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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
2
The 1908 close invites readers to review past errors and set earnest resolutions. The editor urges better home town progress, more public spirit, and less rivalry to improve the community in the coming year.
East St Louis Mayor Silas Cook used a personal bank loan of 10300 dollars to cover city payroll shortfalls after treasury funds were allocated to special accounts. He signed a personal note to ensure employees were paid before Christmas, amid a looming funding gap.
The Highland Journal notes the township south of town has formally accepted the hard road. It urges farmers and city residents to inspect the improvement, warning that a future hard road tax levy vote is unlikely to fail if support remains strong.
In O'Fallon a new Taylor opera house prepares for formal opening Monday night. The venue is described as one of the best for a city of its size and stands as a monument to its liberal and public spirited builder. The writer admires the enterprise and contrasts it with Troy’s lack of a similar figure.
A Missouri paper highlights John D. Rockefeller's line that there is more to life than money, noting the businessman may not have reached that view until after wealth accumulation, reflecting on his legacy and priorities.
The Edwardsville Republican quips that the current mild spell defies a typical winter and resembles an Indian summer or Indian winter, with temperatures unusually high for the season and no snowfall mentioned.
A young Illinois man recently won a bride on an election bet but it will require several years to determine whether the outcome is valid.
The Washington correspondent notes Congress adjourned a tense pre holiday session as Roosevelt’s messages push executive power ideas. The President urges a single DC governor and streamlined administration amid growing capital population. Taft visits briefly, then sails to Panama for canal inspection with engineers. An executive order sets a demanding Marine corps fitness test.
A Litchfield Monitor item notes Springfield's council refused a Billy Sunday tabernacle in the fire district, pending fire and water committee review. The piece questions residents funding Sunday while local ministers struggle with salaries and suggests pooling offerings to aid ministers and the town.
The Greenville Item notes many winter chick holes remain in public roads and warns that grand juries can indict highway commissioners who neglect duty. If the March term addresses the issue properly, road conditions may improve, though many roads are a disgrace to those in charge and drastic relief may be sought.
The Edwardsville Democrat argues Madison County needs more judicial offices as the circuit court sits year round with one to three judges. It claims the county is large enough for a full judicial circuit and jokes that governance requires half the people making laws and half holding office, urging progress.
A short aphorism from Coplestone urges that time alone does not cause change. without a positive cause in action, no alteration occurs even over a thousand years.
A chaotic humorous vignette depicts the editor surrounded by complaints from a poet, a debt collector, and an officious reader. A foreman demands copy while wind wheezes through the door, ending with the angel’s verdict that the editor’s oath was justifiable. The piece moves to flawed social jokes about fathers, boys, and stockings, ending with a comic doctor’s bill punchline.
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