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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1916
Page
7
Court records list preliminary reports and proposed real estate sales to pay debts from guardianship cases. Numerous transfers involving Granite City Woodriver Alton Collinsville and Madison townships include parcels sold to satisfy balances with amounts ranging from a few hundred to several thousand dollars.
A list of property transfers including Chas F Calame to Oswald R Stan ka in Godfrey township Sec 30 for 1200 dollars and multiple marriage license entries with names and ages across St Louis Edwardsville Hillsboro and Coffeen noting individuals such as Minnie Rucker Flora Watts Charlotte Becker Emma Sickbert Ora Traylor Maud Sturgeon Joseph Brown Elizabeth Dildhaber Wright Whitney Anna McGrory David Athey and Loia Sioole among others.
A compact set of dining rules advises not offering to pass a plate for others, starting to eat when ready, avoiding second helpings of soup or fish, never cutting bread but breaking it, placing salt and mustard to the plate side, keeping elbows tucked in for neighbors, and using wrist movements rather than elbow motions when handling food.
A physician may carry medicines in a novel cane with a tubular slide for vials. French inventors create shipboard sirens audible up to two miles. Glass panes resist splintering by heat pressing two sheets with a cell between. A discreet finger ring guard prevents turning. Paris spends about $100,000 yearly on street trees with over 1,000 new plantings annually.
Advertisement claims Dr. King's New Discovery is a pleasant sweet syrup for coughs and colds. It asserts years of experience prove it best, offers money back guarantee, and urges buying a bottle and using as directed for cough and cold relief.
In Troy, readers praise Adleri-ka for instant relief using buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients. A single spoonful is said to ease constipation sour stomach or gas by acting on both bowels. Some claim it prevents appendicitis and aids chronic stomach trouble after short treatment. Kings ton druggist notes ndy.
Chinese shipyards may build ships for the United States as they already do for European owners. Hongkong enjoys a boom with one yard prepared to build steamships up to 10,000 tons. Labor is wholly Chinese, with a white staff for technical roles.
A 25 cent bottle of Sloan's Liniment is praised by a user who says it cured years of rheumatism. The ad claims quick warming relief for neuralgia, backache, soreness, and stiffness, urging purchase at any drug store. Also promotes fashion skirts at Miss Rose Wilkinson's.
An old advertisement notes Hali's Catarrh Cure taken internally for blood and mucous surfaces with testimonies sent free and a price of four cents per bottle. Also promotes Ifall's Amity Pills for constipation from druggists.
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