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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1903
Page
3
A fragmented OCR excerpt showcases ad style slogans and quotations from various sources. It mentions a trade mark for a smokeless stove line The Klean Kool Kitchen Kind and references remarks by magistrates and editors about crime, cures, dyes, and generosity. The passage mixes product ads with quips from newspapers and public figures.
Miss Clara Barton addresses the Red Cross strike, denying personal fault in the controversy and outlining a new plan to broaden the society’s work. The initiative creates two branches: an emergency first aid kit and immediate reference charts, plus nationwide first aid classes and ambulance corps in mills, factories, rails, and schools.
Washington reports the post office department cancelled 3,046 of 7,412 planned promotions affecting first class post offices. The move, to fit salaries to congressionally appropriated grades, transfers 5 percent from other grades and avoids any clerk reductions. Charges against Perry Heath were formally communicated to him as Tulloch’s allegations are reviewed.
A poem recounts Johnny's grand future as a sailor, castle, ten thousand vassals, and a kingly reign, ending with the teacher proving his simple rule of three. The imagined splendor dissolves into reality as Johnny learns a basic arithmetic truth, his crown becoming a dunce cap.
A fox terrier and a Maltese kitten perform a mock circus in Jamaica New York with the kitten the reluctant star. The dog sits up and hugs the kitten as a baby is kissed then the kitten is dressed doll like. After the act the kitten escapes and leads the dog on a chase through the house. Flag has Peculiar Interest Gen Eugene Gritfin holds an American flag made by sailors from Lieut Gilmore rescue.
A Cape Colony inspired device suspends from a pantry shelf with a baited cage. When the mouse steps onto a tilting path it pivots and dumps the rodent into a water tank below. The mechanism, described in a Milwaukee Sentinel feature, signals a shift in pest control history.
Great Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park rises more than twice Niagara Falls in height while its water volume trails behind.
A sizable angel shark was captured at Felixstowe, England, using a hand line. The fish boasted an eight inch mouth and three rows of teeth. A second note quotes cantankerous rhymed slang about mortgages from Canele Reuben.
The article describes a DIY boxing kangaroo illusion using cardboard, tinfoil, wax, a glass tube and a rubbed lamp chimney to generate static electricity. A human boxer figure is wired to receive a charge, causing a taped kangaroo figure to strike and recoil in a continuous playful duel.
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