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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1895
Page
6
The text presents a fragmentary Chicago Record poem from The Weeky Gall and other publishers, weaving themes of freedom, healing, and spiritual ascent. It references dawn and dusk, love and yearning, harvest imagery, and a call to live closely with the divine, ending with a prayerful sense of movement from darkness toward purpose.
A wandering printer in Georgia’s Sand Mountain region uncovers a grave inscription and a mysterious letter found in a night’s spell. The letter from a Louisiana musician follows a tale of forgery, abandonment, abduction, and despair, ending with a dead violinist and a question of fate and Redcliff.
A column-like piece shares two Louisville women who uncover sickness through a convoluted chain of letters and messages to daughters in Milwaukee and New Orleans. It also recounts the 12th century Lombard League’s formation to resist emperors and its decline from internal strife, noting the era’s city rivalries and eventual dominance by Milan or Venice.
A collage notes various literary and social curiosities. The Literary World seeks a place in Westminster Abbey for Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Charles D. Rose, an America’s Cup challenger, remembered in Montreal. Burns Federation weighs centenary plans with Glasgow cooperation. royal tastes feature Yorkshire pudding and millinery. cigar etiquette and Parkes meeting interruptions spark humor. Consuelo Vanderbilt’s fiancé full title listed. Tom Ochiltree recalls a seaside joke exchange with an Englishman.
A collage of quips and cartoons from various papers. Jokes about death, inventors, etc. feature lines from Ram's Horn, Speculator, Brooklyn Eagle, Chicago Times-Herald, New York Sun, Texas Siftings, and other era humor. Includes a joke about a judge and a milliner.
Special New York correspondence notes designers and importers back from Paris. Gowns and wraps for all ages show lively variety in skirts with new fullness and plaits. Sleeves stay largely unchanged with melon shapes and draped puff tops. Fur trims grow bolder with collarettes and deep collars in seal skin, chinchilla, and otter.
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