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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1898
Page
7
A festive verse urges haste in preparing stockings for Christmas. St Nick, in fur, is ready to depart with his reindeers hitching to the sleigh. From the snowy sky he will descend the chimney to fill stockings with toys and sugar plums as children count the days.
A long OCR fragment lists holiday shopping items at A. Klein and A. Heddergott including boots rubber goods and dress fabrics. It mentions holiday trade, school and academy holidays, a grand masquerade ball by the Helping Hand Dancing Club, and local shop notes. Also notes a wreck on the Vandalia Line near Cantine with a death and injuries, church holiday programs, and local personals and public notices.
Mrs K L Holtgrieve died at her home three miles north of the city on Staunton Road, age 77 10 9, after pneumonia. Funeral held December 22 at Bartlett Cemetery. Infant son of August and Fannie Proll died December 19 aged 9 days and funeral followed December 20 at Troy Cemetery.
Granite City weighs a $50,000 sewer plan while a post office cafe burglary failed. Alton enacts a curfew, with Sentinel-Democrat favoring whipping and ducking. Reward up to $1,000 for Harrison murderers. Highland mourns John Marti, 23, died of consumption. Edwardsville pumps power Poag waterworks, Edwardsville gains. Highland mulls a small business license for transient merchants. Alton endures a major fire causing over $55,000 in losses. John A Prickett & Son bank creditors receive 18 percent dividend. Fritz Kable and Theo Nessing fatally struck by a freight train near Namoukshua. Marriage licenses issued in the capital include John J Gebris Jr and Jane August Beaiher.
A jokey request letter from a self described hobo asking Santa Claus for gin rum chewing gum whiskey clothes shoes nails food shelter and a billion dollars with humorous lines about jail rope and a best wishes kiss off ending with Your loving nephew Bill de Bum.
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