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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1898
Page
8
A humorous verse laments the urge to store away cherished items like a pipe or pen, triggering endless hunts as men complain of misplaced possessions and the wife asks not to move his belongings. The poem satirizes how fear of loss fuels obsessive safekeeping.
A man, found incoherent after a week of storms, is sheltered by a farmer and later dies in an asylum. Two years after a farmhouse sale, an ordinary exercise book in his former room reveals a diary begun with a plan to restart life. It records a change from clerk to private gentleman and notes a distant farewell to colleagues.
A diary recounts a lonely clerk's descent into open country obsession after drinking and social withdrawal. He records nights of champagne, a mastiff, and a creeping belief that he becomes the last man alive, then a god, amid moorland vastness and encounters with shadowy beings and a goddess as storms gather on the hill.
A Brush Street resident endures a string of six kitchen autocrats in three weeks as his family humorously notes the upheaval. His son quips about his papa’s hiring habits and lack of grace at the table amid the culinary upheaval.
Mrs Styles asks if husband fears wartime business impact. Mrs Rich counters he believes the war will aid his gas business. He expects many men will go to war reducing demand for parish lights, per Yonkers Statesman.
In a Madrid bullfight a stranger jokes about armor to cover the bull. Native responds the suit is to keep the motives from eating him before the fight, revealing a wary exchange about safety and spectacle.
Six robbers carried out a bold heist at Union Bank in Rica Lane Michigan using nitroglycerin to blow the safe. They escaped with about 7000 in cash and 4600 in notes, leaving a horse and carriage in Augusta. An elderly resident was forced inside as explosions shattered the front and glass. Witnesses saw a man with a satchel and a rifle fleeing toward Battle Creek. officers pursue toward Augusta.
Washington August. G W Rankin good and Harry Price of Cincinnati forward plans for an American Boy battleship fund. They met President McKinley who sent a letter endorsing the idea and urging patriotic contribution by children and youth to a government battleship.
George C. Randolph purser aboard Nimcol at Apanacnicota with five mates reports a Gulf disaster when Nimrod towing dredge Thomas H Herndon and two scows wrecked off Cape Sin Blas in a Tuesday night storm. Nimrod and 12 crewmen vanished. Dredge and scows ashore at Cape Stella, Nimrod valued at 40,000 dredge 75,000 scows 32,000.
A corrobative report from Tilt Cove says the Virginia Lake arrived with details of a probable ocean liner loss in the Belle Isle straits. A Noddy bay fisherman saw a steamer collide with an iceberg and sink. witnesses describe people launching boats but the vessel disappeared. The report is considered unconfirmed but widely believed.
Seattle police notified Superior authorities that Mrs. Harmon who checked in July 22 from Seattle and disappeared the same evening leaving her baggage is not known in Seattle. The disappearance remains a mystery.
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