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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1906
Page
4
Monroe Wisconsin daily and weekly notices report town updates from November 5 1906 including school events bank hours changing to Saturday evenings from November to May and a flood of brief society notes. The issue lists deliveries sales visits travels and upcoming performances by the Haering Stock Company and other local interests.
Frank Millman returns home from Mason City. O H Atherton comes back from Rice Lake. C E Wheeler visits from Beloit. The A Daughter of Colorado company leaves for La Salle Illinois. John Homan and Lizzie Burkhart obtain a marriage license in McConnell. Harry Whitcomb travels from Albany with an Orient buck board auto. Mrs A W Hawver visits Dodgeville and Bolenders.
Local items chronicle many residents traveling to nearby cities and visiting relatives. Names include Brinks Beloit Wolf Milwaukee Wright Madison Lanacher Platteville and Kittleson Albion among others. Sorghum sale and cigar promotions appear with small ads for homes and postcards.
The stomach is the key organ in digestion and weakness leads to semi starvation and absorbed toxins. Mi o na promises lasting relief by strengthening the digestive system and improving appetite, with a money back guarantee at Trukenbrod's Pharmacy for 50 cent boxes.
In a drawing room a group trades tales of romance. Mrs Amory recounts a vivid yacht accident tale where Fitzherbert saves her from drowning after a squall capsizes the vessel. The line to surface and rescue follows, ending with an engagement and the narrator’s praise of true devotion.
The story recalls Dr. Aben Kirk in early Kentucky who rode to aid a patient during a harsh winter. Surrounded by wolves, he used a syringe and ammonia from a pocket to blind and scatter the pack, loading the syringe with ammonia and loading six bullets before one of two riders arriving saved him. The tale ends with locals joking about the doctor’s “pill rifle.”
The Big Store in Janesville proclaims wide stock across all departments and price competitiveness. It highlights house furnishings, ready to wear garments, furs, seals, and leader coats with emphasis on value, service, and prompt claims adjustment.
Passengers leaving here at 9 18 a m reach Chicago at 1 10 p m and leaving here at 3 44 p m reach Chicago at 8 00 p m Returning leave Chicago at 7 45 a m and 4 p m Through coach for the Mineral Point division both ways Parlor cars between Madison and Chicago P W Purrier Agent PF A Miller General Passenger Agent
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