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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1896
Page
7
Fragmentary advert text touts Hood’s as a pure health aid. Claims imply strong, healthy vitality and exclusive use of Hood’s products. Language suggests a sales pitch focused on superiority and personal well being.
An old patent medicine claim describes a tonic marketed as a universal remedy for fainting spells nervousness sleeplessness and dizziness. The advertisement promises health and strength and lists a price of fifty cents to one dollar at Kingston's Drug Store.
Fast through restricted trains daily to Denver with direct connections for Cripple Creek Colorado and fast daily services to the Gold Fields of Montana and Black Hills. 200 million shortest line from Missouri River. Ask your agent for information about The Burlington Route L W Wakely G P A St Louis Missouri
Mail remaining in the Troy Illinois Madison County post office as of February 1 1896 shows a sequence of names including Harria Edward Perry Moe M N Seht Emil Short Gilmore Mausholt Johnn and Samuel S Avis with notes of a postal card and scattered initials. The list reflects routine dead letters awaiting pickup, with names paired to possible abbreviations and a single card indication.
The Commercial Club of Valenco Texas advertises a free port of entry offering access to inexpensive fruit crops, cotton, cans, corn, rice and vegetables. It claims multiple vegetable crops yearly, earlier seasons than California, and ships may enter untaxed.
The advertisement touts a universal salve for bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands and more claiming to cure piles with a money back guarantee. Priced at 2 cents per box and sold by Ss. Kingaton.
A collage of brief notices from the region: steamers carried 3,484 immigrants to New York on Monday, a brick yard in Edwardsville output 100,000 bricks last week, and three inmates escaped from Wabash County jail in Mt. Carmel. Champaign County forms a teacher library, a Greenview farmer grows 700 maple trees for sugar, Nokomis weighs license votes, Alton sees a deadly cyclone, and Belleville plans a major bank building by St. Louis architects. Cleveland-style notes mention insanity rising in East St Louis County, Lydia Daniel in Ohio ponders a long lost brother connected to a Cairo Short Line scare, Pekin horse sales reach $117, and miner back pay debates surface in Coffeen. Hydrophobia fears threaten a 12 year old near Houlton after a dog bite, with medical tests and rising concern following the incident.
A compilation of historical measurements inventions discoveries and speeds noting 2760 languages Americas discovery in 1492 and items like envelopes invented 1889 lucifer matches 1829 iron steamship 1880 watches 1476 California gold 1848 and various weights speeds and measures including a storm 36 mph hurricane 80 mph and a horse railroad built 1856 7 with no single narrative event.
An advertisement extols Farm Journal as the leading monthly farm paper with extensive readership from Maine to California, praising its practicality and honesty. It offers free copies and urges new and overdue subscribers of the Weekly Call to subscribe, with payment required for current arrears and settlement at the Captain's office.
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