Troy Markets Auction Fragment Report
Fragmentary OCR text shows a market list or price fragment from Troy with numbers and units. Names, places, or clear events are not decipherable. no distinct entities or outcomes emerge.
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1912
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text shows a market list or price fragment from Troy with numbers and units. Names, places, or clear events are not decipherable. no distinct entities or outcomes emerge.
Local briefs report a newborn son to Mr and Mrs John Mersinger of Collinsville and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Peter Frangen. Derailment delays Vandalia line traffic near Willows. August Stelzer retires from Highland garage. W T Mueller takes over. Donk Bros and Brookside Coal Co payrolls reflect steady mine work. Oil sheen on Wandalye Street in Collinsville explored for broader application. Russian miner Frank Garboski dies after Lumaghi No 2 incident. his Collinsville marriage planned soon. Indian killed on rail near Rochelle Iowa. Dr Kings New Discovery promoted for coughs and colds with claims of quick relief and weight regain. Trial bottle offered free at H R Huffendick's.
Victor Bertotti, an Italian miner living with the Williams family in Troy, died Sunday at 12:30 PM at Alexian Brothers hospital in St Louis after a long illness. He was 43 years old and had no relatives in this country. His body returned to Troy Monday. funeral was Tuesday at 2 PM from the Williams residence, interment in Evangelical Friends cemetery.
Miss Emma May visits St. Louis relatives while Mrs J C Brown and son stay from Clinton. Flora Raubinger comes from Everton for a relatives visit. Mrs Ed Shepard and children visit Edwardsville kin. Hugo Koehnemann injured unloading wheat. Paul Buechmueller and Miss Gehra recent St Louis visitors.
Miss Lena Hurst from St Louis visits relatives as Mrs Charles Becker, Fred Lenutwiler and others from Highland and St Jacob participate in a Highland Sunday picnic. An ice cream social and dance is planned at Turners hall Saturday night. Families from Pocahontas and Edwardsville visit kin in the area.
Town and farm properties near Main Street and J. F. Jarvis Addition listed for sale in Troy. Includes a two story brick house on 66 by 181 feet with fruit trees and garden, a corner residence lot 100 by 140, two 3 room frame houses renting for seven dollars monthly, and two additional frame residences 118 by 268 feet offer. Contact B. W. Jarvis, Troy, for prices and terms.
The Illinois board of trustees named several new faculty: John Detlefsen of Harvard as assistant in animal husbandry, Virgil A Place of Ohio State University as assistant in animal husbandry, B S Pickett from New Hampshire to pomology, Edson W Murphy of Millken University as music instructor, Otto Rahn from Michigan College of Agriculture as bacteriology assistant professor, William Green Hale a former practicing lawyer in Washington to professor of law, and Francis C Lincoln as assistant mining engineering professor. Murphysboro witnesses a church jubilee gift used for the hospital.
Two men Wood Maxey and Sellars Vines were hanged in Sherman Texas as a jail storm raged. They reportedly prayed for lightning to strike the jail and spare them from the gallows during the blackout. In Washington DC lawmakers moved to pass new radio communication statutes inspired by Titanic lessons.
Texas storm leaves Merritt Greenville and Rhome severely damaged with losses near one million dollars. Earthquakes devastate Pallipoli and Thhanak Kalessi near the Dardanelles, many dead or injured. Roosevelt arrives in New York welcomed by Progressives and plans Oyster Bay stay. Beef prices hit ten dollars per hundredweight, a new peak in Chicago markets.
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