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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1906
Page
4
Local items list sales at CALL office, pens at Tui Rack et, hats at Mrs. Kleesee, and deliveries by Dan Peterman. Community news covers illnesses, recoveries, business deals, road work, and a fatality in Greenville. Also notes hospital funding skepticism, a child’s death, and a tongue injury from a pipe accident.
Illinois weekly weather summary reports above normal mean temperatures statewide with warm spell midweek and a cooling end. Highest readings on the 12th reached 87 at New Burnside and 85 at Mt Vernon, with frosts later. Rainfall generally below normal, showers on four days, with scattered totals and local flooding in Jersey County.
Passengers aboard the Kroonland of Red Star line report sighting a massive whale off mid ocean as Campania of Cunard approaches. The whale moved toward the Kroonland, then veered away, spouting violently before sinking as the two liners neared.
Mrs Temperance Wren Talbott mother of Congressman J Fred Talbott died in Baltimorr Md at 91. She trusted hobos and never turned away a hungry tramp from her Lutherville estate in Baltimore county. For nearly 40 years travelers found meals and shelter at her gates with bunks, straw, breakfast and often lunch prepared by farm hands.
A San Francisco report reveals a scheme where medical students and others bought and shipped human skin from corpses to tan into purses and apparel. The skin, valued around 500 dollars when tanned, was used to make belts slippers and small articles, with some pieces shown to a West Berkeley tanning firm.
A Tur Cari office presents wedding invitations and programmes executed in high craft. Requests for samples are invited to showcase the studio’s range and artistry in formal announcements and related keepsakes.
A line of ladies street and trimmed hats is featured at Mrs L Kleinser's shop as subscribers to The Cace in 1841. The notice highlights fashionable headwear and shop offerings during the season, inviting customers to view the new stock and subscribe for updates.
John C. Gebauser, acting as trustee for the heirs legatees and devisees of Jacob Gebauer, deceased, files a notice of fiduciary duties and forthcoming probate proceedings.
An ad touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as the original remedy for burns sores oils tetter cracked hands and more promising instant relief for blind bleeding itching and protruding piles. It warns if the wrapper lacks the DeWitt name the product may be unsatisfactory. A city notice follows about garbage collection on April 23 and 24 urging residents to prepare tins cans and rubbish in barrels for pickup by order of the City Council.
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