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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1902
Page
6
A nostalgic verse recalls vanished childhood, old valentines, and memories that linger. The speaker reads crumpled pages, visions of a young girl, and a heart stirred by a long-ago charm, finding beauty in recollection and love.
In Eten town Cephas Wheeler seeks advice from Telatha about sending a valentine to Widow Puayne. Telatha mocks him while tending milk, recalling Cephas’s past rejections and ongoing schemes to win a wealthy beauty. He insists on a serious Valentine to declare love and secure a future.
In a snowy village Cephas searches for a valentine for Telatha, debating poetry and gifts. He buys a series of tokens from dresses to a plaster figure and finally proposes, admitting he loves Telatha after spying her while she skims milk. Telatha accepts, declaring she will marry Cephas if he truly wants her.
A nostalgic piece on St Valentine as a childlike symbol, the charm of anonymous valentines, and the appeal of mystery gifts over known givers. It notes the fading courting rituals, suggests photographs and antique artworks as valentine substitutes, and recalls a dramatic cake delivery myth.
A collage of dated quips and cartoon captions from Washington Star and Baltimore American. Exchanges include a mock marriage proposal line, a playful vaudeville exchange, a Valentine joke, and a brief punny dialogue about portraits. Also includes a one line about comic valentines production and a doctor patient joke from the New York Statesman.
Three Viennese inventors patent a substitute for natural rubber using shredded leather, plant sap, cork, and rubber blends heated and vulcanized with sulfur chlorate. The process includes tanning dressings, train oil, Landolphin root sap, and caustic treatment to produce a flexible durable material claimed to surpass existing substitutes.
An invention by Hiram L. Getz turns a bicycle into an ambulance for emergency use. The unit can be operated by the rider alone, with a curved front and rear bar to hold a stretcher, and a steering handle on the front fork. It aims to reach the injured quickly rather than transport to a hospital.
A short witty exchange references a locomotive nicknamed she and a joke about needing a man to run it, attributed to content from the Somerville Journal.
A German youngster invents an aerial vessel with a twin carded hull design and pine spars, the sail of tissue paper, praised by both young and old for enabling exciting races. Balance is achieved by careful weight distribution.
The article details a wind driven toy sailboat with a weighted mast end and wooden pulleys guiding a kite line. A large cardboard disk checks the kite to avoid damage, while a string releases the sail to drop and the toy returns to shore.
Experiments in Paris show glass blocks over a busy thoroughfare near the Madeleine proving durable and sanitary. The pavement wears better than asphalt or stone, is easily cleaned, and remains non slippery in sleet, suggesting a future all glass city in Paris. A separate note mentions a typhoid fever treatment using a refrigerator method devised by Dr. Lester L. Roos in New York.
A fragment from Chicago Record-Herald shows two voices discussing a story with eager anticipation. The dialogue hints at suspense and a reader's impatience with the page-by-page unfolding of details, capturing the cadence of a bustling newspaper era.
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