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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1898
Page
6
A poem by Charles H. Conner in Golden Days celebrates winter joy. It recalls children skating on steel blades, gliding down slopes, and laughing in a bright, rosy scene. The verse contrasts warmth of youth with winter cold and invites praise for the season.
A traveling man recounts his misadventures learning poker on the Pacific coast. He confronts a joker in California draw, battles unfamiliar straights, and endures baffling rules in Portland Santa Barbara and San Diego games. He reflects on coast etiquette, joker usage, and the divergent habit of casinos versus eastern play.
Captain Sammel Lemly recalls a desolate Christmas on Desolation Island while the 1874 Transit of Venus expedition observers lacked longitude data. The ship’s steerage crew ate penguin after a mistaken turkey death, as a prank by the wardroom’s rival chicken-robber steward, per the Washington Star account.
Detroit Free Press reports Dr Solander and his party in Terra del Fuego endure a deadly cold night. A blizzard draped the hills as sleep overpowered Solander and a black servant, who both collapsed. Firemen later found relief, but the servant died unseen.
Prof Hateman of Woostock writes to the Lewiston Journal about Benedicta Maine noting another town with a single ethnic line. He claims the population is exclusively Irish with every family having Irish blood in the village.
A fragmented dialogue implies uncertainty over a person named Josemy or Puck and whether she is present. The wording is garbled but centers on confirming presence and identity amid a missing or unclear figure.
The Senate approved revenue provisions transmitted to the Lower House detailing county assessor roles under township organization. It sets ex officio duties for county treasurers, limits fines for noncompliance, and outlines general and personal property assessments, publication rules, and the creation of boards of assessment in Cook and non Cook counties. The bill lacks an emergency clause.
The Brush steamer Lord ONeill, Captain Ferris, sailing from Baltimore January 6 to Belfast, struck the Blasket islands near Dingle bay in dense fog and foundered. All crew were saved and landed here. Other notes mention Lord Salsbury to Retina and cargo details. Special Times-Herald report from Waa ny.
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