09 Feb 1907
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1907
Page
1
A weekly miscellany reflects on a dull man half brother to a dead man and forecasts 58 English submarines within a year. It quotes on justice and happiness, wages in Chicago slaughterhouses, the bearded vulture’s wingspan, Dublin uniforms for Shamrock’s captain, Norse name origins, censor effects on Kuropatkin, and fashion ideals for 1907.
The Pall Mall Gazette praises a 209 word single sentence letter, noting Henry James would likely respond with his own lengthy remark. Mrs Ella Burr McManus funds a memorial for her journalist father seeking a skilled sculptor, while condemning abuses described as atrocities in the name of art in American cities.
The officers of Japan's best managed cotton mills focus on improving worker conditions and expanding education facilities, especially in textile education, to sustain success and efficiency.
In Philadelphia, newspapers blast the practice of dealers mixing fake facial fluid with skin milk, a stunt that pales beside other clever financing stories and seems overhyped by local outlets.
A satirical note predicts the new shah will assert authority by brutal means, possibly cutting off heads to quiet dissent, and jokes he may mimic modern trends by performing appendectomies on refractory opponents.
A Montana teen eloped with a man over eighty, reflecting a belief that Montana has few eligible girls and can leave them with many suitors. The author notes this would surprise in Boston where unmarrieds stay chaste.
Frederick J. Strater of Boston, a metallurgist, says his spent years in experiments over the smelting crucible yield a hitherto undreamed source of wealth in common coke. He asserts the melting of at least $30 worth of tin from a ton of coke costing only $4 at retail, using a simple method known only to himself.
Four-fifths of operatives in Japanese mills are women, likely because they accept lower wages than men who seek higher outside earnings. Men are used only when essential for roles like bosses, loom fixers, and heavy card room work. Weaving in Japan is mainly done by women, as spinning is in many places.
The sultan addresses the president as a cherished and exalted friend, praising him as the faithful guardian of true friendship and a noted preserver of strong ties between Morocco and the United States, signaling goodwill and alliance.
The House declined to amend the River and Harbor appropriation measure, keeping the funding proposal intact as proposed. Leaders aim to move the bill through committee and toward final passage as drafted.
Advocates for a 14 foot Mississippi channel from Chicago to the gulf fell short in the House committee of the whole vote. Only 43 yeses opposed by 145, as Burton and the river and harbor group prevailed against the project. Gill proposed extra Cleveland harbor funds, but Burton rejected the amendment citing sufficiency of the current appropriation.
A House committee report on the post office bill argues that credit for government mail could eliminate the postal deficit. It cites $2,284,427 in six months of government mail without credit and estimates $5,000,000 of government mail annually. The fiscal 1906 deficit was $10,516,996, with potential full coverage if all free mail and franked items are counted. Proposed pay increases for postal workers would total about $9,000,000 yearly, while railroads face about $10,000,000 in reduced pay for postal service.
A special committee appointed by the last legislature to revise Sunday statutes recommends radical law changes. It urges that every person be granted the legal right to a one day rest in seven, establishing a weekly day of rest.
Denver, Col. Senator Richard W. W. Morgan of Boulder City was expelled from the state senate by a 29 to 1 vote. A special committee found him guilty of accepting a bribe based on his March 1905 confession in which he admitted handing the secretary $750 to influence a governor race, voting for Peabody while claiming it was for Adams.
The sermon equates biblical cities of refuge with Christ offering mercy to sinners. It describes Satan's accusatory role, Christ’s intercession, and the open invitation to all contrite hearts. It emphasizes accessible grace, the necessity of faith, and the safety found in Christ until judgment.
In a narrative of lawless days each family and tribe protected its own and exacted vengeance with eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. The passage recalls a social code of personal retribution before formal legal authority emerged.
A Harper’s Weekly writer describes Everglades travel as delayed but not dangerous. The water is pure and food plentiful, with heron relatives, other birds, snails called periwinkles, and frogs abundant. Tur tle, green turtle, and terrapin qualities noted. Fruits like cocoa plums, custard apples, pawpaws, and sweetbay leaves for beverage mentioned. Crossing Merida’s Everglades by canoe is a picnic, not an adventure.
Caleb speaks to elders of Israel, urging Hebron as a city of refuge after recounting past battles and a night vision in which God reveals Hebron as shelter for fugitives. He explains the dream shows God’s mercy and unity for Israel, prompting the assembly to affirm the Lord has spoken.
A London social gathering shifted to a fundraising drive when a guest insisted on a high total for Gordon College at Khartum. He warned of leaving unless the sum was announced, prompting quicker subscrip tions and a rush of donations, with reporters to explain next day.
The article notes proverbs existed before books and were passed down through generations. It cites African proverbs like He who dives on dry land will acquire a peculiar face and Two people cannot sit down upon the same point, illustrating the enduring, unwritten language of mortality.
Gershuni, organizer of a Russian socialist party fighting group, escaped Siberian prison by hiding in a cabbage barrel. Prisoners obtained the barrel from a warder, and after they emptied it and pierced a small airhole, Gershuni sat inside with a frying pan over his head. The barrel was moved to the prison inspector’s stable where he endured ten hours of semisuffocation before a convicts aid enabled his escape. He later reached Japan and then America after further adventures.
Mrs. Lew Wallace preserves her husband’s study exactly as he left it in a large garden library. The room remains arranged for writing with shelves of his thousands of books. A Persian proverb, God rights, the man that keeps silence, is cited among the items.
A Sunday magazine item notes a Transvaal proverb warning against silent men. It suggests quiet individuals can wield hidden influence, likened to a brass band in their mouth, implying potential public impact despite silence.
Lord Kitchener, age 56, head of the British army, described as tall, navy, self-centered and autocratic in contemporary reports.
A writer notes some people faint in hot baths. A simple remedy is to place a wrung towel in cold water on the head and keep it there until the bath ends. The precaution could prevent drowning accidents arising from bath faintness.
A fragment reflecting on the unity of gods and men with the idea that each person holds the universe within. It suggests the intriguing draw of a woman who appears to bear a secret sorrow and the way she engages when she seeks to share it.
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