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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1905
Page
2
On Saturday March 15 2005 citizens are urged by Troy to help at the polls for reforms in government. The piece notes a long cold snap ending with warming signs as people begin yard work and gardens. Verily, time brings weather changes.
The Highland Journal cites St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Post-Dispatch and Republic as also facing damage suits. It quips misery loves company and claims it is joining a fairly strong group of papers in the legal actions.
The report notes numerous sun spots on the eastern meridian amid atmospheric disturbance forecasts. Focus shifts to local elections in the township, municipality, and schools, plus attention to an electric road project on the agenda.
Hume Missouri residents form a Dont Worry Club with a pledge to avoid worrying fretting roaring or chewing the rag for a full year, promising to remain sweet and contented by effort. The snippet suggests Troy should rally eligibles to take the pledge and improve morale nationwide.
A state Senate second reading bill to regulate dental practice in Illinois faces strong opposition. The measure would empower a board to set university status, divert all fees to the board, and create a surplus fund for graft. Advertisers in dentistry are blamed for a supposed scheme favored by reform opponents.
Spain supplies most American oranges and its industry spans eastern and southern Catalonia Valencia Alicante Murcia Malta and Seville. In Valencia and Murcia the orchards thrive in huerta with rich guano soils. A mature tree yields 1500 to 1800 oranges per season, starting at six years old and peaking around twenty before decline.
English surgeon Sir William McLwen argues in a lecture that the vermiform appendix has an important digestive role and serves as a habitat for a micro-organism that attacks poorly assimilated nourishment. He cautions the appendix should be removed only to save life if necessary.
A gamekeeper near Winches ter keeps pheasants under electric netting to deter cats. Cats touching the wires are killed, and the keeper collects 255 tails each morning. Neighbors suspect their cats contribute to the collection.
A Syracuse father recounts applying Bucklen’s Amica Salve to a severe eye cut on his son. The salve allegedly healed the wound quickly and saved the eye, also aiding burns and ulcers. Available for 25 cents at S Kingston’s drug store.
A short item touts alarming mortality from appendicitis and peritonitis and promotes Dr King s New Life Pills as the cure all remedy. It cites M Flannery of 14 Custom House Place Chicago praising relief from constipation and biliousness and notes 25c at S Kingston druggist. Subscription ad for Tan Werencey Cane at $1 00 per year.
From The Weekly Bulletin March 13 1875 reports illness and recoveries in Troy including Dr John Dewey and Rev Thatcher. Local transactions note L F Pike visiting and land sale at Fritz Wolf farm Ed wardsville for 92 per acre. Medical degrees awarded to Zanders Whiteside Suppiger. Dr George H Dewey wins $156 in a professional services suit. March winds blow fences down and a cupola tin roof is torn from M I E church. Madam Jarleys Wax Works delight at Presbyterian church with Troy String Band aiding collection of 46.85 dollars.
Putnam, a Republican, appears set to win the Sangamon district recount for the Illinois Senate, defeating Democrat Sucher as a heated session of verification unfolds. The outcome seals Putnam’s return to the upper chamber amidst disputes over procedural moves by the committee and party alignment.
An Illinois move proposes a state free library board with five members, two women, salaried at 1500 dollars yearly, to take over traveling libraries from the institute. The plan mirrors broader efforts by Mrs James Jake of Chicago, wife of a director, linked to the Chicago Federation of Women's Clubs. No railroad tax scrutiny is planned, despite Senator Bartley’s prior push to investigate the Terminal Railway Association of St Louis.
An old advertisement notes a spring tonic named Folllaer's Rocky Mountain Tea priced at 35 cents. It promotes health boosts for children and families, claiming it helps eating, sleeping, and growth. The text includes a sales pitch about telling what you have to sell and mentions Ted and S. Kingaton.
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