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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1899
Page
2
A 1899 Troy Illinois weekly urges local progress and community uplift. It prints editorials on town improvement, civic spirit, and unity, urging residents to work together for forward advancement and to resist stagnation as Troy moves onward. It notes a pending divorce case and advocates firm stance against it, while calling for proactive town building.
Former president Cleveland has given 100000 dollars to Princeton University to establish a chair in political science. He will also deliver a course of lectures on public themes at Princeton during the current university year.
An Illinois law provides that a person tending an intoxicated individual may claim compensation for time plus two dollars more from the saloonkeeper who sold the liquor. The note observed that this will make tags expensive for both dealer and consumer.
The fall season signals rising business across all branches as advertisers are urged to place their goods before a broad public through the paper. The publication promises unique reach by occupying a prominent home audience in the section.
Troy business men urge citizens to advertise in THE Can and back local enterprises. They credit merchants with helping town progress toward a new railroad and coal mine, asking residents to stay loyal as these stewards have done.
Dr J W Boyvp of Stark County Indiana predicts earth will collide with a meteor on November 11 based on science and Scripture urging people to shelter in feather beds. A local shopkeeper complains about large wrapping letters and urges newspapers to inform customers about goods instead of wearing signs.
The latest Illinois legislature changed game laws with a five year deer ban and defined hunting periods for wild turkeys prairie chickens ruffed grouse quail woodcock mourning dove and waterfowl. Netting of birds is banned and eggs or nests may not be destroyed. Hunting from certain boat types is prohibited and artificial blinds are restricted.
A fiddlers contest will be held in St Louis at the Fourteenth Street Theatre on November 2 open to all fiddlers from nearby towns. Prizes total 1000 dollars and Troy is urged to be represented, with names of local fiddlers already sent to management for consideration.
The Postmaster General has ordered all U S post offices to weigh and note every piece of mail matter across classes from October 3 to November 3. Officials say the move will create an accurate table of stylistics and require substantial extra labor, marking the first such order in twenty years.
In public comment residents call for strict enforcement of the outward swinging gate ordinance as dimly lit entrances risk injuries to pedestrians, particularly a pediatrician. The issue prompts criticism of both the gate design and its owner as dangerous conditions persist.
In Greenville a young woman tells her lover he must earn ten thousand dollars before marriage. He begins with courage and reports saving 22 dollars after a few months. She replies that this amount seems enough to her, hinting at an early end to the wager.
A compilation of aphorisms and wry maxims on honesty, candor, pride, labor, wealth, and perception. Quotes span Socrates Disraeli Wellington Rochefoucauld and more, noting truth, praise, vanity, and the sly power of perception. Includes oddities on salt seas and a Sunday press ban, with jocular lines about bees and carrion.
Life presents a riddle and a grim exit by giving up. The voice contends that the best sins are the last ones we refuse to quit, while questioning future regrets and the folly of action. It ponders whether true safety lies in doing nothing at all.
W A Hines of Manchester Indiana recounts a near fatal battle with lung disease after measles. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with curing throat chest and lung troubles after doctors predicted death. He notes many others benefited and endorses the remedy at 50c and 1. Trial bottles available at S Kingston’s drug store.
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