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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1897
Page
4
A jumble of quips on experience, manners, and gossip from a late era column. It includes barbs on wives, religion, temperance, and social faux pas, plus a Long letter from an Irish youth. Wry observations mix with a scene of a late night parlor scandal and a shy uncle letter.
The article reports on taxes in Madison County railroads paying one eighth. 155 patients at the county farm the largest ever. Blue Mound hog losses from cholera. Belleville bank nearing occupancy. Mt Vernon persimmons shipped to Chicago. diphtheria cases in Trenton. Shelbyville Kaskaskia river bridge 1400 feet long 102 feet high. wild bull roaming. Giger actions Highland bat incident. Bloomington finances with a 75000 debt and saloon license income. Aurora lawsuit over drowned man and saloon liquor sale. county tax book completion and total taxes 427802.16 with detailed allocations by state county township road school city corporation and other levies.
Mr James Jones of Jones and Son Cowden Ill touts Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. He says his wife was gravely ill with LaGrippe and hasty consumption but improved after using the medicine from the first dose, with a six dollar bottle curing her. A free trial is offered at 8 Klugston's drug store. Read The Cas for pews.
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