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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1897
Page
9
A Philadelphia Record commentary urges women to lower and steady their vocal pitch to avoid harsh high tones. It argues consistent training in speech, both at home and in schools, will curb crude inflections and improve social euphony, noting mothers shape children's speech patterns.
Prune Sauce details soaking and kernel prep with port addition. Stewed Dates described with water, butter, lemon, sugar and breakfast use. Stewed Figs recipe with sugar rind and lemon juice, brandy option, then fig pudding and date pudding methods with hard sauce. Mentions of high lights and clergyman anecdote from Cincinnati Tribune.
A fragmented Chicago Times-Herald verse notes Christmas warmth amid separation. It recalls a voyage of hopes, love, and family, with lines about time turning, love blooming in bare rooms, and a homecoming by Christmas.
A December night scene shows a governor reviewing state crime records and receiving a plea from an inmate who writes in broken lines about his life. The violin found with the petition speaks to the governor, who, moved by the music and the man’s story, grants clemency and sends him back to the mountains.
The clip shows a collage of verse and prose from the Boston Courier Chicago Record and Detroit Journal praising generosity and good will during Christmas. It contrasts merry outward gaiety with deeper happiness found in giving, noting a woman of past and present as subjects in seasonal pieces.
A garbled collection of quoted lines and misread phrases from a Cleveland Plain Dealer page piece. The text includes stray references to Santa Claus Bethlehem and a Washington Star style note, with numerous garbled names and lines dumping fragments rather than a coherent story.
A collage of snippets from periodicals includes jokes on marriage education and social life. Lines reference Yale attendance as a family luxury, marriage likened to a lottery, and a humorous exchange about whistling at feasts. Puck and Chicago Tribune tone evident with light, satirical quips.
A discussion of Ararat as an accessible yet sacred peak with legends of the Ark, guardianship, and a recent death of Prof. Stoeber while geological explorers attempted ascent. It traces first ascents from Parrot in 1829 to Bryce in 1876, noting routes, dangers, and repeated climbs amid harsh cold and high altitude perils.
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