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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1873
Page
1
Local notices describe advertising rates and court directory while recounting a severe cholera outbreak in Troy, detailing deaths, sanitary measures, medical and nursing efforts, and community responses including water hygiene and disinfection practices. The piece lists residents and officials, notes decline in town activity, and comments on public tempers and humor amid the crisis.
The sanitary committee reports Troy town has been cleaned and disinfected and coal burned on streets. Fifteen days saw thirteen cholera deaths with none in four days and no new cases. Thirty four families and others left town. one physician remains, now replaced by Dr. McFarland of Clarksville. Citizens urged to return town and resume business. Committee members John McDonnell G. W. Colpert James D. Brown. Troy.
A series of death notices from July 1873 to July 1878 record cholera and drowning deaths across California and nearby towns. Names include Hart Martin, Hart Sydnon, Florence Kyllins, Moran Jaynes, Jaynes, Turney Jayne, and Henry Garrison among others, with ages and locations cited.
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