25 Jul 1913
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1913
Page
1
A lively miscellany of quips notes and anecdotes on weather vacations love and daily life. It touches on aviators fashion New York marriages public meals and the Panama Canal era with playful observations and sharp witticisms from a bygone newspaper page.
The remark credits Dr Friedman for a serum valued by those who fish for local bait and by experts, underscoring its reputed utility in turtle related contexts.
A messenger boy was arrested in Philadelphia the other day for speeding on a bicycle. This incident highlights local enforcement of traffic rules affecting youth delivery workers in the city.
The prospect of wearing feathers in men se hats threatens to become a countrywide fad, a development likely to delight hat trim manufacturers and propel demand for plumes and related adornments across the industry.
President Wilson seeks neutral stance in Mexican conflict and favors a peace plan. He would urge all factions to disarm, hold an election, and accept the winner for U S recognition. Congress members Bacon Flood back a cautious approach while weighing arm embargo repeal.
Police estimate sixty three workers, mostly women and girls, died in the Binghamton Clothing Co factory fire after reports from hospitals and relatives were received. The toll reflects the disaster’s human cost as officials confirm the tragedy in Binghamton New York.
In Turin Italy tests have been made of a machine by a mechanic named Flor which is claimed to demonstrate perpetual motion. The principle is stated as the contraction and expansion of gas driving the device.
The Express states that authorities instructed police at channel ports that if suffragette leader Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst is sighted crossing, she should not be arrested. The report notes the instruction was issued recently by the police.
Mrs. Nina Lane Mc Bride, daughter of Senator Lane, announced she would begin a Socialist stumping tour of Pennsylvania next month to advocate for her party.
An automobile collided with a field and scattered a bull that charged Peter Breen. The farmer suffered three broken ribs as a result of the encounter and the bull was driven away from the area.
New York reports the bomb addressed to Andrew Carnegie, via the Carnegie Corporation secretary, was revealed as Scotch cheese placed in a zinc sealed case.
Western Iowa reports the heaviest wheat crop this year with yields up to 47 bushels per acre. Quality is described as finest, and railroads are heavily taxed to haul the grain amid strong production.
A devastating blaze at the Binghamton Clothing Co factory in Binghamton New York kills about fifty people and injures thirty five. Most victims were women and girls trapped as flames turned the four story building into a furnace. Thousands gather as rescue workers drill through hot ruins, bodies recovered and an ongoing effort to cool the wreckage continues.
President Wilson and Senator Owen indicated no changes to the administration currency bill. The Glass bill, with house committee amendments, would keep national banks using 2 percent government bonds for circulation and pass in its current form. Representative Ragsdale quit the committee session after failing to obtain copies of the amendments, citing procedural objections.
The Times in Sofia reports Turkish cavalry under Enver Bey entered Adrianople after a brief clash with the garrison. Bulgaria seems ready to concede key demands to secure peace as Serbians Greeks and Rumanians close in around Sofia. Turkey asserts a frontier claim that extends to Adrianople via a northern curve near the Maritz river.
Mrs. Mary J. Welsh, long blind for fifty years, greeted her children and grandchildren at Hillsdale Michigan after a successful sight restoring operation at Wesley Hospital. Neighbors described the emotional reunion as she first beheld her family.
A riot at a Washington baseball game injures one officer hospitalized and two more with bruises. Four thousand fans learn that a team of Bloomer girls were men in disguise, wrecking part of Union League baseball park.
A porte note signals fore shadowing a war declaration against Bulgaria. The scene unfolds as the Turkish government seeks to regain liberty of action after limits set by the London convention. Belgrade reports Premier Pachich will receive Bulgarian delegates at Nish, with Venizzelos and a Roumanian delegate possibly joining, and peace might come within three days. Bulgarian generals Paprikoff Ivantcheff and Col. Toptcheff, the delegates, have moved from Tsaribred toward Nish.
Washington says Chile will consider Secretary Bryan's peace plan and endorse it in principle. The details have been sent to 22 nations already backing the effort and to 17 nations yet to respond to the preliminary notice.
Government may close Yale post office if volunteers do not step forward to fill the postmaster role. The office paid $362 last year, but residents were too busy to consider it as a side line.
Lake Charles Louisiana reports Hershal Pearce aged 16 confessed to robbing a Wells Fargo office of $21,000 and led officers to a buried tin can containing $12,000. The remainder had been spent.
