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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1903
Page
7
A recollection of New Year’s Day in the old South describing hiring out slaves, public auctions, and market day customs. The piece notes slaves choosing employers, occasional family separations, and the contrast with later times while detailing festive and vagrant activity in courthouse squares and villages.
A Baltimore Herald quip notes a playful exchange about a fiancé urging a quit of smoking. One man boasts that his fiancée’s vow has the same impact, as every time he calls his cigars in his vest pocket they are crushed and he cannot smoke them.
A Chicago Record-Herald note imagines a man resolving to strive anew in the year ahead as his wife plans to unveil new choices to the town if his schemes succeed. The scene shifts to a humorous exchange where a man recounts a tiger pit tale and a wife’s Christmas money demands are recalled.
The passage recalls New Year wishes as the old year ends and the city anticipates midnight bells. It notes people waking at 12 to 3 and boys tooting horns, with a nod to the Chicago Tribune as the source.
Dialogue from Town Topics features Cora asking why the sofa is moved into the room center and Papa replying he placed it there to display mistletoe hanging from the chandelier. The fragment suggests a domestic scene with a festive, playful tone.
A brief quote exchanges fun as Johnny Jones asks about watching the old year out and new year in while Willie Boerum replies excitedly about watching his sister and her fiancé celebrate the transition to the new year.
Chemical tests show solanine, a poisonous alkaloid, in potatoes. Fresh potatoes have little, but long-stored damp and sprouted tubers carry high levels. German soldiers in the 1910s reportedly suffered headaches and vomiting after eating aged, sprouted potatoes.
A Chinese servant in a Boa tonian household fondly teases a visitor named Archibald, mishearing him as Ah Ghee in a paternal display. The piece also reproduces a Kansas hog farm ad promising open-air concerts by “200 of the sweetest voiced squealers” with free reserved seats.
A Winnie Virginia client reports Dr King’s New Life Pills cured two year sick headaches. Kingston’s drug store markets the pills and Rocky Mountain Tea promising cures for head ache constipation biliousness and generally improved health with rich red blood and digestion at 25 cents and 35 cents respectively.
The piece contrasts New York cleanliness and public behavior with London habits, praising spitting prohibition and smoking regulation. It promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for croup, Bucklen's Arnica Salve for wounds and sores, and advertises S Kingston products. It ends with a farmers’ offer for four papers at reduced price from HE Cact's Proposition.
Notice is hereby given by the senate de Pin Ont and Jarvig townships that hunting on their lands is strictly prohibited and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Signatories include Albert Rieder afred Tegtmeyer, Agnatius Riggin, David Kiingel, Predeling HF Dankenbrink, Henry Buhrmester, Fred otearions, loltarieve AV o Proembey.
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