Home Interests and Town Pride in Troy
A local paper urges readers to support home businesses and labor, notes plans for a flour mill with a $3000 bonus, and criticizes city council transparency. It discusses St Jacob flour show plans, Edwardsville Intelligencer reports, and comments on Wilhelm of Germany as a bluffing ruler amid global tensions.
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Tur
Edwardsville Intelligencer
St. Jacob
Troy
Wilhelm
Germany
William
Manilla Bay
Samuel
Fie
Fiji
Quality paper and improved printing in Cali 8 notes
The Cali 8 newspaper announces a weekly upgrade to better quality printing paper and higher standards. They state the improvements reflect cost and serve patrons with a cleaner, more newsy paper and aim for continued excellence and good will in the future.
Dewey praise sparks calls for fair reporting and civic duty
The Call defends free speech while urging fair coverage and community interests. It notes a Vermont man’s fame for misunderstandings of Dewey and criticizes prominence-seeking receptions. Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. dies at 56 in New York City, with funeral held yesterday.
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Vermont
Dewey
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York City
Messenger
Anglo American alliance urged with crossed rifles emblem
A quoted piece argues for an Anglo American alliance as U S and England deploy troops to civilize the Filipinos and Boers. It questions right or wrong while proposing the same emblem of rifles crossed and ram’s horns under an opened Bible.
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Oan Exchange
United States
England
Great Britain
Voter name change considered for Troy Cemetery
A Troy civic note proposes renaming the Troy Cemetery by popular vote. The Troy Cemetery Mite Society, incorporated under Winois law, would not alter its charter. Public input is invited ahead of the society’s next monthly meeting as supporters urge a distinctive cemetery name.
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Troy Cemetery
Troy Cemetery Mite Society
Winois
Troy
Cemetery Society
Not the Wisest Way. Keep Chamberlain’s remedy at home
The piece urges buying Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy before it is needed, noting it is often required during busy times or at night. It claims high value and affordability for families and states it is widely acknowledged as the best medicine for bowel complaints, with Kor aale by 5 Kingston.
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Kingston
Pointed Paragraphs Show Odd Facts From History
Facts and figures illustrate curiosities from across the world such as field rats as delicacy in Cuba and over a million English men using wooden legs. London umbrellas left in conveyances. Ireland’s mud cabins. Yorke Strait exports. German and Japanese reading habits. and exams affecting student weights.
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Cuba
London
Why Do Women Read and Behave Like This
A fragmentary opinion piece notes women reading serious books more than before and mocks marital strategies among girls. It also comments on appearance and manners, curiosity around a curtained cab, and contrasts male reading posture with mental inspiration. The tone is satirical and dated.
Why go there with love and marriage and debts
A Manchester Michigan man tells how his wife, long bedridden, was helped by Electric Butters. He claims two bottles cured nervousness, insomnia, melancholy, headaches, backache, fainting and dizziness, restoring her ability to work. Sold by S Kingston, druggist, 50e per bottle.
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George D. Williams
Manchester
Mich
S. Kingston
Postoffice Closing Times and Uncalled Letters List
Postoffice notices announce mail close times beginning March 27 1899 and until further notice. A list of letters remaining uncalled for at the Troy postoffice is dated Sept 11 1899. An advertisement promotes Boschee German Syrup with free samples at S Kingston and praises its throat and lung remedies. The notice also urges subscribing to The Weekly Call.
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Postoffice Intelligence
Troy
S. Kingston’s
Boschee
Busebell
Civilized World
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