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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1896
Page
6
A lyric from the Chicago Inter Ocean recalls youth and lasting affection as autumn tempers memory. The speaker notes aging, but vows renewed love despite winter approaching, with imagery of summers past and a pledge to cherish the bond into time.
Silas arrived in Chicago vowing revenge on a smooth talking con man who robbed him before. He used a green carpet bar and a hornet nest from a locust tree to trap the swindlers, aiming to expose four of the cleverest “con” men in town.
Silas Tatman fights off a confidence scheme in a Chicago saloon after a sharp-nosed swindler and accomplices lure him with talk of safe investment. Tatman locks the door, retrieves his money, and hornets ruin the thieves' attempt, sending the robbers to an ambulance as bystanders react.
An excerpt from Glave's Journey to the Livingstone Tree recounts a Paris street scene with two women, one old and plain and the other young and pretty, reflecting on harassment by passersby. The narrator notes observers and interactions, including a Kenyan trader and an Arab contact, set in a colonial travelogue frame from Century magazine.
Nasartin sees a woman hanging from a tree and cuts branches to graft his garden tree. He explains the branches will make it convenient for his wife. The odd anecdote is attributed to the Louisville Courier Journal.
A fragment mentions Rudolph L entertaining himself with cards in Augsburg in 1275. Edward I, said to be six feet two inches tall, reportedly had fingertips reaching below his knees. The text mixes playful banter about theater and long-ago trivia.
Dr Walsh regains health by bicycling amid school notices and Salvation Army displays at a London exhibition. Rev G B Strickler bids farewell at Central Presbyterian Atlanta after 13 years. Mattituck LI warns against trespassing at unfenced schoolhouse. Booth brothers report Volunteers of America posts and a 15000 weekly Gazette circulation. Mrs Elizabeth Colt funds parish house at Church of the Good Shepherd Hartford memorial to son. Gifts support Lick Observatory apparatus and ongoing astronomical work.
Archaeology professors Haynes and Hilpracht report 7000 year old civilization finds at Nipur near the Euphrates. Stone tablets deciphered by S. A. Binion claim dates extend beyond biblical timelines, with lunar months matching the Jewish calendar. Excavations begun in 1888 at University of Pennsylvania, continuing amid debate over biblical chronology.
A collage of light jokes and quips from multiple sources including the Somerville Journal, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Harper's Round Table, Chicago Post, Tid-Bits, and Indianapolis Journal. It features comic exchanges about lovers, authors, teachers, and misheard names, with brief witticisms and playful dialogues.
Elizabeth B. Vennell vividly portrays Seville Spain as gay and bustling yet prosaic enough to delight in constant movement and noise. Sierpes becomes Seville’s social center a lively street where peasants pass, shops draw crowds, and the plazas pulse with music and fashionable life.
Readers who skim magazines at ferry and rail stations anger news dealers who fear damaged stock. A persistent snoop who never buys and peeks inside pages prompts dealers to band magazines with rubber bands to deter leaf turning. The tactic aims to protect magazines and deter surreptitious viewing of inside pages. Journal reports this increasingly common protective practice among newsstands.
A grief-stricken man led a small funeral procession in Tacoma Washington toward the river. His wife and a stranger carried a coffin while a growing crowd silently followed. At the boat, they placed the coffin in a box and a local flower boy added a wreath as the father thanked friends in the unfamiliar city.
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