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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
7
A Chicago drug firm claims a harm ous remedy cures bedwetting and frequent urge to urinate in all ages. The C H Rowan Drug Co offers a 50c free sample by mail to readers of The Call, urging households to share the cure with neighbors and friends.
Court house records show estates fully administered with discharges and bond details. Real estate transfers list numerous parcels in Alton, Collinsville, Granite City, Leclaire, and Hamel, totaling hundreds to thousands of dollars, with multiple trustees and heirs named.
The Bank of Edwardsville unveils a five story reinforced concrete building on Main Street at Court Square. It will feature terra cotta facades, a high power electric elevator, modern heating, and fumed oak interiors with a $60,000 construction cost. Established 1868 by West and Prickett, current officers include Krome president and Hadley vice president. capital stock $150,000, surplus and deposits substantial.
A long list of real estate transfers in Alton and surrounding townships including lots, blocks, and tracts in various additions such as Granite City and Leclaire with prices ranging from 200 to 20 000. Marriage licenses issued to several individuals in Highland Ade and Belleville areas.
An old classified style notice advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents per bottle with testimonials from J Cheney and a bank endorsement. It also promotes Bucklow's Arnica Salve for cuts and injuries and Hall's Family Wills claim. The piece cites E B Chamberlin praising the salve's healing, priced at 25 cents.
Market items include wheat and flour by bushel and pound, with various grades hard and soft wheat, white middlings, shipstuff, bran and meal, hay by ton, cattle hogs calves sheep lambs poultry and dairy products listed with per unit prices, reflecting a mid line historical price sheet.
An old advertisement extols Kickapoo Worm Killer claiming to kill intestinal worms in children and improve appetite, with calls to buy by mail from the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. Also includes a comic dialogue about pricing and a subscription pitch for The Call in Troy.
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