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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1905
Page
5
A fragmented advertisement lists muslin underwear prices with numerous quality levels and sale prices, showing across many lines. Items feature 25c to $3.50 quality ranges with sale prices cent to dollar amounts, though some lines are garbled.
Largest stock in the city offers boys knee pant suits at reduced prices. All $2.00 and $2.50 suits clear to $1.50 and $2.00, $3.00 suits to $2.50, $3.50 to $3.00, $4.00 to $3.25, and $5.00 to $4.00. Get the school suit now.
Clearing sale prices for waists shown with multiple items and amounts. Prices range from 74 cents to $2.20 with several listings including $1.10 and $2.50. The note reads as a fragmented catalog line from a period sale advertisement.
Ed R. Deimling drives out in a wagon for Borey TEAce ice cream soda and Mrs F A Dawson has had a new fence erected. Wanted girl for general house work at Baird House. Eye exams by Dr June Sallee at Baird House Aug 15. Dove season opened Aug 1 as locals seek pot pie. Kuntzmann's supplies ice cream and cakes for parties. Watermelons scarce this season. Edward T. Vetter sold his cigar business stake to brother William H. Vetter. firm dissolved. Deimling’s old meat market moved to vacant lot. Riebold’s spindles treated for smooth running. Miss Lydia Wilhem ill with typhoid. nurse Miss Collar from Mayfield Sanitarium care. Troy Telephone Exchange directory issued. 100 city subscribers, 49 country. Hermit Jacob Leula found dead near Marine. treasure rumored. Diphtheria case at Julius Peter residence. quarantine in effect. Alonzo L. Ballard guilty of forgery. five-year sentence. W P Baer certified as licensed embalmer after Springfield training. Fred Riebold buys restaurant and lunch room from E C Overman. Children injured at farm while operating a feed cutter. finger severely lacerated. Kite fever epidemic among youngsters. Emil Droll runs a kite factory, profitable. Touching baby story from Cumberland about Dr King’s New Discovery curing throat trouble. Highland Fair catalogue and premiums announced. Sept 7–10 with medals and over 300 cash awards. Dear Gus letter praises Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.
A mutual town home insurance company organized under a legal charter in May 1908. It protects against loss by Fire and Lightning and offers a renewal after five years for a $2.00 renewal fee. It insures members against wind storms under a separate policy. Directors named include Geo. Roth, Louis Metz, John C. Thurnau, L. A. Spies, M. W. Powell, John Bardill, Jacob Gehrig, L. C. Dresling, John Gehrig, Henry Foehner. Groves Rote is President and Lucene L. Honvarp is Secretary.
The auction, conducted by W. H. Baum, Henry Kever, and E. B. Watt, offers 14 work mules, 7 young mules, 30 head cattle, 50 shoats, 15 sows, 2 Berkshire boars, farming implements, a threshing outfit, Buffalo Pitts engine, and 5,000 bushels of corn. Terms include $10 down, credit up to 12 months with approved security. sale set for August 12, 1905, at 10 o'clock. Other sales nearby on August 9 and August 17.
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