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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1903
Page
4
The article notes that separate waists remain important in women's wardrobes with embroidered designs in white Corticelli mountmellick silk. Shirt waists stay popular, often embroidered white, with grape motifs on mercerized cheviots, madras, and linens. Also mentions a salve and a local ad blurb.
The Bollman Mercantile Co team lost to Greenville in a Sunday baseball game. Greenville pitcher Clare fanned sixteen while Davis struck out six for Bollman. Greenville praised Troy for hospitality and umpire Wilkinson earned praise for fair calls.
The piece parodies a late legislature enacting odd laws about hunting certain professions and courting widows, with teethy humor about bounties on scalpable “game.” It also notes a schoolbook shift from simple questions to slang laden lines, citing Charlie Bliss of the Montgomer News on police court reporting.
A promotional blurb asserts life is ruled by strict law and that slight abuse causes pain. Irregular living supposedly causes organ disturbance such as constipation headaches or liver trouble. Dr King’s New Life Pills offer gentle thorough re adjustment. Only 25c at S Kingston’s drug store.
The Troy Cemetery Mite Society will meet with Mrs. T. H Bell next Saturday afternoon. The Merry Workers' Society of the Presbyterian church meets at Mrs. T. H. Bell's home next Wednesday at 2 o'clock. Ernest A. Main will preach at Pleasant Ridge Baptist church both morning and evening in the pastor's absence. An ad touts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with a Hancock merchant testimonial of life-saving value.
The article notes St Jerome's Catholic parochial school opens with 52 students, 28 boys and 24 girls, under Sisters Henrietta and Victoria, with a new addition planned to expand benefits. Other local schools also start up led by Monroe Stevens, George Hollis, Miss Susie Hollis, Leonard Wetzel, and Miss McHugh. Spring Valley begins next Tuesday led by Miss Maude Osborn. Rural routes offer THE CALL at under 2 cents weekly. local ads promote school shoes, re papered resort, and ice cream supply services. Additional notices list for sale items including lots in Cook's and Gonterman's Additions, Mize's Addition, and various farm goods.
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