Miscellaneous anecdotes and notices from Troy weekly paper
A string of humorous observations on politics, misprints, and everyday life from the Troy Weekly Call. Items touch on baldness, milk supply, courtship, polar explorers, a New York Liberty statue birthday, Scottish poetry, a Bremen Hamburg canal proposal, St Louis to Kansas City road plans, French balloon ascent, a massive Erie locomotive and train length,Camp Perry rifle match, and naval shooting prowess.
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Camp Perry
Ohio
Navy
Army
Wea
Vrosy
Man of Warsman
Red Shuttered Evening: A School Girl Encounter
In a windswept lakeside scene, Glenarm meets a quick, capable St Agatha girl in a canoe. A tense aftermath unfolds as a mysterious intrusion echoes through his grandfather’s house while Bates, a secretive servant, lurks nearby. The incident deepens a puzzling conspiracy as night falls.
Lost in Night Forest Chapter Six
The narrator describes wandering the dark wood after losing his way and then reaching Bates’ rear door for village supplies. He finds the kitchen and a stairwell linking the first and second floors, stumbling up the unfamiliar passage in darkness.
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Bates
What a Race Sings About
A traveler notes differences in folk song topics by nationality. The Irish focus on love and a beloved, the Scot centers on country and history with examples like Scots Wha Hae and Bonnie Doon, while the English singer emphasizes self glorification, ships, power, and personal prowess with rare references to women or national beauty.
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Pruce
Bonnie Doon
Loch Lomury
Fear and habit guide away from danger
Advice on breaking the fear habit and avoiding harm by fear. The text urges readers to admit fear, seize control, and choose courage, linking fear to a path opposite beauty and suggesting immediate action to reframe mindset.
Chocolate Cure: fattening village in Germany
In a remote German village a place named Chocolate Cure lures thin people to eat cocoa and chocolate to gain weight. Patients rest, admire scenery, gossip, and fatten daily with chocolate’s supposed targeting of hands, arms, neck and shoulders. The home method claims broad appeal for weight gain for perseverance women.
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Httle
Germany
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BW. Jarvis
Japan
Sorea
Montana
Lake
North Pole
Aurora
Chicago
Walter Page
The
Chicago News
Liberty
New York Harbor
Michael Scott
Alexander WT
Scotland
Bremen
Hamburg
Elbe
Weser
Hamsbureh
St. Louis
Kansas City
Missouri
United States
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Paris
Erie Railroad
Von
Diana
Pan
St. Gathe's
Obes Perrill CO
St. Agatha’s
Selbeantenyu
Glenarm
Morgan
Ida
Glen
Mainy
New York
Brookline Chronicle
Troy City
John Deimling
W.F. Peter
Theo. Guennewiq
Minois
Phil Bickert Corn and
Superior
Theatores
Graham
Tizens
Julius Peter
Childdren
Union Shop
Main St
George G6
Morriss
Kinloch 9
Geo. Liebler
South Maln Street
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