04 Oct 1912
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
1
The margin date on The Cat wrapper indicates one year in arrears and ineligible for second class postage. The Call will discontinue all delinquent subscriptions and present the account for payment. Prompt remittance avoids missed copies.
The piece argues that success is accessible to those who work diligently from the start. It notes that the hardest efforts and trials occur at the beginning, and that faithful, steady work already places a person on the road to success, whether they realize it.
The piece notes a subdued presidential race with waning enthusiasm and atypical campaign activity. It recalls past years of strong rallies, speaker circuits, and party competition while highlighting shifts toward strategic and cautious politics amid legal and policy debates on railroad taxes, passenger service costs, and potential rate equalization proposals.
The piece argues selfishness is a natural motive and can drive positive aims. It describes higher selfishness behind community development efforts, urging citizens to invest time money and energy for long term benefits. It frames local progress as practical altruism and echoes the Golden Rule.
Isham Randolph of Chicago, veteran canal engineer, returns from Panama and supports free U.S. coastwise passage if treaty obligations allow. He predicts the Big Ditch could open by August or September next year as canal work continues. Congress debates widening the White House driveway amid complaints of its narrowness and access.
Jane Addams, hailed as Americas greatest citizen, leads social workers and suffragists in the Progressive party. Mrs John Bass oversees organization as women from society, homes, and agitators join the Bull Moose push for eight hour day, minimum wage, child labor bans, and equal suffrage.
Springfield lawmakers will seek bills from the general assembly, including a measure allowing railroad workers to vote away from their duties on election day. Makanda reports nine people bitten by a mad dog, eight sent to Chicago for Pasteur Institute treatment. Other items note a civil service vacancy, a dying man’s wish fulfilled in Cerro Gordo, airship mail service during the state fair, a court injunction halting a Black mayor, a promised militia boat for Alton, and fifteen forgery indictments against Newton C. Dougherty.
Reports from Paris list two personal crisis deaths as Mrs. Frank Gillum despondent over health and Mrs. Rachel Garner despondent over her child illness, both dying by self-inflicted poison. Other items note a 20 year old trapper Oliver Fraser killed by a runaway mine car in Chicago and Big Muddy mine region, a 7 year old Cairo boy Lawrence Creighton burned by matches, a Danville signal man William Vandyke killed by a train, Vandalia resident Bart Card struck by a train, a first killing frost at Bloomington Central Illinois and Carmi marshal Joe Harper stabbed during an arrest, plus church secession news.
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