23 Apr 1898
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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1898
Page
1
The notice lists mayoral and alderman roles, ward representatives, city clerk, treasurer, marshal and other officials, followed by lodge details for Troy Masonic, Neilson Lodge I O O F, Pisgah Encampment, Mentor Lodge K of P, United Mine Workers Chapter, and Citizens' Building and Loan Association. Also includes poems and diverse items with local society references and a legal note on newsboys rights and telegraph pole statistics.
A southern clergyman shared a story about a slave using wit to evade punishment. The piece then shifts to an artist who ignored health rules while painting, starving himself for fame. He finally signed the work, then collapsed and never recovered his faculties.
A farmer near Carthage lost a cow said to trespass on the Northwestern railroad. He paid section men to bury her after stating she was not his fault. An agent later pressed him about the incident, and the farmer recalled the cow’s changing value from $25 to a registered thoroughbred worth $150 as he faced possible liability.
A Philadelphia veterinarian explains eye fatigue is due to fatigue of the accommodation muscles rather than the retina. Relief is temporary by closing the eyes or looking at distant objects. Redness at the eyelid rim signals inner surface congestion and pain. Sometimes glasses are needed. other times gentle massage with cold water on the eye area helps.
Prof F E Nipher measures air friction from moving trains using a hemispherical cup up to 30 inches from a carriage window. The motion drags air along and conveys pressure to a gauge, showing air is carried far ahead and can topple a person or create a spinning motion that could topple someone if ground conditions allow.
The New York Times notes buck deer battles when does breed, fierce clashes can end in both animals dying from interlocked antlers. Instances include skulls and skeletons showing entangled horns, and rare reports of three pairs locked together. October to November bring peak combat before shedding horns. A steel arch across the Niagara river near Clifton will span 40 feet, the longest yet.
A Louisville letter-carrier recalls a suburbia route day when a freckle faced girl asked if there was anything for various Murphys and finally for Clarence Murphy. Separately the Peking Gazette reports China ordering arrest and imprisonment of a defaulter magistrate from Kuangsi with funds confiscated.
June tops yearly health statistics for marriages in New York, with November close behind. August has the fewest weddings, while summer brings vacations and brighter moods. Observers link June weddings to the season’s happiness and theปรfinancial timing of November marriages to Christmas gifts.
A hired girl reads a column of want ads and finds a notice seeking a wife rather than a plain housekeeper. The two readers find the posting, for cooking and child care, overly married in tone, deciding it describes a wife, not a worker.
Dr W J Russell reports that certain substances placed against a sensitized plate in darkness photograph themselves. Zinc and other materials show scratched lines and flaws after hours of contact. Some experiments used interposed screens with no effect. Westminster Gazette and Standard images appeared, but Daily News did not. Slaughter of varmints prompts sheepmen in Lake county Oregon to bounty wildlife. About four million false teeth are made yearly in the United States. Gold, silver, and platinum fill teeth.
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