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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
2
Publication details show the paper issued weekly from Troy Illinois with editor and publisher B W Tarves. Subscription terms listed include one year six months and three months. Notice on entertainment ads notes regular rates for admissions and paid matter until canceled.
Reports from London say St Pauls cathedral shows settling walls after a sewer plan near the southwest tower. A committee found repairs required but no immediate collapse. A Brooklyn engineering feat lifts and repositions a 90 foot high brick theater, while Lipton pursues America’s Cup with resolve to keep the cup at home.
A flood of Greeks leave New England for farming in Iowa Kansas and Nebraska five to seven days from the retail fruit store. The piece notes motives for emigration and ridicules milksops and mollycoddles while remarking on wealth and vacation habits and a Paris scientist's claim that electricity can induce sleep.
The 1907 annual report of the Illinois Civil Service Commission shows all positions in seventeen state charitable institutions filled with eligible lists for a few classes remaining. During 1907 1,912 appointments were made, 431 exams held in 24 cities, and 8,195 applications received with 2,888 notified for exams and 4,535 examined. The report notes new chief physicians at three hospitals, growth in women physicians, expanded nursing and intern positions, and a push to improve permanency and salaries. It details reasons for staff turnover and descriptions of housefather and housemother roles at St. Charles School for Boys, with vacancies.
Ad offers Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure to prevent pneumonia and other cold complications. Claims it stops the cough heals the lungs and expels the cold. Warns to refuse any but the genuine in the yellow package. signed S Kingston druggist.
From the 1878 Weekly Bulletin the report covers I T Anderson in St Jacob and Ford, Bertram in Collinsville, two Troy meat markets run by John Deimling and Ernest Albrecht, a tax communication by Dr John S Dewey, and 1877 freight figures totaling 162 received and 312 forwarded carloads. Burglars tied to Collinsville thefts are captured near Gaffney's coal mine, Madison residents relocate houses to avoid river encroachment, and Staunton town population is listed at 1,143.
C O Eldridge of Empire Ga endorses Dr King s New Discovery for coughs colds throat and lung troubles claiming seven years use proves it best. He notes children prone to croup but says New Discovery stops attacks quickly. Known worldwide and sold under guarantee at S Kingston s drug store 50c and 1 00 trial bottle free.
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