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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1898
Page
6
A fragmentary quotation from Mary Woodward Weatherbee in Wor- 82's Journal discusses a monarch’s secret sense of power, the strength to resist worldly favor, and the choice to fight rather than yield. It highlights duty as a call to seize the hour and act boldly when required.
In a seaside hotel Celia and George debate hotel life for women, Martin joins as they joke about a ladies smoking room and billiard games. Celia muses on a hotel run by women, while the men argue whether hotels suit women, hinting at social friction and gendered spaces.
A dying friend delays a rendezvous as Bertha in Parisian disguise meets Willard at a railway station. Mistaken identities unravel when both admit spouses at the theater box. They realize their mutual deception and romantic ruse ends in shared laughter and a joint, ironic fidelity.
Chicago News notes a dash of marital strain as Mr Peck and Mrs Peck discuss a novel titled A Fatal Flirtation, prompting the quip Something Ike ours. The exchange hints at romantic tension within a marriage.
Fragmentary OCR yields a comical exchange about funeral rites and family duties. The speaker quips that no one from her side will attend unless part of her own kin, satirizing local mourning expectations.
A collage of light quips from periodicals including the Indianapolis Journal, Puck, Chicago Record, Household Words, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Evening Post, Tit-Bits and Grimshaw. It features remarks on marriage, politics, deference to authority, and social foibles with witty exchanges and character sketches.
The Chicago Chronicle notes Cape Cod sandstorms as a feared, persistent peril. Northeasterly winds whip fine sand into massive drifting clouds, obscuring visibility, eroding windows, and altering the landscape. Life-saving crews and residents endure lacerations from sand, with dunes migrating toward Provincetown aided by beach grass laws.
A New York Ledger account explains that deadhead refers to funeral processions once allowed to pass toll free along a cemetery road near theatre entrances. A physician remark led the gatekeeper to joke that too many dead heads pass, and the term spread to describe free admissions to the theatre.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a wounded Hungarian bear near Austria, Archduke Otto, and a huntman. The text is obscure and lacks clear events, dates, or outcomes, but hints at a royal context and a potential shooting during a hunt.
The report notes 1,187 religious papers in the United States with total circulation near 15 million. In North Carolina a convention voted against a resolution demanding the resignation of Dr. Whitaitas president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. The Baptist mission in Cuba is stalled by war, with 21 preachers and 2,500 members scattered. Methodist Board receipts reached 93,322 with 1,754 students aided, two-thirds seeking ministry or missionary roles, since 1873 aiding over 8,100 students.
Lawrence county hunter Henry Wood faced a enraged deer in a South Dakota canyon. Eight rapid shots failed to halt the animal, then a brutal club fight ensued until Wood finally killed the 198 pound animal after a grueling struggle full of bruising blows and wild twists.
Police Sergeant targets raid involving a gateway mental facility case. Authorities seek warrants and coordinate with regional units to secure locations and gather evidence. Officials emphasize swift action to disrupt suspected illegal activities and protect public safety.
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