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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1902
Page
2
In this edition dated March 22 1902 the State Register jokes about Easter fashion and prices, notes the World’s Fair opening will occur on time, mentions a French committee studying American hustle spirit, and reports a Chicago husband fined for attempting to burn his wife with a quip about steam gauges and civic pride.
Secretary Wilson of the U S Department of Agriculture reports sending a quantity of a Venezuelan shrub to the Hawaiian Islands for leprosy experiments, with Molokai Island's leper colony as the main site. An Edwardsville Intelligencer editorial urges bold public improvements and citizen contributions to Troy's 1902 progress, praising urban development.
The long awaited resignation of Secretary of the Navy Long is public. William H. Moody, Representative from Massachusetts Sixth District, will succeed and take office May 1. Moody, 48, has served since the Fifty-Fourth Congress and sits on the Appropriations Committee as Cannon’s second in command.
The passage notes how a new cabinet post for Commerce and Industry could raise the number of cabinet officers to nine, comparing the cabinet to Topsy that “growed.” It recounts the original five members and later additions: Navy in 1798, Interior in 1849, Agriculture in 1899, and mentions the vague constitutional provisions leaving cabinet rules to statute.
Reports from Monmouth and Hillsboro on new buildings and a hotel company. City officials in Greenville prepare for regulation uniforms post election. Obituary notes: Wm S Hull editor dies of smallpox. Golden wedding for Wm McCaslin and wife in Dudleyville. Fox River water concerns in Elgin and Sangamon county debt reduction plans. Cash found in Abingdon, slot machine raid at New Baden. Macomb sewer pipe plant sold for 335000 with 25000 improvements. Kane county probate and county clerk salaries cut. Macomb Western Normal school funding criticized. Hillsboro water works and rail station relocation planned. Eyewitness finance: Pearson pleads guilty to embezzlement. Alta Lita annexation to East St Louis to be voted April. Illinois growth statistics cited from Edwardsville.
Guidance urges staying home and using Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to prevent grip complications like pneumonia. The ad touts wide use and flawless recovery, noting S Kingston as the seller. Also criticizes a funeral write up for depicting the deceased as unnecessarily lively, calling decorum essential.
An old style notice announcing The Weekly Call newspaper at a price of one dollar per year. The ad notes a subscription rate of 52 issues, costing less than two cents per week.
The Washington letter reports on Vice President Roosevelt planning a Charleston Exposition visit with Mrs Roosevelt in April. It notes Roosevelt vetoing a deserter record clearance for John Glass, a grocery industry push for the pure food bill, and debate over the ship subsidy and canal routes. It discusses reform of the consular service and a Cuba reciprocity fight, plus a public notice ad for Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment.
Advertisement for Dr King’s New Life Pills and Herbine claiming cures for torpid liver jaundice biliousness fever and ague sick headache and malaria. Promotes constant energy cheerful mood and wellbeing with prices 25c and 50c at S Kingston’s.
A reader from Morganton Tenn says a large sores outbreak on his daughter's head was healed by Bucklen's Arnica Salve, praised as a guaranteed cure for eczema tetter salt rheum pimples sores ulcers and piles. Also advertises Ballard's Horehound Syrup for coughs at S Kingston's with prices 25 and 50 cents.
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