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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1896
Page
7
A Chicago man obtained a divorce after his wife demanded he follow a spoof list of ten new commandments for married life. The faux commandments urge temperance, respect for the wife, and keeping to home, while poking at modern temptations and family duties.
A garbled advertisement claims Dr Zings medicines cure coughs colds consumption and more with guaranteed results. It touts Dr King’s New Discovery and New Life Pills, plus Hood’s products for blood and nerves, and includes promotional free trials and pricing. Also features a quip about newspaper work and a misquoted anecdote.
Green County court house lit by 180 electric lights. Two thousand seven hundred ninety veterans registered in Alton on Tuesday October 13. Charleston city council plans a sewer system costing 24000. Twelve tons of cucumbers shipped from West Baldwin Maine in two days. KG Rode of Venice has largest pumpkin measured six feet in circumference and weighs 130 pounds. Fayette county grand jury spent nearly a week at 250 to indict a man for assault and battery. A lodge for female Odd Fellows started in Vasamuin, first for women in the area. Z Bodob laid out ten lots on St. I. O. & St. B. near the beach in Long Lake named Lakeport. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce displays beets weighing 65 pounds and four feet long grown in Ada. A Carlinville mother devises a plan to keep daughters home early. the last out rises first for breakfast. Electric lights to top Leelaire stack again with a white painted band. After the St Louis cyclone Vandalia railroad workers raised 7000 in ten days, led by 2000. John Geinmann received 90 for John OReiley injured in bed. doctor and funeral expenses paid for by the line. The Vandalla railroad is described as heartless in local critique.
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