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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1897
Page
7
The page lists local items including a proposed Helping Hand cigar promotion at A Klein's and a grand ball at Central Hall tonight. It notes a marriage license issued last week, a notice about selling sale blanks, sheep and hogs shipped to St Louis, and local calls to support home industry and a growing electric plant.
Charley Smith was summoned to aid his sister Mrs Fred Wetene Mall in Batt St Louis where her death occurred at 6 30 p m Wednesday. The funeral is set for 2 o clock today in East St Louis. A strange bird was brought to town by Frank Mersinger for exhibition on Inez Friday and was described as a freak with no name. An advertisement touts Chambertin’s remedy for indigestion with a testimonial from Wm H Penn of Des Moines Iowa. A vivid rural scene describes hog killing and related foods observed around a farmyard with head cheese and back bone noted as part of the meal.
The Westfield Mews Woman's Edition dated April 8 1896 features a correspondent's notice praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best for croup cold and bronchitis. 25 and 50 cent bottles are sold by Kingston G.M. Schilling. The issue also notes a visit by athlete and long distance walker 8. Kingston, accompanied by his fox hound King II, to Central hotel on a Pittsburg to San Francisco voyage returning in ten months. He aims to win a wager, travels 7500 miles, and funds his journey by gifts along the road. He hails from Ellsworth Athletic Club Pittsburg and has lost 36 pounds from 190.
Marriage licenses were issued last week in Edwardaville and surrounding areas including Front Albrecht and Coltineville, reflecting steady local civil registrations. Names of couples and exact dates are not fully legible in the available text.
The best salve is the world for Outs bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblatos corus and all skin eruptions and positively cures pilea or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect anslamc tion of money-relat iper box.
Emma Moeller eldest daughter of Wina J Moeller died at age 17 Sunday January 17 at noon three miles northwest of the city in Pin Oak Township. Funeral was held Monday at 1 PM at the family cemetery with Rev Gustave Pincaman of the German Reformed Church delivering the funeral sermon. She belonged to the German Reformed Church and was widely mourned by friends.
Daniel May nearly 20, son of Supervisor May, died when a chain broke while drawing water for a stack at a well in Marine Prairie. His fall fractured his skull, life extinct. Coroner Bailey led an inquest yielding accidental death. Funeral last Sunday drew large crowds. The family, seven brothers and sisters and many friends, mourn his loss.
A string of social items records visits and trips to St Louis by Miss Bertha Rump H E Canedy Mrs Chas Schott Miss Mamie Evans Aug Droll Mrs J J Brown Wm Gastenecker Padon G L Elliott family Theresa Helmake Miss Mary Melchoir Win Voelker Mrs Robert Mantle Dr J J Brown and others. Local relatives hosted and attended gatherings with several relatives visiting Edwardsville Red Bud and Monroe county funeral attendance noted.
Poetic notice extolling prepaid newspaper service with lovers of paper praise and verses about eternal peace. It envisions neighbors greeting the dead, debts paid, and the reader entering the afterlife without waiting, aided by Helping Hand. The piece blends funeral ode style with a sales pitch for advance payment.
Sheriff H. W. Phillips of Cuming County Nebraska detained John Schellstede alias Herman Mueller on forgery charges. The suspect signed an extradition waiver in Madison County Illinois and was held for transfer to West Point Nebraska. Schellstede forged a $600 note to obtain funds, fled, and was recaptured after a Nebraska connection surfaced. The case proceeds at the next West Point circuit court term.
A Kentucky reader reports his daughter recovered from fever and back pains after using Chamberlin's Pain Balm. The advertisement claims the product provides relief from rheumatism and is sold by Kingston.
A short notice lists individuals in a letter collection or social note. Names include Mrs Katie Carmack Mr De Raber and Mr W F Care of I ms, indicating a mailing or guest list context from an old newspaper item.
Hood's Pills claim to ease grip and cold without drastic drugs. They are described as carefully selected and helpful for regulating the liver, curing sick headache and indigestion, and preventing grim pains.
City leadership and officials listed with roles including mayor aldermen ward representatives city clerk treasurer street superintendent marshal police magistrate supervisor town clerk collector and assor sor highwaye desntinetonets trustees and justices of the peace with names such as Elias Bark J K Jones Wm Narbury Gun Voslker W J Gebsuch Fred Gerfan Ohile Braltth William Healy James N Jarvis C F E Ritcher W Lishler W Schultey I W Cook G Mills B X Jacota William Lloyd Ignatius Riggin Hampton and Philip Eckert Kersey Suod erase and others in the Olilty area.
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