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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1907
Page
7
The text explores God’s love and discipline as a parent’s love, stressing that God calls and guides with compassion. It highlights Nathan the prophet’s influence on Solomon’s youth, suggesting divine wisdom and benevolence shape his character and future.
Nathan the prophet debates Jedidiah’s wish to study in Egypt as a path to knowledge while weighing loyalty to God and Israel. The boy presses, Solomon asks to go, and Nathan contemplates King David's decision, seeking guidance on duty, faith, and future kingship. A separate memory recounted shows a speaker learning a hard moral lesson from his daughter about drink.
An experienced pilot conducts a balloon ascent that ends with a near ground touch. The anchor stops the bag, opens the valve, and the car lands, the ripped strip torn, balloon stretched flat and empty on the field. Dorothy watches shaving antics with bafflement as a child observer.
The text notes 750 Hebrews preach the gospel to Gentile congregations worldwide. It contrasts 1800 with today, listing 32 missions in America with 80 workers and 28 in Great Britain with 481 workers, plus 40 in Europe with 40 workers and 9 in other lands with 47 workers.
A memorial brass in Grayne church Kent county records the church over 800 years old and notes restoration through generosity of royalty including the British king and queen the German emperor and the prince of Wales. Big Advancement in Porto Rico Porto Rican year book 1907 reports Methodist growth in that land.
Professor Francis Brown of Union Theological Seminary New York joins the Palestine Exploration Fund general committee as one of ten American members. He will lead the coming year at the American school in Jerusalem and foster cooperation between England and America in verifying and illustrating the Bible.
The French foot is meager narrow and bony. The Spanish is small and finely curved. The Arab foot is high arched with a hollow. The Scot has a large thick foot, the Irish is flat and square, and the English is short and fleshy.
A fragmented report asserts there are 60 000 Indians in New Mexico and Arizona and urges stronger home mission work to counter ignorance and superstition seen as a burden when abroad.
Pattern No 5294 promotes a drawers model with a smooth waist yoke, wide cut resembling an underskirt, lace trim on the lower edge, and side closure buttons. Suitable fabrics include cambric and muslin. 36 inch material needs about 1 1/8 yards for medium size. Sizes 8 to 16 years. Pattern mailed for 10 cents with size and pattern number.
Pattern notes a fashionable box plaited dress for girls in white satin with center plait concealment and a patent-feather belt. Fabric suggestions include mohair cashmere and plaids with sizes for 6 to 12 years and a ten year size needing 3 7/8 yards of 44 inch material. Also includes a Paris street poet anecdote about selling cheap copies of his verses.
The article presents a December 22 1907 Christmas lesson with faith ideas and a practical analogy using power wires and Niagara power to illustrate how we know what Christ can do. It highlights the coming of a new era through Christianity and the transformative power of faith in a concise, period voice.
Longstanding user R Edward M Burtt of St. Louis praises Peruna for years of use and satisfaction in his family and friends. Charles Levy of New York reports his son cured of nasal catarrh and himself relieved of head nose throat and ears issues after Peruna. Also notes Peruna Tablets as an option and offers a free 1908 almanac from druggists.
In a men's cafe a barber from America mixed business with culture clash. An Englishman scolded Yankees for multibranch shops and then visited a barber who calmly insisted on sticking to one service. The barber, while reading, told him to go up the street for his shave.
A classroom scene opens with a teacher giving pupils sentences to correct for grammar and sense. Ignatius, after 15 minutes, writes a corrected version: He didn't done it, God done It.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted laxative for personal and family use. It claims gentle cleansing of internal organs, natural action, no debility, and no need to increase quantities, urging purchase of the genuine Calisupan Fig Syrup Co. product from leading drug stores.
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