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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1914
Page
4
Postmaster General Burleson plans a new post card allowing a sender to inscribe a telephone number. On delivery a clerk would call that number and read the message to the recipient before the card is delivered. The system resembles a special delivery card.
News notes report the annual fall opening of ladies fine millinery on Saturday September 26 by Miss Rose Wilkinson. A public school yard section is fenced to sow grass seed while a ball game injured 42 year old Burl Preston with a fractured right arm. Public notices include a centennial style fortune teller at Central hotel in Troy on September 3. The Madison County Medical Society meets in Madison city hall next Friday with a large program.
A Fayetteville connection recalls A Mayer of Red Bud Shoes visiting Troy and selling $200 goods to Edw. H. Klein. Collinsville zinc works shut down again after a sporadic, money-spent retooling, while Lebanon druggist Robert L. Pfeffer died at 23 from electric shock at a store mixer. Donk mine worker Henry Buhrmester Jr. suffered a painful left-hand laceration, second such injury from wire. Also noted are a Presbyterian Dime Social October 15 with 10 cent bargains and free admission, plus a fall cough remedy advertisement for Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey.
A brief note asserts all items are strictly fresh and pure and guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Act. It emphasizes compliance and consumer assurance for the public.
George Schmitt is ill with Brights disease at home. Henry Kuhlmann opened a new meat market. Several residents visited Highland, Belleville, Collinsville, and St Louis. Miss Inez Moser from Highland stayed with J J Gaffner family. Local dances and ball games discussed. Rev Elston delivered farewell sermon and attends conference in Lawrenceville.
Orrin Flesh travels to Lebanon for McKendree College admission. Highland visitors include Mesdames Olive and Gizer, Gerhard Werner, P. A. Seitz, and E. J. Giger. Miss Fannie Bernard heads to St. Louis to visit sister Mrs. Weber. Arthur Reinhart plans a mobile garage in St. Louis. L. A. Richardson and daughter Helen visit Eureka for college. Mrs. Grotefendt and daughter depart for Colorado and Utah, with Denver relatives to visit. Boy Scouts plan a lake cabin project funded by hauled lumber. Mark Shepard and wife visit at Belleville centennial, guests of Jacob Weiss. Edward J. Schmidt and C. J. Schmidt visit Marine relatives after attending their brother August's funeral in Greenville. Catherine Weber marries William O Buhrman in Marine. ceremony by Rev. Pauli Buchmiller. couple honeymoon at Niagara Falls and Washington, D. C., then reside in St. Louis.
Daniel Peterman, an agent, supplied a batch of St Louis era newspaper titles including Post-Dispatch Globe-Democrat Republic Times Star and others, likely for archival or syndication purposes. The list reflects mid century local press diversity and branding across multiple daily papers.
August Ritcher and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hawke Sr. in Collinsville, while Robert Porter and Mrs. Dan Porter with children stayed with Barney Porter in Mulberry Grove. Albert Rieder and John C. Gebauer took a trip to Springfield for the State Fair. Mrs. Thomas J. Taylor and daughter plus Miss Nellie Henderson left for Mendon to visit the Henderson family. James Shaffer and Mrs. Kate Kinder with son Lester returned from Carlyle to visit the Shaffer family. Oscar Latowsky and several others from New Douglas were guests of Elizabeth Kiesel and daughters.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M E church plans a quilt meeting next Thursday afternoon with strong turnout urged. Rev. Lewis E. Mitchell of Lucerne Indiana will deliver trial sermons at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning and evening. No M E church services Sunday due to Pastor Clark Yost’s conference in Lawrenceville. Epworth League to discuss Industrial Liberty next Tuesday evening, reader Mrs. W L Oliver. Frauenverein of German Evangelical to meet next Thursday to prepare for November bazaar and flower show. Troy and Blackjack German Evangelical churches hold a mission feast next Sunday with services at 10 am 230 pm and 730 pm. Rev Steding Blackjack Rev Buchmiller Marine and Rev Busch near Edwardsville participate. Trey church choir to present vocal selections. 730 pm English service led by Rev Buchmiller. Dinner and supper served by two churches’ ladies.#
An old advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills claiming to cure dizziness biliousness and constipation by stimulating bile and bowels. It promises a first dose relief and notes distribution through druggists. The clipping also mentions legal writings and real estate services with a Kinloch phone contact.
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