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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1902
Page
2
In Troy the talk centers on a planned event labeled One Hundred Guns at Sunrise signaling activity at the town, while Londoners fear an Irish question intensifying as Sons of Erin split from police. Boston firms now hold a large egg corner with forty four million dozens in storage, illustrating broad opposition to trusts, combines, and corners.
Question posed by an editor compares naval battle speed to a national project. If Schley or Sampson sank the Spanish fleet in forty seven minutes, the piece ponders how long a country editor would take to start a national bank, using a wry, sardonic tone about bureaucratic or political processes.
The Charleston Exposition failed financially by about fifteen thousand dollars while Missouri eyes a future world stage in 1904. Carnegie may back novel libraries on trains and ships. Edison unveils a storage battery to power rapid autos, with the Washington Post noting quick rides around the block could replace a handshake with a clove.
A scientist argues for a warm air strata six miles above the earth, a theory held by reasons only he understands. He links it to the cool summer and predicts a downward swoop within weeks unless New Jersey grants corporation papers to the coal trust to control it.
The piece urges Troy to protect its good reputation for enterprise and hustle by intensifying efforts toward upbuilding and betterment. It highlights years of labor already invested and argues that continued, bolder action would yield greater rewards, urging residents to advocate improvements with friends and strangers.
The passage argues that no town should concede any advantage to another in the commercial world. It asserts that inactivity creates inequality and urges proactive effort to seize opportunities by showcasing how quickly a town can improve. It warns against being among the easy going and urges enterprising action to attract new enterprises.
Washington dispatch reports Republicans largely oppose Cuban reciprocity with a conference of senators voting seventeen against it. The Senate debates include the Nicaraguan canal bill with support split among Panama advocates. House actions include the Hansbrough Newlands irrigation bill and pension amendments while renovations to the White House commence and Mrs. Roosevelt plans Oyster Bay travel amid expected adjournment by early July. The president will tour New England and the South after adjournment, with a busy itinerary.
The Mines and Metallurgy Building forms part of the east wing of the exposition’s fan shaped layout. It sits on the south esplanade with hillside backdrop toward the southeast and remains modest in the grand display. The 525 by 750 foot structure covers 9.47 acres and contains eight nearly equal divisions for eight educational exhibit departments.
A local druggist advertises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential for every family before summer, claiming high success in bowel complaints for both children and adults. Also promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for biliousness, available from S Kingston Drugist.
Ground broken for a Carnegie Library in Centralia. Nashville raises 200 for Fourth of July expenses. The Central Brewery at East St Louis has begun operations after a 500000 cost. A Nashville man sold dewberries from 80 acres for 25 on day one. Sparta advertises a August 4 to 9 street fair, calling it bigger than a circus. First wheat thrash in Southern Illinois reportedly on the 18th near Metropolis. Richland County apples promise a large, high quality yield. Clatis Soucy of Cahokia dies at 70 with an estimated wealth of 250000. Champaign to host a county old folks home via a 40000 bequest from Garwood. Marissa tests its new electric light plant costing 7000. population 1086. Four-year-old Eleanor Bechtold loses right arm in wheat field accident near Belleville. Infant body found in a Staunton boarding-house wash house. Emma Razor arrested in Carlinville jail. A man shot at Urbana while setting fire to the Odd Fellows Building escapes. Urbana and Champaign report six fires in a month, likely incendiary.
Mrs. W. K. Haviland of Armonk New York credits Dr King s New Discovery with saving her daughter from a near fatal attack of whooping cough and bronchitis and also helped a niece recover from advanced consumption. The medicine is praised as invaluable for throat and lung diseases and offered in 50 cent and 1.00 dollar bottles with trial bottles free. The Rex cigar is advertised as King of all five cent cigars made in Troy and popular across the county.
A Boston man who recently wed a ill young heiress is joyous after using Dr. King’s New Life Pills. The pills are advertised as infallible for jaundice biliousness malaria fever and ague and all liver and stomach troubles. Sold for 25c at S. Kingston’s drug store with Heinecke’s cigars Rex brand.
A report from Kirkman Iowa tells of a gasoline stove explosion that burned a woman badly. Doctors could not heal the running sore until Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it. The ad touts the salve as infallible for cuts sores boils bruises and skin diseases. 25 cents at S Kingaton's.
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