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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1902
Page
1
The release of Miss Stone, the kidnapped missionary, is now a reality. The papers say she will begin operations at home, as Troy’s unity with municipal officers is urged for mutual benefit and better results.
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans to order 4,000 typewriters for all telegraph operators to use in official company business. The devices will be uniform, standard in make, and remain the railroad’s property.
Professor Charles W. Pearson of Northwestern University faces trustee counselings over his claim that biblical miracles are fallacies. He has not altered his stance and plans a forthcoming book to support it. Prominent ministers worldwide criticize him while few defend him, with a general conference anticipated to decide the matter.
Samuel Stevenson won a Chicago accounting suit against Dr John Alexander Dowie for Zion profits and a large preformation loan, securing a $178000 judgment and a receiver over Dowie holdings leading many to call it the likely end of Dowieism while his followers remain loyal and attorney E L Reeves gains prestige from the victory.
A Millstadt newspaper venture, Effingham block shipments to Holland, and Dr. Groves named assistant surgeon at Anna asylum headline a wide Illinois report. Gillman convicted of fraud. DeKalb courthouse contract awarded to Dixon firm for 89350. Breese merchants end credit after March. Winstanley Park votes to join East St. Louis, third such election. Belleville Bank marks 42nd anniversary with 150000 capital and surplus. State cancels 2000–3000 corporations for missing filings by March 1. Decatur mayor acquitted after malfeasance claim tied to autumn street fair. C B Q plans Quincy to Pittsfield branch to access central coal fields. Mary Hobart turns 93 with Harvard lineage. Bottle message traced from Bartelso to San Diego. Illinois rail totals show 17351 miles, 11000 main line, net earnings 3156 per mile, total employees 88230 in 1902.
A Mt. Vernon News item states Billy Bryan refused a kiss from a school crowd after a lecture at an Ohio high school. The piece implies he would struggle as a newspaper man and should retreat from public life.
A humorous verse from the Carlinville Enquirer titled The Industrious Hen mocks mortgage costs with in barn and in the lot imagery as eggs drop and the mortgage pegs fall while the paper promises to bring the news in The CALL.
Canadians and Swedes excel in fancy skating but J. Davidson of Toronto stands out on a tour through the east. He wears 20 inch stilts with skates at the bottom and executes complex moves in marvelous fashion. Photographs from the New York Herald depict two of his most difficult tricks.
Washington letter reports four major women's conventions in session including the National Council of Women Daughters of the American Revolution and the International Woman's Suffrage Convention. It notes a Senate ratification of the Danish West Indies treaty a census bureau bill and Philippine tariff votes while Roosevelt comments on the Schley controversy concluding no further agitation.
A Fairfield Journal query asks if the owner of a very large old cotton umbrella swapped for a new silk one at the Methodist supper last Wednesday will recover the silk umbrella once the error is discovered. The Lebanon Journal comments that Fairfield residents may differ, noting the mistaken umbrella may persist in delusion.
Word and Works contends the 1903 World’s Fair at St Louis cannot be ready by the planned date and cannot be the biggest the world has seen. The piece argues managers push a false optimism for reasons known only to them.
Advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills promising nonstop energy and relief from torpid liver jaundice biliousness fever and ague. Claims cure sick headache malaria and more with no griping. Also pitches Herbine tonic as a stimulant priced 50c at Kingston’s.
C B Wingfield of Fair Play Missouri endured chronic dysentery for 35 years and reports Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy gave him more relief than any prior medicine. For sale by S Kingston.
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