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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1912
Page
6
The article argues against patent medicines and dope and advocates natural sleep aids. It stresses fresh air, proper heart and digestion rest, suitable pillows, light meals, warmth for cold feet, and gentle head friction. It suggests children may benefit from sleep without fear of noise and endorses gradual adaptation to ambient sounds.
The piece argues schools should teach proper eating, including masticating, tempo, and polite table habits. It contends home training is lacking, condemns silent eating, and urges experts to instruct pupils on nutrition to reduce future illnesses. It cites Thomas Walker on contenting the stomach and links slow eating to overall health.
Select a few choicest ewe lambs each year and mark them clearly for breeding. Give them the best pasture and promote their development. Sell off an equal number of older ewes annually to steadily raise the overall flock quality and productivity.
A fragment from a school paper hints at a legal office relocation in Winterville. A character frets over past ties after singing a tenor solo with the college glee club, fearing erasure of memory and a changing place.
Brief state notes cover a new presidency at Eureka College with Prof. Charles Underwood from Columbia’s Bible college, a dispute over a reform school director’s discharge in Urbana, farmers forming to buy a bankrupt railroad for grain outlet, anti prohibitionists seeking a spring election, a murder conviction in Pontiac, the closure of Sterling’s German weekly Beobachter, and a stray piece of local guidance about opportunity and ambition.
Official notes from Troy Illinois record a February 5 1912 council session led by Mayor Busse. Minutes approved including regular and special meeting notes. Treasurer J B J L040 45 balance and January receipts from shows fines electricity and other sources listed. Finance committee recommended payment of claims. list includes names and amounts. Various department reports accepted and filed.
Beutel proposes a primary in the city of Offroy on March 12 1912 to nominate aldermen for each ward and a police magistrate to fill the unexpired term of James N Jarvis. Roll call shows all voting aye. motion by Beutel seconded by Peterman. Council adjourned. Chris Busse Mayor. Wm J Vetter City Clerk.
Edward Hickey, a St. Jacob farmer, pleads guilty to reported incident and family mistreatment charges arising from allegations by his wife Carrie Hickey. Carrie Hickey is sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary by Judge Hadley. Also named are daughter Sarah, 15, and Elsie Blair, 14, both present at sentencing.
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