17 Sep 1873
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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1873
Page
1
The county paper details court dates and notices while reporting on local events. It notes court days, advertisements, medical opinions, and community notices including deaths, temperance lectures, hog laws, farm meetings, and merchant postings around Troy and nearby counties.
The card of Sam's Virden & Co., commission merchants, will appear on page four directing shippers to the firm. Mr. Virden has long experience and thorough knowledge of all branches, promising prompt service and a pleasant, genial merchant to whom shippers will be pleased to entrust their business.
The notice praises Menara Foote & Co. as dealers in imported teas and urges merchants to visit or contact Messrs. Foote & Co. in St Louis. Samples are sent on application.
Editors Herald reports a Louisville farmers gathering as a farce with no organization or turnout, denouncing outsiders from Pike County and sharpers who urged secession rhetoric. A Pike County railroad man and others are criticized for stoking divisions, while locals urge unity and reject party factionalism. The writer warns against renewed conflict and insists farmers resist “clever” agitators and stay focused on practical issues.
Cuivre Missouri September 4 1878 notice to Lincoln County teachers emphasizes the legal duty to attend the institute. The Troy session begins October 16 at nine thirty and runs three days with all certified teachers in the county invited, aims to improve teaching methods and school operation, and calls for local and outside help to raise education standards.
Mr. Joe J. Curley a telegraph operator from Clarksville visited town last Friday and repaired storm damaged lines. In darkness he drove off a bridge near town breaking his buggy and injuring his horse in the accident.
An Auburn lodge commemorates M. D. L. Verdier with a solemn funeral tone. The message expresses sorrow for his death, honors his roles as husband, father, citizen, and faithful brother, and notes the lodge will wear mourning for a set period while records acknowledge the loss. The notice concludes with attestation by lodge officers and references to local publications.
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