25 Jul 1908
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1908
Page
1
A collage of satirical quips covers fashion, economics, and society. Notes on straw hats, bread, shoes, rice, salaries, beggars, the peekaboo waist, and Rev. Forbush. Mentions Madrid police, Bismarck’s granddaughter, Laurier, and suffragettes on Laurier’s stoop.
President Castro’s decree did not end the bubonic plague’s presence in Venezuela. The article suggests he may face pressure to adopt more sensible sanitary measures to destroy the visitor threatening public health.
Old square pianos once common in homes are now seldom accepted by dealers as part payment for new instruments. Described as sleavy and cumbersome, they are deemed impractical to store, reducing their market value and prominence in the trade.
M Tournay, a Belgian engineer, is commissioned by the committee for the Brussels 1910 international exhibition to erect a tower at Ixelles that will surpass the Eiffel Tower in height. The project cost is estimated at $240,000.
Visitors at a Paris hotel woke to find their outdoor boots stolen by a burglar. Only one pair remained with a note reading Not good enough for me. The incident highlights a local theft at the hotel.
A chapel bell presented to Tufts is described as a beautiful and appropriate gift. The college chapel bells are now more devoutly and attentively listened to than in older days when student attendance at religious exercises was more insistent and compulsory.
A man takes his wife to a baseball game and spends two hours trying to explain why his currency idea matters more than Congress after she misses the first time. The scene contrasts personal persuasion with public policy and ends with him going wild.
A new method lets audiences vote on a play without interrupting the performance. Each theatergoer will drop a ticket into one of three boxes labeled good, indifferent, or bad as they leave. The system seeks immediate, unobtrusive audience reaction.
A German scientist reports that bachelors are more prone to insanity than married men after analyzing lunacy ward records, claiming 80 percent of inmates are unmarried. He asserts that immune men against flirtation have a radical mental defect.
The text notes Alaska's vast natural wealth including coal deposits and petroleum veins whose quality awaits testing. It emphasizes immediate coal availability, as the territory currently imports most fuel, and suggests Alaska’s possibilities are only beginning to be understood.
Thousands of American tourists flood Quebec for the 400 year celebration of Champlain's founding as British and Canadian dignitaries gather. Vice-President Fairbanks and Field Marshal Lord Roberts are among the notable attendees while 15 000 soldiers and 500 sailors prepare for events on the Plains of Abraham and surrounding defenses.
Frankfort Ky G W Rowland a two year clerk at the state penitentiary has confessed to the prison commissioners that he is short 1600 dollars in the convicts fund money earned by inmates or sent to them. Rowland says he used the funds to pay for his brother s medical treatment in a Boston hospital. He is married with two children.
Twenty tallyho party members were scattered along the road at Colma when a San Mateo electric car crashed the vehicle. Five remain in precarious condition: Miss Annie Hayes Mrs May Nelson Miss Annie Nelson Frank Guest and A L Molan.
In The Hague a practical confession of guilt from Dutch campaign officers admits that women and children were slaughtered in Acheen rebellion fighting in northern Sumatra. The defense argues women and children are dangerous fighters. The anti government Assembly wing plans to use the admission to attack the majority policy.
In Sacramento California Chinese highbinders placed a price on the head of District Attorney Eugene S Wachorst after his conviction of Gin Suiei in a murder feud. Wachorst is now guarded by armed detectives as tensions rise among the group.
A Bad Neuheim dispatch clarifies that the reported death of Admiral Rojestvensky is false and that a different man with the same name died there recently. The erroneous obituary reached St Petersburg, prompting the denial.
Edwin Withey longtime secretary of a local lodge in Springfield Illinois died by suicide in the lodge room Monday night He distributed his clothing at officers stations before lying on the Bible in the center and taking carbolic acidAuthorities say he did this in the lodge room after visiting late at night and arranging items around the room The act ends a lengthy period of service with the Odd Fellows and leaves the community shocked
W C Garrard of Illinois state agriculture board served twenty years and died at his home Tuesday morning after a wasting illness from Brights disease. He leaves a widow and two daughters Caroline and Coburn. Garrard was known to exhibitors at the state fair and to politicians statewide.
Secretary Loeb informs La Crosse fair association that President Roosevelt will not give a speech nor take part in the forthcoming campaign during the September county fair.
Dr BE B McGraw, a well known physician, was instantly killed and Andrew B McShean, manager of Duquesne Garden and the Traction company parks, was severely shocked early Tuesday in an automobile accident in Pittsburg Pennsylvania.
