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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1899
Page
2
The piece voices civic optimism for Troy with notes on cemetery naming, shade trees on private and public fronts, a future fire department, and urges modernization of business infrastructure. It also comments on temperance cider, honest credit between papers, and a quip about newspaper ethics and attribution.
A Goon subscriber praised the Troy paper after paying his subscription, saying it is the best ever published in Troy, with encouragement and a little cash fueling the drive to improve. The note links public health to cleanliness, urging readers to curb diseases from rubbish and pigs as war on sanitation.
The piece argues merchants should stop using free letter heads and official-looking materials to push media to attack rivals and instead support their own offices. It mentions public approval of Dreyfus's pardon and notes the pardon is pending in effect. The questions about guilt linger as to who was truly responsible and the punishment owed to the innocent.
A lighthearted tale from Toledo Blade about a man upset at a wedding held in a Sunday school room above the church, remarking on a motto about letting children come to him that he found mocking and maddening.
Autumn in the Country presents rustic joys of harvests and plenty. The lively scene features hickory nuts apples and cider, buxom country maidens and blooming farms with rich harvests, pies and butter, haymows clover and foods, contrasting city poverty.
A collage of trivia on storms in Cairo and Tamil hair, Turkish tombs with roses, body movement limits, Vienna police skills, bamboo pens in India, shaving lots of hair, St Pauls insurance, elephant scent, old Venetian coins, Copenhagen baths, Grand Rapids furniture, candy investments, railroad spans, silk waste, Treoma timber, Argentine trade, skilled labor, and cheese production. Contains sales of Kingstons New Discovery cough medicine with testimonial.
A postal notice lists letters remaining uncalled for at the Troy post office with date September 11 1899. Yue Chuy prints all the news in the issue.
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