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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1900
Page
5
Announcement supports William Hampe in the April 17 1900 election. Call urges voters to back electric lights and build housing, linking city improvements to local employment and prosperity. Easter greetings accompany a local booster tone urging progress in Troy.
A fragmented passage claims property values in Troy will rise with a boom and notes some people are wary of higher taxes. it likens the situation to a morbid ode and muses on growth spreading further.
The Edwardsville Intelligencer frames the bond issue as a pure business proposition and urges Troy voters to act. It stresses the proposal will advance local enterprise and future welfare, calling on enterprising citizens to support the measure.
Citizens urged to vote in the ward race and bond measure for electric streetlights and city prosperity. Litchfield lacks lights after a contract expired, while The Mews lampooned the darkness as Troy and Litchfield compare amid the election push.
The writer argues advertising boosts success and that printers' ink works for hustlers. It notes a public question on why Sapho costs one cent to mail but a Bible of equal weight costs seven. The piece urges postal reform to favor elevating literature over immoral material in a Christian nation.
Mrs. Leste Carter predicts New York City will be the world’s dramatic center within twenty five years. She foresees rising American stage entertainment and later intellectual use, a revived Shakespeare, and an American playwright who will rival and surpass the old master in power due to modern insights into human nature. She also envisions the stage in America becoming a semi governmental institution.
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