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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1899
Page
3
The John M. Smyth Co of Chicago highlights its success built on merit and low prices. Advertisements show goods described well and stock bought on favorable terms. Readers are invited to request the mammoth catalogue by mail, from 150 to 166 West Madison Street.
A brief, playful line notes how a tall man with large feet often earns nicknames like Artie or Sweetums, attributed to a New York Press quotation. The remark captures a media era habit of quipping about distinctive looks.
A garbled OCR snippet cites Mrs Allie ouglass of LeRoy Michigan dated Oct 20 1894 praising Piso's Cure for Consumption and a remark about honest men going wrong. The text reads like a compilation of quotes and newspaper snippets with unclear context.
An advertisement notes Halt's Catarrh Cure is taken by mouth for 75 cents. The piece quotes a proverb about confronting enemies and cites the Atchison Globe as its source.
London reports no Cape news since afternoon as parliament readies for debate on South Africa policy. Protracted opposition rumored if radicals resist government measures, with worries over prorogation and Christmas. Guelph relocation and 414 cases of munitions at Durban spark calls to halt arms shipments.
President Kruger called the South African crisis very grave and hard to predict with confidence. He dismissed Jantline reinforcements in Natal as of little concern, spoke of mediation talks with the United States, and noted his seventy fifth birthday. Lisbon papers voiced anti Boer sentiment and said Portugal could send 5000 troops to South Africa within two weeks if England asks.
Manila October 10 Gen Schwan from the Thirteenth infantry battalion Fourteenth infantry two cavalry troops Capt Riles battery Fifth artillery and Lowes scouts pressed toward San Francisco de Malabon meeting late resistance and suffering no casualties. The enemy fell back as the column rested between Santa Cruz and San Francisco de Malabon provisions move to Rosario between Noveleta and Santa Cruz. The American camp is within sight of the insurgent stronghold Cavite 5000 Filipinos. Few shots fired during march from Noveleta to Rosario where white flags predominated and 200 to 300 Filipinos were captured. The Rosario bay filled with boats as locals spent a tense night. An American expedition to raise the Spanish gunboat Ayat plans to use Callao Manila armored flatboat and steam pump from Cavite with Helena marines ahead for soundings.
Special lesson on Esther from Peloubet notes. Esther risks her life to save her people, aided by fasting and prayer, as the king reverses a deadly decree. Deliverance comes through providence, Mordecai rises, Purim feast begins, and lessons in divine providence and patriotism are drawn.
Washington reports Capt. Marion B. Saffold of the Thirteenth Infantry, who died in the Noveleta attack on Sunday, was a 1897 military academy graduate born in Selma Alabama on September 1 1863.
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