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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1897
Page
2
Readers learn the senior editor has left for greener fields while the paper struggles to stay afloat and urges timely subscription payments. The column mixes political jabs, odd tidbits, and local notes about elections, prize fighting talk, and a Lexington of curiosidades as Highland forms an incorporated fair association.
Frank W. Palmer of Illinois earns renomination as public printer after prior service under Harrison with strong endorsements from state delegates and public figures. The notice also covers Missouri Governor Len V. Stephens pressing Dr. D. H. Young of Fulton to resign from the State Lunatic Asylum board, ongoing Southern Illinois Press Association plans for a May steamer trip, local street and mining concerns, autograph handkerchief fads, Mississippi flood devastations with levee damage and relief efforts by the St. Louis Republic, and a booming United States electric industry with up to 1.5 billion capital in all electric ventures and substantial mining and railway investments.
A column ridicules a wave of bizarre bills from multiple states. Proposals include licensing barbers, taxing whiskers, fining widowed women, banning squeaky boots in church, banning corsets, banning bloomers, and English-only menus for bills. The piece notesKansas and Oklahoma mirror this trend amid broader claims of legislative insanity.
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