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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1878
Page
8
A compact notices column listing legal ad rates and types, milk price update and local goods ads. Includes letters granted, final defilement notices, stray notices, and standard advertising terms. Mentions merchants, milk delivery price, and local suppliers like Hellriegel’s bakery and Benson’s celery pills.
An old newspaper notice touts Green's August Flower as a cure for dyspepsia and liver complaints. It claims the liver controls health, links digestion and heart and brain function, and offers a sample bottle for 10 cents with three doses enough to prove its efficacy.
A retired physician known as consumption CUBHD offers a simple vegetable remedy said to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung ailments plus nervous debility. He claims thousands tested it and will mail free full directions in German French or English to any suffering person who writes with a stamp.
The Public soad iditagianen reports lively town activity this week with hogs driven to the Louis market by Blakely and Luck. The Good Templars plan a festival and local music interest grows with piano purchases for daughters and many visitors, including Dr. Gilbert and Mr. Mayes, while Tom looks to move home. New Hope won a belt in sparring. Watts & Son expand stock in St Louis. Downing Bros prosper. Wheat sowing continues as roads cause eye discomfort and fall nears.
Mire Woolfolk announces regular music lessons starting Monday September 9 1878 at Mr G W Colberts residence near Troy Public and High School building. Instruction will cover violin and pans with suitable materials provided. Advertisements note additional local promotions and sales from merchants H Hanns agent Taos H Hanns Tin Fruit cans from Crews and J A Withrow jewelry sale.
The town reports a market update on abower sowing for market and mentions Geo. F. Sweensy’s travel. Mr. Martin Ryan presented a cooking vessel from Ireland kept as a relic. Uncle Martin, a native of County Werford, remains hale after seventy winters. A midnight serenade by local men is noted. Raymond Mudd of Monroe county visits relatives. A baby girl arrived for the wife of A O Wheatley on the 17th.
Saturday events featured Canada’s fine colts with premiums to Barnett and Bud Goodin, plus a second show at Bart lett and Major where premiums went to B. Wan and James Lovell. Additional notes mention peach and orchard plantings, a death, a rain at Mackville, a new boy, accidental mule injury, Ver on county plans, a yellow fever collection, and a frost followed by a fox kill by Nicholas Kelley.
In Muncaviza Missouri an editorial urges Lincoln County Democrats to set aside rivalries and unite behind every ticket candidate to defend the party in November. It emphasizes duty to country and party, warns against personal dissatisfaction, and calls for disciplined support and action. A separate note mentions Mrs. O. F. Buswell and local notices, plus a road accident near Linn's Mill where a wagon tree fall killed a mule and injured the driver, and a report on crop conditions in Ray County.
Mr John Meriwether dropped in to Come last Friday. He reports on attempts to extend the road to the depot amid earlier trouble. Watts shot a man named Arenshaw a couple weeks ago near the same area. He is described as a dangerous character. The group played "Sweet by and by" with Tug Clark as leader.
Residents of Troy Missouri on September 23 1878 thank the public for liberally contributing to a festival benefiting a free reading room. They also thank the ladies for their valuable assistance at the event.
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