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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1904
Page
4
A New Orleans lawyer owns a German umbrella with a unique key mechanism. The handle is engraved with his name and a watch-chain key must turn to unlock. Strangers cannot open it, and it has repeatedly been returned after being borrowed or stolen, highlighting its peculiar usefulness.
Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt and family witnessed her collapse from consumption as doctors failed. Dr. King's New Discovery brought immediate relief and cured her, touted as a certain cure for threat and lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50 cents to $1.00. trial bottles free at S. Kingston drug store. Carpet samples offered at The Racket for rug cuts at reduced prices.
In Troy Illinois on January 22 1904 Mentor Temple No 104 mourns the loss of Sister Mrs Mary E Norbury. Resolved sympathy to her husband and relatives and to drape the charter in mourning for thirty days with copies to family and THE WEEKLY CALL for publication. Also a testimonial for Ballards Snow Liniment by Chicago resident Effie Frrestano noted at end.
Walter Fiest aged 16 of Trenton New Jersey dies, leaving a mother who has buried nine children between ages 15 and 16. The widow grieves the loss of her ninth child in this tragic run.
Odessa Ledger editor laments that flatterers and hypocrites vanish in misfortune. He notes many will praise you to your face but speak harshly of you behind your back. Prosperity brings crowded circles, illness or poverty thin them to few.
The Chicago News contrasts a hurrying figure who rushes past, driven by time and speed, with a slower, hazard of a truck horse or a colored man splashing colors. It highlights impatience, bustle, and the social gaze that freezes or averts attention in moments of disruption.
A heavy man enters a barber shop and demands a plain haircut with no talk. After the barber finishes, the man proclaims the barbers can’t work properly without conversation, then jokes about the barber being the grazier from next door.
A collage of quips and notes appears, including jokes about prize fighters and spelling, a brief ad for a 140 acre Wilson Farm near Troy, a line about the Rex cigar, and a Boston Transcript quotation. A mercantile offer seeks potatoes at 75 cents per bushel from Bor tmMaAN MER CANTILE Co.
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