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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1900
Page
3
The writer urges continued city improvement through newspapers as life to culture and progress. He notes property owners lag in renting new business space and calls for inducements to attract commerce. The piece defends local enterprise, claims Troy has more people and business than ever, and argues a modest population rise would boost the town.
Town outline urges suppression of rowdy behavior on streets. Citizens and visitors alike are repelled by disturbances that tarnish Troy’s quiet image. Officials call for action to curb this nuisance and restore propriety.
David 8 Ford, editor of The Youths Companion, died at his Boston home at 76. His widely circulated publication was valued for sterling worth and broad advertiser support. Ford’s estate totals 2,500,000 dollars, left to executors to administer to the Baptist Social Union along with related real estate.
Local businessmen are urged to see the advisability and benefits of a Business Men's League. Such organizations have proven successful where tried, aiding both the community and businessmen who serve its people. The league’s field is broad, aiming to prevent harms and promote beneficial endeavors.
The text describes a wave of filth and scum in the Chicago river being routed down the Illinois river to the Mississippi through a drainage canal on January 2, with St. Louis and Illinois towns opposing the move. Attorneys secured by St. Louis assist Illinois towns as the case progresses.
An editor attempting to reform English spelling dropped letters in words ending with nghs. Readers balked at thru and tho variants. Advertisers resisted, the high school protested, and the paper abandoned reform declaring fate of language while noting reform is a long work. Exchange.
Frank Damrosch predicts the coming century will produce many great American composers as music education expands in public schools and people gain access to free concerts. He envisions the United States government establishing a national music conservatory and a national circuit of opera houses, with New York becoming the music capital of the world.
Edward Bok in Ladies Home Journal questions whether American adults realize that in five cities over 16 000 children aged eight to fourteen were removed from public schools last term due to nerve and mind damage from internal cramming. Medical experts estimate health is shattered for over 50 000 children yearly, condemning the public education system as faulty, unintelligent, and cruel.
A Bryenamton New York man killed his wife and then himself to see if papers would publish their pictures and reveal details. Another Empire State resident died by his own hand to test spiritualism. The Chicago Times Herald doubts satisfaction of either. The piece muses on giving the city cemetery a suggestive name, noting repeated calls with little success and urging progress to adopt it.
A farmer visited the Iezel Mill in East St Louis seeking U S Patent flour and wheat flour. Carl Hezel argued against buying Northwest grown wheat flour and urged farming customers to sell wheat to mills so they can produce flour, avoiding harming millers or farmers. The farmer agreed to buy two sacks of Heroic flour, promising to spread the message to neighbors.
The Bunker Hill News exposes a broad price hike by the paper trust, raising costs on wrapping, wall, sand, writing, and blotting papers. Buff envelopes jump from five to ten cents per thousand, a marked 60 percent increase, inflating consumer costs alongside prior maker profits.
In Nokomis Progress, the piece questions merchants who use cheap wholesale letterheads and misleading ads from outside firms. It argues for supporting home printers to supply superior work and stock, advertise themselves, and aid local customers against department stores. It notes merchants complain about mail order but still order stationery from distant firms.
Readers weigh value of circulation versus cost in newspaper advertising. The piece contrasts distributing ten circulars with spending $10,000 and notes varying returns for ads in different periodicals. It questions whether a paper with fewer readers can match the impact of a widely read one.
A Pocahontas Press piece notes that some residents are enterprising while others sacrifice self interests to stop ahera from growing the town. The column laments detractors and urges removing town obstacles to allow progress.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the best in the world for pain, old sores, ulcers, boils, corns, and skin eruptions. It claims a best pile cure and guarantees cure at 25 cents per box, sold by Kingston Druggist.
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