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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1916
Page
7
Dr F K Liebmann, dentist, operates at the office on all business days and Sundays by appointment. Hours are 8 to 12 and 1 to 5, phone 64.
Court house items reveal numerous probate actions with inventories approved final reports set for January hearings. Estates listed include Blase Browning Johnson Shank Meisenheimler and many others with notices of adjustment and bond provisions. Real estate transfers cover numerous properties in Madison, Alton, Granite City, Collinsville, Edwardsville and surrounding townships with varied sums and parcels. Marriage licenses are also recorded for local couples.
An advertisement extols Sloan's Liniment for rheumatism attacks with quick pain relief. A quoted user claims three days of use restored health after chronic rheumatism and neck stiffness, noting employment at a large San Francisco department store. Mention of Doomsday Book as a historical England land record.
A compendium of curious items from various locales. In West Virginia wild hogs frightened a two year old by reflecting in a mirror and fleeing unharmed. Ohio prize pies were baked by a five year old Esther Rae Johnson at a U S apple show. Pennsylvania finds reveal a lost mother’s will worth 16 000 hidden with securities. Illinois reports a mad dog attack ending with police killing the animal. Pennsylvania notes a hen skeleton and recovery. Michigan social night yields seven dollars eighty cents from a school fundraiser. Wisconsin beauty dreams lead to a bald head with scissors. England reports lightning striking a wedding ring but leaving the finger intact.
The St Jacob Commercial Club backs Old National road improvements through St Jacob township. County Commissioner W E Howden and officials inspected the East Creek bottom, proposing a concrete bridge and straightening the creek at Gilead cemetery with an estimated cost of 10000 dollars. The Troy Commercial Club favors rerouting the road to avoid dangerous railroad crossings and convert it to a hard road, with Howden endorsing the plan and set to explain it at the next Troy meeting.
Frank J. Cheney of Cheney & Co, Toledo, pledges to pay $100 for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The affidavit sworn December 6, 1586 before A. W. Gleason. Cure is taken internally and said to act on the blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered. sales via druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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