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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1898
Page
7
A nostalgic tract extols the local newspaper as a lifelong ally. It highlights the paper’s roles in sharing births, weddings, illnesses, achievements, and obituaries, promoting local virtue, and aiding business, education, and civic life while urging readers to subscribe and support the editor.
State health officer Sander warns of a dengue like fever in Jacksonville Florida and a state quarantine is declared while Jackson Mississippi reports ten new yellow fever cases. Madison Oxford Watervalley Woodville and Baton Rouge show multiple new infections with several deaths as residents flee northward. Louisiana’s latest daily tally lists New Orleans six cases and one death along with other parishes reporting cases.
Washington October 1 Postmaster General Charles Haury Smily issues ruling on third class mail. Typewritten material and impressions from printing processes are treated as printed matter unless they are personal correspondence. Facsimile copies of manuscripts via mechanical copying qualify as third class if mailed in 20 identical copies at post office windows. mailed elsewhere or in smaller quantities pay first class rates.
War on slot machines drives Oshkosh away with hundreds of games and A W Stevens plant workers move to Marinette. Marinette gains 150 more families this week. Racine man loses arm in shaping machine. Corporal F B Taomis homebound from Porto Rico. Oshkosh buyers refurbish Waupaca quarry. Two Oneida Indians killed by a train near De Pere. Baraboo conductor Riley dies in caboose blast. Dane county poor farm income reaches 5000. Storkbridge man John Scofield sent to Northern hospital for insanity.
A column of jumbled musings on women’s happiness meals and absence. It ponders four week illnesses versus vacations, shopping joy, and the allure of Adonis football heroes. It notes soldiers’ appetites, ads for privacy, misread humor, and social perceptions in a reflective, skewed voice.
A New York witness recounts a tale from Tubberakeens near Clonmel of a solitary goose who cared for ducklings while a miller’s wife tended the hen. The goose swam with the brood, the hen followed, and both animals jointly guided the ducklings until they could swim on their own.
The famed Murat’s lime on the Leipzig field, a 200-year-old witness to the three days’ carnage, has fallen after a violent storm. Once used by Murat as an observatory on October 16, 1918, it stood beside the ivy-covered French monument and the site’s memorial epitaph.
A fragmented column notes Queen Wilhelmina of Molland's education and daily routine as depicted in Ladies' Home Journal. It describes early rising, strict lesson hours, motherly supervision, and quiet recreations, with references to tutors and religious instruction. It also mentions reactions to theater, and a London bridge traffic claim about pedestrians, horses, and granite dust.
A New York Post report quotes a stock exchange official noting traders treat short lucky pencils as talismans. Some men guard inch long pencils, refiring profits from memorandums, with broken tips breaking trust and sparking superstition among floor traders.
A New York Press observation recounts a stylish young woman using small purchases to extract gifts from male admirers. She asks for a matinee fan then a perfume bottle, relying on excuses to avoid paying. The tactic spreads as she repeats it with other men while clubs note the pattern.
The white train carrying 300 disabled pilgrims, nuns, and nurses left Paris at 3:20 PM from the Orleans terminus for Lourdes. Other trains will follow. about 14 trains are expected to bring roughly 60,000 pilgrims this year to the Marian healing site.
A garbled report describes doctornic actions during a campaign at Santiago and Guantánamo involving goons and a nurse aiding the wounded. It mentions an attack on Bendyo Surgeah Chuvch and a wounded unit, with references to hospital transfer and a medical process about microbes and inhalation, though details are unclear.
The London Chronicle notes Gen. Kitchener faces a serious eye affliction threatening sight. It recalls an 1886 Egypt episode where a bullet passed through his throat after a beefsteak test, a tale preserved as a memento of a wound. Sergt. Bilton recounts the curious incident during the Nile campaign.
Partial OCR shows passenger and freight service notes at Monroe Station for the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line. Vague phrases indicate trains going fast and ongoing operations on the route, with unclear passenger and freight designations.
Decomposes Water Enally. The French chemist, noted for his original researches, Mr. Moiseau, has discovered a new substance, the hydride of calcium, produced by heating calcium to 1200 degrees. It can reduce acids, decomposes chlorate of potash releasing potassium, and reacts with hydrogen at ordinary temperatures.
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