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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1910
Page
2
Entry notice shows mailing classification as second class matter from Troy Illinois. Subscription terms follow, outlining price, duration, and renewal options for readers.
A Fort Smith Daily Bulletin piece highlights merchants who ship goods from distant sources while their own town grows financially weak. It recounts a series of scenes with a dry goods merchant, vehicle dealer, grocer, banker, and mail order rivals, ending with a call for homegrown shopping and education beginning at home.
The quote frames education as a reluctantly imposed process, noting it becomes worthwhile when the learner’s head is willing. It suggests that most education succeeds when minds educate themselves and only occasionally do learners welcome instruction.
The writer argues education is too easy and unfocused. He critiques the group elective system, complains advisers overwork students with reexaminations and conditions, and claims most minds cannot absorb more than a small amount of material. He likens the brain to a pint measure and notes the three Rs fill triangular heads.
The speaker urges supporting local industry in every home and shop. Invest in faith and goodwill, buy home made goods, wear home made garments, eat home made foods, sleep on home made beds, and read home made newspapers. Patronize merchants and manufacturers, stand by churches and schools, and praise the city to protect its future.
In all probability the bond proposition for a new county court house failed in Tuesday’s election. The issue remains unsettled and will reemerge before the Madison county board of supervisors. The Highland Journal cautions readers to watch for developments and not be deluded as taxes may rise to the limit.
Doctors examined the dead man in St Louis and found items in his stomach including a buttonhook hatpin keys pencil belt buckle toy pistol nails needle and thermometer. The note suggests he may have worked for magazines requiring consumer genuineness before advertising in their pages.
Caleb Powers, previously convicted three times for the Goebel murder and twice sentenced to hang, with a life sentence later commuted, was elected to Congress Tuesday in Kentucky's Eleventh district. Powers had received a gubernatorial pardon from Governor Willson.
The editor surveys current dress trends describing a shift toward lower necklines and slightly higher slits, noting seatless and minimal coverage gowns. He jokes that men may need to avert their eyes, calling to mind a playful, era voice.
The Bureau of Manufactures plans a monograph on Steam Rollers in Foreign Countries. It did not release it before the recent unpleasantness culminating on November 8th.
With winter coming on and fire danger rising the city should thoroughly check its fire fighting apparatus to prevent losses. A timely repair may save nine blocks. Radium used to be restricted but now is on the free list and the price collapse leaves radium at two million dollars per ounce.
With the election concluded, plans for building the St Louis and Eastern interurban railway move forward. Officials anticipate rapid progress and expect construction to begin soon, bringing enhanced regional transport.
A reflection notes that happiness comes from self belief in any form and that no person is truly content unless they feel they could be happier. The quote attributes these thoughts to F Marion Crawford.
A Jarvis Township farmer recounts a bizarre Florida misadventure involving a cow, a tree, and ten days aloft. He describes eating seventeen canaries and three owls while stranded, later claiming the tale as a humorous misrepresentation to protect his reputation as a cow boss. He plans a homecoming and family reunion.
A collage of quotations and quips from science history and politics. Notable lines ponder progress from steam engines to electricity, gravity, radium, and flight, while weaving in cries for rights, education, and justice. The piece blends reflections from Kinney, Voltaire, Rousseau, and others with humorous and social notes from period papers.
A jumble of notes touches on future hopes of Minister Wu, whimsical chatter about whiskers and landscape gardening, a dream of a heat producing furnace, peddlers speaking many languages, rising diamond demand and living costs, a Maine man famed for eating 54 eggs, hog prices near nine cents a pound, a fatal Paris duel, and the notion that dueling could become a dangerous sport alongside football.
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