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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1899
Page
6
Mrs. Trelawney, tired of her social mask, seeks to rekindle love with Horace after a fire at the club wounds him. In a moment of reckoning she finds him near death, and a whispered name from the past hints at a thawing estrangement as she kneels by his bedside.
In a railway carriage Marley travels with an old gentleman seeking comfort from a deflated cushion. Prof Morley tries to inflate it, but an outburst stops him as the man declares the cushion holds his deceased wife's breath. This anecdote from Life of Henry Morley preserves a curious family memory.
The fragment from the Chicago Tribune portrays Jacob and Rachel in a domestic dispute scene. Rachel laments waiting fourteen years for Jacob, who responds with confusion about what was wanted. The humor and biblical names anchor the piece in a domestic reflection.
Special correspondence from Springfield reports Governor Tanner pushing a short, economical session with group-based committee supplies to cut costs by about twenty thousand dollars. House rules shift to refer all spending resolutions to committees, smoking banned on floor, and staff reductions. Palmer favors a constitutional convention. anti capital punishment drive grows in Charleston led by Miss Alice Harlow.
Theodore Roosevelt of New York will be guest of honor at the Hamilton Club on April 8 in Chicago for a North versus South Appomattox day celebration. Gen Joseph Wheeler is invited to respond to the toast Lee, Gen Lew Wallace to toast Grant, George B. Peek to answer to The Union, and Roosevelt will give the toast Our Country.
The state superintendent announces examinations for life and five year teaching certificates to be held on August 1 2 3 and 4 in Chicago Freeport Peoria Springfield Urbana Effingham and Carbondale with the office confirming official dates and locations.
Washington reports chemist Wiley found canned meats from open market and War Department free of borax boric acid sulphites and benzoic acids. Saltpeter present in corned and luncheon beef but not roast beef. salt levels vary. Lead tin tests pending. cans showed good preservation and no decomposition on opening. Manitoba transport sails for Havana with six troops from Macon.
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