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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
4
A jumble of reflections on virtue laughter and words plus a talky anecdote about graduates at a depot. It notes Shakespeare’s vast vocabulary and compares language use across writers while offering quips about youth labor and cleanliness.
A dated verse laments surplus across society with lines on clothes tools books and people. It blends moral commentary with a pitch for Electric Bitters as a cure all female complaints and general health tonic amid a world of excess and suffering.
The report notes Highland mills paid 90 cents a bushel for wheat while Vandalia sees bread disease diphtheria reappear. Auburn adopts free mail delivery and Winchester eyes a 20000 dollar opera house. Springfield plans a 185000 dollar hotel with Chicago capital. Urbana ladies raise 150 at a church carnival. Monequa prepares electric light and waterworks. A Kentucky man jailed with eight wives faces punishment. Hog disease hog leprosy breaks near Delevan with sixty dead on one farm. Carlyle buys 800 perch stone to enforce meal work for hobos. Pana residents laugh as a man discards money and clothes into the street. Celery fears an early winter. growers banked an arm and rot hits Kalamazoo celery, costing 50000 dollars. Monument work for Lovejoy advances at Grandview cemetery. total near 30000 dollars. Minnesota writer touts linseed cake for hogs amid disease and Illinois hogs fed safely with linseed cake.
A reader praises Chamberlin's Cough Remedy as the best cure for coughs and colds and as a certain preventative of pneumonia. The testimonial asserts extensive use with complete satisfaction and claims no known failed cases among users of the remedy.
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