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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1898
Page
2
Edwardsville resident Judge William P. Early announces his candidacy for re election to the County Court of Madison County subject to the outcome of the Republican convention.
A curtailment of free lunches with beer is noted after the war tax, ten electric cars were shipped to Hamburg for an experimental comparison with German cars, crops in bottom lands face near total failure due to spring floods, and hydrophobia epidemics spread across southern Illinois and Indiana. Odor from OKaw Bottom water removal raises malaria concerns. a Democratic County Convention is set for August first with primaries the preceding Saturday. A proposed one thousand acre cemetery near New York for those talked to death prompts debate. Decoration Day flowers are cast by Peoria ladies on the Illinois River in memory of Maine disaster victims. The Times-Herald notes a Boston summer girl quip as unfounded.
The text notes an unusually large wheat crop in Bond county with adequate rain forecast for other grains. It also mentions Dr. M. H. Chamberlin being re elected president of McKendree College and critiques railway free passage for Indians in motion. Additional items include a $25 convict subscription for a Maine monument, Key West monument efforts, local health concerns, and an ad about Cervera Consomme and bottled goods with mock warnings.
A Missouri speaker mocks high taxes and big politics with a rambling portrait of a land of big things and sharp people. The piece notes O'Fallon and Troy ordinances against profanity on Sundays and urges city officials to enforce public morality now.
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