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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1907
Page
2
The Troy Weekly Call issues terms for subscriptions and notices. Advertisements and paid matter run at regular rates. no stoppage at expiration. Sample copies available. reports of missed deliveries welcomed. lawyers urged to publish legally required notices through attorneys. Telephone Kinloch 4.
The piece urges citizens to aid Troy’s growth and questions the value of unpaid readers. It notes waterworks remain neglected and warns that only big fires or lost industrial chances revive interest in such public utilities.
A learned doctor touts sand as helpful for indigestion while cautioning that Trojans must learn to distinguish between genuine relief and foot pads or others who carry sand bags merely to aid digestion.
With steady work at the mines permanent improvements going forward and all branches of trade and profession busy, Troy seems to have entered into another healthy boom which could now be given greater impetus by the electric road waterworks and the industry which naturally follows these improvements.
Troy plans to send several City Council and Business Men's Association delegates to a Memphis convention. The proposed deep waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf could become a regional project with potential impact for every Mississippi Valley town.
The Telepost system claims to deliver messages at 50 words for 25 cents and 1000 words per minute with automatic Morse at the delivery end, asserting uninterrupted operation in all weathers, accuracy, speed, and low cost. A paper merger is expected to drive newsprint prices up, threatening the viability of dollar a year newspapers as publishers consider raising subscriptions.
Washington August 24 notes Taft speech signals campaign line resembling Roosevelt era policy. Possible Republican split discussed. commission to France to study trade terms planned. War Department transport line cost savings over half a million yearly. Coal base and sea coal strategy explored. Government clerks plan a co op store to cut living costs. 3,000 members joined, opening in ~90 days.
James P. Magenis, once chief deputy of the internal revenue service, suffered a severe typhoid fever attack delaying his return to duties. Before illness his hair was luxurious but a bald spot appeared, prompting a deputy to joke about the novelty of his hair. Magenis quipped that the novelty wears off as he runs his hand over his head.
William M. Dietz editor praises Dr King’s New Discovery as the county remedy for coughs and throat diseases. Drugstore endorsement guarantees satisfaction with 50c and 1.00 prices and a trial bottle free. Ads reference St Louis Times and Post-Dispatch subscriptions.
From The Weekly Bulletin dated August 30 1877 warmest weather of the season. B F Sippy Venice candidate for county superintendent visited Troy. Madison County railroad sold to Toledo and Wabash Railway. Rev Gustave Zabel pastor of German Evangelical church of Blackjack accepted a rural church near Peterburg Washington county. A liquor case before Squire Mills ended in a $25 fine and costs on defendant John B Seep. An unknown cattle disease struck local stock with deaths in one to two days. St Pauls Lutheran church held a mission festival with grove services and a church school picnic the next day with Collinsville Lutheran band.
A satirical collection of light verses and witticisms by Byron Williams. Topics range from prudent finances after marriage to humorous misdirections about ice cream, tailoring, poultry tricks, and social norms. Mixed aphorisms feature playful takes on love, age, vanity, and everyday foibles with period tone.
An Oklahoma man reports a 25 foot snake chased him from a saloon to his home one night. He says he leaped a garden fence as the serpent vanished in a streak of fire, and he believes the snake set itself alight while sliding along the pavement to aid his escape.
Plow dressmaker Frank Martin, a local blacksmith, stays busy dressing plows and cultivator shovels. He invites all old patrons and many new ones to bring work for prompt, workmanlike service in Hancock Mississippi.
The Vicksburg Commercial reports a sudden Friday freeze that sent a chill into the air and damaged vegetables and small fruit as snow fell overnight.
The week averaged about 4 degrees below normal with a warm Monday and cooler days thereafter. Northern counties saw forties on the 21st 22nd and 23rd and light frost at Lanark on the 22nd. Extremes ranged from 95 to 42 degrees. Showers were general in northern central and southern districts on varying dates and destructive wind squalls hit Bureau and Carroll counties on the 19th. Sunshine averaged around 65 percent.
An editorial claiming life limits are far below potential thanks to new knowledge. It extols nature’s helper after age 50, a tonic named Intectric Bitters, as a scientific remedy for longevity, sold by S Kingston. It also references a baby’s illness eased by Case remedy and a delivery service for the Post-Dispatch.
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