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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1908
Page
2
A physician dismisses mince pie as undesirable to digest, while joking about other items like carpet tacks and tin cans. The text notes a claim about oil existence and a Texas case on state railroad ownership amid a penitentiary road near completion in the Rusk area.
A peculiar creature captured near Paris Edgar county prompts disbelief as the Mt Carmel Register suggests it could be a frightened Democrat driven there by the November 3 storm, with no exact identification yet.
The New York Herald boasts it is the first newspaper to have a representative aboard a flying machine. A Herald reporter recently accompanied Wilbur Wright at Le Mans, France, while other editors remain largely grounded and away from the air.
The article notes US fire losses this year surge toward a national disaster level. Over the past three years the Key West fires have averaged $850 million annually, with daily losses near $500 million before the Great Chel een fire. If trends persist, 1908 total losses could exceed $2,000,61600, with experts estimating about 75 percent of annual fire losses are preventable.
In the November 3 general election twenty governors were chosen across twenty states. Results included Taft leading in Ohio, with Marshall winning Indiana, and Burke securing North Dakota while Hayes and other party picks filled the remaining posts. The lengthy list shows party wins by Democrat and Republican candidates across Colorado Connecticut Florida Delaware Idaho Illinois Indiana Minnesota Montana New Hampshire New York North Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Wyoming and more.
A collage of humorous questions and anecdotes from a late 19th or early 20th century page. It ponders everyday quirks, social phrases, multilingual greetings, a wedding anecdote, a sick man’s bill, and light jests about manners and education. Notable lines include a Galveston News wedding remark, misdirected currency humor, and a parade of sayings across languages.
Washington observers discuss tariff tinkering and Senate moves from New York Ohio and Iowa. Predictions include Myron Herrick for Treasury and Root to the Senate. critique of express company lobbying and parcels post. optimism on tariff reform timing and Roosevelt era politics.
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