Confession of Faith About The Call Weekly Paper
The Call weekly is run to earn bread, with subscriptions and advertising as income sources. The publisher is not rich and aims to keep money at home by favoring home merchants. Readers may subscribe or skip, and refunds are offered if unhappy. The focus is on growing subscribers and advertisers while maintaining local pride in Troy. Please write soon.
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Good Roads Governor Speech Fragment
Fragmentary OCR notes quote a governor praising good roads and urging government cooperation for urban and rural cemented infrastructure. The text is incomplete but signals a call for road funding and regional collaboration.
The Farmer and the Quiet Road to Knowledge
A frontier vision urges broad minded, well educated farming households with access to books, papers, and magazines. It argues for daily mail service and good roads to deliver mail directly to farmers, enabling social, financial, and intellectual growth through government cooperation.
Toast to the horse tribute and seeds and trees plan
Dr Kane of the New York Drivers Association lauds the horse as a noble companion and essential force in history. The Agriculture Department plans a massive seed and tree distribution next year with Congressional lists to guide planting instructions. Postal service gains rural reach with faster delivery on improved roads. A Northwest farmer predicts peach crop failure next season. St Louis reports a low anarchist count and calls for stricter measures. New Hampshire reportedly offers a grasshopper bounty raising questions of future bounties.
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New York Drivers’ Association
Agriculture Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Navy battleship Illinois tops fleet as new commission
A note from the era highlights the battleship Illinois being put in commission last week and described as the freetest in the navy, while a stray line playfully calls for data from Illinois.
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Ilinois
Ilinoisana
Illinois State News Wrapup: Smallpox, Rail, and Fair Openings
Five smallpox cases reported in Chester while Centralia announces a new glass works employing 100. Taylorville sets a 27500 tax levy. Day electric line converted to freight road between Belleville and East St Louis. East St Louis assassin Czolgocz burned in effigy at city park. Litchfield raises funds for a McKinley monument. Illinois State Fair to open soon in Springfield as the greatest fair on earth. Triplets born in Belleville, one infant dies. Pocahontas to gain a telephone exchange with $1 monthly rural rate. St Clair County Board of Review finds assessor default in East St Louis. Proposed Lawrenceville to East St Louis line to halt at O Fallon. Pana landowners win $6000 over water-ground condemnation. Mascoutah Times reports coal district: 112 mines, 6891 miners, 5,796,586 tons mined, 23 fatal accidents.
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St. Clair County
Lawrenceville
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Richland
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Marion
Clinton
St. Clair Counties
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Mascoutah Times
John Dunlop
Madison
Bond
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Madison County
Marion County
Opportunities for all lure in New York salaries
A sarcastic piece warns that New York overflows with easy money schemes targeting young men. It cites ads promising high profits for modest investments and frames such “opportunities” as baited traps by unscrupulous propagators, urging readers to see through the rhetoric.
Revelations verse cited by tobacco tobacconist
An Alton tobacconist reportedly searched the Bible for a tobacco justification and found a single verse in Revelation eleven. The writer bets that some old sinners who use tobacco will read that exact verse within an hour of this paragraph.
Timeless Bits of Wit and Wisdom
A fragment collection of aphorisms and reflections on life, age, and society. It juxtaposes aging, humor, truth, and human folly with lines about wisdom, memory, effort, and moral insight. Notable ideas touch on envy, self awareness, and the curiosity of human behavior.
All This and More Too Woman’s Day in Rural Life
A lyrical portrait of a rural wife rising at dawn to perform endless chores. She tends fires, milks cows, feeds chickens, cooks, cleans, and cares for children, livestock, and the home from sunrise until night, dreaming of steadier work as the world remains full of her.
Such Folk Inhabit The News Paper World
A columnist compares readers who cancel subscriptions over a single unsatisfactory article to guests who demand hotel changes, arguing many readers may still find value in the paper despite occasional disagreements. The piece uses humorous analogy to defend readership diversity.
Curing Stomach Ailments With Chamberlains Tablets
Have you a sense of fullness after eating This advert promises Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets will ease belching sour stomach regulate bowels and provide relief. Price 25 cents Sold by Kingston.
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Chamberlain
Kingston
Vermifuge Remedy Promises Health Boost at Kingston's
White's Cream Vermifuge is promoted as harmless and effective against all worms. It is described as a tonic that restores rosy health and strength, available for 25 cents at Kingston's.
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Tole
Kingston’s
Tabler Buckeye Pile Ointment Claim
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment relieves intense itching and soothes, heals chronic cases where surgeons fail. Not an experiment, its sales rise through cures. Every bottle guaranteed. Price 50 cents per bottle, 75 cents per tube. Sold by Kingston.
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Tabler
Kingston
Ballard's Snow Liniment Promoted In Kingston Ad
An extended advert touts Ballard's Snow Liniment as an external liniment of wondrous penetrative and curative power claiming unmatched efficacy. It lists price at 35 and 50 cents at Kingston's store.
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Ballard
Kingston's
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