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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1906
Page
4
Dr F E Linder operates a dental office on Market Street in the Rieder Building opposite the Postoffice, permanently located in Troy. Office hours are 9 30 to 12 m and 1 30 to 5 pm. Phones: Office 54 Residence 84.
Local notes report Lent began, Easter hats at Mrs Hampton, and Henry Samuels ill with pneumonia. Donk Bros workers received semi monthly pay, George Salter to run a barber shop, and a pie sale by Merry Workers on March 10. A twelve pound son arrived for the Horstmanns of Collinsville. The Collinaville Opera House plans a new ground and a modern theater for next season. Typhoid fever illness sent W M Austin to St Joseph’s hospital. Witch Hazel Salve advertised for piles, from E C DeWitt & Co Chicago.
A local notice warns against counterfeit Witch Hazel Salve misrepresented as DeWitt's sold by S Kingston. A highway report from a township meeting details a request to the State Highway Commission for road machinery and materials to improve wagon roads outside Troy, with usage to follow state rules.
Local 691 of the United Mine Workers of America adopts resolutions mourning the death of Brother Joseph Goehl. The notice notes his virtues and close ties to members, drapes the charter in mourning for 30 days, expresses sympathy to his family, and requests publication in The Weekly Call. Signatures include TuHoos Naylor James Taylor and Emir Drove.
Community notices list upcoming gatherings: Mrs P M Davidson visits next Wednesday. Ladies Aid with Mrs Wm Baird next Thursday March 8. Troy Cemetery Mite Society at Mrs 8 W Rawson’s Saturday March 10. Lent services by Rev H T Bahn at German Evangelical next Wednesday 7 30 pm. St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Lent services next Thursday 7 30 pm by Rev Martin Daib. Also Bucklen’s Arnica Salve praised for piles and burns, 25 cents at S Kingston’s drug store.
A white wash chiffon evening gown features three five inch flounces at the hem with edge silver spangles, an irregularly spangled dotted bodice, a deep bertha neckline trimmed in spangles, and short sleeves. Also noting a cure ad for indigestion and a health claim for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure sold by S Kingston.
June Sallee, an optologist from Litchfield Illinois, offers free eye examinations and glasses priced from one dollar to the finest styles. A branch will operate at the Western Hotel in Highland on Thursday March 22 and at the James Hotel in Edwardsville on Monday March 12.
A Vernon man and his sister planned a birthday gift for his sweetheart. Their packages were swapped. he sent stockings and a letter meant for gloves. The letter warned of scandal and the engagement ended, illustrating a moral about checking a gift’s contents.
A collage of humorous and didactic excerpts about cows and rural life. It blends a boy's simple cow essay with jokes about bicycles and marriage licenses, plus brief moral quips on parental guidance and a Boston Advertiser quote. The pieces evoke old newspaper humor and moralizing tones.
A Pittsburg Post snippet notes a church fair where a pretty girl quotes chances at $10 each. A man, pressed by an emergency, says all he wants is half a chance. The fragment conveys a tense moment at a charitable event.
Fragmentary remark cites a Chicago Sun about a star's acting drawing crowds then shrinking attendance from 800 to ten. The text concludes with a quip that a heavy vote feels heaviest to the candidate buried under it, implying political fatigue or backlash.
A lively tussle with the old race enemy, a constipation, can lead to appendicitis. To prevent stomach liver and bowel trouble, take Dr King’s New Life Pills. They regulate these organs without pain or discomfort. 25 cents at S Kingston's drug store.
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