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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1898
Page
5
Lists township officials, lodge meetings, and charitable and fraternal groups with names of officers and meeting times. Includes two Civil War era poems urging unity and readiness, reflecting local culture and citizen reminiscence in a newspaper page item.
A tenant complains of sleepless nights caused by a doctor neighbor in a double house. The tenant plans to move to a suburban single residence after a month of nightly calls for sick patients and emergency requests that disrupt rest.
Lady Dorothea and Lady Estella Hope demonstrate that peer sisters can succeed in pony and cattle breeding at Edenbridge near London. They started with one pony, now breed show ponies and sell to all buyers, while also showing Jersey cows and previously tried fox terriers before abandoning them for lack of demand.
A Gunton’s Magazine observation notes wage comparisons in Russia, where horse labor costs more than human labor in various regions. It argues low wages reflect broader social decline, stressing degraded living standards, reduced education, despotism, and barbarism as outcomes of the wage gap.
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls a Second Avenue belle and a visiting former schoolmate. After dinner the guest buys ribbon for a party, rushes home, and a dash with a gentlemanly suitor ends in a comic chase. The father and brother confront the fleeing youth as tracks in snow reveal a mistaken impression.
A vivid vignette follows a young man seen near the Plain Dealer building fleeing social scrutiny while seeking food at a coffee and doughnut shop. The piece notes gambling debts are recoverable by law in France Spain Venezuela and, in some cases, Germany.
The expression he's a lobster, once tied to slow horses on winter tracks near New York and New Jersey, evolved into a general term of contempt for people or things. It describes slowness or inferiority and spread from horses to cars boats calculators and beyond.
Bangor features and a remarkable Denayayville dwelling in Washington County built six years ago by a poor man from four spruce trees as corner posts. His family, left behind, prospered while the posts grew, lifting the house higher every year. The structure remains solid but may need a fire escape ladder as the trees keep growing.
A Australian miner slept with trousers containing 125 dollars under his pillow. A thief pricked the miner’s foot with a long needle, making him fear a snake bite. He fled in alarm, only to return and find his pockets turned inside out and the money missing.
Lilian Hell recounts how she crosses the English Channel avoiding private quarters. She favors the settee near a porthole and lies flat below deck to endure seasickness. She dispenses with meals and hats and stays until the steamer starts, claiming better comfort on the long voyage.
A humorous exchange centers on shaving. A late-rising man admits frequent nicks, while a younger man brags of ten years of shaving without a cut. The table questions the claim, and the waiter confirms the nickname Jones as the departing barber.
A wealthy woman posing as a patron hires a young writer at 50 cents per hour. On a rainy day the amanuensis finishes in about thirty minutes and is given a quarter after fare deductions, earning 15 cents. The tale highlights income parsimony versus apparent generosity.
A Washington Post writer notes a young woman paid 80 cents to attend a spiritualist seance. The purported Uncle Jimmy delivered a short message, then departed, prompting the woman to remark she’d not pay without gaining something for her money.
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