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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1903
Page
7
A poem by Eva Williams Malone in Atlanta Construction urges tempering anger. It advises whistling down harsh thoughts and replacing them with purer ones, praising disciplined speech and self control.
A storyteller recalls an anecdote from The Deserts of North America where a Native American converts a preacher with a chain of vows. The Indian vows to visit, sup, sleep, and finally insists the host keep their mutual promises, turning the preacher's vow on him and departing contentedly the next morning.
The sea cucumber is described as a curious docking animal with a cucumber like shape. It thrives in warm seas between Asia and Australia and the Red sea. Chinese use it in ribh soup and stews. A large trade exists in sea cucumbers dried in lime. A Canton official leaves a fortune to bears in a zoological garden. In India and East Asia many eat a banana based diet.
A Maine hillside pound ruins preserved stone enclosure once used for impounding livestock. Webb Donnell recalls old New England town customs, pound-keeper roles, and the stubborn persistence of annual town meetings electing officials like pound-keepers and fence viewers, even as the practice fades.
A gentleman experiments with a new instrument magnifying Gmail sounds like a microscope for small objects. He distinctly heard the voices of ants placed under a glass cup from which they could not escape. Initially faint, the whispering grew as the ants realized their confinement and ran around the edge. The voices are not audible to ordinary hearing.
An affordable cottage priced from 2500 to 3000 dollars features a spacious front porch a large reception hall a generous parlor dining room and a roomy bathroom. Heating by hot air. First floor adapts for entertaining and living spaces with chestnut finish and oak stairs. Plans by C E Schermerhorn for Good Housekeeping.
The piece warns shade trees in cities are endangered by escaping illuminating gas from mains and by electrical currents. Gas poisoning harms trees with no practical remedy except preventing leaks. Electric wires also injure trees. overhead lines should be behind buildings, with AC less damaging than DC though effects vary by case.
At the Royal Society rooms Prof Ramsay presented an experimental proof of the electrical nature of the northern lights. An exhausted glass globe with a metallic ring at the top hung between electromagnet poles as a powerful current discharged through the ring. The globe glowed annularly and was deflected downward into streamer shapes like the aurora borealis, with krypton detected in the spectrum of the natural aurora produced in the globe’s rarefied air.
A brief Chicago American item notes a terse exchange between two individuals about comments regarding a person named Jack. The dialogue hints at reputational tensions and a warning to beware of what was said. No further context or names are provided.
An old settler corrects a visitor about George Washington and Braddock at a historic site. He asserts Washington fought for Britain in a pre revolutionary conflict, only later leading the colonies after the rebellion began, and defends his claim amid a crowd including a New York banker.
E C Getchell of Rutledge Minnesota reports that after suffering a stubborn backache last winter he used two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and his lame back was completely cured He proclaims the remedy as good as advertised and notes its popularity for backache and kidney trouble in the area
A vivid Glasgow Times snippet shows a shopkeeper urged to eject an importunate commercial traveler. The traveler remains undaunted as the porter is summoned, while plans unfold for a potter to unveil a wholly new line of goods.
Bathing the baby begins at six weeks with careful prep using a soft towel in the basin. Use Ivory Soap only to protect infant skin. Various ads and quotes weave through a 1900 era miscellany on health, household tips, and remedies.
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