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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1902
Page
3
A boy in a Chicago Record-Herald poem recalls a pony and cart he envies until seeing the boy’s withered legs. The speaker prays for ownership but learns the other boy’s condition, and final gratitude shifts to the other boy’s seemingly richer fate.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans recounts a near fatal accident aboard his ship just before Cerberus fleet destruction. A 400 pound steel hawser fell from a deck hatch, smashing his shoulder and dislocating it while crew feared he was dead. Doctors treated him, stabilizing his condition as Kimball survived nearby.
In Shanghai's police court a square yellow box containing a black waxlike mass was shown as stolen Chinese medicine. The item, weighing about two ounces, is a compound of monkeys toenails boiled and buried years. Monkeys toe nails are noted as a stomach remedy in Chinese practice.
A large beech tree near Diamond Springs Kentucky bears a six to eight inch diameter natural graft six feet up the trunk. The graft, resembling a jug handle, is 18 feet long with roughly equal thickness at both ends, suggesting the upper end may be the original growth point. Determining the true origin requires sawing sections at each end to count growth rings.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune reader explains how a lump of sugar remains dry under a goblet pressed mouth down over a cork on water. By trapping air inside the inverted goblet, water level stays below the rim while the cork plus sugar stay dry, then regain dryness when lifted.
The Liberian natives use candle kernels threaded on a palm leaf to mark time by lighting the top kernel and letting each burn sequentially. They place cloth markers along the string to divide time intervals. In Singar, Malay archipelago, two necked bottles with sand measure time as sand transfers every half hour when inverted.
Purk recalls gifting a box of chocolate to a woman and her offhand reply. The humorous fragment captures local speech and timing as he tries to act properly. The brief anecdote centers on a small, ironic moment of sweetness.
Describes a compact suburban home for narrow corner lots by Stanley A Dennis of 150 Nassau Street New York. It lists dimensions for rooms, a full basement with coal bins and hot air furnace, 2000 dollars estimated cost, and finished interior with cypress trim and North Carolina pine floors.
Plans for a grand Washington union steam railroad station were shown at the capitol. The $5,000,000 white marble depot will span over 700 feet frontage, sit northeast of the Bal timore and Ohio station, and feature a broad plaza and elevated tracks via tunnel and viaduct to remove all grade crossings. The project follows a congressionally approved two-station layout and park removals, with completion expected through legislative amendments and a capital city beautification program. A second item notes the Niagara Falls company wheel pit as the largest in solid rock at 463 feet eight inches long and 178 inches deep, with four rock-character changes, while a submarine cable links Brussels and London.
The Chicago Daily News notes that true royal purple differs from the modern red purple seen in U S culture. German dictionaries define pur pur as Tyrian crimson, while cardinal robes use a color often mistaken for royal purple. Prussian heraldry historically uses black white and royal purple, a deep red in common belief.
A Yonkers Statesman quip contrasts a Chicago man boasting luck with his six marriages. The cartoonish exchange questions the meaning of luck while noting the man’s alleged ongoing domestic situation.
A brief exchange shows a daughter asking if her father approves of a marriage. The reply confirms approval, noting the father asked about uniting the couple yesterday, indicating his desire for their marital plans.
A Baltimore American quotation ponders why popularity invites crowds to soak the popular figure. The speaker questions the social impulse behind celebratory adulation and the tendency of crowds to envelop famed individuals as they ride the peak of attention.
A father advises his son to begin at the foot, while the boy quips about choosing a path as a chiropodist or a phrenologist, reflecting light humor from a Chicago Daily News column.
Grand Trunk Railway plans a large touring exhibit across Ohio Michigan Indiana Kentucky and Pennsylvania to promote summer tourism. The display features over 100 photographic views from the Pan American show and a notable mounted fish collection including black bass and land locked salmon. The exhibit opens in Saginaw Michigan March 10 then Grand Rapids and other cities over ten weeks with literature distributed and a Grand Trunk representative present.
Hall Caine, famed for his Shakespearean likeness, arrived in New York on a trip to America. Ignatius Donnelly, a stranger to him, greeted him with the quip Yord Bacon, I presume, in a lively exchange noted in Lives of the Luetrious.
The Burlington system operates about 3,000 miles of track with over 385,000 wheels in service across passenger freight and way cars locomotives and other stock. An average of 40,000 wheels are purchased yearly and strictly inspected under a six year or seventy five thousand mile guarantee. All wheels are numbered and records kept, and failed wheels are returned to the manufacturer who must replace them.
Fatema, a museum manager, describes a strange incident where a living skeleton is set to be displayed, while a man slips into a waste pipe after washing his hands, creating a bizarre scene in Chicago.
Dear Mrs Pincham recounts a two year marriage marked by constant pain. The doctor claimed a tilted womb caused severe inflammation and prescribed a treatment. The fragment hints at medical misadventure and patient distress in a historical clinic setting.
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