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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1898
Page
2
Sample copy of Tz Cat sent free to any ad dress on application. Subscribers who fail to receive their paper regularly will confer a favor by reporting same to this offee. Address fl communications to Tim WEEKLY CALL, Troy, Hainess. COUNTY JUDGE.
Readers question why minutes of City Board meetings are not published and urge adoption of an annual appropriation ordinance under state law. The letter comments on weed control, sanitation scrutiny, and Health Committee duties, plus a critique of Morgan’s pride in a government yacht’s record and a call to address malaria risks from weeds. It also mentions an old statute allowing a soldier’s wife to vote and a bachelor’s designation of a female relative for voting.
The Clinton Register argues for local enterprise to employ workers over supporting resting farmers or financiers. It notes workers spend wages while capitalists hoard gains and cites wounded Santiago soldiers recalling treachery under flags of truce, echoing Ashley Gazette's harsh view of Spanish conduct and a hope for the continent’s improvement with the last vestige of Spanish honor removed.
The article lampoons a massive U S excursion plan with about 25000 tickets, no return privileges, and weapons left with Gen Schaffer for safe disposal. It features a satirical note about Americans avoiding enlistment and includes a Mississippi congressman’s joke about a southern friend fearing a heavenly reception if he joined the war effort. It ends with a tale about avoiding shocking angels in gray.
An Ohio farmer at an institute meeting urged aggressive advertising of farm products. He asked if farmers have thoroughbred livestock and seed grain to publicize, and urged children to advertise as well. The speaker stressed marketing, pride in farming, and informing others to create demand.
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