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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1906
Page
2
Entry indicates mailing details for Troy Illinois publication. It outlines subscription renewal, delivery expectations, and customer service directions including sample copies and reporting missed issues. The text references regular rates for admissions and a subscription address in Troy.
A 1906 news brief notes John D. Rockefeller’s $100,000 relief gift after San Francisco’s disaster of April 18. It also reports Standard Oil’s gasoline and coal oil price hikes on April 19. The piece criticizes Rockefeller, calling him deceitful and a model of clever but conscience lacking business practices.
The parcels post would boost railroads with large annual subsidies and favor mail order interests. It would concentrate business in big cities, force travel on passengers, worsen poverty and congestion, and push the government toward greater control.
A rural press laments that few papers have not opposed the city mail order house. Editors fought for home merchants without pay, while department storemen now seek advertising space. The piece argues editors deserve fair rates and question who would refuse to help friends who rarely reciprocate.
The farmers of one township have been converted by Town and Country. The report notes a shift in practices or affiliations prompted by the organization, reflecting changing agricultural approaches or community alignment within the region.
The Pennsburg weekly notes farmers will fund nearly three miles of highways at about $6,000, modernizing all township road beds. A Greenville item mentions a long distance interurban electric road once planned nearby, and a stray warning about surveyors who disappeared between Effingham and Vandalia.
Gillespie advises that the split log drag proved the best cheapest and most effective method to restore streets post winter. Locally confidence is low and there is aversion to even trying it.
The poultry business grows yearly becoming highly lucrative and threatening to rival major farm industries. Some farmers admit that hens can elevate farm finances nearly to a mortgage level.
Readers are urged to inform the newspaper when they visit or are visited or have any other item of interest for readers, citing that good form to call and share such news with the paper.
Two paths to publication are buying an interest or an interview, and pulling wool over editors for free entry. Muckrakers fade after the Frisco earthquake, a calamity some say is a relief. The boodler’s true name is now widely recognized as a benefit to the country.
A Minnesota man says he has discovered the cause of the aurora borealis though the note raises questions about its relevance to the coal strike or building an electric road to Troy. Metropolitan papers report Anna Gould is to give Count one more chance despite many prior chances.
The Boston Globe observes that with 10 000 doctors in convention there next summer the rest of the country ought to have a good opportunity to get well.
A fragmentary civic poem laments nightly garbage collection and street aromas. It critiques council salaries and upkeep costs, hints at upcoming city actions, and ends with a boast of streets being cleaned and the council being “all right.” The piece blends humor with public works anxieties and ends with a drug advertisement fragment.
Washington notes discuss a proposed tariff free admission of steel for San Francisco reconstruction after the quake. The issue echoes broader tariff revision politics as Congress weighs delaying or advancing the measure, with lawmakers and leaders eyeing joint statehood and a long session ahead amid fears of election impact.
A humorous Uncle Reuben letter riffs on Taft and 1909 politics, noting Taft’s influence in the Philippines and Washington, Uncle Joe Cannon, Fairbanks, and Shaw. The piece playfully references Wallace, Manilly, Teddy, and others while framing a growing presidential lineup with colorful dialect and local tone.
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Boston Herald scolds Speaker Cannon for a possible statehood delay while Highland Journal flags the Alton school case as perpetual motion in court. Effingham Republican urges cautions on local investment and media use. Greenville Sun riff on voter turnout and electioneering. Edwardsville Democrat mocks Russian critics over Maxim Gorky affair.
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