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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1908
Page
3
A 1908 authorial sermon titled SET AS A WATCHMAN warns Ezekiel the Prophet as a solemn warning. The piece, linked to Scripture Authority Ezekiel chapter 33, is presented by a highway and byway preacher tradition.
The sermonette urges Christians to see themselves as watchmen, commissioned to preach worldwide. It emphasizes love as essential, the call as individual, and the duty to speak the truth boldly in season and out of season without softening the message.
A compact portrait of Ezekiel emphasizing his stern will and priestly devotion. It details his prophetic task among Babylonian Jews, the symbolic acts he performed, and his resolve to warn Israel despite opposition, concluding with his vow to blow the trumpet faithfully.
A New York refectory orchestra impressed diners with operatic selections via a graphophone. Caruso’s voice impressed the crowd as cylinders sold for five dollars each. A flushed patron offered a drink if the singer came over. The piece also notes World-Wide Students’ Movement reporting 12,000 members in 11 countries and temperance work across colleges and 17 states.
A short reflective note advises readers to consider yesterday’s worrying thoughts and their harm. It suggests using this as a mental reminder when feeling grumpy, framing worry as unhelpful self-criticism. The line echoes a temperate, cautionary tone suitable for a newspaper page.
Henry E. Dixey narrates a tale of a messenger boy who received a bouquet worth over a hundred dollars. A young millionaire asks the boy to deliver it to Miss Flo Footlites of the Guy Burlesquers Company and muses on her preference for a bracelet over flowers.
Sixty five years in the Royal Opera House Berlin ballet ranks Miss Charlotte Braun as a key figure. She spent years as a solo dancer, then taught at the ballet school, and for the past decade has been a pensioner while still instructing and guiding the poetry of motion.
A London Sphere reflection argues that admiration for dead historians and their hundreds of volumes outweighs bias toward new books. It contends many new histories merely restate established facts, and that quality often lies in earlier, clearer presentations.
A Chicago Journal quotation notes that when a husband tells his wife to cut living expenses he implies she should keep up a fine table on half the money and forgo her own comforts while his habits stay unchanged.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports a woman who struck her husband with a dog remains unrepentant. She says a poker would have been more effective, and she revels in her violence while the husband remains inconsolable.
A reflective piece from Illustrated Sunday Magazine traces a personal sense of loss on Thanksgiving. The speaker recalls a loved one who is gone, balancing sorrow with memory as autumn imagery frames the mood. The poem blends greeting with elegiac tone.
Two rival Dakota railroad camps in eastern Sioux Falls area chase turkeys for Thanksgiving. A Watertown party secures three birds after a 150 yard shot while Ashton’s group loses as their cook is bribed and the hotel chef absconds with the roasted fowls. A humorous Yet puzzling theft fuels local legend of a doomed cook.
The text touts Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a preferred laxative, claiming natural cleansing and relief without debility. It warns to buy only the California Fig Syrup Co. product and notes physicians approve its ingredients. Also includes a humorous wedding-ceremony snippet and a sensational remark about cremating discarded lovers.
J H Henderson of Hopkinton New York recounts an eight decade old tale of hemorrhoids that bled and protruded. After failed remedies he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills plus an ointment syringe for a month and later maintained daily then weekly use achieving improvement.
A Columbia Herald note says an oddly named country home in Jackson County, displayed as Hadderway at the front gate, attracts curious passersby. The family, after years wanting to leave Kansas City for a farm, finally moved and named the home Hadderway. The humorous misnaming echoes in local chatter.
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