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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1914
Page
2
Local notes from Troy Illinois list subscription terms and rates for one year six months and three months. Mention printed in a county press club editorial association posting with mailed second class status.
A Fairdance, Pennsylvania woman Margaret Victor dies at ninety three without a public monument. A plain, God fearing wife and mother, she left 197 eight children, 87 grandchildren, 94 great grandchildren and 88 great great grandchildren. Her family remembers her wisdom and kindness as a quiet national contribution.
A placard in Prince Edward County schools sets forth a creed praising the outdoor life, hard work, and self-reliance on farms over city life. It extols pluck, honest play, and a square deal in all acts, reflecting rural values and personal responsibility.
Harlan Read argues habits can defeat or aid life goals. By forming daily practices like exercise, polite greetings, regular sleep, study, and healthy routines, habits slowly strengthen character and advance high aims, turning small actions into lasting personal power.
Washington April 2 government moves to bar interstate passage of goods from child labor factories. Palmer and Owen bills push for nationwide restrictions. committee action expected in House. Advocates claim law would mirror strong state protections. critics warn of interstate discrimination and Southern opposition. Florence Kelley testifies for stronger federal action noting rising child labor in dangerous jobs.
A collage of editorials and quips from Vandalia Democrat Alton Times Edwardsville Republican and Highland Journal laments taxes and social pretenses. It muses on June income returns expensive graduation gowns heiresses gardeners and spring illness with wry humor.
A dated prose poem lampoons April with playful jests about love, marriage, Easter, and house cleaning. It observes millinery fashion, spring weather quirks, and gender roles, noting how men defer to their wives in tending gardens and chores.
A collage of rustic quips and tales about farm life and small town readers. It includes a skeptical editor reply about meandering chores, a dirtied schoolchild, a merchant challenging local buying, a Mark Twain anecdote about cemetery funds, a doomed Elijah story, a witty insurance joke, a suit shrinking worry, a printer’s odor mystery, and a dead type quip.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal treatment that reaches the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims the remedy is prescribed by leading physicians, not a quack medicine, and offers testimonials and free information from the manufacturer in Toledo or Rome.
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