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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1906
Page
4
Citizens and visitors travel to Madison Freeport Milwaukee and Chicago. Edgerton Albion Darlington Beloit Madison Freeport and Jefferson lines are mentioned with events from repairs to reunions, purchases, and road trips.
Residents note several visitors and locals traveling to nearby towns. J H Eaton is to inquire about rental. Miss Maletta Barackhan visits Madison. Mrs S E Richards from Monticello calls on Grace Chenoweth. John Farris travels from Madison for Beloit Monroe game. Mrs John Norder leaves for Manston. others attend meetings and visits. Two rooms for rent with or without board offered near the square.
Local notes report a string of city updates including purchases at Chambers and West Side Drug, new sorghum at S S Greenwald, a wedding license for Fred Coplien and Anna Norder, and travelers D D Shierk, Mrs N B Treat, and Miss Nellie Treat visiting Chicago and Freeport. Various ads promote soap, kerosene, wall paper, cushions, and wood for sale.
A brief Philadelphia Press exchange shows Miss May declining Mr Heamley's kiss with polite sharpness. She says she would be mad to let him kiss her, while he asks if she would be angry. The dialogue captures a flirtatious and witty street moment.
The item notes that a church audience reacted to a new bonnet and a witty remark about new shoes, attributed to Puck. The brief reads as a light social tidbit from a community page.
A pithy reflection notes relief that some prayers remain unanswered, praising the patient endurance granted by faith. The speaker thanks God for the grace of unanswered petitions and the wisdom found in quiet endurance.
A Chinese publication quotes a native writer detailing the plight of girls sold in China. The account describes loss of freedom, lack of compensation, and the owner's arbitrary control, including potential resale or abandonment and no recourse except death or sale.
Real estate record records William A. Becker selling an 88 by 60 foot lot labeled as lot 2 in block 7 of Foster's addition in the city of Monroe to Katharine Weiss for the price of 2300 dollars.
The article discusses theories about the term Black Maria, including a colonial Boston boardinghouse keeper who allegedly helped police and inspired the phrase when she ferried three sailors to jail. It notes competing origins from a chained or married interpretation to the legendary sailor’s tale.
Budgwick parish council in Sussex owns an official seal showing members by their trades. The vicar is an open Bible, the farmer a tree scene, the coal dealer a sack, the miller a mill, the inn keeper a bottle and jug, the boot maker a boot, the auctioneer a hammer, the doctor a medicine bottle, the carpenter a plane, and the baker a loaf.
The passage notes that each instrument excels in its specialty with the violin standing out as the best on its own ground. It asserts that much violin music cannot be played on any other instrument.
A Detroit Free Press clipping reports Blank shifted from rose cultivation to entomology after insects ruined his flowers. He now pursues bugs with the same zeal, finding new plant varieties and scientific interest in entomology.
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