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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1906
Page
6
De Soto resident De Soto B. L. Huskey and his mother were seriously hurt near Victoria when their team frightened by a St. Louis tourist car crashed into a buggy carrying two young girls. The incident also involved a wire fence and a damaged wheel.
An advertisement from Mayme Smith of Columbus Ohio explains hay fever as an endemic catarrh caused by atmospheric irritants in late summer. It notes pollen as a probable cause, suggests relocation as a cure, and promotes Peruna to stimulate the nervous system to resist symptoms, claiming many find it priceless.
Mexico holds extensive soda lakes near the Bay of Adair in Lower California that Diaz views as a future national asset. Natural deposits could yield millions of tons of carbonate of soda, potentially worth 75 dollars per ton, with an estimated surface supply able to produce about 100 tons daily for 75 years.
Fred W Harris of Chestnut St Jefferson Ohio describes over ten years of kidney disease with swelling and backache. After bed rest and ten boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills he reports relief and cured health, weight gain, and no symptoms. Sold by dealers 60 cents a box Wester Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A fragmentary quotation discusses perception of a woman's face, with Puck noting uncertainty about thinness and wearing through. The passage hints at gender perception and the difficulty for men to know what it is to be a woman.
At a foreign missionary meeting in Illinois, Rev. W. S. Sweet and Rev. M. D. Eubanks, newly returned from China, described the country as more favorable. Rev. J. W. Johnson resigns from First Baptist Church to seek health treatment in New Mexico. Two trolley cars collided on the National Charleston interurban near Mattoon injuring Alfred Roberts and Lizzie Trombie fatally. Effingham old settlers held a county reunion with about 1500 in attendance. Miners Charles Cox and Charles Fultz killed in a mine. Pulaski and John Hay were seriously injured at Mount.
The text presents a religious themed quarter review, highlighting a biblical verse Luke 4 22 and noting astonishment at doctrine. It frames an educational lesson around the canon, likely for a church or school publication, emphasizing reflection on spiritual teaching.
A compact study outlines Jesus ministry from Capernaum to Bethany across Galilee and Perea, tracing key teachings and miracles. It lists lessons on forgiveness, the Good Samaritan, prayer, Sabbath, humility, and Jesus as Messiah, ending with his triumphal ride and the Temple cleansing. The piece also markets EGG-O-SEE breakfast and a quip about lectures and jewelry.
A summer visitor questions mailbox numbers in a country post office and learns that leftover city boxes inflate rural counts. The postmaster explains numbers come from city overhauls, with no new rural boxes issued, making some offices appear busier than they are.
A Kentucky woman describes indigestion and nervous prostration improving after switching breakfast to Grape-Nuts with cream. She notes fewer heat flashes dizziness and chest pains once she stopped ordinary breakfasts and used the cereal. She credits her current vigor to Grape-Nuts though warns against overindulgence in rich foods. Postum Co battle Creek is mentioned.
A jealous husband mailed his wife copies of local papers with one clipping removed. When she asked about the missing item she received no explanation, and within a week she returned home to learn what had been clipped. In a separate note, a Duesseldorf hotel landlord charged a guest extra for speaking French in his bill.
Mrs. Rachel Gardner of Wilsey Kansas reports severe stomach pain and headaches with laudanum relief failing. After trying Dr Williams Pink Pills she improved greatly and now recommends them. Pills claimed to cure indigestion headaches backaches neuralgia nervousness and spinal weakness and are sold at druggists or by mail from Schenectady NY.
Advertisements promise nurses and doctors in Missouri and Illinois to learn cancer treatment without knives or pain. Offers include monthly pay for physicians, free cancer book, and $1000 if treatment fails, with claims of many cancers cured at home by Dr. and Mrs Chamice & Co at Pine and Twelfth Street, St Louis.
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