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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1899
Page
5
City leaders include Mayor and ward officials, clerks, treasurer, street superintendent, marshal, police magistrate, and township officers. Also named are trustees, justices, constables, pound master, and election boards. Fraternal lodges and Masonic orders meet monthly at the Masonic Hall and local social clubs schedule regular gatherings.
A narrator recalls an old sweetheart while alone with a lamp and pipe. He imagines youthful dreams, hopes for a poet’s life with her, and memories of love, family, and future plans. A real interruption arrives as his wife enters, shattering the reverie.
An account of Yukon Indians portrays them as good natured and stoic amid hunger and rough conditions. It notes food indifference, wolf aversion, dog behavior, and the presence of peeled trees along the river, with mention of interior versus coast tribes and historic Hudson Bay Company clashes.
The article notes the gaekwar of Baroda’s sword, encrusted with diamonds rubies and emeralds valued at 1 100 000 dollars. The shah of Persia owns a 50 000 dollar sword. his father wore it on his first European visit. Other costly swords exist in India and among the czar and sultan. England’s most valuable is the Heyptians gift to Lord Wolseley, hilt set with brilliants and valued at 410 000 dollars.
Weary veterans of the Rough Riders boast that among 596 men 209 were killed or wounded and the rest are ready to repeat the exploits that earned them fame. Their rapid rise to renown is noted as exceptional in military circles.
An 1878 frontier myth explains how reporter Billy Taylor created the McLaughlin brothers, legends who never existed. The piece recounts how sensational tales spread, naming Sulas McLaughlin as a brutal figure and notes frontier readers’ belief in meeting these phantoms across the West.
In Kirkaldy Scotland two known temperance men complained after a newspaper noted they were sober at the time of their late night mishap. The editor published a reply apologizing for the remark and withdrew the observation about their sobriety.
A Basle millionaire, now living near Beatushohle on Lake Thun, has built a cottage and shut himself from society. A servant delivers his meals as he endures a delusion that someone plans to poison him.
Ninety five percent of tooth dicks in the United States are said to be made from white birch timber in Franklin County Maine, while only a small portion of the total industry is currently employed there.
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