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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1912
Page
6
The Charleston city council granted a fifty year franchise to the Central Minole Public Services company in return for their building a spur of a railway to the Coles county fair grounds. The report notes a series of local updates including a tunnel motor fatality, a bank robbery, a large greenhouse contract, and Knox College science hall dedication.
A temperate quarrel escalates as a stern Austere Professor confronts street crowd and police after a domestic spat over a car and alleged overspeeding. Melissa mockingly jokes about the affair while the professor is led away for disturbing the peace as a sobbing caller pleads for bail.
Washington feb 20 after a three week recess the supreme court reconvened and issued several key rulings. It upheld Texas for a special franchise tax on foreign corporations and Minnesota gross revenue tax on express companies and others while Oklahoma's similar statute was ruled unconstitutional for taxing gross revenues plus other taxes on express firms mining and oil companies. Texas railroads are held liable for freight received within the state but damaged on connecting lines outside.
In Bingham Utah the Copper Belt railroad wreck killed four and injured nine after officials say rails were greased by former employees weeks earlier. Denver Rio Grande officials reported the locomotive left the track seven five feet above the point of derailment. investigation continues.
Springfield, Mo Feb 20 Horace Lauthrop Jr. killed himself after learning of Joe Cox’s marriage to Miss Eunice Rand. Lauthrop believed Cox had wed Miss Beady Baker of Joplin, to whom he was engaged. Cox, formerly billed as a “white hope,” had instead married Rand. The Rand family sought annulment but Cox’s parents consented to the remarriage.
Physicians describe a pulse watch based on the atop principle. The device counts pulse beats to twenty, then shows the rate on a dial without mental calculation. A push button resets the counter, simplifying the process by combining counting and timing into one action.
In a court scene the defendant recalls the moment a prisoner bit another man's ear. The judge questions the accuracy while witnesses describe the animalistic action and the reactions of the involved parties. The dialogue emphasizes memory gaps and the surprising brutality of the incident.
A fragmented OCR snippet mentions a Revivelist named Mr. Peck and a worried speaker asking where someone will go after a religious or moral disturbance. The unreadable text hints at personal conflict and marriage strain in a community note.
A recent steamer from Asia carried fifty five cages of horse tails, a common import from China and other regions. The article notes global supply fluctuations, with prices ranging from 20 cents to $2 per pound, and explains tails are sorted by length and color for brushes and hair cloth, urging readers to place want ads.
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