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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1896
Page
4
An ad proclaims a “Mystic Cure” for rheumatism and neuralgia that supposedly cures in 1 to 38 days. It claims immediate disappearance of disease and systemic action. The first dose is said to greatly benefit, priced at 75 cents, sold by S Kingston in Troy Illinois.
Miss Emma Harris spent the weekend in St Louis. Mrs George Morriss visited relatives in St Louis this week. Miss Ella Ogle and Miss Anna Harrie visited Mr and Mrs J S Hart in Bethel. Freeman Hall and son Harry visited relatives. Mrs Emily Jarvis and daughter visited Mrs Morriss. Miss Agnes Edwards plans a visit from Leavenworth Kansas to see her brother William Edwarde. Mrs Susan Cox and Mr William Cox with children visited W F Hall and family.
Miss Estella Spies visits St Louis while village funds fund new sidewalks. Mr and Mrs Ferguson visit Saline. Chas Spies and wife visit Marine. Sobler with the Misses Peterson at the St Louis Exposition. Editor Crossman drives to hear speakers. Jepson and Zerwick visit Cora Anderson in Lebanon. Amensigger and Offenkamp consolidate stock buying business. St Jacob Turners plan a grand ball next Saturday night with all invited.
Alvin Collins travels to St Louis for school while many locals and visitors from here and St Louis are noted. A bicycle race winner is Edgar Leutwiler. Turner Hall hosts Hon J G Cannon speech. Several residents plan moves to Pittsburg and East St Louis as October 8 notices end.
Miss Anna Henderson has entered school. Rev. James Osborn visited the Academy Monday. The Literary Society was well attended last Friday evening. Messrs Charles Tegtmeier and Fred Auwater have returned to Miss Ida Edwards, who has been ill but is improving rapidly. On Friday evening October 9, 1896 at 7 o'clock the Literary Society will meet and render the following program.
In Cycledom a brief column notes bicycle lamp cleaning with washing soda, valve leaks as a common tire trouble, and a rider from St Louis visiting relatives. It covers thunderstorm safety claims about pneumatic tires, experiments on air pressure showing front tire at 9 pounds and rear at 26 when stationary, then with a 175 pound rider the rear pressure rose by less than half a pound while the front remained hardly changed.
Free samples of Dr King s New Life Pills offered by H E Bucklen Co Chicago. Advertised as easy in action and helpful for constipation sick headache malaria and liver troubles. Promises no deleterious substances and purely vegetable formula. Regular size 25c per box sold by S Kingston druggist.
A brief marriage licenses listing includes Byooas W Bednar and Louis Pauline B Schwartskopf with others such as Harry V Renfro, Britta Purviance, and Troy, noting Edwardsville connections and related names. The fragmentary text suggests a local registry snapshot from a periodical page.
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