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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1907
Page
2
A fragmented notice from a local weekly paper outlines advertising and subscription terms. It mentions single copies, payments, and publication policies, with contact on Kinloch 4 and references to notices of entertainments and admissions, plus printing and circulation notes.
A Chicago based movement, the Home Trade League, organized by commercial associations across Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Kansas, and Minnesota, vows to push back against mail order houses by urging customers to favor local merchants. Leaders claim wholesalers and manufacturers should sell locally, praising neighborhood merchants while criticizing nationwide catalogue firms and urging store visits to compare prices.
Illinois prepares a Sept 14 Illinois Day at Jamestown Tercentennial with reduced rail rates special trains military attractions music receptions dinners and sightseeing. The Illinois exhibit highlights its building site and ties to Virginia history with a rich official party including Governor Denpen and Dr Edmund James arriving Sept 12 13 for informal visits.
Illinois officials led by Lt Governor Deneen depart the State Building for the Auditorium for day exercises beginning at noon. Speeches by Governor Swinson of Virginia and Governor Deacon of Illinois, with remarks from James Town Exposition president Packer and University of Illinois president Jamies. A grand parade and theatricals follow, concluding with a public event at the State Capitol grounds. renomations praised by Nathaniel Holderby of Cuba Illinois Centennial commissioner.
Visitors at the Jamestown Tercentennial will enjoy a grand mix of exhibits and amusements. Balloon flights offer views of cities, rivers, harbors, and Hampton Roads ships while military parades and drills unfold daily. The imperial band from Mexico and other performances, fireworks, and harmonies add to a sweeping, festive harbor scene.
The exposition showcases exhibits from the department of agriculture and fisheries, commerce, harbor surveys, and ruins of the woodless solid steel railway car. It features the fireproof Historic Arts palace with priceless relics, the Palace of Manufactures and Liberal Arts, Mines and Metallurgy, Pure Foods, Latin-American buildings, and the large States Exhibit Palace. A grand fleet of war vessels and spectacular nightly illuminations complement the grounds famed for natural beauty and marking 800 years since the first permanent English settlement.
Walter Nelson, son of Butt Orpingtons, trains a chicken to play a zither like instrument by using corn kernels as keys. Kernels vibrate strings when pecked, guiding tunes such as Yankee Doodle and The Star Spangled Banner. He plans to market musical eggs at the county fair in Windom Minnesota.
The tale shows Mscula pressing John Alden to speak for himself. Alden admits he is only the press agent for Captain Standish and decides to resign immediately to take a leading position. The janitor philosopher notes how people respond to trouble by believing in adding wrinkles.
A local notice reports a brief illness described as a billious attack with nausea and sick headache occurring between yesterday afternoon and today noon. The event followed the discovery of a box of King’s New Life Pills at Mingston's drug store. The product is claimed to be guaranteed for biliary issues malaria and jaundice.
From the Weekly Bulletin dated September 6 1877 the report notes citizens stocking coal for winter Dr George Schott returning from St Louis John F P Jarvis announcing a race meet at his farm for September 15th with purses around 1082 Maggie Pierce wed to W H Purviance at Tuscarora Nevada on August 20 paupers in Jarvis township cost 149 95 county finances show modest welfare costs and Purviance displays a curious stone relic found at Sweet Lake resembling a turtle head thought to be a petrified saurian head
Tired mothers find Casca Sweet a boon for fussy babies. Promoted as safe with printed ingredients, it contains no harmful drugs. Sold by S. Kingston.
A boy named Johnnie, with two bantam hens laying small eggs, devised a plan. The next morning his father found an ostrich egg tied to a beam in the fowl run with a card reading keep your eye on this and do your best.
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