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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
6
A Chicago conference on medical education reveals that three quarters of graduates were unfit to practice. Observers note that 25 states show high failure rates and that reforms over 25 years remain incomplete.
Egypt's council approves increasing Nile dam height by 2.5x, submerging Philae Island and Isis temple ruins. The island, a granite site famed for ancient temples, would be flooded as the dam expands irrigation capacity and boosts Egypt's cotton revenue by 18 to 20 million dollars annually.
The Emporia Gazette urges every man woman and child to write poetry. It likens poetry to a preventive medicine reducing crime and warns against suppressing poetic urge as dangerous. It celebrates poetry as a universal impulse and a source of joy and life.
A Kansas farmer sued his nephew for 1000 after a winter farmyard beating. The assailant was 16 but older, and the jury favored the nephew, with the state Supreme Court affirming the lower court’s ruling last week.
A report notes eagles can soar extremely high and some individuals rise vertically before vanishing from view within minutes. The text emphasizes the mystery of proving such feats and describes a bird ascending straight up and disappearing in about three minutes.
A man on his way to his wedding dozed off on a train and was carried past the bride’s town. He had to alight at the next station and return, a mishap noted by the Ohio State Journal as poor timing for nuptial plans.
In a high tension escape from a mob, Blacklock uses a police-aided route to his yacht amid accusations of manipulation. He reflects on public wrath, his wealth, and the old financier system restored after Wild Week, choosing solitude with his dogs over politics and power.
A reflective passage condemns rising taxes and luxury in a bloated army of parasites. It argues financial and industrial gains were paid in fear and panic, and recounts Delphi’s inscription about man as a fool of the farce. The speaker laments Olympus and calls the scene a painful, farcical comedy.
A brief domestic scene as Patsy asks for more food but is sternly told to finish what is before him. The exchange, captured in dialect, shows a father insisting on table manners and patience.
In Marinette a young couple 17 and 17 eloped from New London to Menominee and wed with a Michigan license. Judge Hastings annulled the marriage. Ramm faces perjury charges after he testified the bride was 18 or older. The annulment was brief and the couple spoke briefly thereafter.
Eleven year old Walter ONeill son of Mr and Mrs Thomas ONeill well known in the city was found dead in a Northern Pacific box car the left side of his skull crushed Police investigate and Mayor Linley calls a special council meeting to seek the murderer A $100 reward is offered by the police chief for information leading to arrest and conviction.
Ephraim Grignon of Appleton endures three deaths in three weeks as his five year old son, then his brother, and shortly after his wife die. Grignon’s father was an early Milwaukee settler who lived with Fox River valley Indians long before Appleton’s founding. The dying mother accompanied her son to the grave just days apart. The family also contends with measles and pneumonia afflicting two other children.
A Brown county special committee urged issuing bonds to finance a new court house jail and sheriff’s residence. The report was adopted unanimously and the construction project is expected within a year or so, barring unforeseen obstacles.
Milwaukee reports that Florence M. Patterson of Burlington and Sarah M. Thomas of Eau Claire are among 22 graduates from Johns Hopkins School for Nurses in Baltimore. The ceremony marks advance for Wisconsin nurses in training and service.
Farmers report about half their winter wheat losses due to two months of cold weather with the sharpest damage in the last 36 hours. The impact is concentrated in the Viroqua region and surrounding farms as growers assess yields.
Canadian and Alaska officials have furnished proof of the death by drowning in Alaska of John McDonald, a prominent citizen, who left here in 1898 and has never been heard from since.
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