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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1908
Page
1
The Troy Weekly Call surveys happiness under drought, education policy, and a Nicaragua power plant find. It cites German airship hopes, ghosts funded by Clark University, and Mulai Hafid’s Moroccans policy. London blind massage gains traction with Yokohama case noted.
A California architect envisions soaring 100 story buildings. He notes elevated travel may prompt farewells to friends as if departing for Europe. He adds lunch could be packed unless elevators offer private diners.
A New York man received a jail sentence and a heavy fine for contempt of court. The tale contrasts with a famed Irish lawyer who, when accused of contempt, claimed he had expressed none and had instead concealed his feelings.
The Swiss federal assembly met and elected Ernest Brenner to the presidency for the current year with little fanfare no torchlight display and no debate on campaign finance publicity concerns.
A poor New York woman, bodily aflame, priority to her children as she pushes them away and locks the room. Despite such acts of self sacrifice, the Carnegie commission struggles to identify heroes in the record.
The note urges caution before buying shares of a penny stock claiming a price surge. It suggests awaiting Prof McCoy's experiments on transmutation and even buying scrap iron as a safer preload until more results emerge.
Reports say Lhasa will gain telegraph access and a Tibetan newspaper. The piece notes a shift from isolation to rapid communication, contrasting celestial calm with daily news such as a fire in Chen Lung's barn at East Hankow.
Women monitor advertising columns to stretch income as the burden of family finances falls on them. They seek economies, turning one dollar into two, not from love of shopping but from need, yet gender norms persist prompting careful penny counting even when items seem unnecessary.
The Yale records vindicate the simple life by showing rich students are poor scholars. Scholarship funds decline as luxury rises. The Baltimore American notes that only a few prosper, while the favored few develop character best through prosperity. The paper argues the poor boy who works his way has most influenced the nation’s destinies.
In St Petersburg the risk of Russia Turkey hostilities fuels alarm across society. Majority Leader M. Guchkoff plans to raise at the next national defense committee session the question of readiness for war and rail transport capability in the Caucasus regions. He warns the Duma would be negligent if unprepared.
Clinton Wisconsin. The Snell jury was discharged at 3 p m Monday by Judge Cochran after 48 hours of deliberation with no prospect of a decision. Jurors stood 8 to 4 for the plaintiffs on the final ballots. If the will of the millionaire Richard Snell had been broken, his son would have $2,000,000 and the three grandchildren would share one third of the other half. The case will be retried in May. Disappointment greeted supporters of the contest.
Mrs. John Fahey, wife of a waterworks employee missing since January 13, pleads for guidance as search crews combed a trench at Twelfth and Main Streets Monday night. She voiced no theory on the disappearance and said he left home with no money, hoping he might still be alive.
In Birmingham Alabama last night in a hotel lobby Chairman J O Thompson and former Congressman W I Aldrich, leaders of opposing Republican factions, exchanged blows ahead of the state executive committee meeting. Aldrich was struck under the eye and sustained a facial injury. The dispute has sharpened for months as anti administration forces clashed with the administration wing.
Harris Rosenberg a pawn broker in New York reportedly threw himself beneath a subway train, driven by fear of mental decline and concern over funds tied up in the Mechanics and Traders Bank which had recently closed. Six cars passed over his body.
Two men died and six others were seriously injured in a riot at Dunbar, a mining town near Connellsville. Among the wounded are two Americans while the dead and other wounded are foreigners. Police arrested forty five persons to quell the disturbance.
A blizzard dumped nearly fourteen inches in Omaha and Chicago, the heaviest in twenty years, causing deaths and injuries. Rail and street traffic halted, hotels crowded with displaced residents. In Waukegan a fishing boat wreck on an ice pack killed two crew and left four survivors. Omaha reports twenty hours of snow and drifting, with trains late and livestock suffering at yards as stock trains delayed.
