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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1900
Page
6
A verse by Harold MacGrath in Syracuse Herald laments Kinder blue mood. The speaker laments a desolate world, craving cheer from Polly Gray and a woman’s embrace. The poem contrasts bleak scenes with small hopes and familiar names.
A Brooklyn man Smith brings home a dead rattlesnake skin with head attached to decorate his study. His wife and maid react with fear and drama while his friend Bixby, a recovering drinker, is tricked into a surreal encounter. Smith stages a prank by suspending the snake above Bixby’s bed. Bixby awakens to the flailing tail and escapes, believing the snake real, then recovers, vowing to curb drinking.
An overworked South London parson arrives to stand in for a vicar and assists a rheumatic old lady up the steps. She recoils from his sermon, preferring the groan of a windmill to listening to him, and the parson admits he would not enter if he were not the preacher.
A collage of wit from Chicago Daily News Cleveland Plain Dealer Atchison Globe and others includes lines about seelskin and muskrat salaries, umbrellas, love and loss, money burning and labels like professor. It mixes humor and social observation in brief captions.
A look at early New York fire services describes wooden pump water, city rules requiring fire buckets, and a system of lines and river water transport. Buckets bore owners' marks, punishments included fines, and after fires the city hall lobby collected buckets. As the city grew northward, copper river pumps and improved engine gear replaced bucket brigades.
February 4 1900 lesson outlines the calling of Andrew and the unnamed disciple, John’s witness that Jesus is the Lamb of God, and how personal influence spreads the gospel. Notes discuss Jesus’ likely path to Galilee, the Jerusalem deputation, and the parable of leaven as a metaphor for discipleship and kingdom growth.
The dispatch from Spearman's Camp dated January 27 describes the Spion Kop fight as one of the fiercest and most furious in British military history. Thornycroft leads the Lancashire regiments in a stubborn defense that was ultimately abandoned due to superior Boer artillery and untenable position.
London dispatch reports Churchill saying the army is exasperated but not defeated as Buller plans another dash depending on Gen Lyttleton's brigade position. Boer tactics aim to flood Ladysmith with timber sandbags and rifles to drown the town.
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