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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1898
Page
2
The Collinsville Driving Club will host its second annual spring meet at their Collinsville track on Thursday, June 30. The piece notes possible city benefits from electric light plant investment and broader industrial growth following such improvements.
The piece notes Ensigne Bagley as the first casualty of the Spanish American War, parallels his death with Major Bagley, Confederate casualty at Big Bethel, and reflects on war costs, politics, and local civic matters including a county Christian Endeavor convention and Decoration Day reflections.
Many individuals from Edwardsville Collinsville and nearby towns traveled to St Louis St Jacob Pierron and Bent Willoughby for extended visits and family gatherings. Several residents returned from trips to St Louis and Edwardsville while others planned trips to Benton and South Dakota.
A Carlinville jeweler was ordered to engrave Remember the Giver on a gold ring but, preoccupied with a war site nation, he engraved Remember the Maine instead. The note from the Bunker Hill Gazette and Bunker Hill News hints at a mystery about origins and a possible theft.
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