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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
5
A reflective Christmas verse contrasts cozy hearthside cheer with the plight of the poor. It urges readers to act with kindness, offering help and hopeful deeds beyond gifts and greenery, and to keep the sacred spirit of Christmas in mind throughout the year.
The piece traces the unknown inventor of writing, early writing materials from clay to parchment, the destruction of libraries, and the rise of printing. It notes the high costs of manuscripts, the value of paper and printing assets, and argues civilization advances through press-led literacy and employment.
In Brooklyn a yearly anniversary ritual gathers about 70 000 children in a parade to celebrate the Brooklyn Sunday School Union. White frocks and flags abound with girls leading banners while boys bear the burden, and teachers march as marshals under a canopy of parasols.
A fragment describes the Cuban trocha a long barbed wire barrier from Havana to the south with sentinel huts behind a triple fence. It notes a Spanish army of about 200000 along the line and insurgents led by Maceo and Gomez facing each other with 11000 and 6000 men respectively.
A writer lists eight reasons why people should learn to sing. Singing aids learning, health, speech clarity, pronunciation, and oratory. it reveals natural voice, surpasses instrumental music, and honors God by fitting human roles to that end.
The author recalls seeing flowers sprouting from war debris at Bull Run, a rose through a broken drum and verbena in a shelled shell fragment. Such natural beauty suggests peace rising from ruin, showing nature and society progress despite conflict. The piece meditates on war’s scars yielding to renewal.
A reflective piece urges choosing cheerful conduct over cynicism. It notes that gloom harms health and beauty while a kind temper brightens countenance and spirit. The essay warns of revived old laws against swearing and quotes local print constraints in Omaha, Neb.
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