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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1906
Page
6
A London Lancet writer questions why fizzing waters interest crowds and health effects. Artificial aeration sparked a vast industry with soda, seltzer, and potash waters, employing thousands. home devices boost access while total abstainers once led the market.
The French government has experimented with at least 15 submarine boat designs with limited success. Experts debate size and armament extensions, while aim and sighting remain challenging. France leads in construction, with England pursuing electric motors and 309 long displacement. Germany still sees submarines as imperfect warfare tools.
A balloon railway operates on a mountain in Salzburg Austria. A large captive balloon is attached to a steel rail fixed to the mountainside and moves with a stout wire cable controlled by an engineer. The balloon uses hydrogen lift, water ballast descends, a circular car carries ten passengers beneath. Inventor Herr Balderauer predicts it may replace funiculars.
In the Hartje divorce case Alma Ross the mysterious blonde testified that Augustus Hartje and Josephine Wright met at Ross's rooming house and that Wright introduced Hartje. Hartje denied knowing Wright while Wright denied knowing Hartje. The love letters dispute centered on Tom Madine who swore the letters were not in his trunk. Detectives Staubbe and Anderson, accused of taking the letters, were arrested then released on bonds.
New York reports Mrs William Thaw, yielding to her son Harry Thaw, dismissed the firm Black Olcott Gruber Bonynge from his defense for murder of Stanford White. After a family council at Mrs Carnegie’s Roslyn L I home, she requested all papers be turned over to Hart ridge and Peabody.
Milwaukee Wisconsin final account filed by trustees of bankrupt estate of Frank G Bigelow the former bank president now in Fort Leavenworth shows enough funds to pay a final dividend of 1.22 percent bringing total dividend to 11.42 percent on approved claims totaling 3 242 255 dollars.
Chicago executors of Marshall Field face about 2.8 million dollars in taxes on a total property value near 180 million. Back taxes on personal property drive the bill, with a 10 percent annual interest penalty. Other items note alleged miracles at Kankakee, the death of civil engineer Samuel L. Southard, and several personal tragedies across Illinois.
Dr Emil Lesser president of the German immigration society of Alabama returned from Lockhart Alabama after a three day inquiry into peonage accusations at Jackson Lumber Co camp. He prepared a report for Governor Jenks asserting no trace of peonage exists in the camp.
Murphy aboro Car bondale Carterville Herrin Johnson City and Benton are linked as a proposed interurban line tapping rich coal regions. Unidentified man found dead near Big Four tracks in Chrisman-Mrs Boone found him. pocket has 4 dollars, no ID. Clarke & Co. to donate 25,000 to McKendree College if 75,000 raised. no deadline. Leola Green, 17, dies in Florida. Ramacy revivals held near Ramacy Independence Oakdale Alma. Dr John Schmidt, 84, Quincy physician and former minister, dead. Cornelius P Shea and other labor leaders indicted in Chicago.
On the Henry M Branley a negro passenger attempted to assault a Cincinnati woman as the vessel ran two miles from Gallipolis Ohio Wednesday. The captain discovered him and forced him overboard. No trace of the man was found and it is believed he drowned.
A sermon-like reading on the prodigal son from Luke 15 and related verses, portraying God as the father, the son’s departure, famine, and return, and contrasting the elder son’s Pharisaic attitude with grace. It notes the father’s warm acceptance, the elder son’s anger, and the themes of repentance, forgiveness, and divine love.
The notice directs readers to address all pattern orders to the Pattern Department, asks for size and pattern number, and suggests using a coupon. It includes a humorous Yonkers Statesman quip about blondes and brunettes that echoes the paper’s light editorial tone.
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