Call Sees Truth and Growth in Troy Building Boom
The piece urges civic progress and accountability, urged by readers of The Call. It laments heavy words from past criticism and celebrates efforts to improve Troy including a push for public ownership of utilities. It highlights David Smith's death as a grim warning against tobacco and discusses Collinsville’s electric light and water works to argue for municipal ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
David Smith
Saginaw, Mich
Collinsville
Frey
Printer's Ink Makes People Think Bee the Point
A compact note suggests ink and printing influence public thought. It references the idea that publishers shape perception through words and headlines. The phrasing implies a caution about media impact and the power of advertisement.
King Edward's Valor Amid Pain Is Saddened by Courage
Richard Harding Davis in Collier's Weekly recalls the king who, though frail and forced by illness, persisted with a steady smile through court duties and public appearances. He faced dis ease and death unarmed, silent, and with unrivaled endurance, inspiring many as England learns at last of those days of gnawing pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Harding Davis
Collier’s Weekly
England
London
Buckingham Palace
Youngest Peeress Prepares for Coronation Robe
Lady Betty Bligh, now Baroness Clifton, is Britain’s youngest peeress with coronation rights for King Edward. Born in 1900, she belongs to a lineage tracing to the first Baron Clifton, with a history of female succession and a coronation robe being prepared for Westminster.
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Great Britain
Edward
Betty”. Bligh
Baroness Clifton
Earl of
Westminster
Betty
Baron Clifton
Belgians Honor May Day And Love Predictions
Belgians celebrate May as the Virgin Mary's month with a Liege province custom. Young women walk at dawn to a hedge and place three dew grass blades with colored threads black for bachelor red for unknown lover and green for secret desires. After ten days the tallest blade reveals the destined lover.
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Liege
Drug firm praises Herbine by Dr Singley recommendation
Ford and Sturgeon of Rocky Hill Station Ky report they were asked by Dr G B Singley to obtain Herbine for customers. They ordered three dozen in December and, pleased with the results, have duplicated the order three times. They note Dr Singley recommends Herbine and advertise it at 50 cents a bottle at S Kingaton's.
Ballard's Snow Liniment Saintly Cure Claim
W S Bailey of Texas says his wife suffered paralysis in her arm for five years and Ballard's Snow Liniment cured her. He also used it on old sores frost bites and skin eruptions. Sold at S Kingston's 25 50 cent and 1.00 bottles. The Weekly Call available at $1 yearly for 52 issues.
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W. S. Baily
P. O. True
Texas
Ballard
S. Kingston’s
Peace in the Philippines Sparked Court Martials And Mosquito Extermination
A humorous dispatch notes ongoing court martial activity after the war’s end in the Philippines. Capt. Benjamin Franklin Brown faces trial over alleged abuse of a native in Bing Bang. Gen. Chaffee orders corps to Manila for questioning. Separate tale inflates sultan of Lizard Creek’s capture for information. Also satirizes efforts to exterminate mosquitoes, praising scientific zeal and national unity in facing pests.
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Philippines
Philippine Islands
Benjamin Franklin Brown
Bing Bang
Stars and Stripes
Brown
Chaffee
Corp
George Washington Jones
Manila
Lizard Creek
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Pluce
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Leopold
Harry Daniel
Fire Department
Panama Canal
Congress
Stienhans
Mees Bune
Ruchter
A. Heddergott
West Clay Street
Kinloch 13
W. W. Jarvis
D. G. Jarvis
Troy Exchange Bank
Seale
Safe and Reliable Inc
Heinecke
Rex
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