Bulgarian fugitives spread word that Enver Bey had been seen near Adrianople causing a false report of Turkish reoccupation. Sofia officials clarified the claim as untrue.
Explosion partly wrecks Helvetia silk mills causing great damage to machinery and fittings. Police conduct a rigid examination into the incident.
City officials delivered speeches from a platform in the public square near the monument to Moses Cleveland as part of the celebration marking 117 years since the city’s founding.
Washington officials report alarming expectations of a crisis in Mexico. Unimpeachable sources say the next two weeks will bring developments of tremendous importance to the Huerta government.
Fred Brown was shot and killed by Will Brown in Caruthersville Missouri in a quarrel over 1 90. The assailant tried to flee but was captured by officials and jailed. The men were not related.
Quiet again prevails in Seattle with no anticipated trouble over the Socialists and Industrial Workers of the World as the fleet ships depart the harbor.
In Boulder Cole the mayor urges girls to stay in the shade or face jail for wearing diaphanous gowns in sunlight, reflecting a city-society tension over dress and decency. The status of enforcement and exact penalties remain unclear in the readable text.
Fort Smith Arkansas reports the remarkable case of Rev. Marion Capps a Methodist minister condemned to execution who was saved by the same daughter who told the story. The sequence of events centers on the daughter recounting the tale leading to clemency and release.
A wild man who allegedly lives on raw blue jays inspires panic as a posse pursues him. In Arizona, ranchers report the mysterious figure occasionally walks on one hand and a foot while whistling and talking, prompting authorities to intervene.
In Greenwood Arkansas Reverend Marion Capps of White Bluff was cleared when prosecutor Paul Little dismissed the murder case after key witnesses repudiated prior testimonies. The court action ends a case tied to the deaths of Capps's two children.
Complete agreement reached between the War Department and the National Guard Association executive committee on a bill outline. The plan aims to make the organized militia valuable for immediate service in any region as part of the regular army.
Panama report says Col. Goethals notified Lt. Col. Gaillard that steam shovel work in the Culebra cut will proceed under the plan to dynamite the Gamboa dike on October 10. The move is aimed at accelerating the canal's ocean merging timeline and involves the central division chief overseeing blasting operations.
Alford Warringer Cooley former United States assistant attorney general and former New Mexico supreme court judge, the most prominent patient to receive Dr. Friedmann's cure for tuberculoisis, died here.
In England one million eight hundred eighty eight thousand working days were lost due to labor disputes, while two hundred twenty five thousand workers gained a net wage increase of fourteen thousand eight hundred pounds per week.
Fragmentary OCR from the Washington Herald quotes a contralto voice with phrases like Don't shoot and Darn those care. The text is garbled and lacks clear context or full names, presenting as an incomplete historical snippet.
Advertising copy touts Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing as curing the worst sores and relieving pain. Claims such as “old relic” cure-all and mentions a bottle price of $1.00.
A Sunflower club member borrows a book titled Romans from the library while visiting a minister's wife. She expects a Roman history but discovers it is about St Paul. The Kansas City Star notes the mix up as a humorous city mislabel.
For Aching Perapiring. Feet use Tyree's Antiseptic Powder either sprinkled into the shoes or used in solution. Never fails to relieve. 25¢ at all druggists or sample sent free by J. S&S. Tyree, Washington DC Ady.
Archie and his little comrades played Indians in the backyard and held a mock council of war. Archie returned pale and weak, and his mother learned they had been fighting until someone declared a “pipe of peace” to end the skirmish.
A vicar and curate quarrel led the curate to seek another congregation. He preached a farewell sermon to large crowds, choosing a moving Abraham story as his text. The line, Tarry you here with the ass while I go yonder, framed his exit.
During a sermon the five year old Harold studies the hymn book rack literature and newsletter calendar. He holds up the church calendar and whispers to his mother that Ash Wednesday is the day their ashes are always collected too.
A faint patient asks for a drink from a nurse and requests water in a teaspoon to ease his transition. The nurse agrees and offers assistance as he weakly pleads for aid.
In 1912 France mobilized 227000 recruits with 8.46 percent illiterate and 22.5 percent having only basic reading and writing skills.
A brief aphorism by Antoine Jean Casse de Saint Pros per notes that a woman's life unfolds in three stages: dreaming of love, experiencing it, and ultimately regretting it. The reflection frames romance as a journey through hopeful passion to sorrow.
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