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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1908
Page
8
A multimillionaire in a barter shop sits in a chair as onlookers guess his thoughts about mergers rebates and Wall Street. He reveals he was simply studying two files doing handsprings on the ceiling, prompting sheepish laughter.
A man, described as a logical loafer, attached a small guttering object to his coat before entering a railroad yard. He collided with a slow freight train, was thrown, and found insensible. The dispatcher had Patrick Doyle search his pockets and identify him by a badge on his coat as a Lady Maccabee.
A lonely girl Dorothy dreams of Fairyland after a request from a mysterious spirit. She travels with him, discovers violet leaf tables and toadstool chairs, meets tiny fairies and elves, and witnesses fairy kitchens before waking to the spring rain and a Philadelphia Ledger note.
A collection of brief quips and exchanges from newspapers and schools. A composer’s spouse teases about royalties, a gambler hints at quiet times, a teacher questions a student’s window repair, and schoolboy wordplay on birds and bosses.
A garbled exchange cites a statistic of about eight hundred deaths annually in the United States attributed to lghtoing. The dialogue quips that this should warn against striving to appear attractive, with a Yonkers setting fragment and unclear attribution.
A described illusion uses a drawn cage and bird with a visiting card as a prop. By aligning the card and pressing the nose near the card, the observer sees the bird in the right eye and the cage in the left, creating the illusion of the bird entering the cage. A friend is invited to test the effect under lighting to enhance belief in the trick.
An amateur sleuth races along in a fever of excitement as he claims the suspects escape in an automobile. The modern Sherlock cautions that the scent is on them, noting they have splashed in a pool of gasoline dripping from their machine.
Mrs Goodart offers a meal after a little work. Hungry Hawkes counters that he needs the meal now, arguing work fuels his appetite. The strip ends with a wry note on a woman removing gloves, raising a question of etiquette.
A historic Sunday school lesson from May 10 1908 discusses John 16 26 24 the Holy Spirit in Christ s last discourses in Jerusalem upper room and five aspects of the Spirit witness comforter judge guide and the Spirit s reign It details the Spirit convicting the world of sin righteousness and judgment and notes the world s unbelief as the sin to claim attention with references to related scripture and pastoral commentary
Mr D C Prosser of Bravo Allegan County Michigan shares his experience with catarrh of the stomach and typhoid illness. After using Peruns he improves quickly and is fully cured after three or four bottles enabling him to eat anything again.
A bemused moralizing bachelor and a sharp voiced girl exchange a line about life and confinement. Pettit's Eye Salve promises instant relief from eye irritation caused by dust sun or wind priced 95 cents sold by Howard Broa Buffalo NY. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claims to ease teething discomfort and wind colic for children. A brief ad for Lewis' Bingle Binder straight Se cigar notes full value and a Peoria factory source.
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