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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1896
Page
6
A verse narrative depicts wreckers patrolling the shore under stormy seas. A dory lands a fisherman captured by a crowd who drag him to a hilltop cottage where children await as tempests fade and sunshine returns to the sea.
In Arizona three years ago Wild Rock faces a murder trial of Frank Wagner. Sheriff and judges push for a death sentence, while a Western operator, Fred Burgess, learns of a presidential pardon and rides 40 miles by bicycle to stop the hanging. He reaches Wild Rock at the last moment and saves Wagner, then recovers from a fever caused by the ordeal.
A literary note recounts a storm aboard a Dover to Calais steamer. The lady author describes stubbornly staying on deck despite fierce winds, with the captain urging retreat and her parasol nearly impossible to hold up.
A collage of humorous snippets from 19th and early 20th century papers. Notables include Uncle Eben quips about near sightedness and discipline, a absent minded lover, a grandmother’s funeral rain worry, phonetic dialect exchanges, and satirical lines from Harper's Bazar, Punch, and Chicago Record. Strong personalities and everyday scenes emerge in brisk, punchy lines.
Ancient Romans awarded various crowns for valor and service. Crowns included the oval myrtle ovation crown, the rostral naval crown, the Vallaris Castrensis for breach of intrenchments, the mural crown for scaling walls, the civic crown for saving a citizen, the triumphal crown for battlefield victory, and the Obsidioralis or Graminea for delivering an army at extremity. Athletic crowns and laurel crowns were also used in games.
A brief old time cooking note describes Scotch cakes requiring butter sugar and flour. The method covers creaming butter into the dry mix, kneading until stiff, rolling to half an inch, cutting into four scalloped pieces and baking in a modern oven, with serving ideas such as preserves marmalade and fruit jellies. An appended jokey fragment references a baby and a bank president dialogue.
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