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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1904
Page
2
The article urges Troy residents and business leaders to sponsor a centennial celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the town’s first settlement. It promotes welcoming World’s Fair visitors returning home, improving the town’s appearance, and launching an “Old Home Week” as part of the festivities with Tur Catt backing the plan and promising a centennial souvenir issue.
Collier's Weekly speculates that John D Rockefeller could launch a presidential bid by funding a nationwide advertising campaign. It imagines Rockefeller clubs in every village and dozens of newspapers promoting his name in green and crimson ink, arguing a billion dollars could reshape politics.
A local appeal urges support for a Centennial Celebration and Old Home Week in Troy this fall. Readers are asked to suggest ideas to ensure success and to spread the plan among neighbors. The piece calls for progress, community effort, and promoting the town’s resources to boost development and attraction.
Fragmentary note recalls Wanamaker's opening and a selection of merchants in the shoe and leather trade. It hints at advertising in the local paper and mentions wheelbarrow merchants and dodgers as examples of frugal spending.
Washington correspondent recalls John Rowlands alias Sir Henry M. Stanley's death and career, notes American incredulity and knighthood, reports on Panama Canal funding and work plans, mentions Elizabeth Ney statues, dives into legends of Marshal Ney and other historical misidentifications, and highlights current U.S. politics including Taft, school scandal, and alleged patent office corruption.
Dr. T G Merritt of N Mehoopany Pa reports a life saving test using Electric Bitters to treat a gastric ulcer causing violent hemorrhages. The patient improved from the first dose and has had no attack in 14 months. Self tested remedy offered for dyspepsia digestion constipation and kidney troubles at 50 cents in S Kingston’s.
Do you need more blood and more flesh this spring Do you need more strength this spring Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will bring them all It raises your money back 35 centa Tea or tablet form at S Kingston's
A claim by D. H. Turner of Dempseytown Pa that Dr King’s New Life Pills restore youth in two weeks. The advertisement states the pills aid liver stomach and bowels, are purely vegetable, never cause griping, and cost 50 cents at S Kingston’s.
From The Weekly Bulletin May 21 1814. Town scenes include flouring mills in operation and improvements to houses fences and lawns. Six physicians served the ill in Troy and vicinity. Wm Donoho and family moved to the Gonterman homestead while Edward Bigelow moved into the Donohos former residence. County officials Wheeler and Kinder visited. Neary dug a 75 foot well at W W Jarvis property, with 45 feet blasted through limestone sandstone and slate. The M F Auwarter store near Troy City Mills was burglarized for 125 to 150 dollars. Eads bridge construction progressed at St Louis and railroad tracks began. bridge expected to open June 1.
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