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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1901
Page
2
A local page urges lawyers to act on legal notices, revisits civic progress and editorials, and notes a kidnapping of a Highland Journal editor. It highlights public ads, municipal improvement faith, and community calls to action as Troy eyes modernization. It also mentions a Queen Wilhelmina marriage and a quirky market note on cats.
A German scientist Dr. W. R. Scheibler head of Berlin electro-therapeutics institute claims sympathy leading to love stems from harmonized interior oscillations of two bodies. He says agreeable reaction and vibrating atoms emit rays that foster love. Irreverent foreign journalists note the definition is only grasped by those with scientific training.
Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, intends to retire from business and devote his remaining years to philanthropy. He argues in his Gospel of Wealth that wealth should be distributed during life to avoid a future public disgrace of dying rich.
Gov William Gregory of Rhode Island praises New England's influence on American development in Success magazine. He recalls the Louisiana purchase assurance of no settlers across the Mississippi for a century and notes the Great American Desert has shrunk amid rapid growth. New England's contribution, he argues, rests on a fertile soil producing endless crops of talent.
Washington dispatch notes strong push for an extra session of the Fifty-seventh Congress to act on Philippine civil government, Cuban constitution, and the Nicaragua canal. It cites Secretary Wilson’s praise, Insular Affairs debates, and upcoming Supreme Court rulings as factors shaping spring timing.
The editor argues editors should tailor content to readers and allow censorship by those concerned. He lists duties and stresses editors must avoid mistakes and endure insults while producing papers and sustaining subscriptions.
The Edwardsville Republican and Edwardsville Democrat exchange opinions on Troy advertising bids for an electric light plant. Both papers note a list of 48 municipal plants for sale and speculate on future municipal ownership, suggesting Edwardsville may also seek private or public control.
The Highland Journal notes how major city papers used vast white paper to chronicle the death of the Queen, signaling a broad, ceremonial response across the press. The item reflects media gravity and the era’s royal event coverage.
A. D. Waller of the Paris Academy of Sciences explains an electrical method to distinguish living from dead matter. Living tissue yields an after current in the same direction after stimulation, while dead tissue does not unless a reversed polarization current occurs. The test uses a galvanometer and a controlled electrical stimulus to confirm vitality. Ladies' Calf Button shoes cut from 1.25 to 0.75 at Klein's.
F L Hewett of Winfield Illinois recalls LaGrippe attacks in 1890 and 1898 and credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with breaking the cold and stopping coughing. The ad notes the remedy is pleasant to take and widely used, offered by S Kingston the local druggist, with a money back guarantee if unsatisfied. It also promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for stomach disorders and headaches at 52 cents with free samples.
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