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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1900
Page
2
The Monroe Wisconsin Evening Times outlines fall fashion. It highlights popular materials such as taffeta silk peau de soie crepe de chine and velvet in colors like old rose royal blue gray custard and violet. It notes hats with roses and fashionable sleeves with fullness plus the return of epaulettes and yoke extensions.
A worn but readable piece advises easy letter writing through natural tone and friendlike openings. It suggests jotting thoughts on paper to jog memory, focusing on bright events, and avoiding gloom. An odd recipe note about muddled fruit drink ends the fragment, resembling a general-audience column.
London magnate Charles T. Yerkes returns to America with plans for an underground network in London. He argues electric traction would boost city revenue and lighting, proposes a trunk line feeding surface routes, and hints at lucrative franchises if London grants them. Yerkes rose from Philadelphia clerk to street railway king through Chicago ventures.
A Chicago financier recalls a two decade old Chicago burglary in which a burglar lost a tooth during a scuffle. Years later on the Pacific coast the man faces a rival claimant Fry over a mining claim. The confrontation leads to a courtroom confrontation where the tooth is produced as evidence and Fry collapses. The incident ends with a settlement and burial of the affair.
The article notes ae romobiles attract global military interest and large sums for best wartime automobons. It promotes Bossetier's Stomach Bitters as a cure for constipation indigestion and biliousness and claims it prevents ana lacia fever and ague.
A dialog between Ada and her lover Mark as they plan a voyage around the world and pledge letters from each town. The text also includes a comic line about love versus collecting postage stamps and a health advertisement touting Cascarets with a 10 cent price and warnings about imitations.
A collage of clippings quotes about laundry, gum, a doctor’s remark, jokes, dyes, Jell O desserts, and a flea joke from Chicago and other papers. The items read like snippets, not a single coherent story, listing brands, lines, and playful lines across sources.
In 1867 a Japanese embassy visited Paris to trade free ports for three in France. England would receive three Japanese ports in return. Yokohama Yeédo and Hang-Yong were chosen, the envoy smiling and departing. France balked at Havre Marseille and Southampton, insisting Southampton is in England, prompting laughter and a swift diplomatic retort. The scene ends with a note on the era’s fashion whirl and the Aly Sloper whimsy.
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