She Troy Weekly Call Issued in Troy Illinois
Publication notice from Madison County press club and Southern Ad Editorial. Lists subscription terms and payment deadlines for annual, semiannual, and quarterly rates. Indicates second class mail matter and post office entry in Troy Illinois.\u00a0Kinloch appears as a publisher or distributor reference.
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Troy
Market-Street-by-the-Square
B. W. Jarvis
Madison County Press Club
Southern Ad Editorial
Ilinois
Broad Streets and Parkways for Sweeping Views
A letter argues for widening streets and creating parkways with wide tree lined corridors. It warns that dense street planting creates a roofed green tunnel obscuring distant earth, sky, mountains, or sea. Advocates bold, varied tree placements to form curved walks and avoid monotonous lines, enhancing resilience and street appeal.
The Value of Natural Beauty in Park Design
The designer must place sundry uses within a park while prioritizing overall beauty. Meadows should be broad, smooth, and natural, but drives, flower beds, and short-cut paths can ruin breadth, simplicity, and naturalness. Avoid flat grading, artificial terraces, and orderly border tree lines that clash with the landscape.
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Tta
Need More Playgrounds Across Cities Still Lacking Funds
Citizens in many U S cities have donated land and buildings for playgrounds, yet in most places city funds remain insufficient to develop and maintain the grounds and equipment.
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United States
Plea for Expanded Recreation Facilities and Camps
A call urges more playgrounds and year round outdoor pools, funds for expanding mu sic and dramatic work, labor at lab houses, sewing and cooking classes, arts and crafts, and creation of summer camps in mountains and at the sea to improve health, minds, and social spirit for future generations.
To a Poet and a Paved Pondering Route
A letter from Lübeck schoolboys pleads with Geibel to spare future poems as they must learn biographies and verses. The Sunday Magazine notes a long-lived poet and a desire for recreation. East St. Louis advances a vitrified brick turnpike costing around 500,000 to create a premier drive from East St. Louis to Edgemont bluffs.
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Geibel
Lubeck
Karl Beckmann
Lehrer
Herr Geibel
The
Sunday Magazine
St. Clair County
East St. Lenis
Bluffs
Edgemont
East St. Louis
Election aftermath hints at renewed clashes in November
The passage notes politics easing after Tuesday’s battle while survivors recover. It predicts hostilities will resume by the November 4 final clash. Reports keep Troy in the dry column as usual, with residents divided though optimistic that spring has arrived.
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Troy
38 Years Ago in Troy From The Weekly Bulletin
In April 1874 Troy notes show Mrs Snow moving from St Louis into property bought from Dr E R Owen. H A Risser returns from Missouri trips. Wim Freudenan occupies Mary Throps residence in Belleville. Brookside Co plans an office building opposite the depot. County districts drop from 20 to 14. Andrew Mills named deputy assessor for District 4. Revival at Presbyterian church grows with 300 attending on the 10th led by Rev Armstrong. County judge election: Irwin defeats Dale by two votes, 161 to 76 in Troy. Carney, founder of United Christian church, is run out of LaPorte Ind for claiming too much ownership.
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W. T Brown
John G. Irwin
M. G. Dale
Troy
Dale
Irwin
Andrew Jackson Carney
United Christian Church
LaPorte
Ind
Carney
The Man Who Shirks in Youth Must Work Hard in Old Age
An aging society warns that success follows hard work in youth and urges all to toil throughout life. It contrasts fated labor with energy spent, notes the Rider of the White Horse, and recalls Aesop with the Grasshoppers and Ants trading labor for wealth.
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Ostermoor
Weather Prophet Predicts Summer Crop Quirks For 1912
Jarvis Township farmer predicts a cooler April with 20 percent less weather than last year. He warns on berry ripening, wheat harvest timing, corn planting risk from frost, and a rare moon omen tied to May and June rain. July heat may boost tadpole crops and dampen hot air markets.
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Call
March
April Forecasts and Farm Life in a Seasonal Rhyme
A playful verse laments delayed spring as April hints at weather woes and political spectacles. Farmers endure snow and feed shortages while candidates trumpet zeal, with lines shifting to farming life and the resolve of rural livelihoods amid a noisy election season.
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Pegasus
Teddy Bear
Bill Taft
Teddy
Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Clark
Harmon
Champ Clark
Remarkable Cure with Dr King’s New Discovery
A letter from W B Holsclaw of Clarendon Texas recounts a brother’s severe cough nearly deemed consumption. After using Dr King’s New Discovery he recovered fully, gaining weight to 218 pounds and remaining healthy. The remedy is priced at 50 cents to 1 dollar, with a trial bottle free at Kingston’s.
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W. B. ‘Holsclaw
Clarendon
Tex
Kingston’s
Four New Senators From Arizona New Mexico Tue Pace Changing Senate
Four new senators from Arizona and New Mexico will enlarge the senate to ninety six with two Democrats Marcus Aurelius Smith and Henry Ashurst and two Republicans Thomas Benton Catron and Albert Bacon Fall. Ashurst is 36 and the group shifts power to fifty one Republicans forty three Democrats.
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Washington, D. C
Arizona
New Mexico
Congress
Marcus Aurelius Smith
Tuscan
Henry F. Ashurst
Prescott
Ariz
Senate
Thomas Benton Catron
Santa Fe
Albert Bacon
Three Rivers
N. M
Smith
Catron
Fall
Territorial Supreme Court
Cleveland
Ashurst
Colorado
National Monetary Commission
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Clearing House
National Reserve Association
House
Finance Committee
Underwood
White House
Taft
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
National Roosevelt
Munsey Building
National Committee
National
Taft Bureau
C.D. Hilles
Dangerous Grip Remedies Promoted with Elec Bitters
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a cure-all for grip and related weakness, touting improved nerves and liver kidney health. It claims the tonic restores energy, strength, and spirits after grip attacks, priced at 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed. The notice also mentions Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for pimples, boils, scratches, burns and cuts, plus cut flowers and funeral designs at local shop.
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Kingston
Ares
Bi Kingston
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Kinloch
H. A. Risser
Bates, St. Clair
Henry Counties
Missouri
Wim
Freudenan
Mary Throp
Bellevile
Brookside Company
Andrew Mills
Jarvis
Pin Oak
Presbyterian Church
Co. Ss. Armstrong
Ambition
Harlan Rea Ey
Jarvis Township
Ralph Wilder
Chicago Record-Herald
Washington
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