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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1898
Page
3
A Chicago Post excerpt discusses a so called new woman in business who resents being passed over for a seat on the morning streetcar. Her brother notes men may withhold seats or even jobs due to arrogance, while the story contrasts old fashioned courtesy with modern workplace dynamics.
A humorous exchange from the Chicago Evening News contrasts a charming young lady praising Mr. Davis as an intellectual with a rival who teases that he is a hard thinker on many important subjects. The joking dialogue highlights perceptions of intellect and eloquence.
A Detroit Free Press quip notes invention of a noiseless can and cheekily questions why no one makes a noiseless alarm clock, calling out overhyped science with humorous skepticism.
Brownsville Pennsylvania reports a gas explosion at 8 am entombing 54 miners in the Snowden Gould & Co mine. Two bodies recovered earlier, 27 escaped via underground passage, many unaccounted for. Rescue teams struggle amid further blasts and dangerous conditions.
A Havana dispatch reports 8000 patients in city hospitals with 43 cases of dangerous yellow fever and an average of three deaths daily. Outside hospitals, 1263 deaths since September 1, including 423 from fevers. Twenty-two yellow fever deaths officially logged. foreign nationals and two crew members of the French gunboat Fulton among victims.
Andrew Judson White of New York died of paralysis in London at age. He long served in the wholesale drug business and helped found the Yost Typewriter Co. He was a director and major stockholder in the Union Typewriter Co, into which other leading firms merged. In 1894 he endowed a Yale dormitory named for him.
Reports from Kingston Jamaica dated September 24 detail hurricane devastation across St. Vincent St. Lucia and Barbadoes. About 300 lives lost on St. Vincent with extensive property ruin including churches and Ft Charlotte. Barbadoes reports over 100 deaths, 10 000 homes destroyed and three quarters homeless. St. Lucia suffers heavy rains and landslides with avalanches damaging estates and crops. Estimated damage reaches up to 1 500 000 dollars in Barbadoes. Descriptions note ruined towns and widespread destruction across island parishes with severe impact on sugar estates and provision grounds.
About 500 pension applications have been filed with the pension office arising from the war with Spain. The cases span all classes including widows and injuries. Commissioner Evans plans a new division to adjudicate and rapidly dispose of these claims.
An illustrated American captioned gag features a doctor humorously debating a patient about a two dollar per visit charge. The patient jokes he introduced typhoid to the neighborhood, prompting the doctor to consider a possible reduction.
During wartime, the American Tobacco Co provided free tobacco to U S soldiers and sailors. Headquarters in each camp ensured every man received enough tobacco and fifty thousand briar wood pipes were distributed. Over one hundred thousand pounds of Bat-Ax Plug and Dukes Mixture were given at a cost of fifty to sixty thousand dollars.
Brown argues millennium is not a Latin term. Smith counters that it may mean money to burn or something similar. Puck notes the humorous exchange as a light quirks in language.
A Chicago Daily News quotation extols the William Simpson & Sons name as a guarantee of top quality in fabrics. It notes every piece bears the Simpson ticket, assuring color, finish, and consistency for dealers and buyers across the United States. The passage likens a man’s integrity in courtship and marriage to the same standard expressed differently.
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