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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1903
Page
2
Social Sanity in Summer and Saturday Half Holidays
The article notes that summer half holidays are widely observed in trades and industries, driving thousands outdoors. World’s Work highlights a social shift toward outdoor life as vital for health and sanity, crediting outdoor activity with preventing nervous breakdown and boosting popular interest in nature, walking, and cycling clubs.
Post Office Rules Reclassify Enamel Cards as Letters
Government ruling states enameled or bronzed postal cards lose postal status once a written message is added and switch to ordinary letter postage. fully printed cards go to third class. The change follows reports of counterfeiting and enamel work on uncanceled cards. Postmasters are ordered to enforce the rule strictly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Choosing a Profession Advice for Parents and Boys
Parents and guardians should let boys choose their own path when possible, provided the choice is legitimate and laudable. Forcing a disliked field leads to discontent and failure, as Adam S Desmond notes in Success, suggesting encouraging rather than pressuring based on interest and ability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam S. Desmond
Success
Debates on vocation choices and widow pension rulings
A columnist laments parental bias toward safe trades over risky passions and cites a pension case where a widow could not be widow to a later husband. It applauds the Missouri mule's role in promoting the animal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Greenville to Start Free City Mail Delivery
Streets and houses in Greenville are to be numbered and named ahead of the September 1 inauguration of free city mail delivery. Two carriers will operate two deliveries daily, making Greenville the smallest U S city to gain this privilege. Telegraph to China costs $1 per word, and a joke notes Trojans still have money for a watermelon after sending Chinese words. Time brings changes as a circus desertion reflects shifts from farm to field work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
United States
China
Real estate boom lifts Troy’s old town profile
Real estate activity in Troy climbs higher as buyers improve properties, signaling the town’s revitalization. Local markets show expanding investments as the historic district moves to the fore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Advertising strategy from Brookline Chronicle insight
The Brookline Chronicle emphasizes steady growth through a mapped advertising plan, warning that sporadic efforts yield poorer long term returns. It argues a business should steadily increase ads to the maximum feasible level as demand dictates, avoiding pockets of underinvestment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookline Chronicle
Government agency to furnish farm hands through colleges
Secretary Wilson of the Agricultural Department launches a national employment agency to match idle men with farm work. Contacted 3,000 colleges and institutions producing a list of over 1,000 willing to supply workers free of charge. Mission and Salvation Army centers included. aims to expand annually with gratuitous distribution of the list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Agricultural Department
Grangers
Mission
Salvation Army
Editorial Gripe on Newspaper Silence and Courtesy
The Granite City Press comments on critics who allege misrepresentation by papers noting editors often withhold details. It argues many men would be thankful editors protect them by not printing everything. The piece defends the editor’s role in keeping sensitive matters out of the public eye.
Our Natal Day and the Fourth of July
The Indianapolis News opines that the Fourth of July has shifted from a solemn celebration to a day of recreation. It notes the rise of noise making and amusing excess with children and adults alike enjoying races, fights, picnics, and other loud activities, diminishing its original significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Postal reform urged for Edwardsville as town grows
A letter from the Edwardsville Democrat argues that Edwardsville with 6000 residents must travel to the post office for mail while delivery serves a ten mile radius. It calls for fair reform of Rural Free Delivery with multiple R F D routes, noting the town’s business activity and broader county usage. It also mentions The Rex Cigar as a popular local 5 cent cigar made in Troy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwardsville
Rex
Troy
Latest Fashion Notes Highlight Pongee Gowns and Embroidery
Pongee gowns are described as practical, comfortable, and stylish in pale blue with Corticelli filo silk embroidery. A unique feature trims the embroidery collar with a black Liberty silk scarf, creating long ends with ornaments. The piece notes hip shirring and sleeve shirring, plus soft pastel serges with long front plaits and fullness at the hem aided by let-in kittings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sancii
Echoes of Modern Wit and Oddball Jests
A collage of jokes and quips from periodical columns. Quick staccato vignettes touch on weddings trust and social satire. Famous names and phrases appear in humorous exchanges about money, marriage, and notoriety.
This Week in Troy 1878 cattle plague and mill
From The Weekly Bulletin August 15 1878 Madison county total assessment 14 641541. Wm Donoho restarted his flouring mill after a shutdown. A cattle plague Texas fever or rinderpest afflicted the area with seven head of Durham cattle dying in three days near Ignatius Riggin north of town. James L Baird died aged 10 years 7 Dr John 8. Dewey contributed a lengthy article on the cattle plague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison County
Wm. Donoho
Ignatius Riggin
Texas
James L
William
Sarah Baird
John
Dewey
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