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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1907
Page
8
The notice lists pricing for Daily Edifiee-Mail at 25 cents per, or $30 per year for the weekly edition. The Weekly Edition runs Mondays and Thursdays at $1 per year in advance. It notes second class mail from Mooroce post office and provides telephone contact as No 3.
A long list of movements and arrivals includes Joe Marti in Chicago and many residents leaving for Milwaukee Chicago Beloit Elkhorn and other towns. Notable items: Stauffacher Hinds moving barber shop to Benkert block. Grant Weber opens Artistic Piano School in Chicago. Milwaukee inheritance taxes of 262 710.10. Appleton fair losses. Yom Kippur observances. numerous hometowners and visitors traveling to Madison Janesville Fort Atkinson Evansville and other locales.
Local notices report numerous residents traveling to Milwaukee Orangeville and Chicago on business or visiting relatives. Others attend meetings, sales advertise cooking utensils and stoves, and real estate offers include a house and two lots for sale at 216 Market.
Illness summons Jacob Stauffer to Monroe as Lightning strikes mark Monticello during a morning storm with little damage. Green county fair tickets show 811 sold, with daily totals from Wednesday to Saturday. Other notes cover farms, moves, a choking chip incident, and railroad crossing safety talks. Jute sacks for Chile nitrate shipments remain in high demand with 20 million used in 1906.
In Aubury park Warwickshire England a tapered gray granite pillar stands on a three stepped pedestal to honor George Eliot. Her birthplace lies nearby and her father brother and nephew served the Newdegate family as land agents. The monument was given by F A N Newdegate.
A brief Victorian era style quote asserts love joy and peace as essential possessions that shape a man toward Christlikeness as taught by C E Hughes. The saying emphasizes inner virtues over material wealth.
Ancient writers on poisons known as poison lore were deemed taboo for centuries. Gaten notes only Orpheus, Theologus, Morus, Mendesius the younger, Heliodorus of Athens and a few others attempted such writings, none of which survive today.
The excerpt presents Henry Drummond’s idea that kindness to others is the highest earthly act. It reflects on human need for generosity and notes love as an honorable, self-repaying debt.
Liberty street in New York City preserves a Revolutionary era name after formerly being Crown street which favored monarchy and prompted a name change by patriots.
Brodhead notes include the Register's move to South Dakota and a daughter’s death at age four. Local residents head to Milwaukee for college prep, Chicago for university prep, and a California visitor arrives in Monroe. Roy Colby returns to Spring Grove to pursue Harvard studies. a joint Green and Lafayette Medical Society meeting is planned for October 1.
A quoted woman comments on advantages of being a businesswoman noting the freedom to break engagements for unexpected business matters, mirroring male prerogatives. The remark highlights gender roles in professional life and the flexibility it grants.
Laurence Oliphant, renowned author and traveler, is credited with introducing the cigarette to England around 1844. They gained popularity after the Crimean War due to Turkish officers using them.
Dr. Mary Stone, head of an American hospital in Kluklang, Central China, recently returned to New York for appendicitis surgery. She has recovered and plans to return to China in the fall. A decade since graduating from Asia Arbor, she is said to be the only educated physician in a province of 5,000,000 people, having treated over 14,000 patients last year.
Franklin’s 1752 lightning rod invention aimed to arrest thunder electricity. Rabbi Katzenellenbogen of Wilna argued the idea predated by Talmudic sources citing a Tosefta passage permitting iron near fowls to shield hens from thunder. The Talmud confirms no superstition in the belief.
A wit requires constant applause to exist, even sacrificing decency and friendship if audiences are small or fickle. Sydney Smith argues that a performer’s life hinges on theatrical approval, and loss of applause equates to extinction.
In a casual exchange, Mrs Gabble and Mrs Naybor mock the neighborly curiosity sparked by a doctor visiting multiple houses. The Catholic Standard and Times notes the gossip as the town’s petty interest in others' affairs.
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