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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1909
Page
2
A brief newspaper item noting the availability or purchase terms for subscriptions or single copies spanning intervals of one year, six months, and three months. The notice emphasizes pricing and access model without additional context or figures.
The Post Office Department mandates that subscriptions unpaid for a full year lose second class mailing privileges. The Call may discontinue subscriptions that are one year in arrears, a rule that remains in effect and enforceable.
A reflective remark notes that pursuing wealth without honest work yields poverty and predicts an edict to “Cut the weeds,” a task that needs no cultivation yet promises a bumper crop.
The article notes wheat reaches its highest level since 1968, signaling a bumper crop. It portrays the average farmer optimistic, with dreams of lucrative wheat profits appearing likely this year.
The Call notes a large number of bills passed by the 46th Illinois General Assembly while many measures died. The piece emphasizes the importance of lawmakers both enacting notable laws and stopping others, highlighting the legislature’s contentious balance.
Andrew Carnegie, praising the American Hero Fund, intends to establish a French equivalent with a one million dollar endowment. Medals honor courageous acts that save lives, and in death, dependents receive a life income. Carnegie, now famed for generosity, travels in Europe after arriving in America with little.
The Greenville Advocate’s Thursday extra pages summarize recent local improvements totaling 240,256.87 dollars. The city’s growth stems from progressive citizens’ drive for better amenities and a transformative shift from a country town to a thriving community nearing 5,000 residents.
Thomas A Edison unveils a concrete house concept costing 1200 dollars far cheaper than a stone design. A single house isn’t feasible, but blocks can be produced using the same molds. The 25 by 30 foot one family dwelling would include six rooms, bath, cellar under all, boiler, Washtubs, coal bunkers, and cast decorations. It takes four days to set molds and six hours to pour liquid concrete. Molds stay four days, four more to remove. initial claim of a one day build revised to about a fortnight.
Washington notes report the Senate postponed further action on Bailey's income tax amendment to June 10 while Aldrich signals possible further postponement. Cummins leads opposition to a test vote, arguing it disrupts tariff schedules, and Bailey argues postponement hides high duty rates. The episode recalls Taft's restraint and political dynamics, including North's resignation and Lorimer's Illinois Senate win. Dr Shoop's Restorative is advertised at the end.
The piece argues the government should extend price at cost provisions to groceries and hardware for rural shoppers and even establish postal savings banks and farm machinery programs. It mocks socialism as a path to widespread urban decay and empty storefronts.
A Washington Star item mocks modern wheeled contraptions and daily travel by foot as the piece contrasts fanciful names like PHACT and PHUNC with practical feet. A lighthearted exchange in Edwardsville about telephone worker propriety ends with a quip about electricity shocks. Casey jokes about not naturalized voting in church offering.
Describes how attractive women are envied and links beauty to health from purifying blood and balanced organs. Promotes Electric Bitters as a cure for constipation, kidney poisons, and nervousness, claiming improved complexion, nerves, breath, and eyes. Mentions Pine salve by Kingston’s as a healing antiseptic.
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