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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1909
Page
3
A devotional note highlights Nehemiah's leadership to rebuilt Jerusalem walls. Drawing from chapters 8 4 and 6 the piece emphasizes the prophet’s guidance during crisis and mentions the author W. Edson and the 1909 copyright. The tone mirrors a religious tract focused on biblical courage and reform.
The sermonette extols Nehemiah as a man of gentle goodness and firm resolve. He combines reverence, mercy, and devotion with courage and practical action, likening him to Washington and Lincoln in duty and strength.
Nehemiah, a cupbearer in Shushan and kin to a Judean official, persuades Persian King Artaxerxes to authorize a mission to Jerusalem. He inspects the ruined walls, unites nobles, priests, and Levites, and, despite plots by Sanballat and Tobiah, organizes a disciplined effort to complete the wall and restore temple services and covenant adherence.
The magnet once a boys toy now serves as a versatile industrial tool. It handles all iron and steel forms, lifts up to 20,000 pounds, breaks castings, holds sheets for riveting, lifts scrap and nails, sweeps metal pieces, and can lift workers on a metal sheet. Flat magnets pick up multiple sheets. drops are controlled by precise switch timing.
A sermon on patience as discipline from grace, citing scripture about receiving God’s grace, divine chastisement, and the refining fire of adversity. It frames affliction as Fatherly instruction guiding believers toward holiness and deeper communion with God.
A reflective meditation on divine balance and understanding. Quoting Mark 7:37 and Rev Maltbie D. Babcock, the piece urges patience in judgment and notes that time reveals God’s thoughts, implying eternity will affirm. It frames life as viewed through retrospective balance.
A religious reflection proclaims rejoicing with nothing, possessing all things, and ministers of God in pureness. It asserts purity as power to see and serve God’s purpose, urging the exhortation keep thyself pure.
Blessed ministries bind man to give and serve to reap joy, receive beauty, bear burdens, and move lightly under pressure. Baldwin Brown praises how God’s design in this institution continually draws forth unselfish affections and trains them to strengthen communities and save lives.
Pattern No 2807 features a lilac dimity girls frock for ages six to fourteen with front and back waist fullness in narrow tucks and a shaped white linen belt. Adaptable to serge mohair wool batiste cotton voile and French worsteds with contrasting collar cuffs and belt. Requires specific yardages by size and fabric width. Send 10 cents to Pattern Department with size and address.
Pattern Department asks readers to send the paper size and pattern number for a Misses Five-Gored Skirt pattern and to include their state for identification.
Taft acknowledges Joseph Olles who names son William Howard Taft Olles born at 11 a m March 4. O. H. Wood acquitted for attempted killing of O. H. Wood near Lovington two years ago as another jury convicts Harry Smith, stepson, to two years. Marion arrests burglars Deheart Smith Knight with goods from Goreville and Cox store thefts. Chicago officials fine C S Ellis for hotel swindle attempt. Delavan lists April 20 municipal race results. Armour resumes Chicago interests at stock yards office. Paxton death of Hugh Dunnan at 69, Civil War veteran, leaves family. Chicago discusses national peace congress in May. Kankakee identifies Winds Mastern Hospital patient John Wrrahse, 58. Morrison fathers killed by falling tree and a man hit by train. Pana Leone Scarlett dies from bullet wound. Orlie Hill arrested. Greenville Shoal Creek leader William Enloe found dead heart disease. Rome unsettled bishop appointment for Peoria. Carrollton Rev J I Lackey accepts Presbyterian post. Leaf River Joseph healing of Indianapolis marries Leora Franken. Lagrange Alfred Taggart former Rockford mayor dies at son’s home. Lincoln Michael Coogan files as independent mayoral candidate.
A New York issued Syrian business directory appears in Singlish and Syrian. A second edition is planned for next fall. A medallion honoring M. Laverau stands in the military hospital of Constantine, Algiers, for his malaria parasite discovery in 1880.
A Noah Kentucky testimonial extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during the Change of Life and says it enables homemaking and errands. The ad touts the remedy as uniquely effective for female troubles and invites confidential letters to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
A humorous exchange notes a husband claiming corsets shorten life, while Mrs. Hoyle cites a centenarian who never wore them. The quip highlights health and fashion myths in a light domestic banter tone.
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