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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1903
Page
3
Guthrie Oklahoma resident Mrs. E. B. Bradshaw reports relief from severe dyspepsia after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims a dyspepsia linked to female organs responds to a stomach and uterine tonic. Thousands of testimonial letters support the remedy, with free advice offered from Lynn Massachusetts.
An old tissue ad urges parents to try Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin on babies as well claiming it will make the infant cry for more. The compact line promotes a tonally dated patent remedy without medical endorsement.
The New York Stock Exchange dedicated its new building on Broad Street with a brief ceremony led by Rev. Morgan Dix. Rudolph Keppler accepted on behalf of the exchange, Mayor Low spoke, and guests toured the facility, including a 116 by 21 by 9 foot steel safe deposit vault weighing 776 tons.
Osceola Iowa April 23 Matt Hunter of Mount Ayr Iowa stands trial for the murder of Homer Holland two years ago. Hunter was previously found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to life. The supreme court granted him a new trial. Holland, at death, held the world record for the hop stop and jump.
Springfield April 23 report notes widespread nonpartisan voting with temperance as the central issue. Licenses won in towns including Inney Marshall Denver Petersburg Virginia Chandlerville Ashland Arenzville Tolono Areola Rushville Salem Maron Ocoya Moneaqua Robinson Minona Clay City Fairbury Brighton Mound City Raymond Winchester Monticello Casey Mount Vernon Monmouth Roadhouse Pinckneyville Carrollton Cowden Ashley Percy Allin Irvington Harrisburg Sandoval Huey Shelbyville. Anti license triumphs listed Greenup Kinmundy Pittsfield Griggsville Eureka Cobald Xenia Ridgway Alto Pass Courtville Bridgeport McLeansboro Patoka Iuka Ramsey Coffeen Sumner Paxton Benton Astoria Marissa Bement Flora Fairfield Herrick Martinsville Dwight Greenfield Newton Eldorado Knoxville Kureka Greenville Mount Sterling Paxton Du Quoin. Republicans won in Peoria Pana Urbana Litchfield Vandalia Mattoon Centralia Paris Red Bud Alton Jacksonville Decatur Pekin Carbondale Nashville Carlinville Hillsboro Charleston. Democrats carried Bloomington Taylorville Effingham Carthage Murphysboro Monticello Havana Edwardsville. Reform defeated at Cairo Claude Winter Liberal beat Dr J J Jenneme by 600 votes.
Arbor day was marked statewide in Nebraska with school activities focusing on tree and shrub planting. Banks closed though most business remained open as Gov. Mickey and officials planted trees at the statehouse and Morton Circle was created near Arbor Ledge. The Morton Memorial association plans a monument to J Sterling Morton funded by student gifts totaling $4,000, with dedication hoped within a year.
John Tar an acrobat abducted George and Florence Migge from an orphans home claiming to adopt them, then forced them into dangerous stunts. Judge Jeff Pollard fined Tar $1000 on two charges of disturbing the peace of the children, imposing a year in the workhouse with possible further charges pending.
New York reports Marquis Arthur De Mayo Du razzo of Naples arrives with documents to prove nobility and declares intent to marry an American heiress. He claims New York offers greater wealth than Europe and seeks a young bride with a large dowry, praising American women as exceptionally beautiful.
R Gavin of New York and James H Bekels with Marshall E Sampsell of Chicago named receivers for Union Traction Co North Chicago Street Railway Co and West Chicago Street Railway Co by Judge Grosscup in US circuit court The move follows judgments totaling over a million dollars for Guaranty Trust Co and signals losses to J P Morgan Co and the New York Philadelphia syndicate California wealth on La Salle Street.
Washington reports Britain likely to avoid adding The Hague reference on who bears blockade costs for Venezuela. The February protocol covers only two arbitration questions: preferential treatment and 30 percent customs distribution. Britain may accept the original terms. Bowen plans to press for a May Caracas departure after meeting the British envoy.
Adia Brittain of Selitan Ohio reports relief after three months using Peruna. She suffered heaviness in the stomach bilious spells and fainting but says all have left her since starting the tonic. Readers are advised to write Dr Hartman for free advice at the Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
In St Louis on April 23 Mrs John A Lee traveled to Chicago to urge her husband Lieut Gov Lee to return and aid the grand jury inquiry into legislative boodlers. Circuits Attorney Folk met with her for about two hours to discuss the case and the need for witnesses.
Col. Hiram Shipman Dewey, a famed railroad civil engineer, died in Jefferson City on Wednesday at age 73. Born in New York, he helped locate the New York Connecticut line in 1866 and conducted the first survey of the West Shore Railroad from Hoboken to Newburg, marking pivotal early work in U.S. railroading.
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