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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1899
Page
2
Saturday's brief compiles local notes on a Troy boom, labor day prep, and cautionary tales of bugs, plus a report of Admiral Dewey predicting a future war with Germany. It notes anti trust actions in Christian county and an Anglo German Antarctic expedition beginning by September 1.
This issue urges subscribers to share The Cal with neighbors to expand readership. It notes plans to broaden coverage and add features, inviting continued patronage to support a growing local paper aimed at being everyone’s paper.
City lights plans, once backed by local providers, have been trimmed as costs rise. Citizens lack goodwill to push the project, and light improvements appear dead until future storms test the town. The piece calls for practical leadership in Troy to drive decisive action and compare the political mood to wartime resolve.
A reader contrasts metropolitan papers with local ones, citing a St. Louis Post-Dispatch accident report about John Becker and his brother. The piece argues the metropolitan story exaggerated injuries and mislocated events, while a St Jacob update corrected details. It praises the local country weekly for reliable, local coverage.
The premium list for the 1899 Illinois state fair is ready and available from the secretary of the board of agriculture. Classification remains mostly unchanged from last year, with strong expectations for larger exhibits and attendance than in 1898. Springfield railroads plan extra excursion rates to boost turnout, and the city has financed a week of daytime fair activities and a $25,000 grand pageant titled Fete of the Fairies on September 22, with all fair trains held until the evening program concludes.
A playful dramatic scene shows three soldiers swearing by their loves at night. Each holds a dear girl’s picture and proclaims unwavering devotion before revealing that all the pictures are identical, a burning shame in the old tale.
Public notice item notes blank receipts for sale at the office. Readable text indicates sale related documents handled at the office location. Requires clerical action or verification by readers seeking sale records.
The Venice cannery runs full time. The county jail holds 34 inmates and 81 criminal cases plus 17 law cases are docketed. Odd Fellows of Alton celebrate 68th anniversary, first lodge in the state. Edwardsville Fire Department team wins $145 at Pekin State tournament. Efforts to establish a post office at Brooklyn near Venice. Surveys for a third Mississippi bridge headquartered near Merchant's Bridge. Burglaries plague Edwardsville with few captures. State teachers examination in Edwardsville. county leaders’ normal at Upper Alton. Good Roads Convention September 11 at Alton under State and Interstate Good Roads. Upper Alton waterworks completed. 75-foot pole installed. John J. Mumme hired to audit Alton finances amid irregularity charges. Saloon conflict resurges at New Douglas over Frey’s lower-town establishment. County Board to convene with electric road franchise committee report on French Village to Caseyville to Collinsville.
The Annual St Louis Exposition will run from September 11 to October 14 featuring Chief White Buffalo and his Winnebago tribe with game animals birds and aquatic sports in a 200000 gallon tank. The Innes band will provide music and same admission prices as previous years with rail fare discounts.
Manchester man Geo D Williams describes his wife’s five year battle with illness and how two bottles of Electric Bitters freed her to do her own work. The ad touts the remedy for female diseases, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, headaches, backache, fainting and dizziness with a guarantee and 50 cent price.
The Rev W B Costley of Stockbridge Ga, while attending duties at Ellenwood, credit a bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving his life after a cholera attack. The ad notes the product is for sale by S Kingston, Druggist, and promotes typographical neatness in THE CALL, the community paper.
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