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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
4
Mont will become a potato shipping hub as the first car load left Thursday. The No. 2 mine at Glen Carbon reported its largest half month's output in the last two weeks of July.
An August forecast piece opines on heat and weather woes with humorous digressions on climate, satire of a famed Boston figure, and a playful history lesson about Augustus Caesar. It recalls Rome’s seven hills, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, and Mark Antony amid a breezy, if wandering, commentary.
The piece muses on Mars dominating August with ominous prophecies, recalls Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, and dismisses comet lore and astrology as hoaxes. It notes August activities like picnics and harvest gatherings, then cites a testimonial: dysentery cured by Chamberlain's remedy, praised as best cholera medicine, sold by S. Kingston.
An old allegorical scene contrasts a girl frightened by a grasshopper with a heedless tread on a snake. It parallels a man who spends on a cyclone cellar yet neglects to provide Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel issues. The ad claims the remedy is the most prompt and reliable medicine for these diseases and is sold by S. Kingston.
The Local body notes the death of Brother James Young, praising him as a good neighbor and industrious citizen, and extends sympathy to his parents. The charter will be draped in mourning for thirty days, a sacred memory page set aside, and resolutions published in The Weekly Call and Miners Journal with a copy to the family.
Rev J C Sefton to lead Presbyterian services tomorrow with evening rites. Ladies Aid Society of the M E Church plans an ice cream social on parsonage lawn next Tuesday August 11. Ernest A Main to preach at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church tomorrow in place of the absent pastor. A testimonial letter recounts a four year old boy’s recovery from colic after morphine failed, aided by Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale.
The family thanks neighbors friends and all others who helped during the recent illness and death of our son and brother Ephrim Young and family.
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