10 Feb 1875
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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1875
Page
1
Community notes outline court dates and fraternal meetings, report local elections and tax data, announce concerts and sermons, describe mischief and humane concerns, and urge trading scraps for hardware goods at Crews & Co. amid county livestock valuations and land assessments. The piece lists letters remaining at the Troy post office and urges residents to support road and coal company plans.
An editor notes a Sabbath sermon by Rev. Wikie on child training drawn from First Samuel and urges publication for family reading. The piece then covers Lincoln county coal interests in Missouri, detailing surveys by Surveyor Wilson, a proposed railroad route from Link shaft to Troy, and the impact on coal mines, open prairie lands, tenement houses, fencing, and farm expansions. Calls for local aid to complete the St. Louis Hannibal and Keokuk line and a branch to the mines, stressing civic benefit and taxpayer considerations.
The Falmouth Herald publishes a detailed 1874 shipping report from Ellsberry & Wigginton, M. W. Wilkinson, and Nelson & Wilson with grain, tobacco, apples, merchandise, cattle, hogs, sheep, bacon, staves, and pole shipments. It notes winter access issues, plans to relocate port operations after the M V W I R completion, and a call for better roads. Also includes equity case, railroad tax seizure note, a Beofstown special election item, and a correction about Mir tippi Valley railroad activity.
The community mourns the death of John A Reynolds of Lovelock who died the morning of the 20th after a brief illness. Born in Troy in June 1, he was in his fourth year and among the oldest residents, noted for honesty, industriousness, and kindness, leaving a wife and children to grieve his loss. He died surrounded by friends with no known enemies, and his passing is deeply felt by the town.
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