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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1906
Page
6
The Troy Weekly Call discusses how extreme wealth does not ensure health or virtue and questions autocratic power in business and government. It contrasts rich heirs' laziness with farmers’ children who contribute early, and cites President Eliot on directing power with responsibility amid peace or war.
Edward S. Martin notes that a million dollar yearly income brings comfort but not more life meaning. A New York subtreasury deputy recalls a stranger who offered 5000 for a 1905 silver dollar, only to reveal no such coin exists, sparking citywide questions and a vow not to joke again.
In a dramatic night journey Moses contemplates God’s call while the princess wrestles with faith and duty. A letter moves her toward counsel with the high priest as Moses alone seeks Joseph's tomb, facing a vision of judgment and of a people bound for deliverance.
In Springfield a late veteran maker Alphonse Ferrell died after months of illness. An old clock, unused for two years, began striking at midnight three days before his death, then at 10 pm and again at midnight the following night. Neighbors and relatives could not explain the clock’s waves of chimes.
A British syndicate plans to invest 60.4 million pounds in Russian enterprises, highlighted as a striking example of capitalist confidence amid cautious business sentiment.
The article extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for tumors and related female ailments. It cites letters from women like Fannie D. Fox of Bradford, Pa, and Luella Adams of Seattle, praising tumor reduction or disappearance after using the remedy, and urges others to seek advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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