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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1898
Page
8
The article discusses wheelmen's discouragement after a decade of effort and funding for highway improvement. It notes progress in understanding road problems, the difficulty of educating people in some regions, and the need for enduring support to keep the reform moving forward despite slow results.
The text argues for teaching road construction and its social value in schools to secure long term support for highway improvements. It highlights practical demonstrations, scientific sample stretches, and farmer associations as adult approaches, while urging curricula to inform the coming generation about the benefits of better roads and cycle paths. It notes teacher knowledge gaps and a need for suitable instructional works.
A New Yorker came to Chicago to start a retail cigar business on credit. He rented a North Side store, stocked cigars, and attracted creditors. He made an assignment. creditors met with his attorney as an eastern creditor claimed fraud. One asset remained 270 cigars and $6.30. The attorney claimed the debtor would liquidate soon and “divide his body” among them. an old man quipped he would “take his gall.”
Frank Long of near Lennon Michigan recounts severe muscular rheumatism and lumbago in November 1894. After morphine injections and failed treatment he tried Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People per newspaper accounts. Five boxes cured him and he says the pills saved his life, offering inquiries with stamped reply. Justice of the Peace Goldsmith certified the statement in Venice Michigan on April 15 1898.
The officers of the Smithsonian discuss photographing monkeys in hopes of deciphering their chatter. Mrs. De Science quips about asking the monkeys if humans are descended from them, reflecting a playful weekly exchange.
Dramatic exchange notes Spain’s belief of power to deal a terrible glorious blow to the United States. The quip cites Fosdick and Keedick in a drudge style exchange about blowers and international bravado.
The article notes the United States may retain possession of the Philippine islands if peace commissioners decide, highlighting war costs running into millions with the end unseen. It then pivots to promote Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as an affordable remedy to cleanse the stomach liver bowels and blood, affordable for all classes.
A Chicago Evening News quotation argues against women becoming engineers. The speaker claims women would slow trains at crossings, reflecting dated gender bias in transport roles.
The page snippets present a witty banter exchange between General Smithson and Johnson, plus a recruitment solicitation urging readers to inform on canvassers and salesmen, with a Chicago railways promotional booklet offer. The items reflect era humor and advertising practices, including a request to mail notices to Amushinicay Wootex Minus Co. in Chicago and a transit booklet from Geo H Heafford for the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway.
A fragment quotes a man suggesting disease could spread by kisses and a woman replying that she is immune. The brief item cites a Chicago Post remark and mentions a Sciatic nerve joke about St Jacobs Oil, with an Atchison Globe aside on honesty.
About 1,000,000 acres of Government land in Northwest Florida are available for homestead entry, plus more railroad lands at very low rates near the Louisville and Nashville line. R. J. Wemyss, General Land Commissioner in Pensacola, invites inquiries. Excursions to inspect lands run on the first and third Tuesdays each month at a round trip fare. Contact C. P. Atmore in Louisville for details.
A collage of humorous exchanges and ad blurbs from 1890s newspapers, including lines about marriage proposals, shoe holes, and a cathedrale camera remark. Ads promote St Jacobs Oil and Kemp's Balsam for neuralgia and cough, with comments on ideals, meetings, and moral quips.
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