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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1915
Page
8
An early settler era reflection on material advancement from log cabins to palatial homes, harnessed electricity, phonograph dreams, and global goods. It weighs progress against eternal ethics, extols publicity for exposing corruption, honors peace postwar, and urges civic virtue and compassion as essential to future growth.
In a comic scene at a theatre John Phoenix asks a man to poke an acquaintance with a cane. The target mistakes the request, Phoenix feigns indifference, and the prank unfolds as the man questions the dare. The exchange ends with the tester revealing the motive to observe if the poke would occur.
A Benton Herald item recounts a gag where Harvard mathematics professor William F. Byerly answers a student’s request to memorize a list for a test. The student repeats items like whiskey, sugar, milk, onions, molasses, eggs, apples, peanuts, and yeast, then asks how it tastes.
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