Winter News Notes and Local Advertisements Debris
Brief Bits from Troy era recounts new card line at THE Call office and leather post cards at THE RACKET. Halloween events loom while a Notary public receives ninth commission. Local notices include weddings, races, and a windstorm report. Golfing auctions, farm news, and public notices fill the page with community happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theo. Guennewig
Nelson Kinder, Jr
Business Men’s Association
Droll’s Hall
WeWitt
S. Kingston
Alfred Capelle
Paul B. Wild
Pocahontas
Ben Davis
Hallowe’en
James N. Jarvis
Illinois
Melancholy days and faded fashions in old times
A collage of quips and verses notes faded year end mood. From Chicago Record-Herald reflections on weather prices and style to ladder cautions and humorous exchanges. Includes rural humor and short moral snippets from Shawnee News and Eugene Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Record-Herald
Kan
Child Reassures Sorrowful Brother Over Newborn
A six year old visiting the new baby exclaims disbelief at its appearance. He laments that the infant lacks teeth and hair and, with clasped hands, cries that they have been cheated and that the baby is old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Maurice Widner
Highland
Caroline Speckart
DeSoto Avenue
Thaddeus Cooper
Chicago
Emily Rappenecker
Troy
St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons
Morriss
St. Jacob Road
Helvetia Milk Condensing Company
Wellsboro
Greenville
Delta
Ohio
Gerfen
W. D. Coons
Beardstown
S. Kingston
Horseshoe Lake
Paris Green
Fragmented Local Schedule Note for Lunch Break
The reader instruction fragment mentions listening for a bell after November 1 and going to Theo. Ghen newig'a for lunch at 47-tE, but details are unclear and partially garbled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theo. Ghennewig
Also Mentioned on This Page
Harris-Polk Hat Co
West
America
Gauss-Langenberg Hat Co
Boogher, Force & Goodbar Hat Co
Rothschild Bros
White-Branch-Shelton Hat Co
McConklin-Latimer Hat Co
Worth Hats
Troy and Vicinity
Odd Fellows
Lisa Limelles
Main
CaLu
Donk
M. Roberts
Kiesel Building
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Telephone Company of Highland
James A. Rose
Springfield
Leo R. Brandeweide
C. N. Cuming
James S. Cuming
John S. Boerner
Fred Pauly
McKittrick Bros
Baird House
Main Street
Anna K. Schwalm
John Schwalm
Collinsville Road
Dowling Place
Livingston
Arthur Lawson
Edwardsville
Wm. O’brien
Cuba
James H. Smith
Morgan Prosser
Charles Krallman
Fred Tollner
Glen Carbon
Granite City Lutheran Hospital
J. W. Scott
Venice
David Jones
Madison
Scott
Davy Jones
Madison County
Ill
Madison Pool Room
Jones
Post-Dispatch
Dan Peterman
Braun & Miller
Phact, Phan and
Phancy
Jewels
Jeta
Maxwell
Bredern
New York State
Pennsylvany
Eugene Field
Emil Drott
Henry Levra
Meyer
Louis Butcher
Tur Catt
John Langenwalter
Jonn Schwalm
A. R. Snodgrass
King
Inine
Elias Burk
John Petry
Riebold’s
Tra Tee Eee
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