Kansas City detective James McMahon dies of tetanus after being attacked and bitten by a hog on his farm near the city. Authorities report the incident occurred at his residence and note his prior service and prominence in local law enforcement. Funeral arrangements are forthcoming.
Henry Codman Potter bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York died Tuesday night after weeks of illness. Born May 25, 1834 in Schenectady, he was son of Rev. Alonzo Potter and nephew of Horatio Potter. Educated at Episcopal Academy and Virginia Seminary, he held honorary degrees from Cambridge Oxford Harvard and Yale. He championed temperance reforms and proposed a plan to remove saloon sin while offering attractive alternatives.
In a midnight holdup near Likely two masked highwaymen seized the express box containing about 28 000 dollars for pay rolls of Nevada California Oregon railway crews and stock farms in Moore county. They ordered the agent to throw off the box and rode away after opening it. Passes from Alturas tracked them across the Nevada state line.
Seth Bullock, the Rough Rider marshal of South Dakota, plans to accompany President Roosevelt to Africa. Roosevelt requested Bullock join the expedition, and the Dakota lawman says he will likely make the trip to protect him from jungle dangers.
Chris J Fitzgerald John G Cavanaugh former manager of the betting ring and William A Engeman owner of the Brighton Beach race track indicted as common gamblers. Orlando Jones bookmaker is principal witness. The trio pleaded not guilty and were paroled.
Two masked bandits armed with pistols halted a Wells Fargo messenger Monday night on the Likely and Alturas stage in Nevada. They forced the driver to drop a box believed to contain payroll gold. Passengers escaped unharmed. no descriptions of the robbers were obtained due to darkness.
Minnesota and North Dakota farmers face a looming harvest crisis with about 30,000 workers needed. Railroads offer no transport incentives, risking a bumper crop left unharvested as crews remain scarce and time presses.
In Chicago the Federal Court of Appeals overturned Judge Landis's $29 240 000 fine on Standard Oil of Indiana and remanded for a new trial. The panel mocked the trial ruling that linked the New Jersey parent to the Indiana defendant and questioned punishing a party not before the court. Judge Grosscup authored the decision, reading it aloud in court amid a tense dispute with Judge Landis over public remarks by jurists.
Second Lieutenant Paul J. Morley of the National Guard camp at Camp Hays Gettysburg Pa died after a lightning strike marked him while inspecting sentries. A score of guardsmen were stunned as Morley died two hours later. The officer was killed Wednesday morning.
Johnson Taten, a young farmer near Talmage Nebraska, shot his wife four times. Remorse led him to help a neighbor dress the wounds and he then rode to Nebraska City to surrender to the sheriff. He had deserted his wife nine months earlier.
The Castellane custody case against Count De Castellane, former husband of Princess Helle de Sagan, continued again before Judge Ditte in Paris and was adjourned to next Wednesday.
R Sylvester E Smite of St Louis writes of recovery from exposure and bronchial catarrh after taking Peruna. A W Perrin MD of Brooklyn says he uses Peruna and recommends it to patients for catarrh, noting it was unknown when he began using it. Peruna is now available through local druggists.
In a light exchange a speaker asks what a post mortem is and another replies it is what a woman places at the end of a letter. The remark reflects a playful slyness likely from a domestic or social column in a historical newspaper.
Lichens cover the stone paving in Madeira making streets slippery so sleighs can be used year round. The note highlights the unusual climate that allows snowless sleigh travel.
A quoted snippet notes a woman who avoids directly asking for wine yet appears to suffer when present with it. The speaker identifies this as an all around case of sham pain, signaling a performative display rather than true distress.
The Washington Star quotes Dustin Stux discussing whether trusts and mergers place great capitalists on terms of friendship. The crux is that the reconfiguration has merely brought the fighting to closer range, signaling heightened tension in the financial arena.
A fragment shows Newitt and Markley discussing Dr. Price not charging poor patients. Markley recalls a treatment where Price asked if he had money and then accepted payment, implying a willingness to take money from patients.
A humorous dialogue notes the parrot as one of the longest-lived birds. Miss Miami Brown cites the parrot’s longevity while Mr. Erastus Pinkley calls the claim strictly ornithological, and a Washington Star quip adds that the parrot may live long because he isn’t good to eat.
A Washington physician reports severe periodical headaches, sallow complexion, and sleepless nights that vanished after he stopped coffee and switched to Postum. He notes weight gain, clearer mind, and renewed vigor, crediting correct preparation and nourishment from Postum beverages. The letter, claimed genuine, is circulated by Postum Co. of Battle Creek, Michigan.
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