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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1902
Page
6
A poem by Folger McKinsey in Baltimore News expresses a worker’s vow to toil for family life. The speaker embraces the city’s clang of mills and forges, seeing labor as a sacred duty powered by a loving child and waiting wife. The verse blends industrial imagery with domestic longing and faith in a better home.
Mrs. Jane Todd inherits a legacy and uses it to buy items she desires, including a diamond ring and a sunrise window, challenging her husband Amos’s restraint. After a tense period, Amos relents and they share a warm supper with Eagle the horse now belonging to them, symbolizing a rebalanced life and mutual respect.
A quippy exchange features a man with a habit of quoting and a gloomy father answering back. The line highlights a clash between wit and realism in a midcentury newspaper style.
In St Nicholas, Clarence Edwin Booth Crossman recounts a harsh winter incident near Birchcreek where Mother Cougar fights a grizzly to protect her cubs. Though she injures the bear, a fatal blow ends her life, leaving the cubs orphaned and stunned.
An amusing vignette cites three kittens that allegedly speak French German and Irish then reveal they all ultimately say Miaow in English The verses parody multilingual pet chatter in a light humorous tone attributed to Margaret Johnson in Womens Home Companion.
A fashionable Maltese cat named Dainty flaunts a gold incisor after a dentist fit. The six or seven month old feline charms staff with tricks, leaps six feet ten inches, and demands regular brushing. She eats boiled egg from an egg cup and yawns to reveal her gleaming tooth in the shop. Louisville Courier-Journal reports.
Philip E Viney and Arnold Viney two English lads aged 12 and 3 received Royal Humane Society certificates for bravery in saving an elderly man from drowning at Swanage England. The youths, grandsons of the late Sir Edward Creasy, risked their lives to reach the man and bring him to safety despite being pulled under by the struggler.
Sunday School lesson text on Exodus 40 1 13 explaining the tabernacle altar laver and holy garments. It covers the plan of the tabernacle its purpose and symbolism and practical lessons for worship and sanctification.
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