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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1895
Page
7
A vintage ad promotes Budelen’s Abnica Dalve as a cure for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores chapped hands and skin eruptions promising perfect satisfaction or money back. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by S Kingston. Also notes cheap summer excursion tickets to Michigan and other tickets at low rates via L P Linte, agent.
The Venice Times reports on Geo. D. Gould’s 500 mile bicycle run through Illinois and Wisconsin, local fruit and bloom curiosities near Litchfield, and the Centralia Fair's abandonment after a thousand dollar loss. It mentions Venice Madison Granite City factories employing thousands, plus community anecdotes and a sermon on debt payments with a newspaper publisher as the lone nonpayer.
A 38 caliber bullet wounded a boy in the back during a pursuit by Constable Phil Stout after arrests for disturbing worship. The shooting occurred five miles southeast of Bennelson following a disturbance near Mt. Taber Church. doctors could not locate the ball, which traveled upward and into a rib. The incident drew criticism of the constable’s use of force. Source: Sorento Blade.
Send your name and address to J E Bucklen Co Chicago for a tree sample box of Dr Kings New Life Pills. A trial will show their merits for constipation headaches malaria and liver troubles. They are free from deleterious substances and purely vegetable. Regular size 25c per box sold by Kingston druggist.
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