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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1903
Page
4
Aunt Matilda narrates a Christmas tale about a boy with a prodigious appetite who ignores his parents warnings. The Wizzle Wuzzle Man appears via smoke to turn the boy into candy and cake, then reverses the spell after lessons learned. The story ends with the boy promising to restrain his eating and heed his parents.
In the Scandinavian island of Dago villagers place five candles on each branch of the Christmas tree as a local tradition.
A quirky verse joke on state names opens the item, followed by a traveling man at a hotel in Alton who tries humor with a dining-room girl, prompting a witty cream-pitcher reply. Also includes an ad for Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets and Klein's shoe line.
A speaker reflects on how a tidy home, with things put away and chairs in place, masks deeper disorder and longing. The poem contrasts a perfectly arranged room with a wish to see the life that once filled it, suggesting loss behind neatness.
A satirical verse mocks men as two legged, tobacco chewing figures who disappoint, growl and toss chores to wives. It humorously contrasts a lionlike morning departure with a wife’s work at home and a ripped garden of mishaps, ending with a trek to the post office and a borrowed horse.
A fragmented verse catalogs a patient’s ailments and burdens. The speaker lists wheeze sneeze bone ache brainshake red eyes sore head feeding and reading difficulties, inability to smoke or sing, ringing ears, paralysis to speech and walk, apathy, profanity, and rising doctor bills.
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