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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1910
Page
6
A fragment notes lawyers in Room 4 at the New Palace Building with the phone line Be Main 284. One member of the firm visits Squire Eckert's Troy office each Saturday, confirming weekly arrangements.
The article portrays Chester as a substantial river city on the Mississippi, highlighted by warden J. B. Smith’s management and a shift from water to rail transport. It notes four railroads serving Chester, the influence of the Panama Canal, and government plans to deepen the river, along with local industry including flour mills and a hosiery firm.
Chester Illinois promotes its resources and business climate centering on the Southern Illinois Penitentiary. The piece details coal fields, mineral deposits, building materials, water, power, and transport advantages, plus a vision of growth for the city. It notes the penitentiary near Chester, its origins in 1877, and its modern, orderly, departmented operations under Gen. J. B. Smith since 1993 with improved facilities and a new hospital.
A deaf sheepman with a big dog and beard, a dumb man lifting a hub and spoke, and a blind ear peter who saw a plane are cited. A Tieberman with no sense of smell nets herring and smells truth. Citizens attest to seeing a horse, chimney swallow, board walk, awort fish and picket fence while hearing a tree bark. If Call want ads vanished, no ads would exist.
James Townsend of Milltown New Jersey a G A R member plans to decorate his own grave and have a ring above it with his picture taken if alive next Memorial Day He bought a metallic coffin from Undertaker Hubbard of New Brunswick and has long decorated his grave at Van Liew cemetery where his wife rests The inscription on her tomb also mentions him with no death date.
A fragmented timetable lists scattered times labeled Local and Limit with entries such as 6:64 a.m. Local, 9:50 a.m. Limit Local, and 11:50 p.m. Local. The text ends with EL W. Fredericks as agent and notes Bleeper to Peer and Bleeper to Springfield references.
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