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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1910
Page
3
University of Illinois study by Dean T. A. Clark reveals coeds average higher grades than men by about 4 percent while fraternity and sorority members trail the overall average. Athletics show stronger performance in active semesters, with baseball lagging due to travel. Larger-city fraternity members tend to rank lower.
The mystery of Daniel Sheridan the American claimant to the Blake millions is resolved by a letter from his son. Sheridan, once a farmer from Illinois, sought the fortune left by Helen Blake in 1876. After decades of poverty and debt he died in Lambeth infirmary on December 19, 1896, having wandered homeless after failing to prove kinship.
In New York Miss Mildred Mermelstein, a stenographer at One Hundred Thirteen Street, loses a silk stocking slipper on a Madison Avenue car. A rich shoe maker, Samuel Newman, seeks the owner via a newspaper ad. She answers, he finds her charming, and their engagement is announced two months later. The slipper is No. 2.
Washington reports Egypt's cotton crop this year may exceed 700,000,000 pounds and Consul Birch at Alexandria says it will likely be the largest crop ever harvested in Egyptian fields.
A Lenox farmer, George Ferguson, harvested 417 bushels of winter wheat from about 10.7 acres selling at 2.50 per bushel in Pittsfield. The crop, grown on Pine Croft in Lenox, proved highly profitable after a Buckwheat cover and fertilizer practice killed quack grass, with perfect heads and sturdy straw.
In Stray Stories a skeptical aunt quips about a fiancé, Dolly jokes he cannot earn a living while they are engaged, highlighting comic romance. The exchange centers on a fiancé’s presumed lack of work and the humor of domestic expectations.
Julius Cae sar Burrows, a long established figure in Michigan and U S politics since 1873, was defeated for renomination to the Senate. Born in Erie county Pennsylvania in 1837, he rose from civil war veteran to Kalamazoo lawyer, prosecutor, and long time congressman and senator. He served as a key parliamentarian and later chaired the Senate committee to investigate Senator Lorimer.
A sensational volume by General Weyler, Mi Mando in Cuba, prints in scarlet on gray, provoking outrage as he claims broad support from officers and privates alike. The work is criticized as partisan and lacking moderation, intensifying his controversial legacy in Cuba.
Rev Father Bernard Vaughan of London drew crowds at the Montreal Eucharistic congress with a fierce critique of modern society. He warned of a fevered age driven by headlines and profit, where old religious ideals yield to expediency and moral sense erodes while charitable work among the poor continues.
The widow of Grand Duke Sergius of Russia is praised for tireless aid to Moscow’s poor. A German princess by birth, she supervised hospitals and nursing homes, devoting eight to ten hours daily and giving about $625,000 of her income to charity. She acts incognito at her institutions as volunteer nurse and servant.
A Galena Kansas woman describes a lump on her side that grew after a fall and caused sleepless nights. A doctor warned of possible tumor, but Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound used as advised by the mail order doctor allegedly dissolved the lump. The advertisement extols the remedy for female illnesses and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
George H. Beattie jeweler and L. E. Ralston News auditor narrowly escaped a runaway team at Beattie’s farm near Chagrin Falls. Both slept through the approaching hazard and were unhurt as horses dashed past. Since then Ralston rooms in his town house and Beattie uses his house shelter.
Harker laments election bets gone awry after winning ten boxes of rank cigars sold to a tobacconist for a dollar. His wife then buys the same cigars in the window as a birthday gift, marking a curious turn of events.
A terse quoted line notes a mind lacking balance when it cannot appreciate the joys of home, attributed to Lex. This compact reflection captures a moral sentiment about domestic contentment and personal steadiness.
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