Local Officials List for Mayo Elias Burk Ward Aldermen
A historical roster names Mayo Elias Burk and city officials across wards. It lists aldermen for First Ward William Norbury and Dr Jones Second Ward Gus Voelk ex and Ww. Gebauer Third Ward Fred Gerson and J H Sillenhansity Clerk Daniel G. Jones Treasurer W W Jarvis Superintendent of Streets Charles Smith Marshal William Healy Police Magistrate James N Jarvis Supervisor H C Kersey Town Clerk C E Richter Collector Geo Liebler Assessor Wm Schultze Commissioners of Highways I W Cook A W Mills R E Jacobs School Trustees William Lloyd C Ed wards Ignatius Riggin Justices of the Peace F I Hampton Philip Eckert Constables H C Kersey A R Snodgrags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayo Elias Burk
Norbury
Jones
Gus. Voelkex
A. Gebauer
Fred Gerson
J.H Sllenhans
Ity
Daniel G. Jones
W. Www. Jarvis
H. C. Kersey
C. E. Ritcher
Rest of It and Rumors Across the Line
A satirical meditation on rumor and perception across genders and generations. The speaker notes how men and women share gossip differently, while a young boy seeks meaning in outward signs like a watch. It ends with quips about poetry, aspiration, and aging women, offering a sharp social snapshot.
The X Ray Shirt Waist Explains Fashion Trap
The St Louis Mirror critiques the X ray shirt waist as an insidious fashion device, likening its transparent warp to a Roentgen photograph. It praises sleeves as eye lures and notes the vaccination mark, wrist band, and ballooning sleeve enhancing perceived arm plumpness and feminine allure.
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St. Louis
Advice From Josh Billings Translated for Youth
A humorous 1867 piece from Moore's Rural New-Yorker offers mock counsel to young men starting life, with ironies about manners, appearance, and behaviors. It lists six rules on respect, appearance, bravado, companions, avoidance of older critics, and wary view of female virtue, all in a satirical tone.
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Moore
New-Yorker
Josh Billings
Advice on manners and life for a young man
The letter urges a dissolute college-age reader to embrace vice with swagger. It mocks love as weak, endorses swearing, drinking, smoking, and cynicism toward religion and virtue, and chides the idea of chivalry. The writer promises help back only if the reader writes, noting the road back is long and uphill.
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Bacchus
Venus
Far and Near Items of Interest from Our Exchange
Belleville reports ninety four saloons while Murphysboro to get a hospital soon. Shelbyville youths discuss forming an Illinois National Guard company. Three Jerseyville men own an 1804 U.S. dollar worth about 600. A relic torch carried since Lincoln’s first campaign draws interest. Mt. Vernon hosts thousands of snow birds. many die after electric light exposure. A man named Frank Edwards stole a sample case in Sorento depot, jailed on $800 bond. Illinois Game Commission warns against duck and goose killings at Missouri mouth with swivel guns. Vandalia notes old locust trees felled in courthouse yard. Lincoln reportedly rested there. Rev. Dr. James Miller, Bloomington, murdered in Decatur by footpads. A charity scheme at school prompts pupils to donate potatoes or items to the poor.
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Jerseyville
C. Rittenhouse
Carlyle
Lincoln
Mt. Vernon
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Township Officials
Troy Lodge
A. F
A.M
Masonic Hall
E. Burx
W.M. Briins Bank, JR
Pisgah
G. W. Garss
GC. P. Ror
T Williamson
Madison Council
A. L. of H
St Drolt’s Hall
H. ©. Dettman
C. Araust Droit
Mentor Lodge
No- 165
K. of P
Castle Hall
Schott
Chas. Mantle
C. C
Amity Camp
Droll’s Hall
R. L. Dawson
V. C. Avoust Drout
Germanta Lodge
U.O.L. B
K. of P. Hall
T. Guenvewie
T. M. Joan Gout
K. of H
Jas.m. Bosomworth
T. A. Riggin
Thos. H. Bell
F. R
Citizens’ Building.and Loan Association
James A. Buack
M. F. Auwanrer
Troy Public School
J.C. Hollis
McCray-Dewey Academy
Isaac W. Cook
Board of Education
Baptist Church
Jas. Osborne
Methodist Church
Rev
G. A. Seed
Presbyterian Church
T. H. Bell
G. Playsman
Lutheran ST Paul's
L. W. Dornaell
ST. Jerome's Catholic
Dally
Maas
Forater
Epworth
Christian Endeavor
Presbey Church
Lincolnian Literary Society
McCray Dewey Academy
Troy Cemetery
Modern
Jas M Taylor
Berens Davy
Portion
Chas. Schultze
Posenh Arth
Taake
Felimeyer
Phact, Phan and
Phancy
Becaus
Belleville
Murphysboro
Shelbyville
Iiinois National Guard
Frank Edwards
Sorento
Edwardsville
Illinois Game Commission
Missouri
Court House Yard
Abraham Lincoln
Vandalia
Illinois
James Miller
Bloomington
Grace Methodist Church
Decatur
Ill
John Miller
Wistel
Gee
Lautz Bros
Proctor & Gamble
Lenox
Misses Gossamers
Bradford
Alpaos
Columbia River
F. F. Miller
Notary Public
Troy
James N. Jarvis
Notary Public and Cometancer
F. W. Zanders
IF. Kuntzmann
Peier
Market Street
Troy Exchange Bank
Wor
Kimberlin
Hack
Scientific American Agency For
Broadway
New Ye Chye
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