27 Feb 1896
Page 5
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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1896
Page
5
Elegant weather and local goings on fill this week’s note page. Lent begins, social events, and many residents moving or traveling. Several prominent locals, including H I Padon and family, depart for Texas. marriages, business changes, and revival meetings are recorded along with community notices and upcoming sales.
Obituaries announce Irma Hildebrand at ten months and Mrs Christing Woolbrink at age 42 with funeral details. Notices include sale of a valuable mare, a $300 loan offer secured by mortgage, a public health treatment event in Troy March 2, and a Vandalia Line extra train service added on February 16 1896. A newborn girl arrived at Rev. and Mrs. non’s home Monday Feb 24.
Mentions of locals visiting relatives and events in St Louis Collinsville Troy Dodge City and Edwardsville. Names include J C Gebauer Wm Beutel Moran John Harvington Marine H A Miller W W Jarvis Miss Florence Jarvis Adolph Kuntzmann Fritz Voolker Herman Busse Roy Barnaback Paul Jones Mathilda Ahearns Mary Scully Bertha Nevels Addie Morris Isa town social roundup with references to a cycle show and a wedding. Electric Bitters advertised as a remedy with local drugstore pricing.
Joseph Thompeson and all concerned are notified that at the Madison County Illinois sale held at the Edwardsville court house Cloero Ogle purchased the described real estate assessed for taxes special assessments interest penalties and costs due for 1853 located in section 25 township 6 range 6 containing 0 acres and taxed in Joseph Thompson name. Redemption period ends June 4 1888. Cloero Ogle purchaser. Tray Ullnota Feb 27 1896.
Market brief listing wheat and corn per bushel values, flour patent per 100 pounds, hogs per 100 pounds, butter per pound, lard and bacon quotes, eggs per dozen, and other prices with OCR fragments. Notable items include apples potatoes and chicken products with partial figures and unit labels.
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