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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1899
Page
2
Three parties with legal notices must publish via their attorneys in ink Call. The paper forecasts Troy's growth with a new telephone exchange and a coming boom, urging support for local business and progress. Illinois school children contributed 461 to a Paris Lafayette monument fund. Alaska duties dispute noted amid regional pride.
The peace congress has closed without a definite understanding on the question and the great nations turn to devouring their small competitors.
A comment notes that public officeholders often avoid public notice, calling it the poorest excuse for economy and implying many council members prefer secrecy over transparency in city affairs.
Farmers should maintain precise tallies of crops grown this year as required by the census department in Washington. The directive aims to ensure accurate reporting to census takers in the coming year.
The Troy telephone exchange is now assured. This week two more stations were added at J. W. Garnet's store and the Enterprise Elevator near the depot. Several other parties plan to install instruments soon.
The serum in yellow fever scored a clear victory in Oscar F. Lackey's Cuban infection. Treated at the New York quarantine by Dr. Doty, Lackey's illness followed the fever's worst form and the serum was the sole treatment used. If effective in others, the advance promises great blessing to mankind.
The text notes that electric crossing alarms fail to always prevent accidents as pedestrians may ignore signals and attempt to beat trains. It states the block system, when functioning, is the safest and most reliable safeguard against railroad crossing incidents.
The article notes Rank vegetation is not injurious to health but decaying plant matter in streets like grass weeds tomato and watermelon waste harms health. Troy has an ordinance against it and council should enforce. One or two prosecutions could stop the practice.
The new law prohibits itinerant persons from camping or feeding stock on public highways for more than twelve hours in a township. Violators face a fine of 10 to 50 dollars, stock may be seized, and funds go to township highways. The act aims to curb nuisances and assist farmers by enforcement.
The Mauna Loa eruption on Hawaii, begun July 4, continues with intensified activity. A dense smoke cloud blankets the island and two lava streams head toward Waiakea and Hilo while a third vast flow advances toward the Kau side, showing no sign of abating and delivering a dangerous, dramatic display.
Mr John Oliver of Philadelphia recounts a dire illness with yellow skin sunken eyes and back pain. After three doctors gave up a friend advised Electric Bitters and the first bottle brought improvement. He used them three weeks and recovered, claiming they saved his life and spared another from the grave. Kingston's drug store offers them at 50 cents guaranteed.
A Kansas editor aimed to satisfy every patron by printing nothing that could offend. The issue came out on time but contained a blank sheet, leaving readers with no content while the editor slept peacefully, content that no one was offended.
A reader from St. Louis Testimonies Chamberlain s Cough Remedy as valuable 4 percent medicine for coughs colds croup and whooping cough in children and indispensable in every family Sold by S Kingston Druggist in St Louis with address 4127 Fairfax Ave.
Motive items note potatoes shipped from Edwardsville to Cuba and a 15 year old Alton girl inheriting 5 million pounds from England. Obits and health woes include Fosterburg elder Wm Chalingsworth and Alton pioneer Jonathan Quarton, plus a hospital death in Anna and a North Alton farmer Fletcher Gillham. Local colleges and civic groups meet in Upper Alton and Edwardsville Fire Co. shines at Pekin parade. A $200,000 deed from Madison & St Louis Railway to East St Louis Belt Railway is filed, and a Madison County Normal session opens in Upper Alton.
Charles Zehnder a 16 year old milk factory worker, is charged with violating postal laws after a vulgar letter to Miss Rosa Hoffmann prompted a federal probe. Inspector Price identified him as the author, leading to his arrest by Deputy U S Marshal E M Eaton of Marine. He was taken to Springfield for district court trial.
About a fifteen month old child suffered a week long illness with vomiting and twenty five bowel movements per half day. A physician treated the child for ten days without relief. After using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy the child improved and fully recovered. Sold by S. Kingstot, Druggist.
The notice lists Julius Peter as proprietor of Citizens Shaving Parlor on Main street in Troy and advertises shaving and hair cutting services. It notes a cholera incident involving Rev W B Costley of Stockbridge Ga during pastoral duties at Ellenwood Ga and cites Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as life saving. It ends with a straybird fact and a proverb about swallows.
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