The Trop Weekly Misspelled Post Office Notice
The Trop Weekly on Market Street The Square is issued by B W Jarvis editor and publisher Entered at the post office at Troy Illinois for transmission in the mails as second class matter Teams of subscriptions
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B. W. Jarvis
Troy
Ilinois
Caul
Gerhard Struckhofff
Hickory Street
Berman Krumpanitzky
J.S. Dewey
M. G. Dale
Edwardsville
Hugh E. Bayle
Alton
Adolph Ruegger
Highland
B. F. Sippy
Venice
Another Step Forward In Troy City Hall Plan
The August 24 1907 piece supports building a new modern Troy city hall with jail and fire engine house. It urges central location, beauty and utility, fair bids, and look to assessors' valuations, while warning against delaying the project. It also notes a religious journal’s critique of subscriber trust in publishing.
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Froy
Troy
Jamestown Exposition Faces Likely Financial Failure
The exposition will likely fail financially as the first $100,000 loan payment remains unpaid on a $1,000,000 loan. Government may seize gate receipts to recover funds. Buildings are incomplete and likely never finished. Poor management blamed for the fiasco.
Madison County farmer profits curb emigration
The Edwardsville Intelligencer notes Madison county farmers favor staying home as a county woman earns about 90 pounds per acre from potatoes, making land stories in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas less appealing and reducing migration temptations.
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Madison County
Southwest
Edwardsville Intelligencer
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Edwardsville Electric Light Service Lacks Reliability
The Edwardsville electric light service is described as bordering on rotten ness and the county seat shows no municipal ownership. The text argues private ownership does not guarantee freedom from the problems of electric light plants.
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Edwardsville
Hope Deferred and Creditors Provoke The Heart
A compact saying notes that when hope is delayed the heart grows sick and creditors become a nuisance. It reflects a moral lesson on patience and financial pressures.
Grain inspection reform praised by traders and governor
A Springfield report credits Governor Charles S. Deneen with elevating Illinois state grain inspection to a model of efficiency. Chief Inspector W Scott Cowen reorganized operations, emphasized merit over politics, and established uniform grading, with broad backing from the Chicago Board of Trade and midwestern grain dealers.
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Springfield
Charles S. Deneen
State Grain Inspection Department of
Illinois
Chicago
New York
Baltimore
Seaboard
Middle West
Deneen
State
Ilinois
State Grain Inspection Department
Civil Service
William N. Sager
Chicago Board of Trade
Supreme Court
W. Scott Cowen
Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Castro
Illinois State Grain Department
Cowen
Hiram N. Sager
Il-nois
State Inspection Department
Board of Trade
Hiram -N. Sager
Wedding Invitations at The Cart
Dan Peterman agent presents wedding invitation services in a notice listing for daily and Sunday editions of the Post-Dispatch. The brief promotes invitations and contact details for event stationery.
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Post-Dispatch
Dan Peterman
Agt
When I Growed Mister Georgie Brown Rules Town
A child’s hopeful sketch of growing up in a town led by Mister Georgie Brown. He imagines building a ball park library with Indians and bears, buying silk gowns for his mother, a gold trimmed walking stick for his father, and governing with kindness so the poor are cared for and the town prospers. He envisions the mayoral future, school reform, and a happy setting sun.
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Mister Brown
Man Brown
Brown
Georgie
Mister Georgie Brown
Rattlesnake Hunt Prize At Schaghticoke Club
In Connecticut the Schaghticoke Rattlesnake club hunts rattlesnakes annually in rattlesnake country. Members kill a score or more rattlers per hunt and award a prize to the hunter who bagged the biggest rattler.
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Connecticut
Schaghticoke Rattlesnake Club
Ohio State Journal
Question of Pre-Nuptials Sparks Debate in Iowa Paper
A man advertises that his wife left his home and that he won't pay her bills. The editor asks humorously whose bed it was, suggesting it likely belonged to the wife funded by her mother at marriage.
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Iowa
Quiet Baby Returns to Health in Kingston Sale
The item notes a mother calming a sick child with a remedy called Case, now said to be well again, and mentions sales activity in Kingston with a slogan about working while you sleep and a product line CaLi Wants.
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Kingston
CaLi
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Kinboeth
State Department
Denven
State Grain Department
Byron Williams
Gings
Snake Story
Fie
Star Tamorina Company
Star Tamorine Company
Star Tailoring Company
M. F. Allwarter
ARTA
Riebold's
Namath AG
H. F. Kueker & Son
Main
John Riha
Vining
DeWitt
S. Kingston
Tur Catt
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