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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1902
Page
2
A 1902 column ribaldly mixes anecdotes on marriage licenses, coronation travel, New York taxes, and Kipling, with notes on African American representation in Congress, railway safety, Native American hair rules, and a New York will dispute revealing the force of a single word in estate phrasing.
Murphysboro forms a twenty piece band of women. Breese plans a new school building costing 6000 dollars. Shelbyville gives 103 dollars to the McKinley Memorial. Sangamon county upgrades its farm with 15000 dollars in improvements. Tamaroa to gain six churches by spring. Jackson ville's Junge Owen Price Thompson urged as 1904 presidential possibility. Bloomington merchant Jacob Frank dies at 85. Lavignac and Meyers of St. Louis arrested in East St. Louis bank robbery. Rockford banker-lawyer Thomas D. Robertson dies at 84, leaving 750000 estate. Breese coal payroll totals 28000 for January. Dwight fire destroys Keeley Institute lab and more, 300000 in losses. Palmyra elder Mrs. Maxwell dies at 83, one of early settlers. East St. Louis switchman Harry Greenlee killed on Eads bridge. Decatur mayor Shilling faces malfeasance trial. Beardstown News suspends. moved to Shawnee Oklahoma and rebranded. Benton Bank receives 175000 check for Franklin county land purchases. Macoupin grand jury indicts Staunton mayor Harding for a 750 bribe in dynamo purchase.
The Troy City paper extols Troy as a vibrant center of enterprise, claiming the city can challenge larger towns in the state. It lauds local hustlers while noting Tin Weekkiy Cau as a rival benchmark.
Poem notes winter scenes with snowflakes and skaters on lakes. The speaker calls Old Winter a hummer, contrasts with summer skeeters, and evokes a quiet, atmospheric mood.
Mrs M F Sprick visited St Louis Monday as Robert C Morriss traveled there for a Milk Producers' Association meeting. Local No 25 of the International Farmers' Union met at Peters Hall Troy last Friday, adding a few new members and conducting business. The Milk Producers' Association met Monday in Lindell Hotel parlor 22 St Louis with several new members. Louis and H B Morriss of St Louis visited their father, who suffered a severe fall but is now improving and able to be up. February 14.
Madison visitor Mrs Louisa Goff. Adolph Hitz in Grantfork last week. Rev J N Jones preached here. Miss Anna Bucknell visited Binney. Louis Oswald on petit jury in Edwardsville. Win Sahre went to Greenville on business. Win M Jayeman a Litchfield guest. Wash Weeks moved south of New Douglas on Bob Isaacs farm. Christian endeavor musicale likely mid March. Jed Kientz and Misses Bertha and Dora Deoblin from Madison visited. Mary Highlander wed Henry Sanders last Thursday. Raymond Stubbs of Edwardsville officiated for Misses Keown. Wm Suhre at Edwardsville supervisors meeting. Mr and Mrs James Harris guests of James Tabor at Mt Pisgah. Miss Lizzie Merz of St Louis visiting Charles Hoeties. Dr Will Enos of Alton visited Fred Figge. Figge ill for some time. Emma and Minnie Salsman of Grantfork here. Robert and Wm Jageman returned home with them. Scarlet fever mild in several families including Staib, Ambahel, and Gehrig. Violet Schein, Denver death after moving there since Christmas. Ike Cox, former State Representative near here, reported dead in St Louis.
Juries received in a street car accident. Mr. and Mrs. John Stutzer lost their two-year-old son Raymond Friday by typhoid fever. The funeral was held Saturday, Rev. J. H. Dinkmeier officiating. Many carriages went to the cemetery despite the cold. A flange break on an Illinois Central freight car wheel this morning derailed two cars, smashing them and delaying traffic for hours. Section men from Mt. Olive and Litchfield assisted. February 13.
The Greenville Item notes a political metaphor calling the post office itch a non fatal but disruptive disease. It spreads as commissions near expiration cause anger among recently active supporters and neighbors, leaving victims in unattractive political moods across Bond County.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt contrasts local home merchants with national firms Sears Roebuck Montgomery Ward and Marshall Field asking which supports community when illness, unemployment, church needs, or burials occur. It also cites a St Louis merchant urging advertising and notes Germany and Britain cotton goods usage and insurance figures.
An advertisement touts Dr. King's New Life Pills as a solution for indigestion biliousness constipation sick headache and related stomach liver and bowel troubles. It claims the pills keep "little workers" at eight hours and promote easy pleasant safe cures, priced at 25 cents at S Kingston's drugstore.
The Rex cigar is described as the king of all centers, made in Troy and smoked throughout the county indicating wide distribution and local pride in the product.
Household accidents cause burns cuts sprains and bruises. Ballard's Snow Liniment has long been a family remedy priced 25 and 5c. S Kingston promotes Batlord's Horehound Syrup at 25 and 50c. S Kingston.
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