Troy Growth and Public Works Urged for Future Progress
A trove of local notes urges growth in Troy Madison County with calls for fire limits, public improvements, and a push toward twentieth century ideas. It highlights Governor Yates inauguration coverage on page, Shelby M. Collum’s Senate renomination, and an East St. Louis Relay Depot fire episode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby M. Collum
Springfield
United States Senate
Yates
Troy
East St. Louis
Relay Depot
Washington Letter on Reapportionment and Senate Spars
Washington report from January 11, 1901 covers Champ Clark’s pro district of Columbia amendment and the Burleigh census bill advancing. It notes House membership expand to 387, with 29 more reps after March 3, 1903, plus Senate quarrels, President’s grip illness, finance bill outlook, Army reform debate, and Chinese exclusion law update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WashincGrow
D. C
Champ Clark
District of Columbian Territory
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Missouri
Andrew Johnson
House
Census Committee
Fond
Senate
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Mississippi
North Carolina
North Dakota
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Minnesota
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Illinois
New York
Texas
Rixey
Hay
Senate Committee On Finance
Judiciary Committee
United States
Honor Roll and Class Rank From December School Report
Monthly school report shows total enrollment 272 with 16 teaching days and 3,620 attendance. Honor Roll lists pupils in rooms 7, 6, 5, 4, 31, 2 and 1 as those neither absent nor tardy, with teachers named for each room. Class ranking from January 4 1901 lists top students by room and class designation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook and
Mantle
Electric Bitters touted as cure for many ailments
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a quick remedy for backache, headaches, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, fainting, and dizziness, claiming kidney trouble relief and restored health for a 73-year-old woman. It promotes a free sample at Kingston drug store and notes Chamberlain's tablets for stomach and liver disorders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Kingston
Phoebe Cherley
Peterson
Kingston
Chamberlain
Chris. Reuter
Saginaw
Mich
Post and Zeitung
Dr. King
Earth
Hettles
Also Mentioned on This Page
B.W. Jarvis
Terets
Ilinois
Advanut
Auril
Madison County
McNney
Anton Karazcxk
Madison
Karazek
East
OUR
Hawley
Pettigrew
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Monthly School Report
Honor Rolard
Eiufuc Ition
Della Hagler
Roy Main
Charles Smith
John Collins
Pier
H. F. Thurston
Louise Burk
Samuel Evans
Lizzie Heck
George Solter
Jessie Black
Aaron Smith
Miss Bertha Osborn
Horace Cook
Fannie Cramer
Roscoe Cook
Anna Hollis
Cecil Collins
Mary Rawlings
Julius Collins
Anna Smith
John Gale
Maggie Thomas
Lottie Black
Bikc Hiz Kreser
Patricia Campbell
Dell Bryant
Ritchie Jones
Dee Gohl
Hattie Drol
James Harding
Anna Ramshaw
Floyd Kiel
Mamie Lewis
Maggie Kimberlin
Catherine Jones
Miss Manet Rawson
Emil Droll
John Rawlings
Erwin Hindmarch
Gladdys Kiel
Henry Mincer
Anna Droll
Wilbureter
Nellie Rieder
John Ledbetter
Esther Vetter
Miss Eowa Donono
Aclass
Aelass
Gladdys Baird
Belass
Wilbur Gebauer
Koo
Laura ¢Intes Belass
Alice Mantle
Arthur Thomas
Keless
Charles Wandling
H. F. Tuurstron
Roy Black
Maude Hamilton
Kenneth Brown
Irma Hagler
Vhoorees Connelly
Florence Jones
Ralph Edwards
Maggie Lewis
Arthur Kimberlin
Mary Morgan
Freddie Mineer
Ruth Norbury
Frank Voelker
Bessie Renfro
Ferdinand Wilbert
Tillie Schultze
Tommie Hamshaw
Myrtle van Hoosier
Berenice Ockert
Lena Walker
Miss Rhopa Barrur‘Jr
August Droll
Francis Droll
Kus Lewis
Laura Gates
Robert Rawlings
Maggie Gouehi
Sarah Wilkinson
Esther Jones
Ella Raber
Donie Kiel
Agatha Busse
Frieda Peters
Charles Smith Belass
Libbie Avis
Room
Cleda Hagler
Maury Rawlings
Blass
McKinley
Roosevelt
Pach Bros
W. W. Jarvis
G. Jarvis
Troy Exchange Bank
Citizens’ Shaving Parlor
Julius Peter
Tonsortat
Landes
Mainst
DR. L. K&. Rawson
F W. Zanders
WM. Meiners
Prate
Phil Eckert
A. Heddergott
Rie
Warr
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