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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1901
Page
5
Board of Education in Troy OK Regular Session 1901
The Troy Indiana board of education met in regular session with President Hagler presiding. Members Hollis Cook Donoho Shadwick Harding and Mantle present. Minutes of prior meetings approved as corrected. The board authorized a final payment of 384.26 to the Alton Heating and Plumbing Co. for heating work. Finance Committee reported bills and salaries for several named staff and janitor. Reports from Principal Thurston and others were accepted, and the meeting adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy, Ink
Board of Education
Hagler
Hollis
Cook
Donoho
Shadwick
Harding
Mantle
Alton Heating and Plumbing Co
Finance Committee
H. F
Thurston
Court updates seal stamp ruling and crowded docket
Judge Early received Gen Powell’s opinion that all guardian and executor bonds require a 50 cent revenue stamp. The Circuit and Probate Courts cleared many cases on day one with numerous continuances dismissals removals and acknowledgments across Chancery Law and Probate matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Early
W. H. Powell
East St. Louis
Internal Revenue Department
Gen. Powell
Guardian
Department
Edwardsville Intelligencer
Circuit Court
Chancery
B. & L. Ass'nva
Wm. E
Teddy Roosevelt: a new national idol or common man
Editor Brownlee hails Roosevelt as the remarkable president elect, casting him as both heroic and fallible. The piece mocks sensational press worship, recalls tall tales and poems about Roosevelt, and urges fair treatment while noting his modest salary and uncertain destiny. It also advertises local remedies and a newspaper subscription offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton Standard
Teddy Roosevelt
White House
Washington
United States
Napoleon
Ark
Greece
Norval
Grampian Hills
Golden West
Chicago
Navy
Wall Street
Steen
Mary
Roosevelt
Teddy
Othjers
Comings and Goings of Relatives and Friends in O'Fallon
Social notes recount a surprise birthday for Geo Purviance with guests from O'Fallon Collinsville Edwardsville and St Louis. Several residents travel for visits and business from O'Fallon to St Louis Highland Blackjack and Pueblo with plans to Nogales Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Peach
Nellie Purviance
O'Fallon
H. V. Renfro
Bent Willoughby
Collinsville
Geo. Mahler
Edwardsville
Kate Purviance
Geo. A. Purviance
A. Kleist
St. Louis
H. C. Kersey
F. Campbell
East St. Louis
John Deimling, Jr
Marine
Birchie Kremer
F. Kuntzman
O’fallon
E. H. Klein and
Jacob Kirsch
John Dollinger
Black Jack
Buffalo
N. Y
Samuel Davis
George Mahler
Bessie
Geo. Ledbetter
Clarence
Lizie Harvey
Geo. Oswald
Lillian Keown
Alhambra
Mabel Cochran
Olin Moors
Raymond Riggin
Ignatius Riggin
S. W. Rawson
Jennie I
Mary Rawson
Walter Kersey
Pueblo
Colo
Nogales
Arizona
Worked by a stranger in Madison County frauding farmer
A confidence man duped Madison County farmer Henry Widmer near Edwardsville, exchanging a farm for $52.50 per acre, then vanished with Widmer’s pocketbook and other valuables. The incident included a month of local notes on theater, light plant changes, street wiring, mine labor dispute, and community notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison County
Henry Widmer
Edwardsville
William Meyers
Widmer
Dicker
Myers
Meyers
Local Notes and Gossip From October News Roundup
October 26 itemized notes cover weather, local trades, and events. Hawley’s sells watches and Rex cigars. Kuntzmann’s oysters. dresses by Annie Hampe. Edison lamps at Droll’s. found Eastern Star badge. football trip to Glen Carbon. Doak’s mine record tonnage. births and deaths. Dyspepsia relief with Herbine. parish contracts to Peterman & Donoho. Seele Milling acquired by Donk Bros. cemetery plans. lightning incident with injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Kingston
First Presbyterian Church
Peterman
Good Little Boys Adolph Ain't Nary a Key
A fragmentary dialogue references good boys and waiting for someone to come home. The tersely quoted lines include names Eddie Eugene Golten and a claim about asking for something when the person returns. The readable text presents a domestic or personal tone without clear event or setting details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph
Eddie Eugene
Golten
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Misa Edna Donoho
Misa Rhoda Bartlett
George Gornet
August Dierking
Consolidated Coal Company S
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Tee Weekly
J. H. Stienhan
J. C. Gebauer
George Ec
J. L., Hagler, Pres
R. H. Mantre
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Inter Ocean
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Harris E. Prickett
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Henry Lock
Wm. Weber
James Murphy
John Tuscher
David Ransom
Benj. Perry
Mink Garrison
Cora Richardson
Patrick Flynn
William Smith
John Rizzi
George Porter
James Blucher
Boon Allen
E. A. Burke
Raymond’ Gregg
Annie Mason
Farmers’ Milling Co
Geo. Uhl
Jacob Gruba
American Car & Foundry Co
City of
Johann Schutz
St. Louisa Merchants Bridge
By. Co
John F. Boyd
W. H. Boyd
Carl Schlosstein
John Schafer
Assumpsit
E. L. Schwarz
Wm. Keller
Scira
Junas
Wm. P. Bary
Diedrich Bertels
Wm. Ziegenbeln
Zebulion Brown
Voiney Moore
Lucy M. Wright
Catherine Mathias
Chas. G. Immer Et al
Robert
Brownlee
C. F. Collier
Cherokee
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W. H. Eads
Jonesville
Bucklen
Tabler
S. Kingston’s
Sallee
Optician
Troy
St. Louie
Gustave Vetter
L. C. Rauch
City
J. C. Hollis
John Baird
Rev
L. W. Dornseff
Rachel Arth
Moeblheinrich
Annie Bircher
Highland
Ella Leutwiler
Emily Litz
Wm. Vetter
Louis Bollman
Jacob Wittmann
Wm. Horstman
Jas. Purviance
Maring
E. A. Keller
Eleanore
Florence
Opera House
Arca
Ronchetti Bros
Chris Busse
Donk’s
The
Merry Workers
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Rex
Hack and Rigs
Enwakls Bros
Oaklawn Cemetery Society
Mary A. Jarvis
Tag Cate
Hawley’a
Kuntzmann‘s
Annie Hampe
Heinecke
Hawley’s
Elmer Sapp
August Brunworth
Edison
Droll’s
Order of the Eastern Star
Glen Carbon
J. M. Bosomworth
Elias Burk, Sr
Madcounty
Jarvis Township
J. J. Brown
Oaklawn
Doak
Henry Dettmar
Decatur
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