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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1905
Page
8
Albany man James W. Watkins says he was cured of locomotor ataxia after using six boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills. He describes years of stiffness, uncertain walk, loss of balance, pain, and weakness, but reports regained strength and ability to work after treatment and recommends the pills for early numbness in the feet.
Railroad leaders and experts clash over discrimination in freight rates. President Samuel Spencer supports stopping unjust discrimination while recognizing cases of just, necessary rate variation. International Railway Congress cites tariffs based on commercial principles with elasticity, not arbitrary bias. The debate includes proposals to fix government rates, risking temptations to bend rules under urgent conditions. The source ends with a satirical line about a bored boarder in a boarding house.
The article discusses Revelation chapters one to three in a devotional tone. It cites dates placing the book in Nero's reign or Domitian's era and explains symbols such as the seven churches, candlesticks, and Christ’s title in vivid imagery. It emphasizes seeing Jesus on the Lord's day and the vision's call to record what is seen for others' encouragement.
A British officer claimed two pence for porterage on government expenses while asserting a carrier fee rather than refreshments. The War Office corrected him in a verbose note, suggesting he should have labeled the item porterage. He then noted in accounts cabbage cost two shillings as a packhorse charge.
An English tourist notes that locals speak Irish to friends on the road but use English with their horse. The retort asks if English is not good enough for the horse, illustrating humor about language use in Donegal.
Brazil's exports climbed by 12.5 million dollars in 1904 with 4.4 million tied to coffee. Coffee planters gained about 10 million more from their crops than in 1903. American capitalists are scouring Brazil for profits, buying tramways and other properties and securing large portions of land.
The Tokio Times reports prisoners from the Russian front arriving at Shimbashi were presented to the imperial family. The emperor received two Manchurian horses one rabbit one dog one hawk and one goat. The crown prince and his sons received two donkeys and two dogs.
In Georgia a gator that swallowed a fisherman's jug on the river bank puzzled the fisherman who found the creature trying to stand on its head and climb a tree. The quirky incident, noted in the Atlanta Constitution.
A distinguished French physiologist reports tobacco damages the auditory nerve and urges those with hearing loss tendency or family history to abstain. Hardy Monks. At Mount St Bernard Monastery near Leicester the monks endured four hours barefoot in church on Good Friday reciting the psalter.
A brief adage quoted from The Commoner notes that money cannot purchase a dog at the gate a laughing baby at the window or a smiling wife at the door in everyday life.
A collage of 1900 era notices tout Dr. Pusheck of Chicago and his remedies for weakness rheumatism and blood and skin troubles. The item includes promotional lines from Chicago Daily News and other papers, plus unrelated claims about shoes stomach tablets and diet tips from various sources.
A. A. Boyce, a farmer near Trenton Missouri, suffered severe kidney and back pain that kept him from work. After using Doan's Kidney Pills, his backache gradually disappeared and he regained the ability to walk and work. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo New York.
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