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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1904
Page
3
An agricultural notice from John A. Salzer Seed Co. promises high yield seeds of Wheat, peltz, Hanna Barley, and Billion Dollar Grass, with per acre yields varying by land quality. Send 10c for a free sample and catalog. Also includes a short cartoon caption about a Brute and Mamie from the Princeton Tiger.
Advertisement touts a rail itinerary from Chicago or St. Louis to Florida through Nashville Chattanooga and Atlanta on the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis and Western and Atlantic Railroads. It highlights the Dixie Flyer and the Chicago and Florida Limited with sleepers to Jacksonville and St Augustine and invites readers to request travel details from G Woodward in St Louis. It ends with a quoted exchange from the Philadelphia Ledger.
On March 1 and 15 the Kansas City Southern Bay offers round trip tickets for 10 dollars to all points on the Port Arthur line, including Beaumont Port Arthur Lake Charles Shreveport Texarkana Fort Smith Mena De Queen and intermediate points. Return is within 21 days with southbound stopovers. for details contact S G Warner G P and T A Kansas City Mo.
A fragment from the N O Times-Dem cites a villain hissing at the heroine to surrender yet she remains remorseless and ready to press a pivotal move in a popular song narrative.
An advertisement asserts that ten to twenty five doses of Dr. Skirvin's Rheumatic Cure in tablet form rapidly relieves rheumatic pain. Priced at 25 cents for 25 doses, offered postpaid by WIS, RUG CO. in La Crosse Wisconsin. Source notes a quoted Chicago Daily News line about universal accomplishment.
An old Chicago Daily News advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a cure for colds in a day. It promises refunds if the remedy fails and notes a 25 cent price. The copy mocks statisticians who doubt such cures.
A Russian cruiser VarIag flag, salvaged anchor and gun arrive in Sasebo on the Chiyoda to be presented to the emperor as war trophies. The Chiyoda’s captain will recount actions to the emperor in Tokio. Reports also detail 1500 Japanese refugees looted and abused, prompting Japanese shock and calls for retaliation.
A St. Petersburg dispatch reports Russia will retain the Mediterranean squadron at Jibutil in French Somaliland. News notes Vladivostok’s repaints and dispatch to action, massed Yalu forces, and Japanese railway plans. Iki of the marine staff heads to Port Arthur. Neutral France may face international tension over the stay.
The government receives additional circumstantial reports of alleged Russian cruelty toward Japanese refugees from Manchuria. The Japanese consul general at Tien Tsin telegraphs Shan Hai Kwan of a story by 18 women who arrived there, detailing events starting February 9 with 300 companions.
The Russian cruiser Boyarin is reported blown up by a mine last Saturday. Private sources confirm 197 officers and crew were lost. The ship measured 348 feet by 41 feet, 16 feet draft, 3200 tons, with 25 knot trial speed and armament of six 4.7 inch guns, eight 1.8 inch guns, two 1.4 inch guns, three machine guns and six torpedo tubes. The Boyarin had reportedly participated in the February 9 engagement at Port Arthur.
Tokio reports that Japan has captured at least five commercial steamers including the Ekaterinoslav of the volunteer fleet the Moukden the Russia Argun and the Alexander. The vessels were taken in Japan Corean and nearby waters at various times since Saturday by small Japanese cruisers and gunboats. Some steamers are described as rich prizes.
A Sunday School lesson explains Jesus saying not all who call Him Lord will enter the kingdom. It stresses doing God's will, warns against hollow prophesying, exorcisms, and grand deeds without faith, and praises the wise man who builds on a rock.
Hon David Meekison renowned across America for four terms as Napoleon mayor and founder of the Meekison Bank. The piece touts his congressional leadership and his battle with catarrh aided by Peruna with testimonials from Mrs A Snedeker and others, urging readers to seek Dr Hartman’s advice and a free book on winter catarrh.
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