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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1901
Page
2
The Illinois House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously on Wednesday to approve Trautmann's bill granting 250000 dollars for an Illinois exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The piece notes ongoing debates about progress and reform in Troy and calls for support of the movement for better things.
In Dover the Delaware Legislature approved a bill sentencing wife beaters to five to thirty lashes in public in the jail yard. Indiana Supreme Court orders a man to pay a woman $5,000 for kissing theft. Reports say Troy is abuzz with threats of tar and feathers for the man known as Alexander who has been stealing hugs.
The Post Office Department again considers changing regular issue stamps. Proposals include featuring a person on the stamp and adding year of issue as well as birth and death dates of the depicted person.
J PreRPoNtT MorGawn advocates abandoning the U S canal plan and allowing private capital to finish the project. A syndicate led by J P Morgan and Mr Hill has reportedly secured a controlling stake in the Panama company, dominating its affairs, property, and franchises.
Ir13 reports Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chicago traveled through New York Philadelphia Boston New Haven and Washington after the election to study city improvements including street cleaning underground trolleys paving and subways. He plans further stops in Baltimore Pittsburg Cincinnati Cleveland and Indianapolis before returning to Chicago.
The Reverend Doctor Harcourt of Reading Pennsylvania urges avoiding ministerial incursions into the sickroom. He claims solemn visits can alarm and hasten death, noting ministers or laymen should not extort confessions from ill patients.
The Farmers' Advocate reports saloonkeepers oppose rural free mail delivery arguing it will curb visits to town and liquor outlets. The piece suggests merchants may also fear reduced sales, but *advocates* say rural delivery could boost trade by enabling merchants to reach rural homes via advertising in the home newspaper.
Gen. Benjamin P. Runkle, retired U S Army, is detailed by the Secretary of War as professor of military science and tactics at the University of Maine. The university, lacking active officers, will rely on his long experience. he formerly chaired military science at Miami University for fourteen years. He is known in Troy through his wife and his Memorial Day address in 1895.
State Board of Assessment of Kentucky levies an 80 percent franchise on railroads. Reports from Europe note Vesuvius active and Tolstoi expelled. Miss Natalie Barney studies Zoroastrianism. Queen Wilhelmina faces debts. Oil and lead interests surge in Texas with a $40 million capitalization. railway live-bird traps legislation in New York.
The Rev. George D. Herron spoke in Brooklyn last Sunday denouncing current Christian religion for lacking the gospel of Jesus Christ. He charged churches with force and authority oppressing individual freedom and claimed the English pulpit supports government conquest. He asserted that hell is paved with good intentions and warned that society bears the blame.
An effort is underway to unite large department stores into a trust. If successful, country merchants would be squeezed or crushed out. The combination could dictate factory output, denying small dealers supplies and placing prices at the mercy of the big firms.
The Rudolph Kleybolte Co. won $192,000 in four percent McLean County court house bonds. Mrs Mary Kelly found dead in a Douglas Hotel room, death by gas. U S plow makers near a $5,000,000 combine in Chicago. Harrisburg officials face warrants over illicit liquor sales. W B Kennedy, 83, dies at Mattoon. Civil War veteran linked to Kit Carson. Dwight Haussler named Consular agent at Sonneburg Germany. Belleville to get a new weekly labor paper. Lincoln monument at state capital completed. President Lincoln interred with officials present. Rev Patrick Donahue declared insane and in St. Vincent’s Insane Asylum. Gov Yates grants commutation to Wm N Goodman in Macon County jail.
A Belleville News-Democrat report details a local scam where a con artist sold five-cent soap for twenty-five cents, offering a premium coupon for a prize range from pianos to rocking chairs. Drawings were promised at the St. Louis Sample Shoe Company site, but the scheme collapsed on the scheduled day, leaving victims’ hopes dashed and a pledge to support honest home merchants.
The piece urges constant publicity for merchants across trades from department stores to doctors and lawyers. It argues a light under a bushel is useless and promotes ongoing ads in a modern, widely circulated newspaper. It ends by urging Heinecke's home and union-made cigars and Rex as recommended products.
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