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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1903
Page
6
A child named Sue narrates a tea time routine then visits a store to buy rings dolls and books. She rides a rocking chair carriage through streets, imagining danger as a river spills goods, before returning to mother and sleep. The piece captures a child’s imaginative fantasy in a domestic setting.
Visitors in South Cheyenne Canyon near Colorado Springs line up to pet and ride Old Dick, the famed burro of 42 years. The calm animal has carried prospectors and notable figures, figures in literature, and inspires a booming local portrait business as photographers capitalize on tourists posing with him.
A Hopbottom farmer trapped a fox after poultry theft, killed it, then discovered a baby fox. The newborn was fed with a ewe’s milk and formed a bond with the bereaved animal. The fox, shy to humans but sleeping beside the ewe, was nurtured by the sheep and handled by the Nye couple.
A historic rag doll linked to the 1865 Appomattox surrender travels through memory and myth. Once handled by Col. Sheridan and later carried to Hartford, the doll’s ink eyes are said to witness Grant and Lee finalizing terms. Its owner, T. Channing Moore, guards the relic in a Hartford safe.
A New York street car incident reports a tolerably young woman discovering live mice in her hat worn a year. The hat hatchet caused the woman to stand with lifted skirts as four mice scampered about before being killed, illustrating dangers of preserving old headwear.
The Yonkers Statesman humorously notes that love unsettles a young man’s thoughts, quoting the Observer of Events and Things about him having no “iten t” in his head when in love.
A 20th century style sermon based on Zechariah urges Christians to rely on the Spirit rather than human strength. It recounts Zerubbabel’s rebuilding task, the prophet Zechariah, and the message not by might nor by power but by My Spirit. The piece argues modern churches risk crowding out the Spirit and calls for renewed dependence on divine empowerment.
The lesson recounts Paul and Silas preaching in Thessalonica for three Sabbaths, facing Jewish jealousy and mobs, then fleeing by night to Berea. It notes the noble reception at Berea where believers searched the Scriptures daily, leading to many conversions among Greeks and women, against a backdrop of Roman travel and early Christian witness.
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