Hannibal Missouri schools were closed by order of School Board president J N Baskett after a blizzard that began Monday night dumped a foot of snow, the heaviest in 29 years. Traffic halted, trains late, streetcars suspended, and communications down as winds drove the storm at 18 to 30 miles per hour. The storm eased somewhat by Tuesday evening.
snowstorm persisted across Kansas and western Missouri with higher temperatures above freezing in many areas trains not greatly delayed and growers pleased weather favored wheat and fruit producers reports in Kansas City and central southern regions show several inches of snowfall while temperatures stayed above zero in most places
A six inch snowfall blankets St Joseph Missouri and neighboring areas in Northwest Missouri and Northeastern Kansas, the year's heaviest. Windy conditions cause heavy drifts while temperatures hover just below freezing and fall. Rail service is delayed for hours to half a day. Snow is expected to benefit wheat growth.
A severe blizzard hit Rockford Indiana on Tuesday bringing nearly twelve inches of snow. Streets were drifted shut and street car traffic was largely halted while steam railways faced major delays. Temperatures dropped several degrees below freezing.
Milwaukee endured a forty mile gale with swirling snow and falling temperatures as a blizzard blanketed the city Tuesday night. Traffic was demoralized and business halted while trains arriving and departing ran late amid deep snow on city streets.
At the sixth biennial meeting of the United Presbyterian Mutual Benefit Association General Council the name was changed to Church Fraternal and three directors were elected for six-year terms Judge T G Peacock Dr J N Swan and Dr B C Linn all of Monmouth. Wife Saves Man From Fire Martinsville A farm residence four miles southeast of Martinsville burned due to natural gas leak in kitchen Romines fled downstairs but could not exit before his wife rescued him and suffered severe arm burns
Walter Goessling, guard for the Y M C A basketball team, learned of his father Herman Goessling's death only after returning home from a St. Louis game against M A C. Earlier Floyd Baker, a local Y M G A teammate, had received news of his own father's death during a previous game.
Arcola resident W. W. Pepper works with a number of hay balers to bale snow for summer ice. He baled snow last year and found it yielded ice of better quality than ordinary frozen or manufactured ice. He had no trouble selling last year’s output and plans a larger operation this year. The baled snow resists heat longer than ordinary ice.
Quincy Alice Pratt a 16 year old daughter of John T Pratt employed by a coal company at Leavenworth Kansas was taken into custody on a telegram from her mother as she stepped from a train and jailed in the city. The telegram says she ran away from home to marry Albert Buschek who is employed by the Quincy Barbers Supply Co in town.
The state board of health orders vaccination for 4000 University of Illinois students after seven mild cases of smallpox. About a dozen rooming houses are placed under quarantine as the outbreak is controlled.
Charles Wachtel and Mrs Charles Post, alleged South Elgin elopers, are held on lar ceny charges with bonds posted. Post faces three suits from the alleged elopement, including a $10,000 action against Wachtel for alienation of his wife’s affections.
Cairo Ill Feb 17 Capt N B Thistlewood of Cairo Republican candidate for Congress in the Twenty fifth Illinois district was elected by about five thousand votes over Democratic rival William M Warder. The margin reflects the district's usual Republican lean.
Nashville will hold a vote on the Tilson license issue at the April election after anti-saloon activists filed a petition with the city clerk. The city has been dry only once in 16 years.
Danville resident W H Coates, a retired farmer, tried to take his life by drinking carbolic acid. Policeman William Walters intervened during the struggle, but most of the poison spilled and Coates sustained serious burns.
Miss Mary Hinckley, longtime Roscoe postmistress who resigned last week after two decades in the role, has died. The Rockford native served as postmaster for Roscoe for 20 years and recently stepped down from duties.
An account of George Washington as a young man, famed horseman and social magnet, and his romantic entanglements with Frances Alexander, Lucy Grymes, Mary Cary, Sally, and Martha Custis. It traces his early heartbreaks, proposals, and eventual marriage to Martha Custis in 1769, noting her prominence and wealth.
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