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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1904
Page
6
A short poem by E. Kiser from the Chicago Record-Herald reflects a child’s morning greeting to the world. It describes waking, light, and mood shifts with a playful, hopeful tone, mentioning dreams of falling and bear-filled corners as a familiar figure guides cheerful greetings to the day.
A Boston suburb tale describes Highhole Highhole a one real crazy flicker who drilled into rain pipes in Newton. He became obsessed beating chimneys and ventilators, drawing startled neighbors from amused to alarm as the bird’s wild drumming escalated in April. The piece blends humor with a report of a fabled creature.
Holcom Parett and sister Manice aged 13 and 15 face a frightened eight days with a lynx in their farmhouse while parents are away in Quebec. The emaciated lynx is caught with a blanket and placed in a barn stall. After eight days the animal is sold to a trader in Three Rivers and shipped toward Montreal.
A Sunday May 29 1904 sermon reflects on Hebrews 12 1 2 urging believers to lay aside weight and sin and run with patience the race set before them. It links the nation’s Memorial Day to a cloud of witnesses honoring soldiers while calling citizens to duty, unity, and moral renewal under God.
A man on a roof grips a small iron bracket and tries to drill a hole in a rain pipe. He hammers the metal, cuts an opening a fistful wide, and, after discovering the hollow pit beneath, hesitates yet proceeds to peer into the strange bottomless cavity. The account, attributed to Dallag Lovya Sharp in St. Nicholas, reads like a curious vignette.
Chicago Daily New notes Diggs and Young Flasherton in a quirky feature. It contrasts Diggs as he explains back and forth with Biggs and asks what the answer is.
A River Lea Virginia duck farm reportedly the largest in the United States yields 20 000 Pekin ducks weekly. 1 500 mother ducks in ten pens produce eggs while incubators hatch 2 000 ducklings weekly. Ducks mature in 12 weeks and are sent to markets in Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and New York. Nine men and a dozen youths staff the enterprise.
A New York Independent essay by Mrs. L. H. Harris surveys the shift in perspective after middle age. The mature woman now values the female sphere, defending the traits once despised and recognizing in younger girls and old mates the shared experiences of motherhood and growth. Men fade from her calculations as she redefines identity and allegiance toward her own sex.
An instructional fragment outlining the crucifixion narrative from Mark 15 21 to 41 with notes on Golgotha Calvary the skull place of skull the seven sayings on the cross the hours of day and night and the tearing of the temple veil. It cites related gospel passages and a teaching interpretation by Prof. Rush Rhees plus John Luke and Luke references.
A collection of aphorisms contrasts profit with piety and warns that wealth can corrupt church life and individual integrity. It laments false prophets, stresses Christian unity, and notes fences both protect and confine believers. The speaker links selfishness to divine blessing and warns about endorsement of money over faith.
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