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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1906
Page
2
A Jefferson county tax collector sues, ordering dog owners to pay by May 1 or have their dogs killed. The era of cheap newspapers ends as the post office denies second class rates to subsidized papers, threatening many advertising driven papers with death.
The Highland Journal notes a Greenville girl who won a husband by inscribing her name and address on a milk can label now trusts advertising efficacy. A St Jacob youth who did the same with a flour sack and kept up letters with a city man for a time likely has a different view.
An exchange quotes a civic-minded slogan denouncing small motives and urging residents to contribute to public enterprises. It stresses that only active units make a town lively and progressive, and that those who do not participate should consider moving on as their departure is welcomed.
A Smith County Kansas fraud targets farmers with a barb wire fencing set up. The swindler leaves a wire stretcher and forty rods for trial and asks the farmer to sign a good faith postal card contract. The signed amount of three dollars secretly becomes three hundred. If he returns, villagers are urged to enlist police dogs.
Alfred Mosely, a wealthy Englishman, asserts American boys are brighter than English boys. He notes Americans reject condescension from Squireling or any overman and listen to Uncle Sam’s youths. Each has a rising ambition, not content to stay in a fixed class if a path upward opens.
The farmer, nearer the kingdom of heaven than others, enjoys three meals, self sufficiency, and a simple bounty from cattle, sheep, fowl, and fields. Yet most farmers overlook these provisions, even as businessmen chase only slight year end gains.
The article surveys global wheat hunger risks and four focus areas: expanding arable land, improving seed quality, using legume crop rotation to boost soil nitrogen, and producing nitrates. It notes dwindling Chilean nitrate supplies, proposes urban sewage as a fertilizer source, and describes a Norwegian nitrate plant using hydroelectric power to fix atmospheric nitrogen.
An Springfield woman wrote 2344 memorized words from Beecher's Liverpool speech in 30 minutes, beating 2099 words in 30 minutes set last November. The feat, likened to shaving a second from a hundred yard dash, suggests typewriters may near shorthand speeds and raises questions about future verbatim reporting without notes. The piece mentions Susan B. Anthony's influence and a capitol guide quip about Senator Lodge's teetotaler habits.
In Washington May 19 the Tillman Roosevelt clash dominates Capitol debate as Lodge’s phone stunt backfires. The piece praises the President’s rate bill stance while accusing Tillman of partisan deceit and notes public concern over the beef trust and the Jungle scandal. It cautions Congress on pure food, drug laws, canal procurement, and choosing economical, nonpartisan sourcing for the planned canal.
Henry Clews argues true socialism means improving general conditions via middle class influence. He envisions profit sharing on railroads and corporations without revolution, warns municipal ownership is futile, and urges adherence to the Golden Rule for society’s greatest good.
Greenville Item reports the surveyors who vanished after reaching Effingham stayed at a hotel until amassing $200 debt, then disbanded and returned home. The piece asks readers to reveal the fate of English capitalists and the McKinley syndicate backing the project.
A damaged sheet mixes verse on a mother's grave with a humorous classroom exchange about ground hog day. The poem recounts a family's grief at a mother's death and burial in a rural graveyard, with sentimental imagery of violets and birds, followed by a light caption about a pupil's reply and a groundhog snoozing in class.
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