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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1902
Page
3
The issue greets readers with New Year well wish es for old and new friends and a pledge to improve the paper and serve patrons. It reflects on past 52 weeks, forgiveness for mistakes, and plans for progress, growth, and harmony in Troy as spring nears and the year begins.
The piece notes that poor country roads choke commerce in towns and farms alike. Farmers visit markets infrequently, trading stagnates, and small towns depend on surrounding farming communities for business. It laments the region’s lack of dry hard roads, contrasts with eastern states, and suggests civilization hinges on better road building.
A New York Mail and Express writer reports that mutchers do not die of consumption, challenging common beliefs about the disease and its causes.
A collection of editorial notes on medical myths about fresh meat and consumption, the ethics of horse docking, Roosevelt’s stance, and industrial issues. Mentions Koch theory, New York butchers, Colorado cures, a Cincinnati ironman’s death after lip cut, and calls for organized action by businessmen and city leaders. Also notes a UMWA convention in Indianapolis and a shift in Postmaster General Payne’s policies.
The Edwardsville Democrat critiques Troy light policy with sarcasm while noting it lacks local understanding. Spring elections near, candidates prepare to greet voters with cordial gestures. Congress may purchase Valley Forge site to turn it into a national memorial park. A Georgia paper mocks an editor hit by a midnight passenger train, light on damages.
Predictions warn Secretary Gage of the Treasury and Secretary Long of the Navy may resign soon. Chicago clergymen debate whether Ingersoll is in heaven. A Kansan marks nerve as lying straight at bed start. A fatherly exchange urges men to be men, with a jab about ladies. St Louis mortuary report for 1901 shows 10 130 deaths and 10 836 births. A fragment about a revolution and mending it remains.
Illinois notes that the state tax rate remains 50 cents per $100 valuation. Charles Patton of Mt. Vernon and Louis J. Palmer of Springfield died. A waterworks question at Arthur passed 101 to 60. Other items include a Wall Brothers dissolution in Staunton, coal-boring funding near Buxton, a $165 loss by Saming Regdon, a fatal hunting accident near Bunker Hill, Belleville's nail mill and a potential bottle factory, and a postmaster contest in Vandalia. Also: a surgeon’s bribery trial, a Kokomo party fist fight, and a grand road franchise to Quincy and Southeastern Electric. A huge cottonwood near Flora yielded 8,000 feet of lumber.
The Bunker Hill News marks fourteen years of publication in Macoupin. Pinckneyville Advocate changes hands with W. W. Sims retiring and C. R. Davis taking charge. The Democrat of Carlyle suspends, publisher S. B. Hale citing insufficient patronage. Greenville Sun editor Will C. Wright marries Edith B. Johnson in St Louis, ceremony at the bride’s home conducted by Rev. J. G. Wright. Ballard's Snow Liniment advertised for rheumatism and pains.
Illinois shifts from 22 log schoolhouses to 16 remaining with plans to remove the last. Counties vary with Shel by Adams each at one and Randolph four. Modern rural schools rise with furnaces heat water and better desks while telephone rural mail and inter urban trolleys expand access and quality.
Samuel B. Hales announces the discontinuance of the Carlile Democrat due to lack of appreciation from Clinton county readers. The brief paper had a stormy run amid petty local and political squabbles and warns that newspapers must avoid battles for disgruntled interests.
The text argues that a turned down kerosene lamp could breed diphtheria, noting New York’s epidemic linked by fumes. It cautions against keeping a lamp flame low in a child’s bedroom, calling it a deadly gas risk beyond strong lungs’ tolerance.
A quoted screed denounces trust power and mail order houses urging readers to withhold support. It condemns sending ten dollars to big department stores, arguing such actions fund trusts that crush competition. The piece urges local merchants and consistent consumer action over catalog purchasing.
A brief, defiant Christmas line states a renewed pledge to avoid drinking starting January 1. The speaker claims past merriment but vows lasting abstinence, framing the resolve as a firm personal vow. The tone hints at festive recollection and self-improvement.
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