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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1895
Page
6
A fragmentary verse excerpt recalls a past romance with Mary Jane as the speaker remembers a beau named Ray L. McCardell and notes how the beloved kept the name Mary Jane in a nostalgic tone, reflecting old fashioned sweetness and sentiment.
Phoebe Artley, a railway daughter at Orival Junction, rescues a stalled freight and halts a mob of tramps by seizing a switch and driving Engine 399 onto a side track. Her courage earns her a piano gift and a town life for her father and uncle, with the company praising her decisive action.
Sidney praises his mother for teaching poetry as Wellington cites the Lord's Prayer as sublime. Mrs Sheridan, a pretty young Washington widow with four children, appears youthful and slender. Jose de Heredia joins the French academy, with tributes to de Mazade and Lamartine in view.
A collection of witty exchanges and jokes from newspapers including Philadelphia Record Indianapolis Journal and Chicago Tribune. It features auction quips about selling horses, misheard finances, family banter, and a parrot talking gag, with light social satire and regional slang.
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