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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1898
Page
5
A scanned roster lists city and township officials including mayor aldermen city clerk treasurer street superintendent police magistrate and various township roles. It covers ward representatives supervisors town clerk collector assessor highway commissioners school trustees justices of the peace constables and other town offices with named individuals.
Selected miscellany notes Labrador, just south of the Kiondike country, as a potential rival in mineral wealth. Reports from Nova Scotia speak of wealth resembling the Yukon, with an Halifax expedition already planned by promoters. The piece surveys Labrador as a vast region with iron, fisheries, wild fruit, and a notable Hudson Bay Company presence, plus a brief note on military footwear procurement and political maneuvers in Illinois.
A Fremont E. Timberlake critique of postal savings banks argues they would sap Maine savings banks and local credit, shifting funds to government securities and reducing regional lending. It predicts harm to business, notes potential benefits to western markets, and urges opposition by Maine bankers and business leaders.
The Anchor Line, famed American steamboat company, is driven to the wall by a string of unprecedented losses in the past four and a half years. During the St. Louis cyclone, vessels Arkansas City, City of Motroy, and City of Cairo, valued at about $100,000, were lost. Since then Bluff City burned after being built for $55,000, and Mary Morton, Belle of Memphis, and City of Hickman were also lost.
Missa Bertice Cheatham a seventeen year old girl of 1208 Goodfellow avenue St. Louis felt sudden pain in her head while by a grate fire. Her scalp burned from ear to ear after celluloid side combs in her hair were ignited by the heat. A doctor treated her and the blaze was smothered in the next flat.
Two large mortgage filings appear in Madison county recorder records. The St. Louis Chicago and St. Paul Railway company mortgages to Atlantic Trust Company secure 1.5 million dollars in five percent thirty year gold bonds, and 1.285 million dollars in six percent thirty year gold bonds. Both cover railway equipment, flat property, and other company assets.
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