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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1914
Page
7
A garbled exchange mentions a cab man who was wounded by a tare and an assertion that car enuwetors often act without getting mad. The passage is unclear and contains numerous misspellings and incomplete phrases.
Court actions reduce claims against Joseph and Sarah Mader and approve final reports for Folkert Duis and C Dietschy estates. Numerous real estate transfers listed in Alton Collinsville Edwardsville and Wood River townships with prices from 100 to 7,000. Marriage licenses issued for residents of East St Louis O Fallon and nearby towns.
The Atlantic notes the Great Japan Young Men's Buddhist Association shapes student opinion in Tokyo and links Buddhism with Japan’s intellectual circles. An 1872 mission inquiry in the West failed to settle how to describe Japanese religion, facing options from Buddhism to Shinto, with the awkward conclusion that Japan had no religion, while Western readers viewed Buddhism as a political ethical system.
A Norwegian sailor, Jan Petersen, long fallen into drink in New York, is reformed under Pastor Olaf Thompson of the Norwegian Free Evangelical Church in West New Brighton. He now works as a watchman, attends church, and plans to sail to Norway to repay saloon debts and reunite with his family.
The passage offers practical nontoxic storage ideas and handy tools for home care. It mentions lining trunks with newspapers and cigar-box wood to protect clothing, using a forty inch stick with a notch to lift art without ladders, and notes on legal writings and real estate handled for clients with a city office contact.
A workman digging near Vincennes found three earthen pots filled with gold coins worth about £8000. The contractor took charge, then the workman found more pots and the employer again claimed the treasure. Under French law part goes to finder and part to landowner, prompting the poor finder to seek in forma pauperis relief as heirs of the original owner, likely war-era hiders, are hard to trace. Paris correspondent Daily Telegraph.
Warning-style advertisement urging parents to treat children for worms with Kicka poo Worm Killer in candy form. Claims coated tongue, stomach pains, sleeplessness, and other symptoms indicate infection. Priced at 25 cents and endorsed by H. R. Huffendick.
In a brief exchange Jill claims she was raised by a goat, prompting Bill to respond with a question about goat raising. The odd remark underscores a playful, surreal moment in the conversation.
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