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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1897
Page
6
Susan Coolidge laments the passing of infancy as the older generation leads a march toward an uncertain future. The speaker compares youth following and pressing behind, eager to take their place, while the elders question why and how, yet press on with resolve and faith.
Leonard Herrick, a desperate man in late 19th century New York, finds a brown paper package of money in a cab and hurries to cash his luck. He loses fear of detection, then encounters banker Mr. Graham who insists the notes be accepted, while Herrick declines claiming ancestral honesty and agrees to lunch instead.
A collage of quoted snips from a Pittsburgh Chronicle page features quirky dialogue and social banter. Topics include neighbors misunderstandings over a bicycle pump, idle talk about killing time, and a teacher reading the Prodigal Son tale to Albert Edward, with lighthearted slang and Victorian phrasing threaded throughout.
A New York Mail report describes a curious postal rule for sending candy to London. A man queried international rates and learned that candy up to 12 ounces can be sent Abroad for five cents. heavier shipments incur higher per ounce charges, with paralleled domestic rates. The piece notes differing costs to Brooklyn versus London and cites a confusing, exact fare structure.
A Philadelphia Times report explains how swindlers obtain addresses by buying or stealing subscription lists from city weeklies and exchanging letters with peers in similar schemes. It notes scams selling fortunes, future partner ads, and bogus medicine, highlighting mass letter buys of 30 000 to 40 000 pieces, many unopened, with stamps retained.
Mars opposition favors telescopic study as observers report canals and oases again. At Paris and Mem mission observatories, the Triviae Charentis oasis reportedly split into two, with nearby gandis meeting spots noted in the skyward survey.
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