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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1896
Page
4
A collection of paradoxes and moral maxims on life wealth and happiness. Includes thoughts from Emerson on poverty delusion and the poor, commentary on rum swearing and anger, a teacher and button joke, and a host’s reflections on the four seasons and stars at winter.
The passage defines talent as power and wealth while praising tact as the essential practical skill. It portrays tact as the open eye and quick judgment that guides action in solitude and society, arguing tact yields momentum, respect, and ready money, often surpassing talent ten to one.
The text notes Socrates at an advanced age learned musical instruments, Cato at eighty studied Greek, Plutarch aged seventy to eighty learned Latin, Boccaccio began light literature at thirty five becoming a Tuscan master alongside Petrarch and Boccaccio, Henry Spelman delayed science until his sixties and then excelled.
Colbert, famed French minister, at sixty resumes Latin and law studies while Franklin delays philosophical pursuits until age fifty, illustrating late scholarly shifts in prominent figures.
Poetic meditation on time describing a year as a fleeting moment in Life's stream. The piece contrasts youth and aging with seasonal cycles, using vivid imagery of wheel, breeze, mist, and changing scenes to portray time’s transience. It reflects on life, death, and the inevitability of aging through seasonal metaphors.
A neighboring city girl with a knee boil pretends to seek a local doctor but a traveling physician, asked to diagnose, reveals he is a piano tuner. The man’s honest misdirection turns the attempt at privacy into a humorous misunderstanding.
Executor John E. Wood notifies creditors and claimants of the Andrew Wood estate in Madison County Illinois, to present claims at the January term at the county courthouse. Debts should be paid promptly. dated October 2, 1906. Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised for skin ailments at 25 cents per box. Hunter warning: no hunting on property, enforcement promised.
In St Jacob, L Kolb and family visited relatives last Sunday. Miss Louisa Wasem and Mr Gump were married last week. The chrysanthemum show drew visitors from Highland Marine and Troy with a neat lunch and funds raised for the new park. Whispering Eph, the deputy sheriff, was heard at the town’s far end. Ladies organize a musical society to engage those with musical interests.
Miss Lillian Keown visits relatives in Olney. I O O F lodge plans a ball on Friday evening, Nov 20. J Keown and wife of Olney visit son William Keown. Mrs Susan Utger sells personal property. Harnsberger farm to be sold at public auction on Saturday, Nov 21. D Leaf and F Oswald travel to Pocahontas. Minnie Handlen of Edwardsville visits local friends. T Campbell returns to St Louis from Wm McDonald residence. Alf Trolliett and wife of Sebastopol visit William McDonald Sr.
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