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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1909
Page
3
Up to Easter, customers spending one dollar or more receive a pattern from the catalogue. The Ladies' Home Journal Patterns are praised for simplicity and accuracy and are shown as the leading pattern. Also selling subscriptions to Ladies' Home Journal and Saturday Evening Post. Matsu Silk and Soisette fabrics offered by yard with various colors.
Garden tasks Easter around the corner and Easter postcards on sale at The Call office. Wheat holds at 1.21 after an up and down. Dr June Sallee offers free eye exams at St James hotel Edwardsville on March 29. Scarlet fever closes Collinsville high school. Many property transfers listed for Collinsville Edwardsville and Troy. Local grocer S S Avis sells stock to Tra File. Navy recruit Wesley Sandles reports passing exams in San Francisco and assignment to Pensacola. Various medicines advertised including ManZan Pile Remedy and Woods Liver Medicine. Community notices include births deaths and marriage listings in the Collinsville Edwardsville area.
Corrected weekly list shows prices in dollars per unit for Wheat Corn Oats Clover Eray Timothy Hay Straw Bran White Middlings Shipstuff Potatoes Meal Cattle Hogs Sheep Spring Limbs Calves Chickens Butter Heys and other staples with ranges from 1.00 to 6.25 per unit and several entries garbled or unclear.
Court notes list several civil actions with damages and venue changes. Earl Crowson vs. Granite and St. Louis Traction Co. seeks 10000. jury funds awarded 600 to defendant. Mary D Phillips as administrator files against Clover Leaf railroad. damages rise to 10000 and petition for federal venue change granted. Other cases include dismissals and appeals in matters involving New Staunton Coal Co Madison Coal Co St. Louis & Northeastern and Livingston vs Mattie Abbott.
The docket lists T. G. Watts versus J. E. and Thomas Grange on appeal. Emily Greer versus Corn Products Refining Co. on appeal. Elizabeth Liebler versus Robert Liebler seeks divorce, with complaint alleging intoxication and non support. Anna K. Wilson versus James Wilson seeks divorce on cruelty, and Michael Jacob versus Anna Jacob seeks divorce with desertion cited.
Probate proceedings list items from J. T. Hirschi Clara Wells Wilhelmina Fix Christina Froelich Michael Meyers Kate M. Paul Louis Gindler Caroline Cannon Amelia Miller Maris Koehne guardian bond Sarah Cook Henry Donelson and others with hearings, inventories, guardian appointments, and estate actions noted in a single court docket.
Authorized to purchase note for 577 dollars for H J Reuss deceased with no will. letters issued to Frank Ford. bond of 100 dollars presented and approved. Thomas Still deceased. balance 697.50 due executrix. report approved. Elizabeth Barber deceased. final report receipts 235.95 expenditures 210.95 balance 25. approved. John H Paul deceased. final report receipts 3190.60. outlay 1369.58. due administratrix 1178.98. approved. E G Voigt, 25 Henrietta McMichael, 25 Alhambra. Joseph Golfieri, 30 St Louis. John H Bright, 20 East Alton. Gemma Ducini, 18 Edwardsville. Mary Thomas, 20 East Alton. Fred Heidemann, 25 Alton. Grace Koehne, 18. J Grastaub, 23 Sedalia. Ruth C Lamb, 18 Sedalia. Me Dee Cross, 21 Alton. Florence Webster, 18 Alton. John Carpunkey, 33 Hamburg. Frances Curtis, 1800 Hamburg. Frank Mallory, 42 Jacksonville. Bertha Duncan, 35 Jacksonville. Try the St Louis Times, 30 cents per month. Daniel Peterman, agent.
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