Electric Road Benefits to Maryville Highland Line
The proposed extension of the electric line from Maryville to Highland would shorten travel for farmers and merchants, boosting town and farm property values, stimulating business, and bringing more residents and money to Troy and surrounding areas. Proponents cite faster trade and broader accessibility, while acknowledging shifts in local commerce and new methods of doing business.
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Maryville
Highland
St. Louis
Troy
Disease fears and railway plans loom in fragmentary copy
Scattered OCR text mentions germs and a victim blamed on ignorance, a Lancet tone critique, and frustrations with postal love letters. It also notes railway extensions from Maryville to Highland and lines toward Terre Haute and Pittsburgh, with Maryville extension deemed imminent while others await progress.
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Post Office Department
Painesville City Council Passes Forty-Six Ordinances in One Sitting
For three days the city stood without ordinances as a court ruled them faulty. The Painesville council then approved forty six new ordinances in a single session, prompting reflection on how state laws might be treated similarly.
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Painesville
Ohio
Oddities and observations from a December column
A collection of offbeat notes on safety with parlor stoves bank book storage and seasonality. A digressive quip on human evolution debates about degeneration and dress. A remark on importing South Carolina hogs to unearth British gold alongside a Detroit poet arrested in Poland for objectionable verses.
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Missouri
South Carolina
Detroit
Poland
Hotel Menu Declares Guests Left With Little Hope
A Switzerland hotel proclaims its menu leaves guests with nothing to hope for. The note mentions similar hotels exist in America.
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Switzerland
America
Lipton May Seek International Air Ship Racing
After several more unsuccessful attempts to lift the American cup, Sir Thomas Lipton may decide to try international air ship racing.
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Thomas Lipton
Trust Organized Ends City Confidence in Ann Arbor
A landlady's trust has been organized at Ann Arbor Michigan, signaling that Ann Arbor will no longer trust. The Grinnell Iowa common council has decreed that no man shall treat another in that city.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
Ann Arbor
Common Council of
Grinnell
Illinois State News Briefs From Across The State
Illinois Central plans a $15000 depot in Carbondale and holds first services in the new Greenville Presbyterian church. Effingham prepays a street fair amid opposition while East St. Louis votes $218500 for the coming year. McLean County expands rural free delivery to 79 routes after Sept 25. Murphysboro housing boom and Taylorville building surge. Carmi attorney Richard Organ dies after hunting accident near Maunie. Flora cattle suffer blackleg losses. vaccination urged. East St. Louis man Frank Gregor kills his father in a deliberate act. Greenville Lt. Gov. Northcott named past grand supervisor at $4000 yearly. Effingham to vote on Carnegie library offer. Swindle alert: Illinois towns hit by an oily stranger selling a $2 electric plant with hidden costs.
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Wane Ilinois Central
Garbondale
New Presbyterian Church
Greenville
Effingham
Murphysboro
Taylorville
Rchard L. Organ
Carmi
White County Agricultural Association
Maunie
Flora
Frank Gregor
East St. Louis
W. A. Northcott
Woodmen of America
Andrew Carnegie
Minois
Dea
Debating Detective Use in St Clair and Madison Counties
The Edwardsville Intelligencer questions the value of employing St Louis detectives across St Clair and Madison counties. It argues sheriffs deputies and officials must maintain peace and suggests sparse detective use, possibly calling out the militia, and questions extending detective work to many towns such as Mascoutah Freeburg Highland Marine and others.
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St. Clair
Madison
St. Louis
East St. Louis
Venice
Collinsville
Mas
Germs in Morning Mail Warns Readers to Beware
The London Lancet advises people not to eat at the breakfast table with letters opened or envelopes moistened by the tongue. It notes that stam ps and envelopes can carry contamination from tetanus to septicemia, ruining romance with grim health risks.
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London Lancet
Ito
Home pride necessary for city prosperity
Granite City Press argues that a city thrives on intelligent effort civic pride and orderliness. It notes that wealth is not essential to prosperity but well kept homes clean streets and alleys free of rubbish attract residents and invite growth.
Roosevelt urged to remove Washington from stamps
Albany Argus commentary calls on President Roosevelt to strike Washington’s image from two-cent stamps citing the post office’s alleged dishonesty. The piece also promotes Rex cigar as King of all five-centers, mentioning Madegin Troy and widespread use across the county.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Post Office Department
Rex
Madegin
Troy
Fashionable Russian blouse and skirt with mutton-leg sleeves
An analysis of a stylish Russian blouse outfit features mutton-leg sleeves inset with broad cloth applique and a matching skirt. Cord ornaments accent the set, with Corti celli silk stitching enhancing the embroidery and decorative seams on the blouse sleeves and skirt.
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Hopsack
Echoes The Programme Engage in Humorous Snippets
A collage of snippets from early 20th century humor and social ineptitudes. Lines include engagement calendar gibes, a dry epitaph about slicing a mule and dying, witty marital swap, and a quip about an independent woman of means. Snappy satire on daily life.
Edison phonograph back in Troy as 1878 item noted
Twenty five years ago this week in Troy reports an Edison phonograph on exhibition for the first time. The issue lists a newborn girl to Mr and Mrs Wm Reeder and a total solar eclipse visible locally. Also notes silk shipments, a Minnesota health trip, and a railway company filing articles to form a Vandalia Line branch from St Jacob to Marine.
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Wm. Reeder
Troy
Angie Bell
D. Palmer
Kemper
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Robert Stewart
Minnesota
St. Jacob, Marine & Northwestern Railway
St. Jacob
Marine
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Granite City Press
Albany Argus
Z Hi
New York Sun
Ethel
George
Chicago Record-Herald
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chris. Busse
Nic
A. Heddergott
W. W. Jarvis
D. G. Jarvis
Troy Exchange Bank
Seckert
Anne
Graham
Mari Cocky Mountain
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