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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1896
Page
6
Nixon Waterman reflects in a casual tone on being a plain man rather than a soaring poet. He contrasts his grounded, cheerful writing with his brother’s lofty aspirations while affirming his own steady craft for readers. From L. A. W. Bulletin.
Dexter, a weary writer, pursues Daisy a convent-born sister-in-law’s kin, wooing with borrowed poems and old world ardor. Daisy, eager to learn about love, crafts a manuscript that inflates Dexter into her story’s hero, exposing his vanity when the twist backfires and he discovers the plot boomerang.
A collection of light quotes and jokes from Yonkers Statesman Chicago Record Detroit Free Press Chicago Record World’s Comic N. Y. Tribune Pittsburgh Chronicle Somerville Journal featuring animal banter bank questions hominy words and returning words with witty exchanges between characters and bystanders. Includes lines about a dog getting at sausages a father tongue remark disguise and a shoe black quip about banking.
A Houston Transcript story notes that Rostai People exemplify bank etiquette by sorting large bills on top of packages, keeping ones and twos at the bottom. Bank clerks admire the efficiency on regular and heavy days, while experts quickly detect counterfeit notes with swift, decisive actions.
A hotel office scene shows two men reacting to a lynching report. One proclaims life is cheap, while the other advertises cheap life insurance rates and distributions. The exchange ends as the earnest man flees, highlighting public outrage and sensational marketing.
Harper's Round Table notes the cost of sending Indian troops to the Soudan at about $750,000. It reports 3,725 Indian troops arrived at Suakim with 821 horses, 168 mules, and three months of provisions. No further troops are slated before mid September.
Washington sources say high administration officials agree the United States may intervene to halt the Cuban war if Spain cannot suppress the insurrection by year’s end. A cabinet member says the president will act only after elections, but could move before leaving office if Cuba remains unrepressed. Spanish envoys in Cadiz fear intervention, while officials doubt Spain will relinquish Cuba without an acceptable pretext.
GaeLanv Maryland October 17 army correspondents and artists memorial dedicated to South Mountain with ceremonies led by Gov Lowndes Gen Boynton Georges Alfred Townsend and others. Mrs Noyes sang bugler and drummer present. Readings honored war correspondents and sketch artists. Monument 50 feet high 40 wide with arches framing battlefield views toward Washington Antietam and Harper’s Ferry.
London reports Sir Edward Clarke, QC, Plymouth MP and former solicitor general, urged arbitration as the Venezuelan boundary issue nears the U S presidential election. He argued Britain’s claims lack substantiating evidence and warned against US-imposed decisions, calling for immediate consent to arbitration and limiting the boundary line. Electoral riots in Oldenburg, Germany, left two Catholic voters dead.
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