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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1909
Page
3
A inventive boy Sammy plans a country vacation visit using a donkey cart. After a runaway start and a cliffing cart crash, he tethers a kite to Jock the donkey hoping to fly home. A strong wind lifts the kite but not the donkey, leaving Sammy battered and returning home defeated and wiser.
An ancient tale recounts how tea began when a son of a great Indian rajah sought religious solitude in China. Exhausted, he slept despite vows, cut eyelids in remorse, and later found a fragrant bush sprouting where they fell. Chewing its leaves kept him awake and sparked the tea legend.
A novelty device uses a light material carved into a man, attached to a hemispherical haze of heavy substance like half a leaden bullet. When set on a plane surface, the setup rises upright on its own, showing a curious balance between light and heavy elements.
A playful verse describes a kite wriggling its tail over a meadow rail and looping through the air. Children watch its ascent toward the blue skies as they sit on the grass and imagine the string extending far.
A Bath street chatter item notes a Turkish bath parlor remark about a patron. A clerk jokes the man looks asleep and promises to wake him with a stretch, planning to call him soon. The playful exchange captures local mood.
Mrs. Torkins claims she can pick out the umpire in baseball once shown. Her remark prompts a playful exchange as she says the umpire is the gentleman with marcel waves on his chest.
A 1909 note credits W A Edson and the Author for a work based on the Apocryphal Song of the Three Holy Children, indicating copyright and authorship details.
This fragment of a Christian psalm invites all creation to bless and exalt the Lord for ever. It lists mountains seas beasts and people praising God and offering thanksgiving for his mercy and grace. The text reflects early church usage with universal worship and reverence.
The Greek Daniel adds the Song of the Three Holy Children Susanna and Bet and the Dragon. These pieces, embedded in Daniel in Greek texts, were likely from Alexandrine origins and not part of the Hebrew base text. They exist in LXX Theodotion Old Latin Vulgate Syriac Arabic versions.
A religious retelling recalls Shadrach Meshach and Abednego refusing Nebuchadnezzar's demand to bow to a golden image. Cast into a furnace, they survive unscathed, aided by an angel, and praise God, reaffirming faith amid peril.
A religious reflection urges Christians to confess their faith by deeds not speech. It stresses living with integrity, charity, humility, and purity to glorify God. The strongest Christian testimony is a life that constantly mirrors Jesus.
A fragment praises divine power and salvation, highlighting soothing sorrows and cheering discouragements as evidence of God’s saving influence.
A devotional passage asserts Jesus Christ as unchanging, the Lamb of God, and the mercy seat as the throne of judgment. It emphasizes the eternal purpose advancing through divine perfection and the ongoing incarnation of divine life.
The piece portrays Joseph as a self made man whose life and education were ordered by God. It asserts his faith directed every stage and his final requests reflect devotion to Israel and to God. It emphasizes endurance through trials and the belief that true self creation comes from divine molding.
The piece declares that God is everywhere and cannot be escaped. It argues that only the humble, trusting, obedient soul finds comfort in this constant divine presence, not fear. The psalmist’s question about fleeing God is answered: there is no place to hide from the Almighty.
A short quotation attributed to Chalmers urges purpose and affection. It emphasizes balancing duty, passion, and aspiration as a guiding motto. The fragment suggests a personal philosophy rather than a news event or report.
A devotional piece urges believers to choose the crest of faith over doubts and burdens. It contrasts two paths the valley of disbelief and the hill of near Christ’s side, stressing knowing what is believed and seeking God’s will to please Him. It exhorts the church’s privileged to claim Christ’s promised peace.
A terse reflection contrasts trust in people with moral judgments and indifference. It cites Lavter and Newell Dwight Hullia, emphasizing that life itself matters more than a life’s work and warning against extremity in judging good or evil.
Paris Pattern No. 2824 in lilac lawn. V shaped neck with lace trim. Side seams hidden by lace insertions. Seven sizes 32 to 44. Yardage varied by fabric width. Send 10 cents to Pattern Department with name address and size.
Pattern description for empire style dress for a small girl in blue and white dotted lawn. Yoke and front panel in one piece with cream beading band and velvet ribbon. Optional high neck and long sleeves. Sizes from one half to five years with yardage guidance and beading ribbon details.
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