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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1896
Page
7
Ian Brown of 94 MIN der Manan was told he had a month to live due to a lung disease. After trying a new remedy, doctors claim the patient improved, and he credits Dr for a health breakthrough. Bottles are advertised as free at Kingston's drug store.
L. W. Wakey, General Passenger Agent announces fast through vestibuled trains from St. Louis to Denver with direct connections to Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs, plus daily fast trains to Montana and the Black Hills. Shortest line from the Missouri River. ask your agent for information.
A 1896 Madison County Illinois postal notice lists uncalled letters including Harria Edward Perry and Mrs. M. N with other names. The second item promotes Velasco Texas as a tree port with sea air, commerce, and large ships, mentioning fruit growing, farming, hunting, fishing, and crops.
An old ad touts Bucklen's Armor Salve as a world leading remedy for bruises ulcers skin eruptions and other afflictions. It promises complete satisfaction or money refunded and lists sale by A Kingston with price two shillings per box.
A roundup from the St Louis area notes 292 miles of streetcar track, Highland’s pioneer Clement Siedler’s death, and Glen Carbon’s expansion by 82 acres across eight blocks. Edwardsville post office gains 20 percent, boosting the postmaster’s salary. A large oak tree root yields a steel staple discovery near a heart. A White County tale speaks of a gold ring found in a newly cleaved well valued at $3. Reports loom of hens harmed by electricity and farmer fears of chinch bugs. A new water pump invention promises automated watering for livestock. Judge J A W Wyatt officiated a historic St Clair county wedding at age 18 and 15 with parental consent. A Palmyra correspondent reports a burglary attempt at E A Whites store with disrupted doors and shots in the air. Clarence Lockhardt, 8, a Litchfield resident, is charged with stealing 23 chickens as a chicken-theft wave hits the area. A copper coin unearthed in Jacob Gleich’s garden bears old trade markings and a female figure with an olive wreath and scepter.
A fragmentary column mocks social vices and political folly with satire on talking too little, theater nuisances, politicking, taxation of telephones, reform promises, and grim jokes about war and heaven. It skewers prejudice, vanity, and hypocrisy through humorous aphorisms.
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