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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1901
Page
6
A playful verse from Youth's Companion portrays a boy bored by routine summer pursuits. He resents croquet and biking mishaps, craving something fresh and exciting as the clock marks each hour from one to six.
A northmost Alaska school at Pt Barrow and Uppernayak Green land shows high attendance as children arrive by dog and reindeer sleds. The refuge station aids shipwrecked whalers. lamps light long nights from November to February. teachers report unusually quick pupils among the Arctic Eskimos. A Bear revenue cutter provides supplies twice yearly amid isolation. Cat Adopts Two Rabbits in Marion. Ms Brandon’s cat cares for kittens and rabbits alike in a happy, mixed-family scene.
The Venus fly trap and other insectivorous plants are discussed by Dr. Fowler, with focus on their digestion and sensitivity. Harvard's Ware glass flower collection by Blaschka, a unique exhibit representing North American flowering plants, includes a notable model of Sarracenia purpurea.
Fragmentary OCR reveals a domestic excerpt about a neighbor asking to borrow flatirons for a prank against cats, followed by a disjointed line about a “White Child” born in the United States with unclear linkage to Virgil Dara and a date in August 1887.
Memphis hosted the eleventh annual United Confederate Veterans reunion on May 28 to 30 with many national figures. P P Van Vleet of Memphis, head of Van Vleet Mansfield Drug Co, led a $750 cash drive to bring the event, and his life story from Kalamazoo to Memphis highlights ambition and civic involvement. He chairs entertainments for officers, lives at Chetolah on Poplar street, and is noted for courtesy and a stable home life with wife, two daughters, and a son.
George Archer Brown, of Fayette in Seneca County New York, trapped a full grown white muskrat during high water on the Montezuma marshes. The creature, a rare color variant of the common muskrat, was captured alive and valued highly by the observer.
A granddaughter in Emporia Kansas swallowed most of a fifty dollar bill after her grandmother received two such notes in a letter. The child picked up one bill and swallowed all but the corner stamped fifty. She was taken to a bank as officials considered options under government rules.
The article analyzes Hebrews 5 11 14 24 28, explaining Jesus as high priest who entered Heaven with His own blood to obtain eternal redemption. It contrasts His perfect priesthood with old Testament aaronic rites, notes Christ as mediator, and highlights the new holy of holies as God’s throne.
A Yarmouth man smoking a pipe caused a spark that burned his trousers, leading to a fire insurance claim paid by the company. Other items include stories on alcohol use hindering work, a club incident witnessed by a colored waiter, and hunting fatalities in the Adirondacks with three mistaken deer shootings this year.
The piece notes 56 Methodist Episcopal churches in Baltimore and ongoing rapid church construction in Chicago with 21 churches built or underway amid labor troubles. It mentions Rev Dr Frederick Z Rooker becoming chamberlain to the pontifical household and outlines aging British bishops Dr Ellicott, Dr Lewis, and Archibishop Temple nearing or at eighty, with Temple’s birthday on November 40 this year.
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