31 Jan 1913
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1913
Page
1
The article discusses Westward farmers breaking away from eastern mortgage debt. It notes loans flowed to the East for interest as western collateral for development. It warns that if farmers send money to distant centers to buy goods, they risk renewed dependence on absent creditors and tighter money later.
State Board of Administration proclaims state will assume custody of all legally committed insane. Counties have funded clothing and care, but now the state will bear the expense. Law assigns estates of relatives to pay for maintenance, and county farm patients are to be transferred to state hospitals. This shift ends counties bearing heavy annual costs and reduces local burden.
The Collinsville Herald notes price hikes in eggs, butter, paper, ink, and type press printers to higher costs. Vandalia schedules a February 21 special election to decide adopting a commission form of government abolishing wards and electing a mayor with four commissioners for four years.
Collinsville officials seek a $10 per car license from East St. Louis and Suburban but are blocked by a Railroad Commission ruling that the Suburban is an interurban railroad and not liable for the tax. Meanwhile the supreme court holds the Suburban is a street car company not required to install toilet facilities.
The old method of paying soldiers pensions by voucher through multiple agencies is abolished today. Pensions will be paid quarterly by check and direct through the United States Pension Bureau in Washington. Agencies will be abolished as well, ending the need for vouchers to be acknowledged by a proper officer.
Easter this year falls on March 23 the earliest since 1856 and marks 100 years until it occurs on that date again. Easter, a movable festival, occurs on the third day after Good Friday and the earliest possible date is March 22.
The Highland Journal remarks on the poor condition of country roads and notes Helvetia township farmers celebrate their foresight in building real highways. It urges neighboring townships to join the campaign to create a model community.
The piece questions consumer expectations with circus posters and catalogs, cites a January US population of 96,496,000 and per capita money circulation at 34.72 dollars, notes the electric road trend and warns of possible failures in Isaac Smith's plans, implying public worry and optimism about the season.
Senator Beal advocates a bachelors tax in Illinois while statistics show 1000 males for every 900 females. The public notes the law would squeeze many men when enacted, warning of unintended consequences.
A Murphysboro butcher killed a cow recently and the animal’s stomach contained a darning needle. It appears the needle was ingested from a hay supply.
Town residents grow restless when current events fail to excite, prompting a resurgence of interest in a familiar older sensation. The crowd pushes for renewed attention to a previous spectacle that once drew crowds and headlines.
The article argues hardship is essential to success across great figures. It cites Johnson, Carlyle, Plato, Gibbon, Raleigh, Elizabeth, Edison, Newton, and Bruce, noting repeated trials and late labor. Thiers' remark about easing drafts via hard labor ends the reflection.
An illustrated Q and A style explainer covering the meanings of boycott and croc o dile tears the origins of stationers term lunar cycle Cervantes Mimi the Romans and Don Quixote the term empire in Texas the friction match and the balance of nature. It presents short definitions and historical notes with named individuals places and origins.
The text notes Latin remained the language of church fathers and scholastics until the mid fourteenth century, then yielded to modern tongues. It also explains color affecting heat emission, with black surfaces radiating more heat than light ones. Additionally, it links weekday names to Saxon idolatry worship of seven deities including Sun, Moon, Woden, Thor, Friga, and Saeter.
A marriage where a man of high rank weds a woman of lower status. She does not inherit or take her husband’s title or rank. The arrangement preserves the husband’s title for his own line and limits the wife’s formal standing.
The Hebrews began the Sabbath at sunset on Friday and ended it at sunset on Saturday. This timing follows the scriptural phrasing and the sequence “and the evening and the morning were the first day.”
A local newspaper serves as the connecting link between merchants and buyers, clarifying the local market and building goodwill. Advertising in the paper boosts consumer confidence and lowers distribution costs, helping merchants sell cheaper. A writer urges ads to be morally and educationally useful as well as profitable.
A fragmentary report mentions a death by suicide and a doctor noting a lethal morphine intake. The text reflects distressing statements about the individual's actions and a stray exclamations scene.
Dr Westervelt of the Illinois State Board of Health inspected Tamaroa to verify local doctors’ diagnosis of spinal meningitis. The Harms family, mourning a 12 year old boy, is quarantined and officials will monitor for further spread.
A 4600 pound dynamite explosion at a clay pit three miles from Macomb shook a 25 mile square area. Buildings were rocked windows shattered trees blown over and fences leveled with no injuries reported. A large ground hole possibly the size of a house opened where the dynamite was kept.
Springfield reports an agreement increasing wages from 6 to 10 percent for about 2,000 Wabash railroad shop employees after talks between BR. F. Needham and officials and a shopmen committee.
Eight year old Earl Gilbert was fatally struck by a live wire as he walked to school in Springfield. Linemen cut the line and removed it from the boy’s grasp, two fingers reportedly burned away and the hand severely charred.
Robert Torrence, son of former Supervisor D A Torrence, was struck by a freight train while attempting to board near Cowden. He lost his right leg in the incident and had previously lost his left foot in a similar Kansas accident two years earlier.
Two additional meningitis deaths are reported near Gale with four late cases not improving. A rigid quarantine is maintained following outbreaks affecting residents including a child of Tom Hayles in the hills south east of Gale.
In Murphysboro a 71 year old retired businessman, W.G. Higgerson, shot himself in the head in the presence of his 10 year old grandson. No reason is known for the act.
State marshals report Jess Spangler and A W Halliday were convicted in Montgomery county for burning a hay stack owned by Louis Alterogt. They received sentences ranging from one to six years.
Donnellson Bank Chartered Springfield. C C Mansfield Wil Mam A Allen and Charles L Law got permit to organize the State Bank of Donnellson at Donellson Montgomery county. The capital stock is fixed at 2000 dollars.
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