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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1915
Page
3
Friday August 20 1915 commentary urges temperance in all things especially eating overwork and overindulgence. Dr W Hutchinson warns Americans die young from intemperance not drink but overeating, urging moderation as a moral and physical duty in daily life.
The Greenville Item cites doomsday rhetoric about wars and deluges, while warning not to predict the world’s end. It notes a dry winter following heavy rains, and references a Highland Journal bottom story about an east-bound autoist stopping for free advertising in a fragmentary report.
A farmer writes praising Home Town Building and urges keeping youth at home through fair treatment, local amusements, and town ads. He recalls his father’s plan to schedule work, create leisure facilities like a creek pool, tennis court, and billiards, and urges education of country merchants in advertising to preserve home life and opportunity for the young. This letter will continue next week.
Ruth shares clipped guidance for feeding a crowd including bread slices per loaf cake servings ice cream wine jelly salad oysters and coffee counts. Also contains a barnyard game tale a barber shop anecdote a brief “Week in History” with dated events.
Highland was asked how he found the Troy bottoms west of here. His expressive reply was Bottom, hell! There ain't no bottom to 'em.
Government figures describe this year as a poor year yet forecast a wheat harvest of 966 million bushels, the largest on record. The piece notes the paradox and asks what constitutes a poor year.
A man obsessed with chicken raises a flock using a used incubator and supplies. Only twenty five chicks survive, feed costs mount, animals are stolen or harmed, and damages accrue. Nine birds reach the table costing four dollars and fifty cents each plus hours of work and enmity. MORAL The farm is the place to do your farming.
A humorous remark notes that grass grows well only if proper variety and location are chosen, but six feet high grass on city streets triggers exasperation and comic frustration.
The president of China is reported to consider proclaiming himself emperor. If he can avoid a revolution, he could be voted "some emperor."
A personal maxim on resilience stating that failing is not shameful but staying failed is. It asserts losing a pocketbook is less damaging than losing self confidence, encouraging endurance and self-belief. The quote emphasizes inner strength over material loss.
It is well to keep your friends in constant repair. Friends not only sometimes wear out but rust out.
A poet asks what the wild waves say and a girl with a fishing line answers with a smile that the water is fine. The exchange portrays playful coastal imagery and a lighthearted invitation to dive in.
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