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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1898
Page
6
Poem fragment recalling scents of clover and hay. The speaker longs to escape the busy town for fields, streams, and wild roses. References to Nixon Waterman and a bulletin appear as fragmented attributions.
Deacon Wade, musing on a new housekeeper, plans to woo Rhoda Mason. Rob Wade reveals he and Rhoda have a mutual arrangement, and the deacon realizes fate may force him to marry Rhoda’s mother instead. He visits the Mason homestead with berries to discuss the unexpected turn.
In a small town scene, Robert and Rhoda marry with the deacon blessing them after a close call that nearly exposed Robert as a foolish suitor. The deacon jokes about luck and the promise of family, and tea follows the approving moment as the couple begins their new life amidst affectionate family approval.
Fragment from Mary Queen of Scots for execution on February 8, 1587. She asks the French king to pay her disconsolate servants, arrange prayers and an obit, and to settle debts owed to her, sending rare stones as tokens of affection.
The article describes indigenous Australian devices including a wooden rod shaped like a cigar with a reed tail called a wichi-wiehi. It notes contests of wicki-wicks, a fish-shaped halawulla swung on a string, and the hullawake used to warn women during the sacred barn dance with a loud roar heard miles away.
A delegate at a church convention visits a scenic cemetery and reads an inscription claiming a grave holds “A Lawyer, and an Honest Man.” He and another man search the area, puzzling over how two lives could be buried in one grave amid a tale of experiments and vanished details.
In a historic White House session the president and cabinet faced war’s possibility and the need to prepare for extended hostilities. They weighed navy expansion army size duration and costs while signaling resolve to defend national honor if Spain rejects peace.
Reports from Havana indicate no credible findings on the Maine disaster as officials await the court of inquiry. Secretary Long and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt steer Navy policy while ships Castine and Cincinnati head to Barbadoes. indemnity questions surface in anticipation of possible government action.
In St. Louis, James McNamara a puddler at Helmsbasher's iron mills and Clara Schaller adopted daughter of Mrs Barbara Huss were found slain in a Windsor hotel room. Both throats were cut and their bodies lay bloodstained on the third floor at 7 30 p m Wednesday night. Hotel employee Henry Smith discovered them after the room remained silent despite his knock. The couple, living together, faced hardship after McNamara lost his job following a brutal assault on a coworker. The investigation seeks to determine the motive behind the killings.
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