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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1903
Page
6
A fragmentary prose piece promises happiness through aiding others and words of encouragement amid weary, discouraged readers. The writer imagines a child and a man under heavy skies, urging simple acts to bring sunlit contentment despite a world in turmoil.
Thomas Tucker the Maltese cat and Biondi a fox terrier perform duets at Miss Anita Bridger's San Francisco home. The pair, rescued and trained by their owner, entertain visitors with coordinated piano playing, dog barking, and leaf turning tricks as they sit side by side on stage.
The Revue Scientifique cites research showing fatigue commonly centers in the back neck calves and legs rather than the arms during sustained work. It argues for changing work habit to prevent strain and notes workers across trades report fatigue in differing regions before training. The piece ends with a New York Weekly quip about an American girl who snubbed a prince.
California laurel bar in the principal hotel at Nevada City has been a landmark since 1804. The hotel has been rebuilt several times, but the bar is always reinstalled. L. D. Galkina recalls that over 8,000,000 dollars have passed over its counter in 35 years, the largest sum for a bar in that period. The bar top has worn from about eight inches to under two inches.
The article recalls Scotland Yard as the London police headquarters and notes a legend of a palace once used to receive Scottish kings in London. It mentions its proximity to Whitehall's banqueting hall and that Scottish royalty held it from 089 until William of Scotland's rebellion, with Milton and Sir Christopher Wren among former residents.
A collage of quips and clippings from various papers including lines about a perilous suicide plea over an unwanted marriage, deer in Alaska leased to natives, a folding vermiform appendix joke, mustard plaster missing from a lamed shoulder, and humorous exchanges. Also notes about Uruguayan cattle used for jerky exports, ostrich trains in Cape Colony, and a remark on gratitude as a rare virtue.
J H Plangman of Sherman Texas recounts a back pain starting in September that spread to his left hip and leg. He describes continuous worsening until a specialist diagnosed a serious kidney trouble and offered a cure for fifty dollars.
A farmer overcomes kidney trouble after failing treatment by Dr Plangman. Dean's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburne Co, Buffalo, NY, relieve backache, bladder irritation, and swelling, restore kidney function, and ease pain in weeks.
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