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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1899
Page
4
A long roster lists mayoral and aldermanic offices with ward allocations, city officers including treasurer and attorney, and township officials such as supervisor and clerk. It also enumerates several Masonic lodges and other fraternal groups with meeting details and officers, plus DEWEY ACADEMY and local associations and their contact pointers.
A Boston Globe poem recalls rural life with fond nostalgia for haying days. The speaker grew up on a farm with brothers and sisters, helped father harvest hay, and cherishes family meals. Now the old folks are gone, the speaker prospers in the city yet misses country sunshine and simple labor.
A Japanese paper company develops tarred pasteboard shingles as a cheaper easier to handle alternative to wood. The new paper shingles promise rain and fire resistance and save labor. They have been adopted for roofing the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Imperial Tokyo University buildings.
Meteors fell near Vincennes Indiana reported by the Scientific American. One struck a stone slab on a Baltimore and Ohio freight car as the train crossed the Wabash bridge, breaking the sink. The second meteor hit a pile of bricks with a loud noise and shattered it.
The Electrician describes an electrically warmed operating table powered by six to eight incandescent lamps inside an air chamber. The lamps quickly raise the temperature to a comfortable level and can be reduced to maintain warmth. A later anecdote recalls an American at a dinner in England joking that after-dinner speaking would fall to others, likening himself to Daniel in the lion's den.
The English plan an experimental automobile gun carriage. A tricycle powered by electricity carries a service pattern Maxim gun. Total weight around 140 pounds allows quick movements and rapid readiness when deployed.
The London Engineer reports global telegraph and telephone lines spanning about 2,029,603 miles with 9,254,004 miles of wire. Telephone lines reach 882,417 miles using 3,202,950 miles of wire. Also notes the lightest tubing of pickle aluminum, claiming three thousand feet weighs one pound.
A Montgomery county farmer’s young horse prevented a derailment on the Brightwood road when a stationary car wheel noise and a relay of bustle startled it. The driver kept balance as the horse reared on its hind legs, staying aloft as the car passed. Witnesses included an assistant fire chief and Brightwood Engine House crew.
Pensky of Curlachy notes a brass band in a native Egyptian battalion, playing a somber anthem at a comrade’s funeral. The anecdote recalls Queen Victoria’s palace visit when the guards’ music pleased her, and a witty exchange about the tune later named Came Where the Booze Is Cheaper.
An English journal describes a two shell hub wheel with radial webs and India rubber sectors between them. Circular plates cover the hub and bolts pass through the rubber sectors, isolating the axle and wheel to prevent vibration and shock transfer.
The British navy uses animal names such as Barracouta Buzzard Cockatrice and Penguin along with mythic names like Triton Unicorn and Beagle. Their history is rich with repetitions of names from early naval times.
London venues would host all Edin burgh residents with thousands of seats left vacant as crowds awaited events at the London halls.
A report notes that southern French peasants spend about two pence daily to feed a family of five. The claim highlights frugal living and low food costs in rural areas, reflecting traditional subsistence practices and economic constraints of the period.
A London Trades Review shows Alpine Montan Gesellschaft owns 32 furnaces, mostly old, while Bearde of Glasgow runs 26 across Gartsherrie, Eglinton, Lugar and Muirkirk with 400000 tons annual output. Bokkow Vaughn & Co. of Middlesbrough has 24 furnaces and about 750000 tons output, with American firms sometimes surpassing in capacity despite fewer furnaces.
John Young Mayes of Springfield Kentucky recounts a startling incident when two screech owls swooped from trees and struck him in the face. The sudden blow knocked him down, leaving a bruised eye and several scratches about his eyes and nose before he escaped into his house.
Report from Osgood describes a strange snail invasion likely from Forme Eastern conservatory flowers. Snails reach six inches, multiply to thousands, destroy wells and cisterns, rustling nightly snail hunts where one person catches hundreds. They leave a glowing trail and are salted to kill them.
In London a hospital patient under Dr. Lucas Championniere stands seven feet four inches at twenty seven. He began very small, then grew four inches in days after illness, with further rapid growth after subsequent illnesses. He is youngest of twelve children and tallest by about a foot.
A club member emerges from a large basement tank exhausted after a swim. The instructor critiques breathing technique and body use, joking that swimming and sawing wood require different muscle engagement. The swimmer quips that he relies on another man’s muscles for sawing.
China orders a fast new 4400 ton cruiser named Hal Tien with natural draught speed of 23.6 knots. The Shhichan firm built a torpedo boat achieving 38.2 knots. The vessel could cross the Atlantic in about four and a half days.
A quotation attributed to Charles Sumner emphasizes that lasting fame arises from efforts that advance human happiness, not from self aggrandizement or fleeting praise.
Near Conklin Forks New York Mrs Warren W Jessup watched a remarkable battle between a tame black snake and a rattlesnake at her farmhouse The black snake, kept as a pet by three year old Margery Jessup, defended the child and killed the rattler by coiling around its throat The incident followed a summer of rodent infestation and the black snake’s unlikely alliance with the family.
The Russian Engineer Corps outlines a rapid pile driving method using grooves on the pile sides to hold pipes with nozzles at the tip. Water under 71 psi is forced through rubber tubes to jet at the pile point, lifting the pile three to four times faster. A few blows finish consolidation, then cas pipes are withdrawn.
A French patented process yields a valuable pigment from acetylene flame root. The substance is very light, pure black with no brown tinge or tar, and produces substantial yields when burned. It is marketed for use in India ink and fine graphic color work at relatively low cost.
D. W. Locke of Rucyrus Ohio owned a record‑breaking horse that acted as a rat terrier. While the dog chased a rat on a wire trap the horse intervened, pinning a second rat with its hoof to prevent escape until the dog finished the first catch.
In London a Turkish resident had copies of Sanford and Merton confiscated due to a censor’s view of the book’s lessons for two youths. Turkey banned Shakespeare whole works over Hamlet’s king murder, illustrating absurd censorship cited in Travels and Polities by W. Miller.
A playful exchange in Brooklyn Life contrasts old fashion plates with women’s hats once worn, noting astonishment at past style choices and the evolution of women’s fashion norms.
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