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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1895
Page
7
The notice touts a cure all for bruises sores ulcers fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains and corns with a money back guarantee. Price is 25 cents per box and sold by Kingston. Also advertises cheap summer excursion tickets to Michigan and other tickets through E P Hale, agent.
A mix of brief items notes an $8,000 Methodist church planned at Efingham and Belleville installing a new electric police and fire alarm. Shown are fines for two O'Fallon barbers for Sunday openings, a bemused Elgin woman who lost $900 after a quick marriage, and a fatal grape-picking accident in Illinois. Also mentions highway weed duties, compulsory education rules, and a tongue-in-cheek moral about teachers. Ads praise Dr Kingtons discovery for coughs with two local testimonial cures and free trials.
A humorous plea-poem begs divine mercy for rest from the endless talking of boxers Fitzsimmons and Corbett. The spoof petitions a savage oasis where the two galvanzed jaws are silenced, invoking wild hippos, deserts, and pestering skeeters as imagined punishment, signed by Presno Cal. Republi- Se.
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