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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1895
Page
6
A dated poem fragment expresses a yearning lover awaiting his ideal queen. He imagines her arrival, beauty, and virtue, vows homage and protection, and pledges devotion through time and hardship. The speaker hopes for a courteous holy maiden and promises steadfast loyalty.
In northern Ohio sixteen year old Frank Corwin, a Welsh laborer, treks home along Grand river after repairing axes. An ice jam blocks the bridge and wolves pursue him. He builds a makeshift fort from ice chunks and axes, killing two wolves with his weapon as the trapping fight ends with his survival.
A fragment from Detroit Free Press recounts a late night encounter with a shabbily dressed woman seeking shoes for her son Dave, who has never walked, and the stranger’s loss when the boy dies before receiving them. The anecdote sits beside brief moral maxims and quotes from Youth's Companion about manners and language origins.
A tale recounts Frank’s near fatal ice break during a wolf hunt. He killed wolves, skinned them, earned about $150 in bounty, paid the first on a large farm, and found a quiet grave beneath the sod, according to the New York Recorder.
The note lists religious finance and activity including Seventh day Adventists tithes, Muslim missionary efforts in Africa, and resignations like Chancellor Canfield from Nebraska to Ohio State. It cites church aid totals from Methodist Episcopal, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Baptist boards, plus imperial gifts to Berlin and Konigsberg city missions and a historical account of royal feet-washing practices in England from Elizabeth I onward.
Photographs now involve careful planning from wardrobe to backdrop. Women bring gowns to studios, try them on, and choose styles to suit faces and settings. Full-length tinted carbon portraits cost around fifty dollars and create timeless images beyond fleeting fashion.
A fragmentary essay lists Poe memorial calls in Baltimore with Gladstone as voracious reader. It notes Eugenie’s violet bouquet tradition and profiles Canovas del Castillo as an unprepossessing reactionary. Maurice Barres, Baron von Thielman, and antique book prices in London are also touched, with notable sales including Latin Bibles and Caxton’s book.
A humorous collage of witty exchanges and light social jests from period Colombo style sketches. Jabs about in law marriage relations, barbers and water sharing, a robin in a red shirt, sponge cake, blind beggars, and wedding attire mischief. Notable quips include a professor and postmaster boys debating precedence and a six year old genius with Horace Greeley handwriting.
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