises near the public library. Johnnie McDonald tops the bill in Humpty Dumpty at Turner Hall while notices of Memorial Day, excursions, reunions, and local visits fill the Monroe scene with civic and cultural activity.
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Einbeck
Chas. H. Koehner
F. W. Zimmerman
Janesville
Leland C. White
Warren
White
Superior
Mary Bolender
Orangeville
James Kerwin
Register of Deeds
W. C. Fowler
Chicago
Nathaniel Cline
Martintown
Edith Smith
Winslow
Bert Bullard
Evansville
Ida L. Burp
Albany
Nellie Skinner
Brodhead
Geo. E. Broughton
Kramer
N. D. Monroe
Modern Woodmen of America
Rockford
Monroe
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Promises Digestive Relief
Patent medicine claim lists constipation and stomach and kidney help. Promotes digestibility with 35 cent price for tea or tablets. Billed by A. F. Lichtenwalner.
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Hollister
A. F. Lichtenwalner
Help Wanted Laborers for Workshop and Yard Work
Help wanted for able bodied men to perform laboring work in a Beloit Wisconsin workshop and yard. Steady year round employment offered by Fairbanks Morse Mfg Co with applicants directed to Beloit facility.
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Fairbanks-Morse. Mfg. Co
Beloit
Wis
Rosetta Stone and the Priceless Hieroglyphs
A black stone in the British Museum, the Rosetta Stone, could fetch a quarter of a million if claimed. Its carved hieroglyphics unlock ancient Egyptian texts, a treasure that English and American buyers would seek, after its journey from Egypt to Paris as a garden ornament.
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British Museum
England
America
Egypt
Paris
News Notes of the Town Highlights Busy Travel and Local Events
Local residents travel to Juda Madison Freeport Albany and Chicago while others plan moves to Madison and Milwaukee. Memorial Day postal hours adjust and Wisconsin university commencement runs June 16 to 19. The state rejectsoutflows of extra funds to unqualified outside correspondence schools and praises Wisconsin’s own new department to curb wastage and expand home study.
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Henry Hoehn
Lake Kegonsa
Lula Schiesser
Freeport
M. J. Newman
Brodhead
Schiesser
P. W. Puffer
Janesville
Albert O. Fisher
Chicago
J. W. White
Clarence White
Jacob Burgy
New Glarus
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Radical sermon gimmick shocks church hoodoo collection
A negro preacher in Human Life recounts a bold, satirical plan to boost church giving. After a pause he unveils a manipulative box trick: a half dollar or quarter lands on red plush, a nickel rings a bell, and a suspendah button triggers a pistol, urging self discipline as he removes his hat to hymn.
Rome's St Peter's Cathedral Holds World Largest Floor
The floor area of St. Peter's in Rome measures 227069 square feet making it the greatest cathedral floor space on earth.
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Rome
St. Peter’s, Rome
From Kidney Disease to Health with Foley’s Cure
Robert R. Watts of Salem Missouri describes five years of kidney illness that left him weak and wasting. After tried doctors and remedies, Foley's Kidney Cure cured him in under two bottles. The ad notes summer kidney issues from heat and excess drinking and urges using Foley's Kidney Cure at West Side drug store.
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Robert R. Watts
Salem
Foley
West Side Drug Store
A J McGranahan & Son Real Estate Brokers
A J McGranahan and Son operate as real estate, mining and land brokers handling improved farms and city property for sale or rent. They offer negotiable loans on real estate with no charge for showing property. Senior member is a practical farmer and judge of land values, office in Room 17 Bailey Block Platteville Wisconsin.
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A. J. McGranahan & Son
Baily Block
Platteville
Wis
Orino Laxative Syrup Endorsed for Women and Children
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is recommended for women and children for its mild pleasant taste and action. It does not nauseate or gripe like pills and ordinary cathartics and aids digestion while stimulating the liver and bowels without irritation. Remember the name Orino and refuse substitutes. West Side Drug.
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West Side Drug Store
Wood for sale by W. B. Shafer cords and stove wood
Cordwood and stove wood of all kinds for sale by W. B. Shafer. Phone 232.
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W. B. Shafer
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the Times
F. F. West
Juda
Turner Hall
Robert Anderson
The
Illinois Central
Elizabeth Affolter
Hannah Jenkins
Offlroy
E. E. Rust
Lena Teuscher
Ohio
Louise Wolcott
Charlotte Schuetze
Milwaukee
Times
Otto Leuenberger
Leuenberger
John Hecker
Sun Prairie
A. M. McCulley
Monroe Planing Mill
George Speigel
Strohber- Huffman Piano House
Mendota
Albert Miller
Illinois Central Woodmen
Eli Hinds Grove
J. Q. Rote
Dakota
Picnic Association
A. F. Rote
G. G. Butler
Monticello
A. R. Whitson
E. R. Jones
University of Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station
Bolender
Riem’s Grove
F. W. Byers
Prof
Grove
G. W. Shippy
F. J. Bolender
Jessie Green
University City
R. B. Clark
F. Kausler
John S. Sacker
Mrs. R. M. Sullivan
W. P. Bragg
W. H. Wagner
Frank Niles
Belleville
C. R. Shepley
Lake Kegonia
C. R. Dodge
Independence
Thomas Luchsinger
J. C. Baker
Norfolk
Daniel Wickser
Switzerland
A. W. Barker
Stenographers
Marble Green
S. C
Wisconsin University
Ethel Bridge
California
Kansas City
B. H. Bridge
Madison Democrat
Louis Hirsig
East
Washington Avenue
East Gorham Street
J. H. Williams
Kathhryn Alleman
Sophie Alleman
Main Street
F. B. Luchsinger
George Street
Western Union Telegraph Company
Milwaukee Road
Prises
John D. Germann
East Washington Street
Cae
Wan
Ceiung
Muresco
Trukenbrod
Peantiful Danitary
Trorenbrod
Longley Derbies
Benkert & Stauffacher South Side Square
Monroe, Wis
Citizens Bank
First Rational Bank
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