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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1902
Page
3
Rodrick praises model arithmetic as Van Albert agrees, citing two one at Niagara and one two in South Dakota. Chicago Daily News notes a cough remedy, Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, priced at 2 cents.
Venice hosts a German school with more Italian pupils. Paris Milan Stuttgart Zurich ratios show small schools per population. The University of Paris lists 245 professors across faculties. Mrs. Oliver Ames funds a brass band at North Easton High School. Hugo Munsterberg plans Emerson Hall at Harvard. Dr Coulter resigns to direct Manila botanical gardens. Daniel Gilman criticizes many short term degrees. Roosevelt to keynote Butler installation at Columbia on April 19.
Erie Kansas resident W H Ketchum suffered five months of back pain in 1900 treated poorly by doctors. After taking six Dodd's Kidney Pills daily, the soreness vanished in a week and did not return for over a year, confirming a complete cure.
Wm. Kelley of Lawrence County bought $1 08 worth of tomato seed from John A Salzer Seed Co of LaCrosse Wisconsin that summer. The purchase, totaling over 8500, is recorded as paid.
A playful piece about seven year old Mary Louisa asking curious questions about the world such as why snow melts, where doughnut holes go, why bread is better than candy, and who makes talking pitchers. Elizabeth L. Gould notes the child’s wide curiosity in Youth's Companion.
A classroom trip to the zoo yields a light hearted essay on lions. It humorously notes their roar in forests, cage sounds, switching tails, and compares them to cats while sharing a fable about a donkey wearing a lion’s skin to tease the others.
A Chicago Record-Herald amuse bouche suggests a gentle party game using five toothpicks. Players lift thumbs then fingers to remove each toothpick, hoping to spark chat during a table d hote delay.
An inquest in Lewisham investigated the death of Sidney Harry Smith aged 12 who was found with a roller towel around his head. The towel twisted and the boy died from fright after realizing he could not free himself, a physician testified.
A New York farmer William Fanning once possessed a hen whose eggs always carried two yolks. He placed twelve such eggs under a setting hen. eleven hatched successfully, each yielding two chicks, while one egg failed. A boy wrote how the zebra is like a horse but striped and mainly used to illustrate the letter 4.
The baya bird of India installs mammoth fire flies around its nest using moist clay, creating a glow visible at night. The result resembles an electric street lamp on a dark night, highlighting the bird’s curious handiwork.
The ac companying illustration features Lili a remarkable dwarf elephant praised as the smallest in the world. She is intelligent and beloved by children and adults who lavishly pet this tiny quadruped. Lili travels with a show and may have covered more miles than any other animal.
A Cincinnati Enquirer item describes the hermit crab with armor on its body and claws. The hind part lacks protection, forming a soft tail, leaving it unable to swim or run, so it seeks shelter by thrusting its tail into shells and eventually raiding snail homes for food and housing.
A Kirkwood Illinois tale describes Mrs M A Stormont’s hen laying 26 eggs in fall then shedding feathers in mid winter. To ease the cold the Misses Stormont wrapped the bird in a flannel suit, measured and fitted to the hen. The hen accepted the change and returned to flock life.
A reflective aphorism noting that youths fear losing originality when they accept truths already acknowledged by others. It contrasts clever young minds with the comfort of shared insight, warning against pretentious dissent and urging honest engagement with known realities.
A brief Brooklyn Life cartoon caption set shows Johnny arguing teachers know less than students.Johnny quips a teacher calls a kid a young goat, sparking mom’s puzzled reaction. The exchange highlights school clash humor in a vintage daily strip.
A short dialogue from Yonkers Statesman presents a humorous bet about a dollar lent until tomorrow. Jill counters that betting on certainty is unfair, highlighting light, everyday banter in local prose.
The Government Printing Office in Washington plans a new $2,000,000 seven story building with a 175 by 480 foot footprint on North Capitol and G streets. It will house about 4,000 employees, 127 presses, 1,000,000 impressions daily, and vast machinery enabling high output and rapid delivery of government prints.
A set of short quotes and notices from various newspapers in 1900 reference figures in Detroit and Indianapolis, a remark on Putnam Faceless Dyes not staining fabrics, and a promotion for Hale’s Honey of Horehound with Tart Pike’s Toothache Drops. The snippets showcase wit and consumer ads of the era.
Mrs Louise Gibson of Chicago writes that six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her kidney trouble headaches and backache and left her feeling young again. She thanks the company and notes free confidential advice is available from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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