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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1899
Page
5
Readable lines list mayor, aldermen, clerk, treasurer, and city attorney with ward divisions. Also includes township officials, school board, lodges, labor groups, and church schedules with pastors and meeting times. Public notices cover meetings, encampments, and community organizations in Troy.
A nostalgic call to subscribe to the Freehold transcript titled Printers Ink urges readers to buy a yearly issue. It promises local news, ads, and information, claiming value in every copy and comparing the magazine to broader historical themes, while urging immediate orders and payments.
A terse set of observations on color perception differences between women and men, tied to dress sense, followed by a humorous exchange about a young man in a dime museum and a father’s breakfast remark. The tone mimics a light, period newspaper column with social curiosities and a punny closer.
A North Carolina editor suggests publishing a ten-verse poem for a toad of wood a three-column story for a load of groceries and offering space to obituaries of former subserving at six laying hens a rate.
A gold coin exchanges hands two billion times before the stamp or impression on it wears away. A silver coin changes hands over three billion times before it becomes completely worn.
Ornithologists note the ostrich stride varies with activity from 20 to 22 inches when feeding, 26 inches while walking unaided, and speeds of 11 to 14 feet during fear, equating to roughly twenty five miles per hour.
A Spanish note describes the King of Siam after a recent European visit needing a special box to hold all insignia from distinguished orders conferred by his royal brethren. The item highlights the breadth of honors and the ceremonial display surrounding Siamese royalty.
Report describes a subterranean city beneath Galicia and Austrian Poland housing over a thousand residents, many of whom have never seen daylight.
The account describes Rossland and nearby mining regions as orderly with the mounted police patrolling regularly. It notes few disturbances despite large miner populations, strict liquor rules, no bars, and severe penalties for selling alcohol to Indigenous people, contrasting Canadian and U S conditions.
Walter Wade of Louisville recalls seeing Annie Fables, a brawny woman in blue cottonade, who has run the mill engine for six years. After losing her husband, she sought work at the mill and rose from off-bearer to head of the engine, earning men's wages while supporting seven fatherless children and missing only five days for child care.
A violent episode from Turners Falls Massachusetts reveals youths from Tough End staging a mock murder trial in an empty freight car. A 12 year old boy was sentenced to death, mounted on a box, and nearly hanged when the improvised gallows failed. Ages ranged from 10 to 15, with the victim about 12, and the event was kept quiet until now. The piece also notes a two cent debt collection in Harrodsburg Kentucky and a brief note on Champagne’s origins by monks in the seventeenth century.
A London detective reveals a skilled pickpocket who robs women after theater visits, dons courteous manners, and then returns the stolen items to the police as if he merely found them. He provides his name and address, and has so many recent finds that police seek to locate him.
A coroner's jury links two lamb fatalities to ptomaine poisoning from a larder tainted by gnitrid tongue. The report suggests flies may transfer toxins from contaminated tongue to meat, underscoring the need to keep flies from larders and meat stores to prevent disease spread.
A Santiago Sharp Trader describes entering a small shop after surrender with Gen. Shafter. He buys tobacco, is charged $1 for a paper of fine cut, protests as highway robbery, and the proprietor nods to “Maines” before replying in broken English.
An insurance claim for 1.50 due to a plum pudding burnt to cinder was denied. The court ruled the fire resulted from the cook's carelessness for omitting water in the saucepan, making the claim invalid despite the small amount.
The article notes in chief Japanese cities streets dedicated to specific wares such as wooden and willow ware paper lanterns and bamboo articles. It also claims Westminster Abbey's coronation chair uses the same stone Jacob used as a pillow on the plains of Judah, calling the chair England's most precious relic.
Experiments describe an ingenious machine that shines light across the eye to time a wink with a chronograph. The fastest wink on record is about a sixth of a second. Swiss steamboat firms set age rules to avoid disputes, offering free rides under two feet, free length under four feet four, and half fare for dogs. Traveling mothers oppose the rule.
A compact review of chopsticks origins and long use in Asia, noting bamboo and ivory forms from 1000 B C in China, widespread Asian adoption, and the absence of chopsticks in ancient Central or South America, with references to Japanese records and related artifacts.
The article notes cheap adulteration of rice with oil and paraffin to improve color, harming texture and digestibility. Louisiana lawmakers recently passed a statute making use of oil or paraffin in cleaning rice a misdemeanor with fines or imprisonment, a stricter approach than the German law which only requires labeling.
The fragment lists minerals by province including Luzon coal gold copper lead iron sulfur marble kaolin and mentions Cataanduanes Sibuyan Bohol Panacan Mindoro Romblon Panay and Leyte with various ores. It then shifts to a satirical exchange about Burke parliamentary drama and a joke about sympathy weighing lives.
A Preston science reading notes the queen bee lays up to two eggs every four minutes and total eggs weigh one and a half times her body on hot days. Lived four to five years, she may lay about 1,600,000 in a lifespan. Her eyes are smaller due to hive residence, and her sting is tiny yet often left behind after stinging a person, causing death of the stinger.
The record longest artificial watercourse is the Bengal Canal at Oe miles, followed by the Brie at 363 miles in a historic ranking of major canals.
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