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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1910
Page
6
The Krugip gun factory unveiled a motor driven aerial gun pattern mounted on a fast aeroplane to chase balloons and airships. Trials fired at dummy balloons show nearly every shell exploding the target as a trail leaving substance marks its path.
Blue Book figures detail deaths in 1909 from tigers and leopards and snakes. Tigers killed 909 people, leopards 302, wolves 269, while snakes claimed about 10,000. Cattle losses high to leopards and tigers. human toll far greater. The report also notes literacy and postal figures, plague mortality, and occupations including barbering, washing, and begging.
Spokane plans to register thoroughbred apple trees as livestock with pedigrees. Yakima Sunnyside orchardist H M Lichty says scions from top yielders will be grafted to other trees and the results recorded on an orchard plat with a pedigree issued to growers. Experts approve, noting improved quality from budding and grafting and comparing tree variation to horse breeds.
A letter posted from Streatham on July 1, 1903, has just been delivered at Briollay in Franqa, tracing a long journey across borders and time. The missive underscores slow mail routes and distant destinations linking London with rural France.
The international boundary survey conducted north of the Yukon by 70 men and 65 horses, spanning from Canada to Alaska, has arrived en route to Puget Sound under Thomas Riggs for America and a D Craig for Canada. The rough terrain between the Yukon and Porcupine River claimed a third of the horses that spring. the men are healthy and plan to return next season, prepared for two more arctic winters.
Hon. N. C. Rothschild presents nearly complete servicea Huntington tradesmen tokens to Petersborough museum as a notable historical gift. The donation highlights civic and commercial links reflected in the tokens and enriches regional archival holdings.
William Springer a Royersford resident was found beside the Reading railroad claiming a freight train cut off his foot. He rode an express to Phoenixville where surgeons discovered the limb was wooden. Doctors trimmed the splintered leg and fastened a wooden block to fit his remaining foot before he insisted on going home. An oyster is not it to be eaten until four years old.
A packed Moline Opera House heard Rock Island Mayor George W. McCaskrin surprise the cast of the Gay Morning Glories burlesque by kissing star Mabel Mailumn twice after an audience of about 3,000 recognized him amid shouts of approval. Springfield reports State's Attorney Burke seeks trial dates for bribery cases involving Senator John Broderick, and S.C. Pemberton with Representative Joseph Clark. Bloomington notes damages awarded to B. F. Zineer for land overflow from the Chicago sanitary district. Joliet covers Gov. Deneen's Illinois GOP campaign kickoff with attacks on Democrats.
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