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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1908
Page
2
The Troy Weekly is issued every Saturday on Market Street by the Square. Antured at the post office in Troy Illinois for transmission to the mails as second class matter.
The Illinois plurality primary will occur on Saturday, August Etho, to nominate party candidates for November offices except president and presidential electors. Presidential nominees are already chosen. electors and university trustees to be chosen at a Springfield convention on Sept. 9. Women cannot vote in primaries, so trustees were not nominated this year. Four parties will nominate state officers. Voters declare party affiliation at the polling place and receive color coded ballots. An advisory U.S. Senate vote features four Republican candidates. Gubernatorial fight centers on Chickes So Denner and former Governor Richerd Yates who contend for the Republican nomination.
The Post Office Department warns rural delivery routes may be cut if the roads served are not improved this summer. A circular to postmasters urges road officials and patrons to repair neglected roads to ensure uninterrupted service year round, or rural delivery could be withdrawn.
The Highland Journal mocks Troy officials as they probe May or Braner, predicting a prime opening for the mayor. Meanwhile Greenville and Mascoutah wrestle with a campaign for public improvements, while shared local bragging and town vanity fuel the chatter in this lively, opinionated piece.
A humorous column parodies new motor regulations by proposing absurd driver rules. It lists outlandish measures such as tarpaulin camouflaging, secret speed limits with fines for excess, rockets at corners, seasonal car paints, dust control with a sprinkler ahead of horses, and even quick disassembly if a horse balks. The piece wraps with an unrelated kidney medicine ad.
Rev W Williams of Huntington West Virginia testifies that Foley's Kidney Remedy relieves nervous exhaustion and kidney trouble. Kingston advertises ManZan Pile Remedy with one application claimed to soothe inflammation and itching at 50 cents guaranteed.
The writer laments rare polite treatment at railroad ticket offices. He notes some agents enjoy helping customers, leaving them with a good impression of the employee and the company, while in general the public is treated as a nuisance and inquiries go unwelcomed.
A Lovington Reporter letter questions universal declination of complimentary tickets for fairs and events. It argues tickets serve as deadhead advertising and urges publishers to start sending payments instead. The writer claims promoters exploit editors as unwitting recipients of free notices.
Baden Baden correspondent reports a well dressed man with fly nets, laprobes, kid gloves and no socks visiting a favorite South Baden Baden girl last Sunday. The note invites readers to guess his identity.
All nations strive to check the white plague consuming 80 victims yearly. Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and prevents consumption with safe certain results. Kingston.
A collage of quips and comic vignettes appears from various era sources including fox and hound banter about hurtin' bizness, survivor lines from a South Seas chief and a missionary, jailhouse robber rhetoric, a youth memoir, and a valedictory note. A joke farmer tale about chickens and a Pat Noah exchange, plus advertisements for Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup Ko dol and ManZan Pile Remedy round out the page.
A pleasure launch bound for Corregidor from Manila foundered with seventy five aboard, drowning as many as twenty five including three Americans. Fifty survivors were saved by the British steamer Suveric which lowered boats at once.
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