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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1896
Page
2
The Philadelphia Times describes ripple accents as the craze seen across garments. It highlights ripple trims on bodices, sleeves, and hats, with a vivid black and white theme, velvet ribbons, and a featured rippled hip design on a mixed thesiot gown.
The Washington Star notes Senator Brice is the cabbies’ favored after-session rider, always taking a rapid ride home and causing a lively scramble on the capitol east side. One evening he and a friend escaped the rush by boarding the only vehicle that stood still, much to the amusement of onlookers. A second item recounts a London writer James Payn’s tale where a rejected suitor is invited to join a football club after an unexpected kick, the story relayed by the Detroit Free Press.
A partial OCR fragment describes a method for making herring sauce. It includes soaking a red herring, skinning and boning, pounding flesh with yolk from two hard boiled eggs, grated pepper, pressing through a sieve with roe, and seasoning with vinegar and salt, in a Republican era style.
A Chicago Interior piece by Helen E. Starrett laments the return of spring and its evocation of life, death, and resurrection. The author contrasts fresh blooms and cheerful birds with memories of departed loved ones, affirming eternal life through faith in God and Christ.
A devotional poem urges joyful awakening on Easter in the reader's heart. Annie L. Muzzey, quoted from Youth's Companion, invokes tender ministry to heal the suffering and desolate. The Easter message centers on love, renewal, and the risen Christ in human hearts.
In a small Moravian village on Good Saturday a calm Easter day belies Mary Tyler’s sorrow. Her baby lies buried in the graveyard while others celebrate, and Mary recalls happier duties and childrearing as shadows creep over town. The piece centers on Mary’s grief and the quiet contrasts of springtime and loss.
Mary Tyler, grieving for her dead baby, prays through the night for a resurrection. At dawn a small white robed girl appears at her door and Joe awakens to reality, only to realize the child is Idy Wilson’s baby, peacefully asleep in the Tyler home. The couple decides to keep the baby, cherishing a second chance at motherhood.
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