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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1902
Page
9
The verse recounts the Christmas narrative recalling the manger scene, angels, shepherds, and wise men. Ada Melville Shaw cites the enduring appeal of the tale urging readers to share the story with children and to seek peace, hope, and life through Christ.
In a snowed December town Miss Cynthia Gist, the richest and loneliest woman, confronts a Christmas Eve crisis of heart. She discovers two runaway children at her gate, brings them inside, and plans a Christmas for them, triggering memories of her estranged nephew Sidney Bruce and his wife Edith. Sidney returns home, and Cynthia’s hard heart melts as she reveals the tale and seeks forgiveness.
A Christmas tale from Ohio Farner recalls Miss Cynthia who hosted a truce family and welcomed others with lavish charity. Her festive spirit lightened the season, as children found Santa knew Aunt Cynthia's doorstep, while elders pondered the idea that a little child shall lead them.
A Milwaukee Sentinel tale shows a struggling writer father and a six year old son. The boy saves 15 cents to give his father a Christmas gift of mitts, softening the stern thinker as gratitude and affection take over.
Dialogue notes Billy and Tommy discuss Christmas gifts including a jack-knife four sleds clothes overcoat hat and a Bible poems books stockings gloves collars and trifles. Papa worries Willie over a hard rubber ball gift. Mama asks which one.
A playful verse from Abbie Farwell Brown presents a child’s imagined menagerie with humorously named creatures. It pairs fanciful beasts like a Nocerns bug and a Kangaroo grasshopper with wild ideas about cages and roaring lions.
Arthur rides Billy the bay pony to fetch butter, but a whistle startles the horse causing a wild ride through the village. Butter prints scatter, a missing butter pail is found, and the embarrassed rider returns home with neighbors laughing at the spectacle. Billy shows no remorse, enjoying the mischief.
The article notes at least 3,262 distinct fish species inhabit waters north of the Isthmus of Panama. It emphasizes the diversity of North American ichthyofauna and hints at the vast variety present in U.S. and nearby waters.
A fragment notes a theatrical style exchange with lines about a police station and station in time. The source presents a dialect tone and at least two distinct speakers referenced as The Lady and The Tramp, with a newspaper setting implied.
A New York Tribune report notes the osprey nest on Gardiner’s Island weighs over 400 pounds and is built from sticks broken oars boat splinters and miscellaneous debris. Naturalists relocated the nest to the Bronx Zoo after its discovery by Bronx Zoo experts. The nest hosts other birds and contains unusual items like fish bones old shoes and buttons. It is rebuilt each year and some superstition links an empty nest to misfortune.
Sergeant Brown of the Fourth precinct on a Clinton avenue trolley in Newark halted the car as a dozen women panicked at a nesting of three mice hidden in a hat. The hat wearer screamed and fled after the sergeant killed the mice, refusing to reveal her name.
In a study by P H Eykman the motion of the tongue pharynx and larynx during swallowing is captured by an electric contact on the adaptable apparatus. The system measures current at a precise moment to obtain a picture of the swallowing motion.
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