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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1907
Page
20
The Monroe Weekly Times lists subscription prices for the Delly and Weekly Editions, with mail and carrier options. It notes the Bridge Street office on South Jackson, second class post matter status, and provides the Monroe Wisconsin contact information with a September 16, 1907 date.
Friday update lists travelers and residents visiting for the fair from Darlington Albany Freeport Monticello and Chicago plus locals attending and returning. Highlights include Mrs. W A Severance, Miss Kathryn Skelly, Andrew Fardy, Miss Lora Wittner, Anna Schultz and Oliver Walmer licensed to wed, and W C U service at the fairgrounds. Also notes on a gasoline blaze at the fire department and rail rule changes requiring two brakemen on passenger trains.
Local items record Geo Thorp visiting Madison and many residents traveling, selling, or relocating. Special prices at Fred Lanz on sewing machines and cooking utensils are noted along with several marriages, rentals, and lost items. A theatre show arrives late for the county fair, while people plan homes, auctions, and dressmaking openings.
Monroe Markets section lists corn meal ground feed dairy butter eggs potatoes and various cheeses with price figures. A quotation from Montaigne about knowing too much of them appears at the end.
D. M. Davis of Monroe Wisconsin offers for sale four full blood Poland China sows a pig in November a one yearling boar and several breeding pigs. Contact route includes route 1 and box 89.
Milwaukee report from the state fair outlines La Follette's push for the Republican presidential nomination. He rejects campaign finance from Stephenson to stay free of state pledges as F. E. McGovern and Irvine L. Lenroot rise as potential rivals. Connor is named as a likely opponent though the ranks aim to renominate current officials. The piece notes VanderCook’s forecast of a solid La Follette delegation and a harmony program. A side note jokes about a butter milk cycle resembling perpetual motion.
The Koran comprises 114 suras or chapters. Each chapter traditionally begins with the phrase In the name of the most merciful God. This leading invocation is a distinctive, recurring feature across the collection.
A neighbor teases Vir Virginia about crying, insisting she is five and Dot is eighteen. The banter plays on age and maturity as the women exchange light quips about sadness and foolishness.
Report notes Chinese farmers harvest fruit while still green to hasten sale and avoid theft. Farmers hurry to sell crops, fearing spoilage or losses as fruit ripens off the plant.
A New York City report notes that about $50,000 is spent each year on cigars and wines in the citys prominent clubs. The figure underscores the lavish lifestyle and consumption patterns among elites.
An eighty acre farm with house and barn offers a finest county spring and suitability for dairying. Convenient to a condensing plant, located two and one half miles from town. George Bleiler invites buyers with a good deal.
Women flock to The Big Store for a vast fall collection of silks and dress goods. The ad lists chiffon broadcloth, Panama silks, tartans, satin striped poplin, Dresden silks, Lousin e checks, novelties for elderly ladies, and many solid and patterned silks with prices from 25 to 2 dollars. It touts the Northwest’s largest silk selection and notes quick travel from across Southern Wisconsin.
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