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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1895
Page
3
A lyrical collage contrasts enduring landscapes with intrusive ads, from Harker’s liver pills to Jenk’s Gludux, as a wandering artist navigates cả cold cities and distant shores. The piece weaves art, commerce, and travel, ending with a nod to Mrs. M. P. Handy in Harper’s Magazine.
In a rural reminiscence, Mrs. Warren recalls Ady, a foundling girl raised at Lyddy Close’s farm who later marries Abe Wright. When a blizzard strands Ady, Abe searches for her, and the tale ends with Ady’s hopeful reunion and the mystery of a lost years.
A rural narrator recalls Ady a devout woman inspired by gospel amid a March blizzard. The tale contrasts church scrimping with Ady’s spiritual fervor as storm winds trap the homebound narrator gathering wood and hens, pondering faith and community.
The piece notes the rise of ten and fifteen cent monthlies creating their own field and not yet affecting pricier, established magazines despite huge sales. It includes references to Rawlinson, famed Babylonian scholar, who trained informally in England. It also mentions Mrs. M A Jackson, widow of Stonewall Jackson, newly editing a Richmond Virginia monthly, championing cotton state interests.
A Washington Star excerpt urges bright picture cards and a small hand mirror to cheer a sick child and teach sharing. It argues service to others brings true happiness and condemns self centered living as life wasted, inspiring acts of kindness toward vulnerable children.
At Hucelecote parish church near Galoucester a Sunday Litany caused a girl to scream and faint, followed by her sister and several ladies. Heat from cook stoves filled with fumes led to giddiness and the service ended abruptly as attendants helped them outdoors. Authorities note the heating as the likely cause.
Palmer writes ex Congressman Hunter, dissenting from his April 22 letter to W H Hinrlehsegy, arguing against unlimited silver coinage at sixteen to one and clarifying long standing friendly relations while addressing the silver question.
John M. Palmer argues that free and unlimited silver coinage at 16 to 1 requires clear parity guarantees. He questions whether Congress or the United States can maintain value parity without strong government backing, noting prior acts and their limited tender effects.
In Chicago on April 24 the Honest Money faction of the Democratic party released a resolution urging voters to abstain from the May 3 primaries and to ignore any action by the state convention in June on the money issue. The address argues only the national convention can set party policy and condemns the Cook County central committee for attempting to bind delegates, warning it will fuel discord within the party.
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