Local Briefs Trail New Work and Moves
Col. Dick Maple at Rieder's opera house tonight. Waterworks work aimed at dust control and street upkeep. Otto Kinninger back from St Louis to repair at Edw H Klein’s shoe store. Deimling couple move to Schreiber property on Main Street. Hart couple relocate to East End property vacated by Deimlings. Young Louis Spies offered 38000 for a new buggy tongue patent by a Cleveland company. Troy folks travel to St Louis to view Roosevelt parade during Carnival week. DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve praised for burns and scrapes, sold by S Kingston and Richter Bros. threshing outfit reports 37410 bushels wheat threshed. Calls beat Farmers 12 to 0 at Mersinger’s grounds. Raber and Thomas battery. Dr Tuinder’s new building near completion. Linder to occupy second floor dental, Leidel ground floor. Wim Rariden returns after three years in U S Army telegraph corps to join G L Elliott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Maple
Rieder
CALL
Otto Kinninger
St. Louis
Edw. H. Klein
Edw. R. Deimling
Schreiber
Main Street
Troy
Roosevelt
Mound City
DeWitt
S. Kingston
Richter Bros
Coblinsville
Mersinger's
Raber
Thomas
Richter, Pollworth
Wilhelm
FF. EE. Tuinder
Linder
F. ©. Leidel
Vandalia depot plans and local baseball notes
Local baseball fans journeyed to St Louis to watch the final St Louis vs New York game and to see Larry Doyle now with the New York team. Doyle may return to Troy after the season. The Madison County Interurban Belt Railway seeks a franchise at the city council meeting next Monday. A petition may call for suspending granitoid sidewalk construction. Rumors place the Bessemer Tron Works moving from Bessemer Alabama to Edwardsville next spring, occupying land east of the cabinet mill near the N O Nelson works. no decision yet, plant employs about 200 men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandalia
St. Louis
New York
Larry” Doyle
Doyle
Troy
Madison County Interurban Belt Railway Company
Bessemer Tron Works
N. ©. Nelson Manufacturing Company
Bessemer
Ala
Edwardsville
N. O. Nelson Works
Pocahontas Descendants Featured In Jamestown Exposition
Exhibits from the Virginia school for the deaf and blind at Staunton include likenesses of John and Thomas Bolling, Jr. tracing Pocahontas lineage to 1775 enrollment at the Braidwood school in Edinburgh. The piece notes Thomas Bolling Jr’s refined speech and the 1812 education of his deaf children at Bolling Hall as America’s first deaf students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia School For the Deaf
Staunton
Bolling
America
John
Thomas Bolling
Pocahontas
Braidwood
Edinburgh
Scotland
Richmond Enquirer
Thomas Bolling, Jr
William Bolling
Thomas
William
Braijdwood
Edenbureg School
Bolling Hall
Goochland County
Ex Judge Spencer Praises Jamestown Exposition
Former Judge Selden P. Spencer of St. Louis returns from the Jamestown Exposition and lauds the display as greatly improved over earlier efforts. He credits the beautiful fall weather, international yacht races, and presence of United States battleships at Hampton Roads for elevating the exposition to its promised perfection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selden P. Spencer
St. Louis
Spencer
United States
Hampton Roads
Drunkenness, Prohibition, and Personal Reform Reflections
A fragmented clipping surveys alcohol as food and social vice, citing editorials from the Minneapolis Daily News and New York Tribune on prohibition and public morals. It includes Governor Folk’s call for order and a personal pledge to abstain from tobacco and alcohol, urging daily prayer for purity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis Daily News
Georgia
New York Tribune
Joseph W. Folk
Post-Dispatch Daily and Sunday Advertisement
Advert reads The Post-Dispatch daily and Sunday delivery offer for subscribers. No clear dates or prices given. Dan Prierman credited in illegible handwriting as the contact or agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post-Dispatch
Dan Prierman
Ajrt
Opie Read dies during reading tour in Bowling Green
Opie Read dies suddenly in Bowling Green after reciting If I Should Die Tonight. Read notes a string of unlucky coincidences including the 18th of the month the 13th town on tour and 13 audience members in the balcony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opie
Ben King
Bowling Green
Read
Darkies
Ben
Out of Sight Arnica Salve Heals Wounds and Piles
The ad touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as making sores burns and wounds disappear from view and mind. It claims piles and chilblains vanish with its healing power and notes it is guaranteed by S. Kingston, druggist, at 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Kingston
Doctor King’s New Life Pills Advertise Relief
An inoffensive citizen’s appendix is often due to constipation from liver torpor. Dr King’s New Life Pills regulate the liver, prevent appendicitis, and establish regular bowel habits. 25c at S Kingston's drug store.
Desolate Drift Range Between Carthage and Stislingville
In Jefferson County New York a remote sand drift belt blurs into blinding banks driven by wind. The land is barren with soil barely deeper than grass roots, a stark exposure of nature's harshness in a frontier-like landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthage
Stislingville
Jefferson County
N. Y
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Odd Fellows
Tae
S. Kingston Druggist
J.J. Brown
U.K. Monors
M.D
Brown & Molden
Physicians and Surgeons
Baptist Church
FL. Linder
Market Street
Postoffice
Residence St
W. Braner
Postofice
Kinloch
James N. Parvis
Nopary
Reval Estate
Saban Fo Shsapwieh
Gkhobok Nepdeorer
Shadwhiche & Neudacker
Patiefactory
Shep New Locaterdt
Washington Street
Gaornet
June Sallee
Litchfield, Ill
St James Hotel
Edewardsville
City Meat Market
R. Deimling
Wim. Rariden
J. J. Brown
United States Army
G. L. Elliott
Wick Bros. Jewelry CO
Bolling Family
Jamestown Fair
S. P. Swanwickk
George E
R. C. Morris
Caal
Paul B. Witp
Tos. Mittett, Jr
Braner
F. W. Braner
Ontf
Troy Telephone Company
Scientific American
Braun & Miller
Star Brand
H. Klein
Star Tamorina Company
Chicago
Star Taamorina Company
Star Tailoring Company
M. F. Allwarter
A. Heddergott
E. C. DeWITT @ COMPANY
Ill
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